Are you looking for inspirational quotes about ocean? Inspiring Lizard has got you covered! In this article we present the 383 most beautiful ocean quotes we could find. Let’s get inspired!
Ocean quotes
The deepest and most profound wisdom that exists and moves through us is the intelligence of our own heart. It is a flowing sacredness. It can navigate you through anything. An intelligent ocean of life’s experience.
— Angie karan
How can you love art, beauty, poetry, and hate life? That’s like saying you love the ocean but hate water.
— Marty Rubin
Be the ocean of love so that everyone can come to you to enjoy the beauty of the beach.
— Debasish Mridha
There was an ocean above us, held in by a thin sac that might rupture and let down a flood at any second.
— Stephen King, Different Seasons
The waves hit the cliff with more intensity than the shore, because the ocean knows the cliff has that masculine intensity which won’t complain about her feminine energy.
— Nityananda Das, Divine Union
Only the ocean kept the same rhythm. Crashing in and slowly pulling back out, it never lied, never changed. It tried to teach them a life of romantic consistency.
— Lawren Leo, Love’s Shadow: Nine Crooked Paths
The ocean is six miles deep.
— Joe Dunthorne, Submarine
A little dust does not make an ocean dirty. By blaming you change the society by making a lot of dust. By taking systematic actions and by focusing on beauty- for sure we can change our society and clean up the dust.
— Debasish Mridha
To be wealthy, powerful or famous does mot matter to me. Starting a social good ripple that will turn to an ocean wave matters to me.
— Petek Kabakci
The loudspeaker on the wall crackles, hisses, and suddenly announces, in astonishingly soothing tones, that a train is going to be delayed. An ocean swell of sighs ripples through the waiting room.
— Andreï Makine
A broken heart, too much cold beer, ocean waves and a willing man were never a good combination, no matter what the country songs said.
— Patti Callahan Henry, Driftwood Summer
Your dreams and goals are bigger than small minded people or the fears that they harbor. Don’t let their ocean of fear trap you in the undertow.
— jaha Knight, 39 Day Lifescape-Become a Better You
You are a sweet ocean of love. Invite everyone to come to your shore to feel the joy of life.
— Debasish Mridha
I didn’t flee a dictator or swim an ocean to be an American like some do. I just thought long and hard about it.
— Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
…like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance.
— Homer, The Iliad
Well, this is how I feel: I want to live by the ocean but also in the forest but also in the mountains but also in a big city but also in the countryside. Do you understand me?
— Anonymous
One who conquers the sea today is ready to conquer the ocean tomorrow.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Let me be an ocean and let me kiss you as many times as the ocean kisses the shore.
— Debasish Mridha
Somehow I could lose myself in the ocean the same way I could lose myself in a good book. Maybe it was because both involved suspension–a suspension of weight, a suspension of disbelief–a willingness to surrender to something greater than oneself.
— Eve Marie Mont, A Breath of Eyre
You can’t create an ocean with a single drop. But you can create an ocean of suspicion with a single drop of doubt.
— Mehmet Murat ildan
In this ocean of time, life is smaller than a drop of water. To create an impact, create a massive wave with the power of your infinite love.
— Debasish Mridha
A WATERY BLISSAs busy as an ice cream freezer, On a Sunday getting hotter, Happy is the honey eater-The busy ocean otter, Floating alongside Teter, On a sea full of water.
— Giorge Leedy, Uninhibited From Lust To Love
You’re like a fish. You want to evolve, to climb onto the land, but the ocean won’t let go of you so easily. The currents of your past would sooner destroy you than let you go free.
— Michael Goorjian, What Lies Beyond The Stars
In ocean of tears, the heart of stone sinks. (Dans l’océan de larmes, – Le coeur de pierre donc coule.)
— Charles de Leusse
I know everyone has dreams of flying, but this isn’t a dream of flying. It’s a dream of floating, and the ocean is not water but wind. I call it a dream, but it feels realer than my life.
— Maria Dahvana Headley, Magonia
It was like trying to bail out an ocean of water with a teaspoon.
— Jodi Picoult
We provoke a shark every time we enter the water where sharks happen to be, for we forget: The ocean is not our territory – it’s theirs.
— Peter Benchley
The ocean will always betray me. No matter how beautiful it is.
— K.B. Ezzell, Elysium
Let us be the waves of infinite love to be infinite in this finite ocean of life.
— Debasish Mridha
I would parade you in the hall of the monarchs of the ocean if you could breathe water.
— S.M. Wheeler, Sea Change
And in the ocean I will fly to the bottomless pit of darkness
— ellena fedora
And I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.
— Bob Dylan
When the ocean get poisoned even a sip will be deadly
— Mohammed Sekouty
When you’re thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that’s faith when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that’s science.
— Anton Chekhov
Even as I think them, the words lose their context, dissolve into grains of absurdity in the vast ocean of day-to-day hunger.
— Isaac Marion, Boarded Window
He will one day meet his true love… A fellow traveler on the road… Her eyes will be his ocean… In her ocean he will sail forever….
— Kem, Tales of a Chocolate Smuggler: My Life with Dragons
Bad stuff does happen sometimes, always remember that but remember that you have to move on somehow. You just pick your head up and stare at something beautiful like the sky or the ocean and you move the hell on.
— James Patterson, Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas
Our house has its back to the sea, ‘ writes Hester in her journal. ‘Below us, the ocean spreads to the sky, twitching wide and blue and hungry. One would think it to be infinite. But we, of course, know better.
— Tanya Moir, La Rochelle’s Road
Already this sun was pouring its wrath into the blue Indian ocean where swordfish and marlin cruised like silver-blue attenuated warheads in their green-gold depths…
— Mike Bond, The Last Savanna
You don’t throw a compass overboard because the ocean is calm.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
if the ocean can calm itself, so can you.we are both salt water mixed with air.
— Nayyirah Waheed
The thing about the ocean is that the surface won’t always tell you what is going on underneath.
— Jennifer Arnett, Into Her Chambers
We sat talking on a rock. The air was filled with the tang of sea-weed and of something else that could only have been the ocean smell. I felt so happy that I wasn’t even afraid it wouldn’t last.
— Tove Jansson, Moominpappa’s Memoirs
Full many a gem of purest ray sereneThe dark unfathom’d caves of ocean bear:Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
— Thomas Gray, An Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard
Falling in love is like seeing the ocean for the very first time, when all of your life you’ve been stepping in puddles.
— Rina Nath
A calm ocean is safer than a raging river.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, anew continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to bereleased and channeled toward some great good.
— Brian Tracy
We are finding new areas in the ocean every day. It’s as alien as going to outer space.
— Geoff Johns
Although Shanghai is on the sea, it long lacked the prosperity that Hong Kong enjoyed, so while Hong Kong became known for its exotic ocean creatures, Shanghai built its diet around more commonplace river and sea fish.
— Evan Osnos
A mansion begins with one brick.A forest begins with one tree.A harvest begins with one seed.An ocean begins with one drop.A friendship begins with one gesture.A fire begins with one spark.A revolution begins with one idea.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The messages must be stuck somewhere in the tube of light underneath the ocean that connects London and New York.
— Olivia Sudjic, Sympathy
Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
…and when we die we die alone I cry, I cry aloneLike a piece of stone I am thrown into the wavy ocean of lifeto atone…to atoneOnly to atone…
— Munia Khan
The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.
— Henry Beston
Truth is made only for one reason to be deep down in the ocean as for the top part, they should be the lies… this is the iceberg.
— Deyth Banger
Just like waves in the ocean come and go, no challenge is permanent. Problems will come and go too. We must enjoy the Challenges just like we enjoy the Waves. – RVM.
— R.v.m.
You can’t discuss the ocean with a well frog – he’s limited by the space he lives in. You can’t discuss ice with a summer insect – he’s bound to a single season.
— Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
She felt like a creature born to reside on the bottom of the ocean floor, dark and flat and half-blind, slowly rising through the icy water to the glittering light above.
— Lisa Jewell, The Truth About Melody Browne
Flight of my mind rises beneath the seagull’s wings …then ocean is my motherland I feel.
— Munia Khan
You are the ocean to my eyes.
— Sanober Khan
I came from across the ocean and through the wilderness and landed here and found you hiding behind a tapestry. My fate was sealed at the sight of your stockinged feet.~Viktor von Strassenberg
— Gwenn Wright, Katherine’s Journal
The ocean pulsed outside our window. The sound of the waves crashing on the rocks below usually calmed me down, but the fear and chaos that were tangled in my mind made that an impossibility.
— Chelsie Shakespeare
She was a mind floating in an ocean of confusion.
— Caroline B. Cooney, The Face on the Milk Carton
Let the blue of the sky and ocean take your blue away when you feel blue
— Munia Khan
Life is an ocean and waves are our paths.
— Diana Matoso
Neither in the deepest ocean Nor in the perpetual snowHeaven was on earth that dayFor some reason we are yet to know
— Sameer Kumar, The Origin Of Martin Krooger
Can you imagine a waveless ocean while there is a big storm outside? And that calm ocean is the ocean of wisdom!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Not knowing that I am in the ocean of love, I am swimming to reach the island of love.
— Debasish Mridha
He was beneath the waves, a creature crawling the ocean bottom.
— Doppo Kunikida, Five Stories
Dreams are shores where the ocean of spirit meets the land of matter. Dreams are beaches where the yet-to-be, the once-were, the will-never-be may walk awhile with the still are.
— David Mitchell, number9dream
Every drop in the ocean counts.
— Yoko Ono
Life-power rises by penetrating the body in the seventh plane, gets the layer of the cerebrum removed, and the ocean of Bliss of God is seen. It is called seeing the ocean of Satchidananda – the all Blissful aspect of God.” – Sri Jibankrishna
— Dipak Kumar Pramanik
We may be just a drop in the ocean, but even the ocean envies the depth of our love.
— Maria Elena, Eternal Youth
You don’t need an ocean to feel like you’re drowning. You feel it, between your chest and your throat, the weight of it stretching you outside your self, like a dead fish on the shore.
— Malak El Halabi
Once the tugboat takes you out to the ocean liner, you got to get all the way on board. Can’t straddle both decks.
— Katherine Patterson
The sky’s gone blue: azure, the ocean bluer: cerulean, the trees are swirls of every hella freaking green on earth and bright thick eggy yellow is spilling over everything.
— Jandy Nelson, I’ll Give You the Sun
How does the moon feel as it sees the ocean lap at your shores? The eternal pain of knowing you are there but forever out of reach…
— – Morris R. Gates
I was told that this road would take me to the ocean of death, and turned back halfway. Since then crooked, round-about, godforsaken paths stretch out before me.
— Arkady Strugatsky, Definitely Maybe
Till now, madness has been thought a small island in an ocean of sanity. I am beginning to suspect that it is not an island at all but a continent.
— Machado de Assis, O Alienista
An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water.
— Arthur Stanley Eddington
I had come to learn pretty quickly that life has its highs and lows just like the ocean does and sometimes you just have to see how far they’ll carry you.
— C.A. Williams, The Crush
Moving islands in the ocean of sky.Beautiful white curtains in the sky, Veiling and unveiling portions, as time passes by.I watch clouds, when my mind feels clouded.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, Thoughts Unknown
Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.
— H. P. Lovecraft
Now and then, when I grow nostalgic about my ocean childhood – the wauling of gulls and the smell of salt, somebody solicitous will bundle me into a car and drive me to the nearest briny horizon.
— Sylvia Plath
Don’t conform. Don’t live in a small dirty pond when the ocean of life is lovingly inviting you.
— Debasish Mridha
To enjoy the greatness and magnificence of life, lose yourself in the ocean of love.
— Debasish Mridha
The imagination is the voyage of our thoughts in the endless ocean of the mind that searches for the splendid beaches of happiness.
— Debasish Mridha
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 only ship you can truly steer in this ocean is the one you’re sailing. Quit trying to alter the winds
— harness them.
Painted desert, ocean of colorsun’s worshiper, moon’s loverpicture of a coyote’s voicesandbox of angels, another toy.
— Trine Daely, Life Games
God made the ocean but the Dutch made Holland.
— Dutch proverb
My woman has a wandering eye;Yarrow, thyme and thorn.She eyes the ocean and the skyWhile stitching sails, forlorn.I got a kiss, and then a tearAs she bade me go;But on the waves, my heart’s in fear:My woman’s in the know.
— F.T. McKinstry, The Gray Isles
Intellectuals cannot find the bottom (base) of the faith. It is not possible to do both together, to remain afloat and (also) measure the ocean depth at the same time.
— Dada Bhagwan
Nothing from the ocean is meant to survive on land forever.
