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• “The boat that took my love away He sent again to me To tell me that he would not sleep Alone beneath the sea.”

  Stevie Smith (1902–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Virginal shy lights, Wrought of the leaves to allure to the whisper of vows, When lovers pace timidly down through the green colonnades Of the dim sweet woods, of the dear dark woods, Of the heavenly woods and glades, That run to the radiant marginal sand-beach within The wide sea-marshes of Glynn.”

  Sidney Lanier (1842–1881) first seen 1878 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: The Marshes of Glynn" (1878).

• “The gray-green stretch of sandy grass, Indefinitely desolate; A sea of lead, a sky of slate; Already autumn in the air, alas! One stark monotony of stone, The long hotel, acutely white, Against the after-sunset light Withers gray-green, and takes the grass's tone.”

  Arthur Symons (1865–1945) first seen 1895 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Color Studies. At Dieppe (1895).

• “Every boat is copied from another boat... Let’s reason as follows in the manner of Darwin. It is clear that a very badly made boat will end up at the bottom after one or two voyages, and thus never be copied... One could then say, with complete rigor, that it is the sea herself who fashions the boats, choosing those which function and destroying the others.”

  Émile Chartier (1868–1951) first seen 1908 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Propos d’un Normand (1908); reported in D. S. Rogers and P. R. Ehrlich, "Natural selection and cultural rates of change", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105 (2008) pp. 3416–3420

• “Cloud-made mountains towered, Beckoning to me; Visionary triremes Talked about the sea...”

  Nathalia Crane (1913–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The gods released a vision on a world forespent and dull; They sent it as a challenge by the sea hawk and the gull.It roused the Norman eagerness, the Albion cliffs turned red: "You fly the wings of logic — can you fly the wings of lead?”

  Nathalia Crane (1913–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Students of the Way must not study Buddhism for the sake of themselves. They must study Buddhism only for the sake of Buddhism. The key to this is to renounce both body and mind without holding anything back and to offer them to the great sea of Buddhism.”

  Dōgen (1200–1253) said by 1253 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I wonder how many Members of this House and of His Majesty's Government are really following out the conspiracy to drive the British out of India and out of Egypt? It is all one conspiracy, it is all engineered in the same way, it all has the same object—to destroy our sea power and drive us out of Asia.”

  Edward Carson (1854–1935) first seen 1920 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Speech in the House of Commons (8 July 1920)

• “The moonlight rolls down like a river, The silence streams out like a sea; And far where the eastern winds quiver, My farewell goes floating to thee.”

  Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912) said by 1912 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Ay, gather your petals and take them back To the dead heart under the dew; And crown it again with the red love bloom, For the dead are always true. But go not "back to the sediment" In the slime of the moaning sea, For a better world belongs to you, And a better friend to me.”

  Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912) said by 1912 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The muted thunder boomed underwater like a great door opening far away. Suddenly the sea was filled with awesome singing, a song with eternity in it. (p95)”

  Witi Ihimaera (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The Aegean sea washes Greece on two sides: first, the side that faces towards the east and stretches from Sunium, towards the north as far as the Thermaean Gulf and Thessaloniceia, a Macedonian city...; and secondly, the side that faces towards the south, I mean the Macedonian country, extending from Thessaloniceia as far as the Strymon.”

  Strabo (63 BC–23) said by 23 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Book 7, ch. 7, secs. 4-5 (tr. H. L. Jones, vol. 3, 1924)

• “I have broken the blue boundary of color limits, come out into the white, besides me comrade-pilots swim in this infinity. I have established the semaphore of Suprematism. I have beaten the lining of the colored sky, torn it away and in the sack that formed itself, I have put color and knotted it. Swim! The free white sea lies before you.”

  Kazimir Malevich (1879–1935) first seen 1919 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: In the 'Catalogue 10th State Exhibition', Kasimir Malevich, Moscow, 1919; as quoted in Autocritique, – essays on art and anti-art 1963 – 1987, Barbara Rose, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, New York, 1988, p. 71

• “Wonderful lovely there she sat, Singing the night away, All in the solitudinous sea Of that there lonely bay.”

  Walter de la Mare (1873–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The sea is superb, but the cliffs don't match up to those at Fecamp. Here I'll be certain to do more boats.”

