Ocean Quotes
Michael Bassey Johnson
I can cross the boundless ocean just to save you, I cannot eat or sleep without you, I can take you on a journey to heaven and show you to the angels. All these are fake and absurd promises; Be sincere, walk up to your lover and say, honestly, darling, i can only do the best i can for you.
1942 Oksana Rus
I celebrate myself, I paint and dance and sing myself, and what I assume you will assume, for every atom as of me as good belongs to dreamy You. I am a song. I am a poem. I am a soil and a gem. I am a stargate and a voyage. I am the ocean and your soul.
4014 Jennifer Elisabeth
But I love you and I want you and I need you. Can’t you see that? This world has nothing to offer me if it doesn’t include you.
2987 Karen Quan
I have always wanted to give you the world, so I started giving you pieces of the oceans that kept us apart.
1103 Erica Sehyun Song
I could have drowned today. If they hadn’t been screaming my name so loudly and if I hadn’t woken up, I would have drowned.
4855 Carsten Jensen
With no other choices open to us, we'd turned our gaze seaward. The oceans were our America: they reached farther than any prairie, untamed as on the first day of creation. Nobody owned them.
2232 Maggie Stiefvater
It's easy to convince men to love you, Puck. All you have to do is be a mountain they have to climb or a poem they don't understand. Something that makes them feel strong or clever. It's why they love the ocean.
4242 Shelley Noble
Margaux was older and wiser now and knew the waves couldn't fix what was wrong in her life, but at least they might give her some temporary respite.
1217 Nadia Scrieva
Don’t you dare come into my world and tell me what color the ocean is! It’s black. Black as midnight. Black and awful!
3232 Kishore Bansal
Our identity in the world is like a wave from the Ocean.
1507 Munia Khan
My pond life with hydra is over; now I’m into the ocean world of poetry to dive deeper..
4171 Lana Del Rey
I was always an unusual girl.
My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean.
2842 Rachel Carson
It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself.
2782 Santosh Kalwar
Her happiness floated like waves of ocean along the coast of her life. She found lyrics of her life in his arms but she never sung her song.
2047 Beyoncé Knowles
I'm always happy when I'm surrounded by water, I think I'm a Mermaid or I was a mermaid.
The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective… it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean.
3514 Bob Marley
In high seas or in low seas,
I'm gonna be your friend...
I'm gonna be your friend.
In high tide or in low tide,
I'll be by your side...
I'll be by your side.
1777 Toba Beta
At beyond continent of reality,
there are oceans of ideas.
4326 Jennifer Elisabeth
I could watch him do this until morning - never asking questions and never interrupting his work. I worship quietly - his intense focus and attention to detail and then, out of no where, I realize the inconvenient, inappropriate truth: ‘I love this man… and it has swallowed me.
3275 Toba Beta
There were three things sought by invaders who crossed
oceans to discover America. Those were gold, gospel, glory.
There are four things sought by aliens who crossed heavens
to discover planet earth. Those are gold, gospel, glory, gene.
1206 Dejan Stojanovic
I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides.
4603 Elizabeth I Tudor
The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.
3677 Amit Kalantri
Ocean is not supposed to be scared of the drops.
1625 Scott Hastie
The sea, the sea…
Man alone,
Passive, unaware
In his elemental sadness.
3866 Ai Yazawa
I was happy anywhere I could see the ocean.
1210 Nikki Rowe
He was the ocean and I was the sand,
i lived content in stillness and he washed a shore everytime, as a better man.
2396 Stephen Crane
Tell her this
And more, -
That the king of the seas
Weeps too, old, helpless man.
The bustling fates
Heap his hands with corpses
Until he stands like a child
With surplus of toys.
1935 Jennifer Elisabeth
I can do this… I can start over. I can save my own life and I’m never going to be alone as long as I have stars to wish on and people to still love.
4602 Jennifer Elisabeth
For so many years, I couldn’t understand why every time I thought that someone finally loved me, like… for real, they would eventually turn to vapor. Every person whom I’ve ever loved is trapped inside of my chest. I’ve breathed all of them in so deeply that I’ve nearly choked and died on every soul that I’ve ever given myself to.
2831 Jennifer Elisabeth
I want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk into my life and need someone to love them beyond reason.
