“I am a weary heart surrounded by life's frothy ocean.</ref”
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Jibanananda Das3
Bengali poet, writer, novelist and essayist 1899–1954Related quotes
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
1900s, A Free Man's Worship (1903)
“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature
“I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
"Citizens of the City of Light," p. 27
The Shape (2000), Sequence: “Happiness of Atoms”
“Sorrow is like the ocean and sometimes I wish my heart would stop.”
Will Christopher Baer (1966) American writer
“Peace to the weary and the beating heart,
That fed upon itself!”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
A History of the Lyre
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)
“A woman's heart is an ocean of deep secrets.”
James Cameron (1954) Canadian film director
Source: James Cameron's Titanic
“No ocean, no life. No blue, no green. No ocean, no us.”
Sylvia Earle (1935) American oceanographer
[Earle, Sylvia, BREAKING: Dr. Sylvia Earle Boldly Addresses the UN To Urge Legal Protection for High Seas, http://mission-blue.org/2015/01/breaking-dr-sylvia-earle-boldly-addresses-the-un-to-urge-legal-protection-for-high-seas/, www.missionblue.org, Mission Blue, 28 January 2015]
“What use is it to slumber here:
Though the heart be sad and weary?”
Emily Brontë (1818–1848) English novelist and poet
What Use Is It To Slumber Here?
Context: What use is it to slumber here:
Though the heart be sad and weary?
What use is it to slumber here
Though the day rise dark and dreary?
“If I have seen further than others, it is because I am surrounded by dwarfs.”
Murray Gell-Mann (1929–2019) American physicist
As quoted in "Wilson vs Watson: The blessing of great enemies" by Amanda Gefter in New Scientist (10 September 2009) http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17771-wilson-vs-watson-the-blessing-of-great-enemies.html; this is a play upon the famous statement by Isaac Newton: "If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants."