128 Oceans Quotes

Following is our list of oceans quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about vast sea.

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Famous Oceans Quotes

The ocean is a mighty harmonist. — William Wordsworth

The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. — Jules Verne

Into the ocean went a world more fantastic than any imagination could inspire. — Robert Wyland

The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms. — Edgar Allan Poe

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore. — Lord Byron

The desert is an ocean in which no oar is dipped. — T. E. Lawrence

Love is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end. Imagine, a suspended ocean, riding on a cushion of ancient secrets. — Rumi

The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey. — Enya

Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep? — Fanny Crosby

The world's finest wilderness lies beneath the waves. — Robert Wyland

The ocean . . . cold and wild the surf, rushing in to overwhelm the beach, the wind, stinging my cheeks, enveloping me in total freedom. — Scott Holman

The world is not a solid continent of facts sprinkled by a few lakes of uncertainties, but a vast ocean of uncertainties speckled by a few islands of calibrated and stabilized forms — Bruno Latour

The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul. — Robert Wyland

Love is such a vast sea, it has neither edges nor ends nor corners. — Rumi

I'm an ocean, because I'm really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures. — Christina Aguilera

Short Oceans Quotes

  • What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience. — Saint Francis de Sales
  • The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. — Kate Chopin
  • Smell the sea and feel the sky. — Van Morrison
  • Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. — Andre Gide
  • You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop. — Rumi
  • To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave. — Elvis Presley
  • All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop. — Kabir
  • We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. — Thomas Fuller
  • The sea will grant each man new hope, and sleep will bring dreams of home. — Larry Ferguson
  • You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

Oceans Image Quotes

I filmed underwater for two days in the open ocean with dolphins. - Kathleen Quinlan quote

I filmed underwater for two days in the open ocean with dolphins. — Kathleen Quinlan

Just remember; someone loves everything you hate about yourself. - Frank Ocean quote

Just remember; someone loves everything you hate about yourself. — Frank Ocean

When the raindrop touches the ocean, can it tell a story. - Mooji quote

When the raindrop touches the ocean, can it tell a story. — Mooji

The ocean does not require that the waves are still to be more ocean-like. - Mooji quote

The ocean does not require that the waves are still to be more ocean-like. — Mooji

You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean. - Mitch Albom quote

You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean. — Mitch Albom

Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths. - Rumi quote

Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths. — Rumi

Oceans quote The ocean is everything I want to be. Beautiful, mysterious, wild and free.
The ocean is everything I want to be. Beautiful, mysterious, wild and free.

Watching Ocean Quotes

Sunset is so marvellous that even the sun itself watches it every day in the reflections of the infinite oceans! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came. — John F. Kennedy

The idea of seeing the sea - of being near it - watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday - in calm, perhaps in storm - fills and satisfies my mind. — Charlotte Bronte

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates. — H. L. Mencken

I need someone who is willing to watch me brave the ocean and then dare me not to drown. — Colleen Hoover

Imagine a dolphin dancing in the sky. Let it dance with joy. Think of yourself at the bottom of the ocean watching. — Yoko Ono

I spent uncounted hours sitting at the bow looking at the water and the sky, studying each wave, different from the last, seeing how it caught the light, the air, the wind; watching patterns, the sweep of it all, and letting it take me. The sea. — Gary Paulsen

Watch the unending activity of the flowing stream or the growing tree. See the breakers of the ocean, the unceasing movements of the earth, the planets, the sun and the stars. All creation is life, movement, work. — Maria Montessori

Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean. — Ram Dass

I'm haunted by the thought of what Ray Anderson calls 'tomorrow's child,' asking why we didn't do something on our watch to save sharks and bluefin tuna and squids and coral reefs and the living ocean while there still was time. Well, now is that time. — Sylvia Earle

Vast Sea Quotes

How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves - our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish floating on a vast dark sea of knowing and deciding. — Andrew Sean Greer

Naturally enough, I couldn't have foreseen the vast sea change which has come upon that scene as a result of German reunification and associated events. — Brian Ferneyhough

We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder-cloud, and the rain. — Henry David Thoreau

