"Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure..... " Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
"I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds Have rived the knotty oaks, and I have seen The ambitious ocean swell and rage and foam." - Julius Caeser - William Shakespeare
"On the ocean's star-lit waters, Where the winds a-weary die. Slowly, silently we wandered."- "The Village Street" - Edgar Allan Poe
"Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?" - The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
"And Thou, vast Ocean! on whose awful face Time’s iron feet can print no ruin-trace, By breezes lull’d, or by the storm-blasts driv’n, Thy majesty uplifts the mind to heaven." - Robert Montgomery
"The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation." - The Awakening - Kate Chopin
"But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean. Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent." - "The White Ship" - H.P. Lovecraft
"How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when clearly it is Ocean." - source - Arthur C. Clarke
"One foot on sea, and one on shore, To one thing constant never." - Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare
"To the sea, to the sea! The white gulls are crying,
The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying." - Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
"Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean—roll!." - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Lord Byron
"Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea!" - The Rhyme of the Ancient Marine - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"We have fed our sea for a thousand years And she calls us, still unfed," - The Song of the Dead - Rudyard Kipling
"Behold the Sea, The opaline, the plentiful and strong, " - "Seashore" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O Sea! " - "Break, Break, Break" - Alfred Lord Tennyson
"To me the sea is a continual miracle, The fishes that swim—the rocks—the motion of the waves—the ships with men in them, What stranger miracles are there?" - "Miracles" - Walt Whitman
Here are some additional ocean quote resources:
- Beach Chair Scientist: 100 Ocean Quotes
- Sea and Sky: Sea Quotes
- Ocean Conservancy: 7 Favorite Ocean Quotes
- BrainyQuote: Ocean Quotes