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#1

“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.”
― Margot Datz, A Survival Guide for Landlocked Mermaids

tags: mermaid, mermaids, ocean, sea, woman, women

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#2

“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, Caught by the Sea

tags: boats, ocean, sea

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#3

“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.

- Sweet Thing”
― Van Morrison, Lit Up Inside: Selected Lyrics

tags: magic, ocean, sailing, sea

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#4

“She watched the gap between ship and shore grow to a huge gulf. Perhaps this was a little like dying, the departed no longer visible to the others, yet both still existed, only in different worlds.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Charm School

tags: cruise, ocean, sailing, sea, ship, travel

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#5

“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.”
― Stephen Crane, The Complete Poems of Stephen Crane

tags: death, drowning, king-neptune, neptune, ocean, poseidon, sea, the-ocean, the-sea

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#6

“Her fingers moved among barnacles and mussels, blue-black, sharp-edged. Neon red starfish were limp Dalis on the rocks, surrounded by bouquets of stinging anemones and purple bursts of spiny sea urchins.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

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#7

“There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

tags: sea, sky, soul

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#8

“The sea, the majestic sea, breaks everything, crushes everything, cleans everything, takes everything...from me”
― Corinne Bailey Rae

tags: life, sea

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#9

“There's nothing in the sea this fish would fear. Other fish run from bigger things. That's their instinct. But this fish doesn't run from anything. He doesn't fear.”
― Peter Benchley, Jaws

tags: fear, great-white-shark, hooper, jaws, sea, shark

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#10

“Now the night's breath responds to the sea, which I can scarcely hear from here, as it reminisces about its shipwrecks.”
― Joe Bousquet

tags: night, sea, surrealism

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#11

“The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds beginning and the dawn weaving their thin voices in to its whiteness”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

tags: dawn, sea, sleep

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#12

“How do men act on a sinking ship? Do they hold each other? Do they pass around the whisky? Do they cry?”
― Sebastian Junger, The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea

tags: boats, fishing, sea

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#13

“In the deepest places, where physical norms collapse under the crushing water, bodies still fall softly through the dark, days after their vessels have capsized. They decay on their long journey down. Nothing will hit the black sand at the bottom of the world but algae-covered bones.”
― China Miéville, The Scar

tags: bones, ocean, sea, water

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#14

“There is a thin line that separates life from death, but once it's crossed, it becomes as large as an ocean, and so treacherous that it’s impossible to cross back.”
― Federico Chini, The Sea Of Forgotten Memories

tags: death-and-dying, sea

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#15

“When all the birds and all the fish join forces, the politicians will be forced to chew on and swallow their own slimy, wormlike words. But until the time that the sky and the sea blend into one, I’ll leave my fishing pole in a tree, disguised as a branch.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

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#16

“The sea loved the moon
When she was supposed to love the shore.

The moon knew
And hence made his intentions known.

That she should love the shore
Who was destined for her.

Yet his protests seemed weak.
And even when he pushed her towards the shore-
She always retreated back.

To want, to need, to love the moon
For all she's worth.

Everyone said, it wasn't meant to happen.
Yet, the Tsunami rose that night for their union.”
― Saiber, Stardust and Sheets

tags: flash-fiction, forbidden-love, hope, impossible-love, life, love, love-affair, love-poem, love-quote, love-quotes, magic, moon, nature, night, passion, poem, poetry, rebel, relationships, romance, romantic, saiber, sea, shore, stardust-and-sheets, story, tsunami

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#17

“my dear,
we are all made of water.
it's okay to rage. sometimes
it's okay to rest. to recede.”
― Sanober Khan, A Thousand Flamingos

tags: healing, heart, humans, ocean, poetry, poetry-quotes, positive, rage, rest, sea, sea-quotes, solitude, soul, water

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#18

“she's got
oceans
tucked away
in her hair

poems swim
under her skin.”
― Sanober Khan, A Thousand Flamingos

tags: beautiful, deep, hair, ocean, oceans, poems, poetry, poetry-quotes, profound, romance, sea, skin

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#19

“tread carefully
into my life, my dear.

the currents
are strong.

you will get lost
in this
warm ocean
of my skin.”
― Sanober Khan

tags: currents, feelings, love-quotes, love-sayings, ocean, poetry, poetry-quotes, sea, strong

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#20

“the ocean mist
engulfs me, like a lifetime’s
friendship honored.”
― Sanober Khan, A touch, a tear, a tempest

tags: deep-thoughts, engulfed, friendship, honor, indian-authors, lifetime, mist, nature, ocean, poems, poetry, poetry-quotes, profound, sea

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#21

“If lighthouse becomes a burning candle,
flickered upon ocean's insanity.
Your sailing heart there anchors to handle
the obsessed breeze towards sand dune's vanity.”
― Munia Khan

tags: anchoring, breeze-quote, handle, heart, hearts, lighthouse, lighthouses, obsession, obsessions, ocean, oceans, poem, poems, poetry, poetry-quotations, poetry-quotes, sail, sailing, sand, sea, vanity

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#22

“Only the sea is like a human being . . .always moving, always something deep in itself is stirring it. It never rests; it is always wanting, wanting, wanting. It hurries on; and then it creeps back slowly without having reached, moaning. It is always asking a question and it never gets the answer.”
― Olive Schreiner, The Story of an African Farm

tags: sea

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#23

“Ocean waves gently rock the boat,
As if to the tune of a lullaby.
She sits still as the boat silently floats
Under the infinite blue sky.”
― Rachel Lewis, Alone Upon the Sea

tags: adventure, books, children-s-books, imagination, inspirational, learning, literature, poetry, reading, sea

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#24

“Had I told the sea
What I felt for you,
It would have left its shores,
Its shells,
Its fish,
And followed me.”
― Nizar Qabbani

tags: feelings, fish, love, sea, shore

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#25

“I was afraid of the sea when I was a girl. Someone said it went on forever and that frightened me. I wondered why my parents had chosen to live at the beginning and the end of the world.”
― Simon Van Booy, The Illusion of Separateness

tags: end-of-the-world, ocean, sea

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#26

“Again, there were maidens who cherished the firm belief that he had come from the sea. Because within his breast could be heard the roaring of the sea. Because in the pupils of his eyes there lingered the mysterious and eternal horizon that the sea leaves as a keepsake deep in the eyes of all who are born at the seaside and forced to depart from it. Because his signs were sultry like the tidal breezes of full summer, fragrant with the smell of seaweed cast upon the shore.”
― Yukio Mishima, Confessions of a Mask

tags: ocean, romantic, sea, st-sebastian

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#27

“The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too”
― Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

tags: heart, love, man, sea, soul, storms

789 likes

#28

“Moon and Sea

You are the moon, dear love, and I the sea:
The tide of hope swells high within my breast,
And hides the rough dark rocks of life's unrest
When your fond eyes smile near in perigee.
But when that loving face is turned from me,
Low falls the tide, and the grim rocks appear,
And earth's dim coast-line seems a thing to fear.
You are the moon, dear one, and I the sea.”
― Ella Wheeler Wilcox

tags: love, moon, moon-and-sea, sea

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#29

“That's what sailing is, a dance, and your partner is the sea. And with the sea you never take liberties. You ask her, you don't tell her. You have to remember always that she's the leader, not you. You and your boat are dancing to her tune.”
― Michael Morpurgo, Alone on a Wide Wide Sea

tags: boats, sailing, sea

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#30

“Titanic started a voyage through history when it sailed away. One century later, there is still no port at sight.”
― Marina Tavares Dias

tags: destiny, history, sea, titanic

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