Just like a sunbeam can't separate itself from the sun, and a wave can't separate itself from the ocean, we can't separate ourselves from one another. We are all part of a vast sea of love, one indivisible divine mind. — Marianne Williamson

Without water, our planet would be one of the billions of lifeless rocks floating endlessly in the vastness of the inky-black void. — Fabien Cousteau

A simple fishing boat in the midst of the rippling waters is enough to awaken in the mind of the beholder a sense of vastness of the sea and at the same time of peace and contentment - the Zen sense oof the alone. — D.T. Suzuki

Observing sea, sky and stars, I sought to indicate their plastic function through a multiplicity of crossing verticals and horizontals. Impressed by the vastness of Nature, I was trying to express its expansion, rest and unity. — Piet Mondrian

Inside that darkness, i saw rain falling on the sea. Rain softly falling on a vast sea, with no one there to see it. The rain strikes the surface of the sea, yet even the fish don't know it is raining. — Haruki Murakami

If you want to build a ship, teach the men to yearn for the vast and endless sea. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice. — Rebecca Solnit

Beautiful Ocean Quotes

Because there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it's sent away. — Sarah Kay

The future is in the hands of those who explore... and from all the beauty they discover while crossing perpetually receding frontiers, they develop for nature and for humankind an infinite love. — Jacques Yves Cousteau

From the shore, the ocean is forever. It's a beautiful, dangerous place. Music is tied to the sea, born from the struggle, looking for hope. Because hope belongs in the dark places. — Jon Foreman

Think about it: it is easy to see God's beauty in a glorious sunset or in ocean waves crashing on a beach. But can you find the holiness in a struggle for life? — Harold S. Kushner

Sharks are beautiful animals, and if you're lucky enough to see lots of them, that means that you're in a healthy ocean. You should be afraid if you are in the ocean and don't see sharks. — Sylvia Earle

When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean’s skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang. — Herman Melville

Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they've spent time in and around the ocean, and they've personally seen the beauty, the fragility, and even the degradation of our planet's blue heart. — Sylvia Earle

The northern ocean is beautiful, ... and beautiful the delicate intricacy of the snowflake before it melts and perishes, but such beauties are as nothing to him who delights in numbers, spurning alike the wild irrationality of life and baffling complexity of nature's laws. — John Lighton Synge

Our air, water, soil, forests, oceans, rivers, lakes, scenic beauty, wildlife habitat, minerals, that is the wealth of the country. — Gaylord Nelson

I sail with you on the ocean of my dreams to a far away distant Place of great beauty and tranquility. where suffering and pain do not exist, where we give praises for our joy and happiness, where our Love interwines with Love for all things. — Rumi

Deep Ocean Quotes

Together we can face any challenges as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky. — Sonia Gandhi

O my son! The dunya (world) is a deep ocean in which many have drowned! Let your ship be taqwallah (fear of Allah), and load your ship with Iman-billah (believe in Allah), and let her sail be tawakkal (trust) on Allah! Insha'Allah you will survive then. — Luqman

What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow. What are brief? today and tomorrow. What are frail? spring blossoms and youth. What are deep? the ocean and truth. — Christina Rossetti

A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets. — Gloria Stuart

I want to challenge all of you as people of deep conscience, people who are environment stewards of the earth and oceans ... By changing what you eat, you will change the entire contract between the human species and the natural world. — James Cameron

Many of the tribal peoples of the world recognize that there are four places in nature where you can find deep peace and remember who you really are. One is in the deep woods; one is in the desert; one in the mountains and one near the ocean — Angeles Arrien

The deep sea is the largest museum on earth, it contains more history than all the museums on land combined, and yet we're only now penetrating it. — Robert Ballard

Unfathomable oceans of grace are in Christ for you. Dive and dive again, you will never come to the bottom of these depths. How many millions of dazzling pearls and gems are at this moment hid in the deep recesses of the ocean caves. — Robert Murray M'Cheyne

Now deep in ocean sunk the lamp of light, And drew behind the cloudy vale of night. — Homer

