Ocean Quotes

Ocean quotes to inspire you.

 

Maybe it’s because our planet is more water than earth that we feel an affinity to the ocean.  So if you find yourself miles from the ocean here are a few thought-provoking ocean quotes to take you to the shore.

May your joys be as deep as the ocean, your sorrows as light as its foam – unknown

 

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

 

But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean – H. P. Lovecraft

 

The ocean is a mighty harmonist – William Wordsworth

 

It is an interesting biological fact that all of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears.  We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea–whether it is to sail or to watch it–we are going back from whence we came –  John F. Kennedy

 

What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams – Werner Herzog

 

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop – Mother Teresa

 

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error – Voltaire

 

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean – Arthur C. Clarke

 

I love being by the ocean. It stills the voices in my head – Chris Weitz 

 

From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free – Jacques Yves Cousteau 

 

 

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