Ocean quotes

Ocean

2.5K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

2.5K quotes

Explore further

Browse quotes that often appear alongside ocean — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.

Sea 3K quotes Men 68.6K quotes Beach 1.2K quotes Thinking 95.1K quotes Water 3.9K quotes Stars 7.3K quotes

Quote collection

Ocean quotes (page 21 of 127)

Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.

John Ruskin Art Critic, Writer
Ocean

"The whole difference between a man of genius and other men, it has been said a thousand times, and most truly, is that the first remains in great part a child, seeing with the large eyes of children, in perpetual wonder, not conscious of much knowledge--conscious, rather of infinite ignorance, and yet infinite power; a fountain of eternal admiration, delight, and creative force within him meeting the ocean of visible and governable things around him."

Children Ignorance Ocean
Read quote 8 likes
Joseph Conrad Novelist, Short Story Writer
Ocean

"Joy and sorrow in this world pass into each other, mingling their forms and their murmurs in the twilight of life as mysterious as an overshadowed ocean, while the dazzling brightness of supreme hopes lies far off, fascinating and still, on the distant edge of the horizon"

Lying Ocean Twilight
Read quote 8 likes
John Grant Author
Ocean

"The Giant Ocean Tank, with its 52 large viewing windows, is the main attraction here. Myrtle, a giant green sea turtle, is one of the tank's most popular animals, along with sharks, rays and more than 100 other species. The Aquarium Medical Center is a working animal hospital exhibit that allows visitors to observe veterinarians examining and treating sea creatures."

Animal Ocean Turtles
Read quote 8 likes
John Grant Author
Ocean

"This is a unique aquarium in that a large portion of its collection features freshwater species, and it specializes in fish, amphibians and reptiles from the southwestern part of the country. The River Journey exhibit transports visitors from the Appalachian highlands through ponds, rivers and swamps, all the way to the seacoast. The recently added Ocean Journey exhibit allows visitors to sample a variety of saltwater environments."

Country Ocean Unique
Read quote 8 likes
Homer Poet
Ocean

"...like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance."

Stars Ocean Summer
Read quote 8 likes
Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist
Ocean

"Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise."

Dream Pain Ocean
Read quote 8 likes
Kurt Vonnegut Novelist, Satirist
Ocean

"We are America's Great Lakes people, her freshwater people, not an oceanic but a continental people. Whenever I swim in an ocean, I feel as though I am swimming in chicken soup."

Ocean Lakes Swimming
Read quote 8 likes
D. H. Lawrence Novelist, Poet
Ocean

"We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do - it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much."

Life Hurt Ocean
Read quote 7 likes
Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
Ocean

"Strictly speaking, "you" cannot become enlightened, because who you take yourself to be is like a ripple in the ocean of consciousness - or a little wave if you're a VIP - and the ripple doesn't become enlightened until it realizes that its ripple-identity is ultimately a misperception, that it is the ocean taking on a fleeting ripple-form."

Ocean Identity Vip
Read quote 7 likes
Pema Chodron Buddhist Teacher, Author
Ocean

"I dedicate the merit of the occasion to all beings. This gesture of universal friendship has been likened to a drop of fresh spring water. If we put it on a rock in the sunshine, it will soon evaporate. If we put it in the ocean, however, it will never be lost. Thus the wish is made that we not keep the teachings to ourselves but to use them to benefit others."

Teaching Spring Ocean
Read quote 7 likes
Ocean

"Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years, Ocean of Time, whose waters of deep woe Are brackish with the salt of human tears! Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow Claspest the limits of mortality! And sick of prey, yet howling on for more, Vomitest thy wrecks on its inhospitable shore, Treacherous in calm, and terrible in storm, Who shall put forth on thee, Unfathomable sea?"

Years Sea Ocean
Read quote 7 likes
Erich Fromm Psychologist, Philosopher
Ocean

"The same polarity of the male and female principle exists in nature; not only, as is obvious in animals and plants, but in the polarity of the two fundamental functions, that of receiving and penetrating. It is the polarity of earth and rain, of the river and the ocean, of night and day, of darkness and light, of matter and spirit."

Night Ocean Rain
Read quote 7 likes
Deepak Chopra Author, Speaker
Ocean

"Time exists so that you can experience these flavors as deeply as possible. On the path of devotion, if you can experience even a glimmer of love, its possible to experience a little more love. When you experience that a little more, then the next degree of intensity is possible. Thus, love engenders love until you reach the point of saturation, when you totally merge with the divine love. this is what the mystics mean when they say that they plunge into the ocean of love to drown themselves."

Mean Spiritual Ocean
Read quote 7 likes
Al Gore Politician
Ocean

"For a long time, the scientists have been telling us global warming increases the temperature of the top layer in the ocean, and that causes the average hurricane to become a lot stronger. So, the fact that the ocean temperatures did go up because of global warming, because of man-made global warming, starting around in the '70s, and then we had a string of unusually strong hurricanes outside the boundaries of this multi-decadal cycle that is a real factor; there are scientists who point that out, and they're right, but we're exceeding those boundaries now."

Real Strong Ocean
Read quote 7 likes
Cesare Pavese Poet, Novelist
Ocean

"What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it."

Lying Sea Ocean
Read quote 7 likes
Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
Ocean

"Depending on how quickly you get ocean rise, you have people who live in river deltas [at risk]."

People Ocean Rivers
Read quote 7 likes
Alan Watts Philosopher, Writer
Ocean

"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."

Way Inspiring Ocean
Read quote 7 likes
Ocean

"The pleased sea on a white-breasted shore-- A shore that wears on her alluring brows Rare shells, far brought, the love-gifts of the sea, That blushed a tell-tale."

White Sea Ocean
Read quote 7 likes
Amos Bronson Alcott Philosopher, Educator
Ocean

"Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand; the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon; of mountain, ocean, river and plain, the clouds and stars; actual contact with the elements, sympathy with the seasons as they rise and roll."

Stars Nature Ocean
Read quote 7 likes