— Sarah Glenn Marsh, Fear the Drowning Deep
Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evilbut if some god shakes your houseruin arrivesruin does not leaveit comes tolling over the generationsit comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floorand all your thrashed coasts groan
— Anne Carson, Antigonick
at the bottom of the ocean is a layer of water that has never moved…
— Anne Carson, Red Doc>
Be the ocean let the river come to you.
— Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step
Sometimes, somehow…I feel that ocean contains tears of mother earth, that mourns over terrible great sin done by men.
— Toba Beta
the ocean mist engulfs me, like a lifetime’s friendship honored.
— Sanober Khan, A touch, a tear, a tempest
One who wishes to cross the ocean first builds a ship.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
I know I play with danger every time I swim, but I need this. I’m Mer and the ocean is mine.
— Tabi Card, Mersong
I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name.
— Adela Florence Nicolson
The day you forgive your past and close your eyes. You will hear a river flowing inside you again. You will hear that waves of the ocean hitting the seashores of your soul once again. And again the sun will shine, lighting up your darkest nights.
— Akshay Vasu
In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.
— John Maynard Keynes
My battered heart will always be where the ocean meets the sand, I will break over and overEvery day. That is the best andworst part of me.
— Clementine von Radics
There’s nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn’t cure.
— Ross MacDonald
All of the stories, all of the beauty, all of the songs and events of this life will vanish in the ocean of time.
— Debasish Mridha
A casket full of stories I presentFrom the ocean of my feelings and its moodSome bring with it a tempest of tearsSome make you sit and broodThere are a few pearls of optimism tooWhich are colourful and multi-hued!
— Neelam Saxena Chandra
If you are not reading and thinking, it means that your windows looking to the ocean are closed!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
A great man does not lose his self-possession when he is afflicted the ocean is not made muddy by the falling in of its banks.
— Panchatantra
I grimace, thinking someone should come up with a new phrase for ‘I left the ocean without a kiwi-sized chunk of my lower-left butt cheek’ to replace the rather nebulous term ‘exploratory bite.
— Elle Lothlorien, Alice in Wonderland
The moon makes love to the ocean and in this holy conception it gives birth to a little tide.
— A.P. Sweet, dead, but dreaming
I cried tears you’ll never see. So fuck you, you can go cry me a ocean and leave me be
— Fall Out Boy, Fall Out Boy – Save Rock and Roll
The ocean sleeps. The ocean wakes. And the waking of the ocean is the waking of the soul. At midnight wakefulness springs from within the ocean.
— Wasif Ali Wasif, Dil Darya Samandar / دل دریا سمندر
He was the ocean and I was the sand, i lived content in stillness and he washed a shore everytime, as a better man.
— Nikki Rowe
Life is a wave of love in the ocean of humanity.
— Debasish Mridha
Every time you dive, you hope you’ll see something new – some new species. Sometimes the ocean gives you a gift, sometimes it doesn’t.
— James Cameron
Baby, don’t build a monument for me of your sadness. You wouldn’t have wasted your tears when I was alive. Why make an ocean of them now when it’s over? The future you dreamed is a dream. Dream something else.
— stephanie roberts, As We Are
I need someone who is willing to watch me brave the ocean and then dare me not to drown.
— Colleen Hoover, Maybe Someday
Why you are searching for love all over the world, when inside you resides an endless ocean of love?
— Debasish Mridha
Waves in an ocean remind us that just as they come and go, we too will. What matters is did we make a good splash before leaving?
— RVM
To be a leader you have to jump into the ocean of uncertainty and lead the followers toward the known or unknown destination.
— Debasish Mridha
I should like my house to be similar to that of the ocean wind, all quivering with gulls.
— Rene Cazelles, De terre et d’envolée
Maria didn’t fear the sea but, as taught by her father, she respected its power. In her experience the ocean had no intent to drown travellers.
— Sara Sheridan, On Starlit Seas
The sun kept dipping down into the ocean and the lights came on at the harbor, casting sudden shadows on the ground, illuminating the faces that were just a second ago silhouettes. The sky was golden and purple, the ocean a darker shade of violet.
— Adi Alsaid, Never Always Sometimes
I love the smell of rain, and I love the sound of the ocean waves.
— Amy Purdy
God doth not need Either man’s work or his own gifts who best Bear His mild yoke they serve Him best His state Is kingly thousands at His bidding speed And post o’er land and ocean without rest – They also serve who only stand and wait.
— John Milton
We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.
— Mother Teresa
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!
— Nadia Scrieva
Being a child sucked. Being a teenager was worse. And being an adult seemed so far away that I had a better chance at swimming the length of the ocean than growing up.
— Shannon A. Thompson, 2013: A Stellar Collection
Doesn’t the expansiveness of this make you think of the good Lord? Except we know the ocean ends while He goes on forever.
— Mindy Starns Clark, The Amish Nanny
Only whispers can tell of the sweet dreams we knew so well. I’ll see you around our dear ocean town.
— Adam Young, The Black Heart
An ocean does not know how big she is just like you don’t know how loving and amazing you are.
— Debasish Mridha
When I lean my ear up against your seashell heart, I can hear an ocean of love roaring inside.
— John Mark Green
From the very beginningperplexing and wanderingfrom one ocean to anotheran everlasting wander
— Rixa White
With EarthEcho Expedition: Acid Apocalypse, we are working with youth leaders and noted experts on the changing chemistry of our ocean to help illuminate one of our most pressing and inscrutable environmental issues.
— Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
I live in an ocean of smell…
— Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
I suppose because I grew up a thousand miles from the sea and missed the great age of passenger liners, I have always been subject to a romantic longing for ocean travel.
— Bill Bryson
A pond with one fish is better than an ocean with none.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The ocean cries every time it loses a drop.
— Matshona T. Dhliwayo
It’s August, which means Congress is on recess and Mitch McConnell has shimmied back into the ocean to seek a mate.
— Stephen Colbert
In the center of my being, I am floating with the waves of time in the ocean of light.
— Debasish Mridha
Your ocean of joy in not out there. Find it inside of you and swim there forever.
— Debasish Mridha
let my heart always belike it is…this very momentready to explode…with lovea violent rainstorm…with no streamno ocean vast enoughto flow into.
— Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence
Let the waves of ocean teach you how to love and dance.
— Debasish Mridha
The feeling doesn’t always match the loss. Sometimes the bigger ones are easier to take, like ocean waves. Smaller, human losses, the ones that carry a sense of fault, a choice, a wrong turn – they haunt, fuse in you, become impossible to remove.
