1,231 Quotes About Sea


  • Author José Saramago
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    He imagined that he was looking for her and couldn't find her anywhere, that the two of them were lost on a vast ship, sleep is a skilled magician, it changes the proportions of things, the distances between them, it separates people and they're lying next to each other, brings them together and they can barely see one another, the woman is sleeping only a few yards away from him and he cannot reach her, yet it's so very easy to go from port to starboard.

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  • Author Ricarda Huch
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    Das Leben ist ein grundloses und ein uferloses Meer; ja, es hat wohl auch ein Ufer und geschützte Häfen, aber lebend gelangt man dahin nicht. Leben ist nur auf dem bewegten Meere, und wo das Meer aufhört, hört auch das Leben auf.

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  • Author Adrienne Young
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    My father had always told me that seabirds were the souls of lost traders. To turn them away or not give them a place to land or nest was bad luck.

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