120 Ocean Quotes Depicting its Vastness and Beauty
Whether it is the Atlantic, Arctic or the Pacific, no one can deny their magical beauty. All oceans not only give us the air we breathe but also have captured our hearts and souls with the mystery of the sea as well as have been used in poetry and metaphors. Unsurprisingly then, they have taken many forms and shapes in reflections to our lives. The depth of the waters in combination with the sight and sound always promotes wellness and energy, physically and mentally.
Here you will find a wide selection of numerous quotes to honor this remarkable element of mother nature and simultaneously inspire loved ones and friends to be motivated, relaxed and enjoy the soothing energy and healing power it generously gives.
Table of Contents
- Short Ocean Quotes
- Ocean Love Quotes
- Inspirational Ocean Quotes
- Ocean Life Quotes
- Funny Ocean Quotes
- Quotes About the Beauty and Magic of the Ocean
- Poetic Quotes About The Ocean
- Famous Ocean Quotes
- Ocean Pollution Quotes
Short Ocean Quotes
- The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea. Isak Dinesen
- The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. Jacques Cousteau
- Dance with the waves, move with the sea, let the rhythm of the water set your soul free. Christy Ann Martine
- The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul. Robert Wyland
- I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea. Alain Gerbault
- Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths. Rumi
- The ocean is everything I want to be. Beautiful, mysterious, wild, and free. Unknown
- You are the ocean; everything else is just waves and wind. Steve Maraboli
- The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. Christopher Paolini
- She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air. Holly Black
- Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time. H. P. Lovecraft
- In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans. Kahlil Gibran
- Life is a wave of consciousness in the ocean of time. Debasish Mridha
- Our memories of the ocean will linger on, long after our footprints in the sand are gone. Unknown
- To reach a port we must set sail. Sail, not tie at anchor. Sail, not drift. Franklin D. Roosevelt
- The ocean is a mighty harmonist. William Wordsworth
- I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves. Le Testament d’Orphée
- Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark. Bob Dylan
- I am drawn to the ocean; I find solace in its mystery. Joe Dunthorne
- Let the waves carry you where the light can not. Mohit Kaushik
- You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf. Jon Kabat-Zinn
- If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry. Rachel Carson
- The sea! The sea! The open sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free! Bryan W. Procter
- I was happy anywhere I could see the ocean. Ai Yazawa
- Every time I slip into the ocean, it’s like going home. Sylvia Earle
- Even the upper end of the river believes in the ocean. William Stafford
- The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace. Kate Chopin
- Being out there in the ocean – God’s creation – it’s like a gift he has given us to enjoy. Bethany Hamilton
- There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it. Ranata Suzuki
- I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides. Dejan Stojanovic
- Follow the river and you will find the sea. French Proverb
- The sea is as near as we come to another world. Anne Stevenson
- There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea. Kahlil Gibran
- It is beautiful, it is endless, it is full and yet seems empty. Jackson Pearce
- Sand lines my soul which is filled with the breath of the ocean. A.D. Posey
- A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. Franklin D. Roosevelt
- There’s something about the ocean that just calls to me. Nicholas Sparks
- If the ocean can calm itself, so can you. We are both salt water mixed with air. Nayyirah Waheed
- I looked upon the sea, it was to be my grave. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
- In high seas or in low seas,
I’m gonna be your friend…
Bob Marley
Ocean Love Quotes
- Summer is calling me with the music of an ocean breeze. I must go dance with the waves of love. Debasish Mridha
- Together we can face challenges as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky. Sonia Gandhi
- Shall I come to you, a boundless drop to a boundless ocean. Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
- Endless ocean, blue water, dreamy sky, tranquil beach, love in the air, mind fly high. Debasish Mridha
- There’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away. Sarah Kay
- Ocean separates lands, not souls… Munia Khan
- Deep love is like a deep ocean. Lailah Gifty Akita
- How I long to be the shore and feel your waves crash upon me over and over again. Timothy Joshua Chia
- His mind has the clearness of the deep sea, the patience of its rocks, the force of its billows. Charlotte Brontë, Shirley
- If you wish to be a mine of jewels, open the deep ocean within your heart. Rumi
- When the ocean surges,
don’t let me just hear it.
Let is splash inside my chest.