  Claude Monet (1840–1926) said by 1926 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: in his letter from ; as quoted in: Howard F. Isham (2004) Image of the Sea: Oceanic Consciousness in the Romantic Century. p. 336 : About his 1880s travels

• “I have not been able to see a bit of sea or any water at all; everything is frozen and covered with snow.”

  Claude Monet (1840–1926) first seen 1274 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: in a letter from Sandviken to Gustave Geffroy, 26 February 1895 (L. 1274); as cited in: Steven Z. Levine, ‎Claude Monet (1994), Monet, Narcissus, and Self-Reflection: The Modernist Myth of the Self. p. 93

• “[W]hat really determines the Foreign Policy of this country is the question of sea power. It is the Naval question which underlies the whole of our European Foreign Policy.”

  Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (1862–1933) first seen 1898 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Minutes of the meeting of the Committee of Imperial Defence (26 May 1911), quoted in British Documents on the Origins of the War, 1898-1914. Vol . VI, Anglo-German Tension: Armaments and Negotiation, 1907-12, eds. G. P.…

• “What a sea Of melting ice I walk on!”

  Philip Massinger (1583–1640) first seen 1621 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: The Maid of Honour (c. 1621; printed 1632), Act III, scene iii

• “I like to help the whales, the otters, and the dolphins. When I`m acting and I take a break, the first thing on my list is spending time by the sea.”

  Leonardo DiCaprio (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Sawbeaked epitome of bodiless Idea, tossed by gusts of ether, dive Through abstract mists and raid the sea of fact Eat rich strange fish, grow long bright feathers, press Form's flesh around thought's rib, and so derive From the act of beauty, beauty of the act.”

  Philip José Farmer (1918–2009) first seen 1952 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: The Pterodactyl" in Sky Hook #16, (Winter 1952-53); re-published in Pearls From Peoria (2006)

• “Voice, come out of the silence. Say something. Appear in the form of a spider Or a moth beating the curtain. Tell me: Which is the way I take; Out of what door` do I go, Where and to whom? Dark hollows said, lee to the wind, The moon said, back of an eel, The salt said, look by the sea, Your tears are not enough praise, You will find no comfort here, In the kingdom of bang and blab.”

  Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Is this the Thing the Lord God made and gave To have dominion over sea and land; To trace the stars and search the heavens for power; To feel the passion of Eternity?”

  Edwin Markham (1852–1940) said by 1940 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “It was ages ago in life's first wonder I found you, Virgilia, wild sea-heart; And 'twas ages ago that we went asunder, Ages and worlds apart.Your luminous face and your hair's dark glory, I knew them of old by an ocean-stream, In a far, first world now turned to story, Now faded back to dream.”

  Edwin Markham (1852–1940) said by 1940 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “As we go star-stilled in the mystic garden, All the prose of this life run there to rhyme, How eagerly then will the poor heart pardon All of these hurts of Time!Ah, yes, in that hour of our souls dream-driven, In that high, white hour, O my wild sea-bride, The tears and the years will be all forgiven, … And all be justified.”

  Edwin Markham (1852–1940) said by 1940 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “A rude and boisterous captain of the sea.”

  John Home (1722–1808) said by 1808 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “In my judgment, the importance of the Crown in our Constitution is not a diminishing, but an increasing factor. It increases, and must increase with the development of those free, self-governing communities, those new commonwealths beyond the sea, who are constitutionally linked to us through the person of the Sovereign, the living symbol of Imperial unity.”

  Arthur Balfour (1848–1930) first seen 1901 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Speech in the House of Commons (25 January 1901)

• “I never used to miss the chance to climb up on his knee And listen to the many tales of life upon the sea. We'd go sailing back on Barkentines we'd talk of things he did Tomorrow just a day away, for the Captain and the kid.”

  Jimmy Buffett (1946–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “As the son of a son of a sailor, I went out on the sea for adventure. Expanding the view of the captain and crew Like a man just released from indenture.”

  Jimmy Buffett (1946–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I used to rule my world from a pay phone And ships out on the sea. But now times are rough And I got too much stuff; Can't explain the likes of me.But there's this one particular harbour, So far but yet so near. Where I see the days as they fade away, And finally disappear.”

