Shark Quotes

“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

“Look, Chief, you can't go off half-cocked looking for vengeance against a fish. That shark isn't evil. It's not a murderer. It's just obeying its own instincts. Trying to get retribution against a fish is crazy.”
― Peter Benchley, Jaws

“Any weapon's only as good as the man using it, and a good man can make a good weapon out of most anything.”
― Peter Benchley, The Deep

“The fish was an enemy. It had come upon the community and killed two men, a woman, and a child. The people of Amity would demand the death of the fish. They would need to see it dead before they could feel secure enough to resume their normal lives.”
― Peter Benchley, Jaws

“Carcharadon carcharias. Six thousand
pounds of muscle powering a hoop
of butcher's knives. The only animal
that ate its weaker siblings in the womb.
Immune from cancer. Constantly awake.”
― Mark Haddon

“Hey. You know what the shark said to the clown?”
“No.”
“You taste funny.”
― Ted Bell, Spy

“Are you a man with a conscience, or just a shark who will die when you stop moving forward?”
― Roderick Vincent, The Cause

“Sometimes in life, you try to hit life with a 'hui-tcha', but then life decides to hit you with a 'hui-tcha.' Do you know what you do in this predicament, when life hui-tcha's you? You go AGAIN!”
― Gawr Gura

“Maybe nobody went to see the Rolling Stones here in 1964,' said Ros. 'The dead shark was just too much fun.”
― Nick Hornby, Juliet, Naked

“If size really mattered, the whale, not the shark, would rule the waters.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Into the sea I’d love to sink
When with both eyes a shark can blink
Is he a brave fish or a marine man?
Through those closed eyelids my heart will he scan?”
― Munia Khan

“The strings on a guitar are like fishing lines, and I strum them out at sea. Each string has a distinct sound and flavor, but the most popular with the sharks is Leftover Meatloaf, which sounds like Color Me Badd’s 1991 song “I Wanna Sex You Up.”
― Jarod Kintz, There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't

“They dived into the ocean of shadow and smog, adding to it with the fumes of their own aircraft. The goggles were useless now, but Jacob kept them on, in case there might be some break in the murky pool. It was fitting that the Worldwaker had passed through there, with the shark emblem painted on brightly. In those deep waters it could not be seen. It almost felt like it had lured them in. The dolphins do not hunt the sharks.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Worldwaker

“There’s less need to slowly acclimate these guys to the tank,” Bailey said. “They’ll be food pretty soon, so their happiness is less important than the shark’s.”
― Dave Eggers, The Circle

“Ty swept his arms around, encompassing everything around them, the vast campus above. “All this. The fucking shark that eats the world.”
― Dave Eggers, The Circle

“Sharks are the lions of the sea.They glamorize the oceanic glory.”
― Munia Khan

“If your taste, and therefore the taste buds of your soul, have grown accustomed to the flavor of bitterness—and consuming it to the last drop, your playful spirit has run completely dry—do this, and you’ll discover the highly sought but rarely found fountain of youth.

Push far out from the populated shore, then stretch out over the side of your canoe, and peer down into the deep deep waters. When the shark begins to emerge within your reflection, don’t be afraid, let it completely devour your big head, as you have also taught the beast to consume others. Fear not! You will no longer need it on your odyssey. The humiliating disfiguration will kill you but it won’t hurt you.

Rather, it will make space for your heart to turtlehead as an old, wise, and happy sage with an insatiable thirst for the drunkenness of good spirits, that can be found in every home, temple, and tavern that litters the shore, and brings cheer and love of life to the rigid bitter bones.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones, Giants At Play: Finding Wisdom, Courage, And Acceptance To Encounter Your Destiny

“We kill 100 million [sharks] yearly. By 2050 we will have filled the sea with more plastics than fish.”
― Sy Montgomery, Tamed and Untamed: Close Encounters of the Animal Kind

“You’ve got to be careful when you let the other guy anchor. You have to prepare yourself psychically to withstand the first offer. If the other guy’s a pro, a shark, he’s going to go for an extreme anchor in order to bend your reality. Then, when they come back with a merely absurd offer it will seem reasonable, just like an expensive $400 iPhone seems reasonable after they mark it down from a crazy $600.”
― Chris Voss, Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It

“If we act today, we can ensure that our children will look out on the ocean and know underneath the surface, a shark will be swimming, standing guard over its dominion, protecting the ocean, the greatest miracle on earth, just as it has done for more than 450 million years”
― William McKeever, Emperors of the Deep: Sharks--The Ocean's Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians

“Queequeg no care what god made him shark,' said the savage, agonizingly lifting his hand up and down; "wedder Fejee god or Nantucket god; but de god wat made shark must be one dam Ingin.”
― Herman Melville

“The Daily Grind by Stewart Stafford

Crooked broker flashes teeth,
Cannibal flesh on their napkin,
The traffic jam zombie shuffle,
Stars, take me home quickly.

Follow the screaming off a cliff,
Panic echoes as the land recoils,
Sea spray whipping up at you fast,
Splash down into drowning lessons.

See a shark fin’s scything slash,
Fangs picked clean with a toothpick,
Dark eyes wander to exposed midriff,
Chomp, and all the problems cease.

© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“He was a very big Mako shark built to swim as fast as the fastest fish in the sea and everything about him was beautiful except his jaws.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“His smile reminded her of Bruce, the friendly shark from Finding Nemo- he'd be your friend until he smelled blood; then you better run for your life. Tonight, MJ was the fresh meat.”
― Amy E. Reichert, Luck, Love & Lemon Pie

“Don’t forget Mr. Jo! Journalists are like sharks and they smell blood right away. If they sense a weakness in you, they will come over at you more. That’s why you shouldn’t be shy and act like a jellyfish in front of them.”
― Mustafa Donmez, Red-White Love: The Love of Liverpool FC

“I sometimes feel like I just want to escape from long hugs, but I can remind myself that he is needing his cup filled and it’s actually OK getting a hug even though it makes me want to squirm away sometimes. I think ‘There is no real danger here, just my shark music.”
― Kent Hoffman, Raising a Secure Child: How Circle of Security Parenting Can Help You Nurture Your Child's Attachment, Emotional Resilience, and Freedom to Explore

“Sharks, vampires and racists are conditioned to blood: for them, blood is the only source of life!

-To be tried as a Jew-”
― Jeyhun Aliyev Silo

“She's more shark than woman, circling the waters of this Hollywood sea, teeth bared at the scent of a fresh contract.”
― Daniel Ruczko, Pieces of a Broken Mind

“If we were a family, we were sharks in the womb, eating one another before only a few exited.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Gods Below

“Finally, Moana spied a streak of blue in the water. The light dissolved, and a shark's fin cut through the ocean. Maui had the heart captured in his many teeth, the stone shining bright like the pearls her mother collected from the oysters on Motunui.”
― Keala Kendall, How Far I'll Go: A Twisted Tale