— Catherine Lacey, The Answers
Close your eyes and turn your face into the wind.Feel it sweep along your skin in an invisible ocean of exult
— Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
I always envisioned myself as traveling the ocean of life in a rowboat where my mother was one oar and my father, the other. Having two good, solid oars made rowing much easier.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
He knows not where he’s going, For the ocean will decide, Its not the destination, It’s the glory of the ride
— Edward Monkton, Zen Dog
Maybe I’m still the mermaid. Maybe the ocean is your hand.
— Kelli Russell Agodon, Hourglass Museum
Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
— Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.
— Abraham H. Maslow
It is certain that there is no limit to the vast ocean of knowledge.
— Eraldo Banovac
My lifeless body – a boat with sunken anchors, without leader on board, without harbor, without country, only my moist sails afloat in that tremendous ocean of my tears
— Camelia C.
Roll on thou deep and dark blue ocean – roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain Man marks the earth with ruin – his control Stops with the shore.
— Lord Byron
At lastdon’t be anything for mebe something which isClear as ocean waterBe cloud , but don’t rain on meBe sun, but don’t shine for meBe moon, but don’t enlighten meBut be lucid, in whatYou are to meSo that I can think, where do you exist
— Arshad Ahmad
…. Blesstheir believing happiness will make them happy;that the ocean is magical, a kingdomwhere we go to be human, and grateful.
— Philip Schultz, Failure
If the feet of enlightenment moved, the great ocean would overflow; If that head bowed, it would look down upon the heavens.Such a body has no place to rest. . . .Let another continue this poem.
— Paul Reps, Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings
The universe is an ocean upon which we are the waves. While some decide to surf, others venture to dive.
— Charbel Tadros
The ocean turns cold, dark, pressing around me, but the deeper I go the more the iron inside of me twists and pulls and I know that I’m tethered to the boat, that even now the men pull the rope tighter and drag me back to the surface.
— Kendall Kulper, Salt & Storm
To vanish with the infinite, I am floating with the waves of change in the ocean of time.
— Debasish Mridha
A worshiping community should be the fountain from which life flows and the ocean into which your efforts are merged. That is where identity is defined, refined, and consolidated and where continuity remains.
— Ravi Zacharias, I, Isaac, Take Thee, Rebekah: Moving from Romance to Lasting Love
Whoever deemed the ocean an invigorating place needed to reconsider the reality of crashing waves, sunburn, and sand wedged up into places no one should have it.
— Natalia Jaster, Trick
I love the ocean because water from all sources mingle here, I love the ocean because it always returns all our valuables back, I love the ocean because it is the proof for abundance love & attachment.
— Desai Pruthvi S
We all have an edge. We all are floating our psyche on top with a great ocean underneath.
— Brad Dourif
Approaching the state of Delaware, the dreamer is a small dog, dreaming impatiently of a past life, long forgotten, when he sailed tall ships across uncharted. The salt spray of the ocean stings my face.
— Neil Gaiman, Preludes & Nocturnes
We may be lost stars in an ocean of constellations on a dark night but do remember we both belong to the same sky. I breathe the same air that you breathe, we both look at the same luminosity above us. You are the music and I am the lyrics.
— Elizabeth E. Castillo
Her eyes were a bottomless ocean that I would give up air to explore.
— Cora Carmack, Faking It
The past is buried deep within the ground in Rabat, although the ancient walls in the old city are still standing, painted in electrifying variations of royal blue that make the winding roads look like streamlets or shallow ocean water.
— Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
According to String Theory, what appears to be empty space is actually a tumultuous ocean of strings vibrating at the precise frequencies that create the 4 dimensions you and I call height, width, depth and time.
— Roy H. Williams
When you think of it, people may rub elbows and still have an ocean or two between them.
— B.M. Bower, The Range Dwellers
I want to be a ripple in the infinite ocean of love.
— Debasish Mridha
Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear.
— Thomas Gray
She had blue eyes, but his were BLUE. Not just one shade of blue, either, but a swirl of shades that reminded her of the stretch of ocean between Bella Vita Isle and Nassau where the turquoise waters fell into a deep, fathomless blue.
— Emily March, Dreamweaver Trail
The ocean is a Turing machine, the sand is its tape; the water reads the marks in the sand and sometimes erases them and sometimes carves new ones with tiny currents that are themselves a response to the marks.
— Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
You deserve every mountain falling. You deserve every ocean reaching. You deserve all creation crying out your worth.You deserve all of Heaven singing. You deserve every nation rising, but I have heard that what You want most is my love.
— Natalie Grant
The ocean has limits, but true love does not.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Spirit does not belong to any particular religion because It has nothing to do with any religion and humanity cannot claim any exclusivity to It because we and our planet is nothing but a drop in the ocean of this endless Universe.
— Thomas Vazhakunnathu, God Does Not Roll Dice
A full moon sprinkled the black ocean with diamonds, and she could imagine fairies dancing in the silver foam that laced the huge, dark waves.
— Patricia Hagan, Ocean of Dreams
Be generous like the ocean with your love. Let the whole world enjoy the abundance.
— Debasish Mridha
What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.
— Richard Paul Evans, A Step of Faith
For some, the life journey has just started, for some, it is about to end; but in truth, there is no start and there is no end! There is just an ocean of particles playing aimlessly!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
ALL words are made-up: Do you think we find them fully formed on the ocean floor, or mine from them in some remote part of Wales?
— Kory Stamper
Just a drop in the ocean, ” you say, And that may be true, But the ocean wouldn’t be as full, If it weren’t for you.
— Kyra Jackson
Integrity is a high rock above which the stormy ocean of worldly troubles cannot rise.
— Alan Cohen
Crossing the ocean is secondary, planning how to pass the tides is the goal.
— Arlin Sailesh Kapadia
The ocean drummed as loud as pulsating blood, eroding the sand, rushing the beach as if it had a point to prove. And like many things, it receded, was gone, and was replaced anew.
— H.L. Sudler, Summerville
This internal sea. The problem is that this beautiful ocean carries with it loads ay poisonous flotsam and jetsam… that poison is diluted by the sea, but once the ocean rolls out, it leaves the shite behind, inside ma body.
— Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting
I’d skipped the crush kiddie pool and jumped right into the deep, shark-infested ocean of emotions. And, if you’ll forgive the dramatic metaphor, I was a lousy swimmer.
