Ocean Quotes

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

- Isaac Newton

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

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience.

- Saint Francis de Sales

Smell the sea and feel the sky.

- Van Morrison

The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.

- Kate Chopin

Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.

- Mikhail Lermontov

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

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

- Thomas Fuller

All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.

- Kabir

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.

- Jacques Yves Cousteau

The sea will grant each man new hope, and sleep will bring dreams of home.

- Larry Ferguson

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

- Jacques Yves Cousteau

Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.

- Robert Henri

The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.

- Isak Dinesen

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

From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.

- Jacques Yves Cousteau

The sea! The sea! The open sea!, The blue, the fresh, the ever free!

- Bryan Procter

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

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

- Sonia Gandhi

My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We must often draw the comparison between time and eternity. This is the remedy of all our troubles. How small will the present moment appear when we enter that great ocean.

- Elizabeth Ann Seton

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 sea lives in every one of us.

- Robert Wyland

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. Variants include "You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore".

- Christopher Columbus

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

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

- Paramahansa Yogananda

However it may be for others, for us of the Citizen Army there is but one ideal - an Ireland ruled, and owned, by Irish men and women, sovereign and independent from the centre to the sea, and flying its own flag outward over all the oceans.

- James Connolly

How much deeper would the ocean be if sponges didn’t live there?

- Steven Wright

Ancient Hawaiians say: When you're itching for the waves, the only lotion is the ocean.

- Josip Broz Tito

The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.

- Jacques Yves Cousteau

An ocean of bliss may rain down from the heavens, but if you hold up only a thimble, that is all you receive

- Ramakrishna

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.

- Bob Dylan

We live not, in reality, on the summit of a solid earth but at the bottom of an ocean of air

- Thales

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

- e. e. cummings

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

- Rachel Carson

With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live.

- Sylvia Earle

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

- Sylvia Earle

No water, no life. No blue, no green.

- Sylvia Earle

We have spilt an ocean of blood for the brotherhood and unity of our peoples and we shall not allow anyone to touch or destroy it from within.

- Josip Broz Tito

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

- Edgar Allan Poe

The smallest oceans still make big big waves.

- Eddie Vedder

Just remember; someone loves everything you hate about yourself.

- Frank Ocean

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

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

- Mooji

We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.

- Sylvia Earle

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

Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.

- Zora Neale Hurston

You have no idea how hard I've looked for a gift to bring You. Nothing seemed right. What's the point of bringing gold to the gold mine, or water to the ocean. Everything I came up with was like taking spices to the Orient. It's no good giving my heart and my soul because you already have these. So I've brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me.

- Rumi

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

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

- Sylvia Earle