1055 Jennifer Elisabeth
I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me of myself - my past and the kaleidoscope of mistakes, failures and wrong turns that have stacked unbearable regret upon my shoulders.
3034 Jennifer Elisabeth
Does our purpose on Earth directly link to the people whom we end up meeting? Are our relationships and experiences actually the required dots that connect and then lead us to our ultimate destinies?
2976 Jennifer Elisabeth
I fantasize the night sky to be like a cosmic blue print of my life as I close my eyes and unbutton my heart…. just in case anyone up there is listening.
4016 Jennifer Elisabeth
Something, somewhere, knows what’s best for me and promises to keep sending me people and experiences to light my way as long as I live in gratitude and keep paying attention to the signs.
4805 Jennifer Elisabeth
I’ve grown up defined by this desperate, undeniable, ‘can’t breathe’ kind of space inside of myself and I’m afraid that the diagnosis is fatal.
1196 Jennifer Elisabeth
I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing.
2297 Jennifer Elisabeth
Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.
2507 Jennifer Elisabeth
I’ve always seen this in you, ever since you were a little girl - this hunger to love other people into their highest selves and it’s what has made me irreversibly and just so forever in love with you.
2313 Jennifer Elisabeth
Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back.
2668 Jennifer Elisabeth
I feel a resurgence of my 6-year-old self… that little warrior, goddess of a girl reminding me of who I was when I was little, before the world got its hands on me.
1055 Jennifer Elisabeth
I’m going to follow this invisible red thread until I find myself again… until I finally figure out… who I’m meant to be.
1222 Jennifer Elisabeth
I know that this process of ‘me changing my life’ doesn’t just end once I set fire to this list of things I hate about myself. Tonight isn’t as much of a new beginning as it is a violent end and I know the real work hasn’t even started yet.
3674 Jennifer Elisabeth
Everything hurts right now and nothing is helping because as the pain is getting worse - so is the love.
2631 Jennifer Elisabeth
I just want your voice aimed at me again. I want to absorb the direction of your eyes…
3314 Jennifer Elisabeth
I love him in ways that I can’t explain to other people. They don’t understand… it’s not their fault.
1137 Jennifer Elisabeth
I really believe that there is an invisible red thread tied between him and me, and that it has stretched and tangled for years - across oceans and lifetimes. I know that it won’t break because our souls are tied.
2644 Jennifer Elisabeth
I want you to trust yourself, baby. Love is all that matters and you’ve always known that. You’ve known, since you were a very little girl, what your life is meant to be about…
4070 Jennifer Elisabeth
I know that your soul is on life support and that you feel lost and like you’re completely spinning out of control, but you’re finding yourself - here, tonight… even in this darkness.
3380 Jennifer Elisabeth
Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back. I’m going to help you forgive the things that you won’t let yourself forget.
3523 Sarah Ockler
This boy wore the ocean in his eyes, green-gray-blue, ever shifting, and I recognized him immediately. Knew before he said another word that he was as dangerous as he was beautiful.
1353 Emma McLaughlin
Screw sharks; a Transformer could be stretching up on its tippy toes and would still have a mile of cover to eat me.
4630 Anne Carson
Here we go mother on the shipless ocean.
Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
3680 Rachel Carson
The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them, science will discover these qualities... If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.
1897 Charlotte M. Liebel
Overmodulation
By Charlotte M Liebel-Fawls
You're a cavity in my oasis,
You're a porthole in my sea,
You're a stretch of the imagination
every time you look at me.
You're an ocean in my wineglass,
You're a Steinway on the beach,
You're a captivating audience,
an exciting Rembrandt,
A Masterpiece.
1331 Jim Lynch
When Rachel Carson accepted the National Book Award, she said, 'if there is poetry in my book about the sea it is not because I deliberately put it there but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out poetry.
3688 Eileen Granfors
to split the very sea into ours and theirs." Border at the Beach
And More White Sheets
4021 Jackson Pearce
It is beautiful, it is endless, it is full and yet seems empty. It hurts us.
1592 Jennifer Elisabeth
He looked at me, that first day, like he had just found something he’d lost a thousand years ago.
2367 Jennifer Elisabeth
I’m tired of justifying why I love someone. I’m done with the explaining.
4495 Jennifer Elisabeth
That last time you kissed me my heart slid past your teeth down into the center of your chest… trapping us both in a stainless cage.