— Kody Keplinger, The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend
My name or yours doesn’t matter, we all are mere drops in the ocean of divine consciousness, an extension of Supreme Power’.
— Vishal Chipkar, Enter Heaven
He feels himself buried in those two infinities, the ocean and the sky, at one and the same time: the one is a tomb; the other is a shroud.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
The calm serenity of the breeze as it blows across the ocean releases the tangled web within my mind.
— J. Kahele, Blink: The Series – Breaking Branches
The ocean will swallow you whole and burp you out and not notice you were even there.
— Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything
Malibu: With sounds of waves crashing, and the ocean at the doorstep, you feel like you are hours away from civilization. And with L.A. traffic, YOU ARE.
— Jennifer Harrison, Write like no one is reading 2
I go to the ocean to say goodbye.
— Charlotte Eriksson
We are like a drop of love, with crystal clear beauty, charm, joy and dance, like to vanish with the ocean of love to become the ocean
— Debasish Mridha
I would kiss you in the middle of the ocean during a lightning storm cuz I’d rather be left for dead than wondering what thunder sounds like.
— Andrea Gibson
A moss which leaves its ocean becomes pale and dries up and a man which leaves his mother country is a moss which leaves it ocean!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
A drop of sense can save you an ocean of tears.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
From the tattered edges of an exhausted mind, inspiration blooms… mental filters disintegrate and walls crumble, as the ocean of creativity washes over everything.
— Jaeda DeWalt
True love is boundless like the ocean and, swelling within one, spreads itself out and, crossing all boundaries and frontiers, envelops the whole world.
— Mahatma Gandhi
What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.
— Werner Herzog
His hair was red, and his eyes were a color blue that put the ocean to shame.
— Embee, Tess Embers
If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn’t worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it’s life or death.
— Morgan Freeman
I want to kiss the bottom of the ocean before I burst through its surface into the sunlight. Otherwise I’ll always be wondering about what was left unseen at the bottom.
— Carol Lee, To Die For
Leadership without servanthood is like an ocean without water.
— Farshad Asl
Health to the ocean means health for us.
— Sylvia Earle
You are a bubble in the ocean of life that has come to enjoy the glints of the morning light.
— Debasish Mridha
Life is a wave of love in the ocean of time.
— Debasish Mridha
I closed my eyes, took a deep breath and dived deeply into her ocean of love and that’s how I saved my soul!
— Avijeet Das
It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world…on a windswept ocean beach. There was nothing but the soft roar of the waves.
— Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire
The ocean was the best place, of course. That was what she loved most. It was a feeling of freedom like no other, and yet a feeling of communion with all the other places and creatures the water touched.
— Ann Brashares
Feel the kiss of ocean breeze, Hear the song of dancing waveLet your soul fly away with seagullsTo fill the heart with the joy of life.
— Debasish Mridha
Sometimes the most important conversation we can have is with the waves of the ocean or the dewdrops on a blade of grass. Sometimes the easiest way to love yourself is to realize that you are all these things. You are everything you’ve ever loved.
— Vironika Tugaleva
When you are in love, an ocean of joy dances like the waves in an ocean. You are that ocean.
— Debasish Mridha
I wonder if the ocean smells different on the other side of the world.
— J.A. Redmerski, The Edge of Never
You have an ocean of love in your heart. Then why are you too stingy to give it away?
— Debasish Mridha
Know yourself as you are – particles of start-dust moving through the eternal ocean of time, trying to make whatever little difference you can.
— Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience
You are not limited to this body, to this mind, or to this reality—you are a limitless ocean of Consciousness, imbued with infinite potential. You are existence itself.
— Joseph P. Kauffman, The Answer Is YOU: A Guide to Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Freedom
Relax your heart and let go into the infinite ocean of love within you.
— Amy Leigh Mercree, The Compassion Revolution: 30 Days of Living from the Heart
Take me to unexplored paradise & one of your best islands, I want to cross the pacific ocean and make a great memory. Let’s go to the eastern coast of the Philippines where the waves meet the sky. You know where it is!
— El Fuego
A wonderful stream is the River Time As it runs through the realms of Tears With a faultless rhythm and a musical rhyme As it blends with the ocean of Years.
— Benjamin F. Taylor
Fuck that guy, there’s more than one man in an ocean of fish
— Jane Emery, Four Degrees: Searching for Mr. Right
I could be blindfolded and dropped into the deepest ocean and I would know where to find you. I could be buried a hundred miles underground and I would know where you are.
— Neil Gaiman, American Gods
Life is nothing but a sea shell in the ocean of love.
— Debasish Mridha
By living exclusively for the present, we let ourselves be hemmed in by an ocean of death. Conversely, by reviving the past, we enlarge our living space.
— Amin Maalouf, Orígenes
Just like waves in the ocean come and go, no challenge is permanent. Problems will come and go too. We must enjoy the Challenges just like we enjoy the Waves.
— RVM
As a sea is full of drops of liquid, I was but one in the ocean of WarMany are swept ruthlessly into the battering, bashing waves, and only few survive to swim to shore
— Jade Kosche
America is a land where a citizen will cross the ocean to fight for democracy – and wont cross the street to vote in a national election.
— Bill Vaughn
A servant wants to be rewarded for what he does. A lover wants only to be in love’s presence, that ocean whose depth will never be known.
— Jalaluddin Rumi, The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing
We are always swimming in the ocean of love, but most of the time, we just don’t realize it.
— Debasish Mridha
It is very easy to fall in the ocean of love and feel great, but it’s difficult to get out of the river of love and forget.
— Debasish Mridha
When my toes are sunk into warm sand and the ocean is lapping my feet, when I breathe in the scent of salt and hear the cry of a seagull, I know that I am returned to a place of restoration. I am home.I can heal here.
— Toni Sorenson
The new day is almost here, but the old one is still dragging its heavy skirts. Just as ocean water and river water struggle against each other at a river mouth, the old time and the new time clash and blend.
— Haruki Murakami, After Dark
A heart filled with love never dries out by giving away love. It is like the ocean with unending waves.
— Debasish Mridha
Why do you give way to your ego and pride. Where does it stand in the ocean of time.
— Naveen Rajeev
We’ve built, drilled, and shipped indiscriminately across our oceans, with little consideration for the natural environment that is critical to the health of many of our other ocean uses, like food and recreation.
— Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
They were two people staring at each other knowingly, communicating psychically amidst an ocean of deaf, dumb and blind meatsacks.
