“I am a weary heart surrounded by life's frothy ocean.</ref”
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Jibanananda Das 3
Bengali poet, writer, novelist and essayist 1899–1954Related quotes
1900s, A Free Man's Worship (1903)
“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
“I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides.”
"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.”
“Peace to the weary and the beating heart,
That fed upon itself!”
A History of the Lyre
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)
“A woman's heart is an ocean of deep secrets.”
Source: James Cameron's Titanic
“No ocean, no life. No blue, no green. No ocean, no us.”
[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?”
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.”
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."