3316 Jennifer Elisabeth
I kept waiting for the part where I’d finally know who I was - some flashing, neon moment of relief, but it never came.
1475 Jennifer Elisabeth
If I had an .MP3 of your heartbeat… I might actually get some sleep.
2369 Jennifer Elisabeth
In the old days, when travelers would get lost, they would follow the stars and I love that idea. I wish that I could rely on something as simple and magnificent as a star for all of my aching questions.
4893 Jennifer Elisabeth
I ruin everything. I think that a bullet must have passed through my heart when I was very young, causing me to bleed out slowly, over things and people and every white surface that I’d ever come across.
4733 Jennifer Elisabeth
I want to understand the strings that are tied between me and certain other people and if they really can stretch through infinite time and space without ever breaking. Are soul mates real, and is my life ever going to make sense?
4986 Jennifer Elisabeth
I don’t ever want to hurt anyone, but I really wish there was something like a reset button on my life.
1844 Jennifer Elisabeth
I wish on one of the stars for divine orchestration and save the rest of them for all of the other girls in the world who will feel like I do tonight.
4205 Jennifer Elisabeth
It feels like the world is folding up around me, like origami paper, and I’m trapped inside of its breathless center.
2952 Jennifer Elisabeth
He could pour himself into my little paper cup heart and my emptiness would finally have a meaning.
1310 Jennifer Elisabeth
Standing naked on the beach with all of my secrets between my legs, I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me of myself…
4185 Karl Pilkington
They keep saying that sea levels are rising an' all this. It's nowt to do with the icebergs melting, it's because there's too many fish in it. Get rid of some of the fish and the water will drop. Simple. Basic science.
1669 Mahatma Gandhi
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
4367 Ryan Lilly
A life spent at the edge of the pier is a life full of regret, a life full of fear.
4650 Herman Melville
[T]hen all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.
4389 Margot Datz
Darwin may have been quite correct in his theory that man descended from the apes of the forest, but surely woman rose from the frothy sea, as resplendent as Aphrodite on her scalloped chariot.
3576 Oksana Rus
In the coastal strains of music full of lovers hopes and dreams upon, wearing only warmth, fresh scent of the ocean and delightfully joyous smile...I look deep in your dark gloomy ochi 'cross the oceans and lands between us, am aware by sweet memories your heart is tortured...and you are for eternity mine...
3285 Colleen Houck
If anyone can overcome a fear for the ocean, you can, little lady. Courage is being scared to death and saddlin' up anyway.
4610 Peter Matthiessen
Transfixed by the bright gaze of a lizard, I become calm. This stone on which the lizard lies was under the sea when lizards first came into being, and now the flood is wearing it away, to return it once again into the oceans.
4893 Sara Sheridan
She wishes her grandmother had not been so protective, and that she understood better what passes between a man and woman. As it is, she simply enjoys the feelings and wonders if they are what lightning is made of, for everything comes back to the weather. Tears like rain. Smiles like the sun. Hair as dry as sand and fear like the dark ocean.
1884 Christopher Paolini
The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can't.
3659 Jacques-Yves Cousteau
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.
1855 Oksana Rus
Just take my hand, lead, dance with me...and I will simply follow the blueness of the water, the white waves rolling free...where the earth beneath my feet and stars make my heart whole again...in long and priceless moments of shared solitude...
3326 Oksana Rus
The serenity of the lulling ocean is a wondrous thing to behold..more precious than the gems coveted and covered in platinum or gold...
1020 John Steinbeck
The Pacific is my home ocean; I knew it first, grew up on its shore, collected marine animals along the coast. I know its moods, its color, its nature.
2079 Wendy Shreve
Tidal waves surge forward,
And in their wake, Stale water is replenished.
(Haiku from Chapter Thirty, SHADOWWATER)
1408 Bob Dylan
Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.
1356 Charles De Leusse
In ocean of tears, the heart of stone sinks. (Dans l'océan de larmes, - Le coeur de pierre donc coule.)
2536 Viraj J. Mahajan
She was few inches taller than him and when for the first time her promising eyes met with his, he knew it would be more than friendship. He was too young to name that feeling then. But love...above all relationships knows no age.
1942 Viraj J. Mahajan
These stories always take us to some far away places which we can never visit in real life.
1644 Viraj J. Mahajan
She was now drowning in that pool of desires without having any idea about the depth of it.
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