„Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.“
— Amin Maalouf, book Leo Africanus
Source: Leo Africanus
Quotes about the sea
A collection of quotes on the topic of sea.
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„Our dreams have been doctored. We belong no where. We sail unanchored on troubled seas. We may never be allowed ashore. Our sorrows will never be sad enough. Our joys never happy enough. Our dreams never big enough. Our lives never important enough. To matter..“
— Arundhati Roy Indian novelist, essayist 1961
„Castles made of sand, fall in the sea, eventually“
— Jimi Hendrix American musician, singer and songwriter 1942 - 1970
Castles Made Of Sand
Song lyrics, Axis: Bold as Love (1967)
„The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.“
— Joseph Conrad, book The Mirror of the Sea
Source: The Mirror of the Sea (1906), Ch. 35
Context: For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed to feel for it, for all the celebrations it had been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
„When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.“
— George Burns American comedian, actor, and writer 1896 - 1996
„Palestine is Arab and must be liberated from the river to the sea and all the Zionists who emigrated to the land of Palestine must leave.“
— Saddam Hussein Iraqi politician and President 1937 - 2006
On Iraqi Television, May 30, 2001; quoted in Robert Wistrich, Muslim Anti-Semitism: A Clear and Present Danger(2002), page 43.
„I dare not think of the sun-drenched beaches and the stormy skies, and of the joy of painting them in the sea breezes.“
— Eugène Boudin French painter 1824 - 1898
Quote in a letter, from Paris 14 June 1869, to family-friend Ferdinand Martin; as cited by Colin B. Bailey in The Annenberg Collection: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-impressionism, publisher, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2009, p. 7
Boudin felt himself detained in the big city Paris and longed fort the beach
1850s - 1870s
„A great wind came forth, the clouds rose on high.
Now that my might rules all within the seas, I have returned to my old village.
Where will I find brave men to guard the four corners of my land?“
— Emperor Gaozu of Han founding emperor of the Han Dynasty (256 BC - 195 BC) -256 - -195 BC
Translated by Burton Watson
大風歌 Song of the Great Wind
Original: (zh_Hant) 大風起兮雲飛揚，
威加海內兮歸故鄉，
安得猛士兮守四方。
„I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea,
But we loved with a love that was more than love —
I and my Annabel Lee —“
— Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee
St. 2.
Annabel Lee (1849)
Context: I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea,
But we loved with a love that was more than love —
I and my Annabel Lee —
With a love that the wingèd seraphs of Heaven
Coveted her and me.
„It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee; —“
— Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee
St. 1.
Annabel Lee (1849)
Context: It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee; —
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.
„Sir Walter Raleigh declared in the early 17th century that "whoever commands the sea, commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself." This principle is as true today as when uttered, and its effect will continue as long as ships traverse the seas.“
— Chester W. Nimitz United States Navy fleet admiral 1885 - 1966
Employment of Naval Forces (1948)
„I love borders. August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know.
Twilight is the border between day and night, and the shore is the border between sea and land. The border is longing: when both have fallen in love but still haven't said anything. The border is to be on the way. It is the way that is the most important thing.“
— Tove Jansson Finnish children's writer and illustrator 1914 - 2001
„He is the master who, after reaching the furthest shores and plumbing the inmost depths of the sea of ultimate knowledge of mathematics, kinematics and spherics, handed over the three sciences to the learned world.“
— Aryabhata Indian mathematician-astronomer 476 - 550
Bhaskara I, quoted in: J J O'Connor and E F Robertson "Aryabhata the Elder".
„When I was older
I was a sailor
On an open sea
But now I'm underwater
And my skin is paler
Than it should ever be“
— Billie Eilish American singer-songwriter 2001
When I Was Older, Music Inspired by the Film Roma (9 January 2019)
Singles (2017 - )
„He took a beating twice at sea, And threw two fleets away. So now to achieve one victory, He tosses dice all day.“
— Augustus founder of Julio-Claudian dynasty and first emperor of the Roman Empire -63 - 14 BC
Postquam bis classe victus naves perdidit, Aliquando ut vincat, ludit assidue aleam.
A popular rhyme at the time of the Sicilian war, mocking Augustus' habit of playing dice; in Suetonius, Divus Augustus, paragraph 70. Translation: Robert Graves, 1957.
„You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.“
— Rabindranath Tagore Bengali polymath 1861 - 1941
„as small as a world and as large as alone
For whatever we lose(like a you or a me)
it’s always ourselves we find in the sea“
— E.E. Cummings American poet 1894 - 1962
Variant: For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It's always our self we find in the sea.
Source: 100 Selected Poems
„I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly.“
— Cassandra Clare, book City of Ashes
Source: City of Ashes