— Travis Luedke, The Nightlife: Las Vegas
Back then they used different chemicals in the tanning process. They prevent ocean bacteria from eating away at whatever is inside. A leather bag from the early 1900’s is like a time capsule.
— Giselle Fox, Rare and Beautiful Things
The bright blue sky remained cloudless, and the aquamarine ocean still crashed gently onto the white sand beach, but the scene was suddenly warped. Twisted, as I processed Thad’s words.
— Lynne Matson, Nil
You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
— Alan W. Watts
We are born in the ocean of love and we love the ocean and her touch so much.
— Debasish Mridha
To your simple existence, do not boast;merely to breathe or move or think is not to live.The shore of the sea is but a ghost, compared to the depth its wholeness gives.You exist in the miry foam;make the ocean depths your home.
— Craig Froman, An Owl on the Moon: A Journal from the Edge of Darkness
Life becomes meaningful with a loving heart’s gift Upon the ocean of gratitude soul’s boat adrift Invisible expectancy tossed and turnedFrom the light of memories a blessed ray earned
— Munia Khan
…you need to travel to see the ocean – I don’t need the ocean – I have the sky…
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
Realization is not about you, the wave, realizing it is ocean. The ocean realizes itself in you and reveals itself to have never been just a wave. Nothing changes except the falling away of a false belief.
— Enza Vita
How much time could you spend staring out the ocean, even if it was the ocean you’d loved since you were a boy?
— Philip Roth, Everyman
Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.
— John F. Kennedy
The reward for being sensitive is that we’re held by the Universe, the way the ocean in its buoyancy holds up a raft.
— Mark Nepo
All work of man is as the swimmer’s: a vast ocean threatens to devour him if he front it not bravely it will keep its word.
— Thomas Carlyle
My guilt is an ocean for me to drown in.
— Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything
The serenity of the lulling ocean is a wondrous thing to behold..more precious than the gems coveted and covered in platinum or gold…
— Oksana Rus
If you were stranded in the ocean in a small boat with a paddle, I’d tell you to pray to God, but row for the shore!
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
I sail on the ocean of possibilities with the wind of hope and the current of desires moving me to the shore of uncertainty.
— Debasish Mridha
Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.
— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Our life is but a wave in the ocean of consciousness.
— Russell Eric Dobda
The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey.
— Enya
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.
— Santosh Kalwar
A scientist said once that if the ocean were as clear as the sky, if we could see everything in it, no one would ever go in the sea.
— Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight
Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more has been lost.
— Sylvia Earle
Oh my love, you are my life boat in the ocean of my life.
— Debasish Mridha
. . . she is our dog. And because she is our dog, we can pick out the tiny, almost imperceptible good qualities from the ocean of terrible qualities, and we can cling to them. Because we want to love our dog.
— Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
The ocean fascinates me too. How it connects everything and everyone, but at the same time it divides us. It’s a mystery, full of life and possibilities. It’s just…phenomenal.
— Danielle Esplin, Give It Back
Do you ever go out there when it’s like this?” she said softly. “When it’s almost dark and there’s no one else in the water?””I do. It’s nice being alone out there.””It doesn’t make you feel lonely?””The ocean is a great companion.
— Robin Bielman, Keeping Mr. Right Now
The problem with most people who say they believe, however, is that said belief is only a thin layer of solid ice which rests over a vast ocean that is likewise deep with non-solid disbelief.
— Stephen Richards
I hope for your help to explore and protect the wild ocean in ways that will restore the health and, in so doing, secure hope for humankind. Health to the ocean means health for us.
— Sylvia Earle
And there is neither beginning nor end, nor past nor future; there is only a present, at the same time static and ephemeral, multiple and absolute. It is the vital ocean in which we all share, according to our strength, our needs or our desires.
— Rémy de Gourmont, Philosophic Nights in Paris,: Being Selections from Promenades Philosophiques
Life is a bubble in the ocean of time. At the same time, it can hold all the water of the ocean in her heart.
— Debasish Mridha
Sometimes it’s good to let people swim in ocean of ignorance and let them struggle to the shores of enlightenment.
— Uzoma Nnadi
I wish to spend a lifetime near a lighthouse where loneliness will be the glimmer of luminous prancing upon ocean waves… rising and falling only for my breathing.
— Munia Khan
If you’ve managed to do one good thing, the ocean doesn’t care.But when Newton’s applefell toward the earth, the earth, ever so slightly, felltoward the apple as well.
— Ellen Bass
We are going toward the sea. I have swollen. I am carried away. Sometimes at night love comes up so quickly and so high, and if we have no little boat perhaps it is because we want to roll breathless under the ocean floor.
— Hélène Cixous, The Book of Promethea
An eagle can catch a fish in the ocean of impossibility because he pursues and focuses on only one fish.
— Debasish Mridha
All rivers pay homage to the ocean for it lies lowest.
— Jeffrey Fry
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
— Lord Dewar
Simply put…there is a vast ocean of shit that you people don’t know shit ab
— Sgt. Abraham Ford
Oh my lovely moon! Touch my thirsty heart with your ocean of silvery silent love.
— Debasish Mridha
Might as well try to drink the ocean with a spoon as argue with a lover.
— Stephen King, The Drawing of the Three
We run in silence, enjoying the sunrise over the ocean and I swear there are few things more beautiful than this. Pinks and purples and yellows fill the sky, bathing us in light. The salty breeze brushes my skin, sticking to my moistened flesh.
— J. Saman, Start Again
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.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The black of the ocean waves was the color of the sorrow in my breast, a sorrow that was never far away and always visible.
— Barbara T. Cerny
The smallest effort is not lost Each wavelet on the ocean tost Aids in the ebb-tide or the flow Each rain-drop makes some floweret blow Each struggle lessens human woe.
— Charles Mackay
In the last week I felt her withdrawing. What was once everywhere, an ocean I imagined myself to be drowning in, was now barely deep enough to bathe in. I saw her warmth draining away and I couldn’t stop it.
— Olivia Sudjic, Sympathy
Is the ocean simply a great pool of tears? I should like to think that even the stars must cry.
— K.B. Ezzell, Elysium
Life is an ocean and every ocean necessitates right thinking and right action or else sinking becomes the only fate realisable!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Forever, if she promises to never part the ocean where the river sings.
— Delano Johnson, Love Quotes
Well the sky always seemed like another ocean to me, you know? Like we live between two incredible oceans, and we’ll never get to the bottom of either of them.
— Brian Doyle, The Plover
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
— Blaise Pascal
For in dreams we enter a world that is entirely our own. Let them swim in the deepest ocean or glide over the highest cloud. (Albus Dumbledore)
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
He threw me off the building into the abyss with his words. Oh, the ocean was so deep, but his words were so shallow!
— Fury Evans, Cinderelliot
Long after you go downand the vessel rusts apartyour bones sunkenburied in the ocean floorI wonder if you miss people?
— Kristin Elizabeth Clark, Freakboy
You are an ocean in a drop of dew, all the universes in a thin sack of blood.What are these pleasures then, these joys, these worldsthat you keep reaching for, hoping they will make you more alive?
— Jalaluddin Rumi
The best way to live a stress-free life is to learn how to swim in the ocean of uncertainty.
— Debasish Mridha
My alar is like the ocean in storm. (Devi)
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man’s Fear
Some say the ocean roars, I hear it ever weeping.Weep, ocean, weep for those gone before.Weep, O sea, for the open graves that fill your shore.
— Craig Froman, An Owl on the Moon: A Journal from the Edge of Darkness
Droplets of yes and no, in an ocean of maybe.
— Faith No More, Faith No More – The Real Thing
All we can hope for is that he will fall into the ocean with a bar of soap in his pocket.
— Eoin Colfer, Airman
[My father] was handsome and tanned and smelled wonderful, like a mix of the ocean and fresh-cut grass, except when he smoked his pipe, which also smelled wonderful, as how I thought wisdom must smell, when it curls about your head.
— Carolyn Weber, Surprised by Oxford
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
The Bible is an ocean of instruction and wisdom. Dip daily into the vast pool to discover its truths.
— Elizabeth George
The ocean filled the footprints where a boy and cat had stood.
— Lloyd Alexander, Time Cat
A cup of wisdom is more valuable than an ocean of intelligence.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
It was like being at the bottom of an ocean, she said. There was no light and a whole ocean crushing down on you. But most people had gotten so used to it they thought it normal, they forgot even that there was a world above.
— Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The ocean and I have many pebbles To find and wash off and roll into shape.
— William Stafford
He who despises simplicity will shout for a simple lifebuoy when drowning in the ocean of complexity!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Everyone around me was allowed, permitted to fall apart; yet I had to think twice. I couldn’t bear to take another dip into an ocean of solitude for another taste of ostracization. I felt I would die.
— M.B. Dallocchio, The Desert Warrior
Suddenly, I saw ocean again—then another horizon line—but this time the deep blue sky was on the wrong side of the line…the Holy crap, we’re upside down side.
— M.A. George, Relativity
Hello? Do you see me? I’m working as creatively as possible and you want more and more and I’m out of juice and if you send me one more email I’m going to walk into the ocean and swallow water.
— Cole Harmonson, Pre Middle Age: 40 Lessons in Growing the Hell Up
You sip the water from the same ocean in which all the hope was lost. Us
— Saleem Sharma
An ocean of shimmering love exists in your heart. Tap into it today and rest in the undulating currents of the great mystery.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
Effective meditation must lead the meditator to the heights of the infinite sky of superconsciousness and facilitate the plunge into the deepest ocean of subconsciousness, and emerge the wiser. This way our consciousness evolves.
— Daaji
Suffering does not only insulate. It drops its victim in an ocean desert where he sees men as distant ships passing. I not only feel alone, but very far away from you all.
— W.N.P. Barbellion
I see an ocean that’s spilled out of a wineglass, its body clear and sparkling and folding over itself. I see a ribbon of sand.
— Lauren DeStefano, Sever
I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness.
— George Fox
Trying not to let your lack of depth bring out the irritable in me– there is only so much shallow an ocean can handle.
— Melody Lee, Moon Gypsy
As the ocean tugged me at my feet, i realized that Early Auden, that strangest of boys, had saved me from being swept away.
— Clare Vanderpool
It was as if some great ocean of destruction had rolled its unyielding tide through the city and then, upon its terrible recession, left behind only a shoreline of concrete sand and crushed humanity.
— Jay Posey, Three
You are so weak. Give up to grace.The ocean takes care of each wave till it gets to shore.You need more help than you know.
— Jalaluddin Rumi, The Essential Rumi
Here is a good message from the ocean: You will be an ocean too if you let every river, every rain, every flood and every stream flow to you freely!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
We have started a journey since our birth and yet, we have to travel a lot.Just like a river keep flowing into the ocean because of its essence, we are an essence of time traveling with its wit and bit.
— Sachin Panwar
I love a boy with sun-kissed hair, With ocean storms in his bright blue eyes, I love a boy who drinks my tears when I cry.
— Petra March, A Veil of Glass and Rain
That word is ‘willing.’ It’s an attitude and spirit of cooperation that should permeate our conversations. It’s like a palm tree by the ocean that endures the greatest winds because it knows how to gracefully bend.
— Stephen Kendrick, The Love Dare
Through our chanting we merge our personal consciousness momentarily with the infinite consciousness that is our origin and our destiny. It is the drop of water finding its way back into the ocean from which it came.
— Victor Shamas, The Chanters Guide: Sacred Chanting as a Shamanic Practice
When you see the fire of hate, spread the tranquility of your ocean of love.
— Debasish Mridha
The ocean does not lose its splendor because it lost a few drops.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
An ocean which thinks there is nothing to learn from a lake is not a wise ocean!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
I’m a long-flight pilot. Pushing a little bubble of air-filled metal across an ocean of nothing is what I was born to do.
— James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn
Here, on the edge of what we know, in contact with the ocean of the unknown, shines the mystery and beauty of the world. And it’s breathtaking.
— Carlo Rovelli, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Thoughts appear and disappear, just like waves on the ocean. Be like the ocean of love, releasing every thought to the shore as soon as they appear.
— Yogi Kanna, Return to Love: A Guide to Inner Peace, Emotional Healing and Spiritual Transformation
Loss is like a wind, it either carries you to a new destination or it traps you in an ocean of stagnation. You must quickly learn how to navigate the sail, for stagnation is death.
— Val Uchendu
In the new quiet I heard the sea as if my ears were laid against the ocean floor. I could hear everything. The rumbling earthquake of a ship and spider crabs moving between weeds.
— Deborah Levy, Hot Milk
We live as ripples of energy in the vast ocean of energy.