When ... we realize the possibilities of deep sea life still unknown to us, every haul of the dredge should be welcomed by an expectant enthusiasm equaled in other fields only by the possible hope of communication with our sister planets. — William Beebe

Deep Blue Sea Quotes

Joy to the world All the boys and girls now Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea Joy to you and me — Hoyt Axton

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion. — Jim Butcher

I'm not out to change the world. I'm out to change mine. — Rodney White

The sweet love between the moon and the deep blue sea. — Jimi Hendrix

If Ford is to Chevrolet what Dodge is to Chrysler, what Corn Flakes are to Post Toasties, what the clear blue sky is to the deep blue sea, what Hank Williams is to Neil Armstrong - can you doubt we were made for each other? — Lyle Lovett

Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore. — Lord Byron

Modern women are squeezed between the devil and the deep blue sea, and there are no lifeboats out there in the form of public policies designed to help these women combine their roles as mothers and as workers. — Sylvia Ann Hewlett

Between my potential and the deep blue sea, There's a rock and a diamond either side of me. Between our potential and the break of day, There is nothing at all in our way. — John Gorka

Ocean Sea Quotes

The sea! The sea! The open sea!, The blue, the fresh, the ever free! - Bryan Procter

The sea! The sea! The open sea!, The blue, the fresh, the ever free! — Bryan Procter

My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace. — Kate Chopin

The sea lives in every one of us. - Robert Wyland

The sea lives in every one of us. — Robert Wyland

The oceans deserve our respect and care, but you have to know something before you can care about it. — Sylvia Earle

We with our lives are like islands in the sea... The islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom. — William James

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea. — E. E. cummings

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark. — Bob Dylan

Our past, our present, and whatever remains of our future, absolutely depend on what we do now. — Sylvia Earle

She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar. — Janet Fitch

People Writing About Oceans

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Read quotes by Rumi

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Read quotes by Jules Verne

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Read quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

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Read quotes by Lord Byron

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Read quotes by T. E. Lawrence

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More Oceans Quotes

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. — Mahatma Gandhi

I am probably in the sky, flying with the fish, or maybe in the ocean, swimming with the pigeons. See, my world is different. — Lil Wayne

Be aware of your own worth, use all of your power to achieve it. Create an ocean from a dewdrop. Do not beg for light from the moon, obtain it from the spark within you. — Muhammad Iqbal

I know not how I seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with while the vast ocean of undiscovered truth lay before me. — Isaac Newton

God is always seeking you. Every sunset. Every clear blue sky. Each ocean wave. The starry hosts of night. He blankets each new day with the invitation, ‘I am here.’ — Louie Giglio

If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction. So long as the heart of man is directed towards God, he cannot be lost in the ocean of worldliness. — Ramakrishna

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. — Mother Teresa

Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean. — Paramahansa Yogananda

Never lose hope. Stay close to Allah and when you mess up, go back to Him. Never, ever stop going back to Him. Repent often. Cry to Allah. And hold on tight-with your life-to His remembrance and to prayer. If you do this, you may get wet, but insha Allah never drown in this ocean of dunya. — Yasmin Mogahed

There's nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on underwater,you realize that you've been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent. — Dave Barry

I am a shark, the ground is my ocean, and most people can't even swim. — Rickson Gracie

Once you experience being loved when you are unworthy, being forgiven when you did something wrong, that moves you into non-dual thinking. You move from what I call meritocracy, quid pro quo thinking, to the huge ocean of grace, where you stop counting or calculating. — Richard Rohr

For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it. — Jacques Yves Cousteau

I want that love that moved the mountains. I want that love that split the ocean. I want that love that made the winds tremble. I want that love that roared like thunder. I want that love that will raise the dead. I want that love that lifts us to ecstasy. I want that love that is the silence of eternity. — Rumi

Attention is the key to life. Whatever you really give your attention to, you become. Whatever you really concentrate upon will come into your life. We grow into the thing that fills our thoughts as inevitably as the stream merges into the ocean at last. — Emmet Fox

In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle. — Sri Yukteswar Giri

If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise. — Tommy Douglas

Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged adventurers of old to set forth in their sailing-ships for foreign lands. — Jean Batten

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