Rumi
Inspirational Ocean Quotes
- You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop. Rumi
- The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths, it has its pearls too. Vincent van Gogh
- The universe is an ocean upon which we are the waves. While some decide to surf, others venture to dive. Charbel Tadros
- You can either see yourself as a wave in the ocean or you can see yourself as the ocean. Oprah Winfrey
- We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected on the deep. William James
- Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean. Ryunosuke Satoro
- My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea. And the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. Mahatma Gandhi
- We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something. Mother Teresa
- Just think of any negativity that comes at you as a raindrop falling into the ocean of your bliss.Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
- Just as every drop of the ocean carries the taste of the ocean, so does every moment carry the taste of eternity. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
- Being by the sea is like a permanent baptism; the light and air hypnotizes, and your soul is washed by vastness. Iain Pears
- You are the ocean, let the rivers come to you. You are the flower, let the bees come to you. Amit Ray
- How do I know who I am or where I am? How could a single wave locate itself in an ocean. Rumi
Ocean Life Quotes
- Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down. Vanessa Paradis
- Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. Ralph Waldo Emerson
- You will love the ocean. It makes you feel small, but not in a bad way. Small because you realize you’re part of something bigger. Lauren Myracle
- Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part. Hermann Broch
- The ocean was magical to her, its depths and mysteries were boundless, its call irresistible. Jeff Mariotte
- Be alone with the sea for it is there you will find answers to questions you didn’t realize exist. Khang Kijarro Nguyen
- Her happiness floated like waves of ocean along the coast of her life. She found lyrics of her life in his arms but she never sung her song. Santosh Kalwar
- No dirt can touch me, like an ocean, everything that comes to me becomes clean. Debasish Mridha
- In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it’s all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean. Alan Watts
- You can’t cross the ocean of life just by dreaming about it, you have to jump in and swim. Debasish Mridha
- Wildflowers can’t be controlled, and neither can the girl with a soul boundless as the sky, and a spirit as free and wild as the ocean. Melody Lee
- How much time could you spend staring out the ocean, even if it was the ocean you’d loved since you were a boy? Philip Roth, Everyman
- Here is a good message from the ocean: You will be an ocean too if you let every river, every rain, every flood and every stream flow to you freely! Mehmet Murat ildan
- I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows. Drew Barrymore
- Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don’t walk into the river. Listen to the ocean. Rumi
Funny Ocean Quotes
- Looking at the ocean makes me miss people, and hanging out with people makes me miss the ocean. Haruki Murakami
- How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is clearly Ocean. Arthur C. Clarke
- Ocean, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man — who has no gills. Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary
- Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I’m talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean. Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing
Quotes About the Beauty and Magic of the Ocean
- The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach. Henry Beston
- Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think. Robert Henri
- I have an immoderate passion for water; for the sea, though so vast, so restless, so beyond one’s comprehension. Guy de Maupassant
- The sea-shore is a sort of neutral ground, a most advantageous point from which to contemplate this world. Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod
- The ocean was magical to her, its depths and mysteries were boundless, its call irresistible. Jeff Mariotte
- The sea appears all golden. Beneath the sun-lit sky. Heinrich Heine
- Just as the ocean has waves or the sun has rays, so the minds’s own radiance is its thoughts and emotions. Sogyal Rinpoche
Poetic Quotes About The Ocean
- Under the thinning fog the surf curled and creamed, almost without sound, like a thought trying to form inself on the edge of consciousness. Raymond Chandler
- To me the sea is a continual miracle; the fishes that swim, the rocks, the motion of the waves, the ships with men in them. What stranger miracles are there? Walt Whitman
- For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), it’s always ourselves we find in the sea. E. E. Cummings
- And, day and night, aloof, from the high towers and terraces, the Earth and Ocean seem to sleep in one another’s arms, and dream of waves, flowers, clouds, woods, rocks, and all that we read in their smiles, and call reality. Percy Bysshe Shelley, Epipsychidion
- But the sea
which no one tends
is also a garden”
William Carlos Williams - The sea is a desert of waves,
A wilderness of water.
Langston Hughes - Don’t wait any longer. Dive in the ocean, leave and let the sea be you. Rumi
- Day and night I guarded the pearl of my soul.
Now in this ocean of pearling currents,
I’ve lost track of which was mine.
Rumi - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean. Lord Byron
Famous Ocean Quotes
- What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams. Werner Herzog
- One who was born by the ocean or has associated with it cannot ever be quite content away from it for very long. John Steinbeck
- There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath… Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, the Whale
- So that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts seemed consolingly to repeat over and over again. Virginia Woolf
- I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea– do I have to choose between the two? David Byrne, How Music Works
- There was an ocean above us, held in by a thin sac that might rupture and let down a flood at any second. Stephen King, Different Seasons
- Hark, now hear the sailors cry,
Smell the sea, and feel the sky,
Let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic.
Van Morrison - Was thinking about consciousness possible? Yet could the process that took place in the ocean be regarded as thought? Is a mountain a very large rock? Is a planet a huge mountain? Stanisław Lem, Solaris
- Every time you dive, you hope you’ll see something new – some new species. Sometimes the ocean gives you a gift, sometimes it doesn’t. James Cameron
- The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective… it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean. Beyoncé Knowles
- I really don’t know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it’s because in addition to the fact that the sea changes, and the light changes, and ships change, it’s because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea – whether it is to sail or to watch it – we are going back from whence we came. John F. Kennedy, Remarks at the Dinner for the America’s Cup Crews, September 14 1962
- When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused. Rainer Maria Rilke
Ocean Pollution Quotes
- I’m hopeful that we’ll be able to study the ocean before we destroy it. James Cameron
- For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it. Jacques-Yves Cousteau
- I want to do everything I can in my own life to protect and preserve the ocean. Cody Simpson
- It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself. Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us
- Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that. Sylvia Earle
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