1,231 Quotes About Sea

Then very faintly, he heard above his head the low familiar murmur of the sea outside. At once the comfortable noise made him cheerful, and he even remembered what they were supposed to be.

La vela [...], recogida, parecía el estandarte de una eterna derrota.

The sea was surging among the pilings like the blithe mindless forces of dissolution.

The graces are restless today. They pweet and muss, shuddering their wings so that the feathers stick out at defensive angles. I feel that restlessness too. When the sea is fractious like this – when it chutters and schwaks against the moorings, when it won't talk but only mumbles – it's difficult to think.

Seasickness in itself is not contagious, but I’m pretty sure that puking is extremely contagious.

My aspiration to spend time at sea as requisite literary training died long ago, as a teenager, on a white-knuckled ferry ride to Elba during a torrential rainstorm [Kushner, Rachel, Diary, London Review of Books, January 14, 2015].

[O]nly the sea is like a human being . . .always moving, always something deep in itself is stirring it. It never rests; it is always wanting, wanting, wanting. It hurries on; and then it creeps back slowly without having reached, moaning. It is always asking a question and it never gets the answer.

It’s one of the things I love about the sea, the way you can see weather afar. It’s like looking at the future.

Never seen the sea! How could anyone not have seen the sea? Surely the sea must somehow belong to the happiness of every child.