— Deepak Chopra, The Way of the Wizard: Twenty Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Life You Want
No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
— Charles F. Kettering
If men could fit water into their pockets, the ocean would be empty.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Because all the waters of the ocean won’t fill a bucket with a hole in it. And that’s their fall, and that’s their fellowship. Desire. The hole in the bucket: the gulf of yearning into which the soul empties itself.
— Mike Carey, Lucifer, Book One
The ocean here is weird. It’s the wrong kind of blue.
— Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star
If Brahman an infinite ocean, then Atma a wave within be, Ocean not different from its waves, the waves as ocean be;They are but one and the same very similar in actuality, So Brahman and Atma are one and the same in reality.960
— Munindra Misra, Goals of Life
For it is not needful, to use a common proverb, that one should drink up the ocean who wishes to learn that its water is salt.
— Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies 2
She is made up of depths even the ocean couldn’t fathom.
— Jessica Katoff
Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it’s some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don’t know nothin’ but what we see.
— Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
Together you are a species that grows in all aspects of life – separated you are a mere speck of dust in vast ocean of space-time capable of nothing progressive.
— Abhijit Naskar, Principia Humanitas
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are an ocean in a drop.
— Joy N. Hensley, Rites of Passage
There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it.
— Ranata Suzuki
What does the breathtaking view of the ocean mean without you?
— Craig Thompson, Good-Bye, Chunky Rice
Aww, the sound of waves crashing along the ocean side and spraying back up to touch the wind only for a moment, then to fall back down becoming the ocean once more…
— Melanie Kilsby
Ahab is for ever Ahab, man. This whole act’s immutably decreed. ‘Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled. Fool! I am the Fates’ lieutenant, I act under orders.
— Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
The ocean is both my mistress and my lover. How else can I explain her salty kiss that is still on my lips.
— Anthony T.Hincks
The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
— Voltaire
Some things must remain the same in order for the universe to flow properly. One pebble dashed out across the ocean leaves a lifetime of ripples. They call it the butterfly effect.
— Louise Mullins
I am a speck of dust in an ocean of time, floating with the waves of change, vanishing with the infinite. I have no time to complain, condemn, or criticize because I am so busy loving, enjoying, appreciating, and being kind.
— Debasish Mridha
This life is a wading pool compared to the ocean call eternity.
— Todd Stocker, Dancing with God: First Year Thoughts on the Loss of My Daughter
I tossed a stone into the Sea To see what it would do for me And the ripples went out And became ocean waves To return to the Sea inside of me
— Mark A.Y. Nunez
This earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full of ocean. Some people say when we are born we’re born into stories. I say we’re also born from stories.
— Ben Okri
Follow the river to reach the sea; follow the sea to reach the ocean. And finally follow the ocean to reach the wisdom! As long as you target beyond of the beyond, you will reach the very beyond!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
I want to accidentally fall into a deep ocean of love and get lost.
— Debasish Mridha
Maketa, ” I said, throwing myself down in the sand. “I lost. The ocean won.”She smiled. “Was it a good feeling?”“Mm, ” I said.“That’s good, ” she said. “Have another rice ball?
— Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being
She let herself fall backwards into the music, and it was like falling in a dream, without fear.It was like being a raindrop falling into the ocean that had started you.
— L.J. Smith, Secret Vampire
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
Understanding the language of eyes now came as naturally to him as swimming in the ocean came to a fish and flying in the sky to a bird!
— Avijeet Das
The known is finite, the unknown is infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to claim a little more land.
— T. H. Huxley
and I shall watch the ferry boats, and they’ll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow’s sky. and i will never grow so old again, and i will walk and talk, in gardens all wet with rain…
— Van Morrison
The ocean is a mighty harmonist.
— William Wordsworth
Each time I came crashing down into the ocean porpoiselike, water hit my face like the slap of a jilted lover.
— Brandon Sanderson, Firefight
We the mortals touch the metals, the wind, the ocean shores, the stones, knowing they will go on, inert or burning, and I was discovering, naming all the these things:it was my destiny to love and say goodbye.
— Pablo Neruda, Still Another Day
The ocean cradles the bloodied moon in its aquatic arms like a mother holds her crying babe.
— Moonshine Noire
This is the sinking womanwhose soul touched the ocean andcaused it to storm kisses.
— Gloria D. Gonsalves, Let’s Go Dancing in the Light: A Collection of Poetry and Prose for Soul and Spirit
We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together.
— Terence McKenna
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.
— Elizabeth I, Letters
god is similar to the relation of the water of ocean to the waves of the ocean the sole Reality of the waves is the Water.
— Sushil Singh, System dynamics: a practical approach for managerial problems
Jump in the ocean of loveto die and to save at the same time.
— Debasish Mridha
It was any wonder how a wave could withstand such a look from eyes like that and continue to build towards him. His eyes were her ocean in those brief seconds.
— Lindsay Chamberlin, The Shoreline
Looking at the ocean makes me miss people, and hanging out with people makes me miss the ocean.
— Haruki Murakami, Wind/Pinball: Two Novels
Love is the language of life and all others are transient epi-phenomena. Like a fish, we are swimming in the ocean of love. We are so busy seeking love that we don’t realize we are swimming in love.
— Debasish Mridha
Waves crack with wicked fury against me ship’s hull while ocean currents rage as the full moon rises o’re the sea.” (Cutthroat’s Omen: A Crimson Dawn)
— John Phillips
There were times my heart broke into painful fragments then my soul perseveringly gathered an ocean of strength on my voyage towards renewal.
— Angelica Hopes, Landscapes of a Heart, Whispers of a Soul
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.
— Sarah Ockler, The Summer of Chasing Mermaids
He invaded my consciousness in the same way the ocean washes up on the beach, with sweeping tides of longing and regret, and with such power and raw force, I often woke with the taste of salt from my tears clinging to my skin.” Joanna about Ben
— Vicki Pettersson, The Touch of Twilight
Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook.
— William Arthur Ward
Do not think to swim below. The ocean is already pushing into ears, sinuses, temples, the softness of eyes, and the harpsichord strings behind the kneecaps.
— J.M. Ledgard
I want you to crave the crisp ocean breezeas much as I do.I want your soul to beas rain-swept as mine.
— Sanober Khan
To understand the song of life, listen to the melody of wind and ocean and watch the dance of waves and water.
— Debasish Mridha
You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore
— André Gide
Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave ’til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.
— Jalaluddin Rumi, Words of Paradise: Selected Poems of Rumi
The little lake you love is the biggest ocean for you!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
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