  Jimmy Buffett (1946–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble. — A tweet from June 2018”

  John Lewis (1940–2020) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Quoted in Get in good trouble, necessary trouble': Rep. John R. Lewis in his own words Joshua Bote, USA Today (18 July 2020)

• “Sail through the sea of sad faces with love. Love. Love for everyone. Drift like a little boat on a wave.”

  Edie Brickell (born 1966) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Big Day Little Boat" on Edie Brickell & New Bohemians : Ultimate Collection (2002)

• “By a high star our course is set, Our end is Life. Put out to sea.”

  Louis MacNeice (1907–1963) first seen 1963 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: First published in The London Magazine (c. 1963)

• “Upon the decks they take beef-tea Who are so free, so free, so free, But down the ladder in the engine-room (Doom, doom, doom, doom) The great cranks rise and fall, repeat, The great cranks plod with their Assyrian feet To match the monotonous energy of the sea.”

  Louis MacNeice (1907–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I am the bond slave of my devotee. I love devotion. He who withdraws his heart from the world and loves me is my true lover and he merges in Me like a river in the sea.”

  Sai Baba of Shirdi (died 1918) said by 1918 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “After seven years of marriage, He wanted out. Now after seven months of freedom, It's clear that there's no doubt.She's gonna make it, And he never will. He's at the foot of the mountain, And she's over that hill. He's sinkin' at sea, And her sails are filled. She's gonna make it, And he never will.”

  Garth Brooks (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

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

  Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Two or three days at sea are equivalent to at least as many weeks on shore.”

  F. Anstey (1856–1934) said by 1934 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Daybreak comes quickly nowadays The scent of wind has changed It seems familiar yet unfamiliar It makes my heartbeat quicker It's sweet and sad We ran along the road to the sea Screaming with laughter innocently In the far-away summer days”

  Ayumi Hamasaki (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Strictly speaking, the land does not exist; it is merely dehydrated sea.”

  Alan Coren (1938–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “If you love the holy and hate the ordinary, you float and sink in the sea of birth and death. Affliction exists because of mind: if you have no mind, how can affliction hold you? If you do not try to discriminate and grasp forms, naturally you find the Path that instant.”

  Linji Yixuan (850–867) said by 867 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “If the Jewish state becomes a fact, and this is realized by the Arab peoples, they will drive the Jews who live in their midst into the sea.”

  Hassan al-Banna (1906–1949) first seen 1948 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: AIM TO OUST JEWS PLEDGED BY SHEIKH, New York Times, August 02, 1948

• “Hark, now hear the sailors cry, Smell the sea and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly into the mystic.”

  Van Morrison (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea They thought great thoughts about liberty Poets wrote down words that did fit Writers wrote books Thinkers thought about it.”

  Van Morrison (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I am against driving Israel into the sea. This policy is wrong, illogical, and unreasonable. Why annihilate a people?”

  Massoud Barzani (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I have always disliked the sea, its surliness, its menace, its vast reaches and unknowable, shudder-inducing depths.”

  John Banville (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Coming from a tiny island, it's very exciting to be at sea in Central Europe in the sense of vast stretches of land all around one. We don't get that in Ireland.”

  John Banville (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “[On The Sea being filmed] It's not a blockbuster and it's not going to earn half a billion in the first weekend, but it's a work of art and I'm very pleased with it.”

  John Banville (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Let them make their war. Whence come night and day? Whence will the eagle become gray? Whence is it that night is dark? Whence is it that the linnet is green? The ebullition of the sea, How is it not seen?”

  Taliesin (518–599) said by 599 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “When God comes A great noise will pierce us, The day of judgment terribly. Messengers from the door, Wind, and sea, and fire. lightning and thunder A number without flattery. The people of the world groaning Will be concealed.”

  Taliesin (518–599) said by 599 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Songs and minstrels. And the hymns of angels, Will raise from the graves, They will entreat from the beginning. They will entreat together publicly, On so great a destiny. Those whom the sea has destroyed Will make a great shout, At the time when cometh He, that will separate them.”

  Taliesin (518–599) said by 599 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

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