Explore a collection of the most beloved and motivational quotes and sayings about Ocean. Share these powerful messages with your loved ones on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, or on your personal blog, and inspire the world with their wisdom. We've compiled the Top 100 Ocean Quotes and Sayings from 93 influential authors, including Bryan Procter,Orhan Veli Kanik,Jack Croxall,Haruki Murakami,Jean-Michel Cousteau, for you to enjoy and share.

The sea! The sea! The open sea!, The blue, the fresh, the ever free! By Bryan Procter Sea Blue Fresh Free Open

THE SEAIn my room by the seashore,I can tell without going to the windowThat the boats sailing outside Are carrying a cargo of watermelons.Just the way I used to.The sea likes to hold its mirrorAcross the ceiling of my room:It likes to make me angry.The smell of seaweedAnd the fishing-ground poles pulled ashoreRemind the children who live by the seaOf nothing at all. By Orhan Veli Kanik Room Seain Seashorei Windowthat Boats

He had never seen the ocean before; he knew it only as the featureless blue void between the detailed continents on his father's old globe. But now he saw that it was anything but featureless; distant blue swells rising and falling, like great lungs tasked to power the surging and receding of the foamy waves washing across the shoreline beyond them. By Jack Croxall Globe Featureless Blue Ocean Knew

The ocean was one of the greatest things he had ever seen in his life - bigger and deeper than anything he had imagined. It changed its color and shape and expression according to time and place and weather. It aroused a deep sadness in his heart, and at the same time it brought his heart peace and comfort. By Haruki Murakami Life Bigger Imagined Ocean Greatest

To me the foundation of all life is in the ocean. By Jean-Michel Cousteau Ocean Foundation Life

The sea is the sweat of the earth. By Empedocles Earth Sea Sweat

I've always been drawn to the ocean. By Kenny Chesney Ocean Drawn

It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it. By Terence Mckenna Ocean Confront Easy Measure Measured

I am passionate about informing the world about our ocean - its complexity and beauty, its value to us, and the perils that it faces. By Jim Toomey Ocean Beauty Faces Passionate Informing

A life on the ocean wave! A home on the rolling deep, Where the scattered waters rave, And the winds their revels keep! By Epes Sargent Wave Life Ocean Deep Rave

I am surprised to see that the ocean is still going on. By Anne Sexton Surprised Ocean

The oceans are a way of life. We fish; we sail; we have a robust marine economy. By Sheldon Whitehouse Life Oceans Fish Sail Economy

The ocean lives and wanders free, happily to flow gracefully with the wind. By J. Kahele Free Happily Wind Ocean Lives

The ocean talks to you. Especially at night. Whispering voices that never let up, not even when you sleep. By Matt De La Pena Ocean Talks Night Whispering Sleep

Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story. By Ted Danson Small Troubles Suddenly Insignificant Slipping

I need the sea because it teaches me By Pablo Neruda Sea Teaches

The ocean is worth writing about just as man is. By Ernest Hemingway, Ocean Worth Writing Man

An ocean does not know how big she is just like you don't know how loving and amazing you are. By Debasish Mridha Ocean Big Loving Amazing

The ocean is six miles deep. By Joe Dunthorne Deep Ocean Miles

The seas are the heart's blood of the earth. By Henry Beston Earth Seas Heart Blood

The ocean is our planet's life support system, yet in my travels and at home, I've seen its degradation firsthand. By Greg Macgillivray System Home Firsthand Ocean Planet

Honor the ocean of love. By George De Benneville Honor Love Ocean

I look out at the ocean, and I feel exhilaration, wonder, curiosity, and sadness all at the same time. By Halina Curiosity Ocean Exhilaration Time Feel

The ocean is the last frontier of human empirical knowledge; even the contours on that eighth-grader's globe are the product of a mix of scientific measurement, inference and conjecture. By Alan Huffman Knowledge Measurement Inference Conjecture Ocean

An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water. By Arthur Stanley Eddington Made Water Ocean Traveler Vividly

We don't go to the ocean for anything as simple as happiness, do we? Wego there to feel alive. Like life, the ocean holds chance and change, grief and terror and beauty. It promises mortality, not peace. By Eileen Wilks Happiness Ocean Simple Wego Alive

Myriad laughter of the ocean waves. By Aeschylus Myriad Waves Laughter Ocean

The ocean here is weird. It's the wrong kind of blue. By Nicola Yoon Weird Ocean Blue Wrong Kind

I am drawn to the ocean; I find solace in its mystery. By Joe Dunthorne Ocean Mystery Drawn Find Solace

You can never turn your back on the ocean. By Rip Torn Ocean Turn Back

The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea. By James Joyce Sea Snotgreen Scrotumtightening

"Ocean" is more about ... powerlessness and hopelessness. When we're very small we can't actually do anything - we have no say in what happens, we have no money or resources, we sometimes have no idea what's going on. By Neil Gaiman Ocean Powerlessness Hopelessness Resources Small

Oceans are vast and almost bottomless. You dance in the rain Elizabeth. You drown in the sea. By Jennifer Rush Oceans Bottomless Elizabeth Vast Sea

In a world of seven billion people, where every inch of land has been mapped, much of it developed, and too much of it destroyed, the sea remains the final unseen, untouched, and undiscovered wilderness, the planet's last great frontier. There are no mobile phones down there, no e-mails, no tweeting, no twerking, no car keys to lose, no terrorist threats, no birthdays to forget, no penalties for late credit card payments, and no dog shit to step in before a job interview. All the stress, noise, and distractions of life are left at the surface. The ocean is the last truly quiet place on Earth. By James Nestor Untouched People Mapped Developed Destroyed

The oceans are in trouble. There are some serious problems out there that I believe are not clear to many people. My hope is to continually find new ways of creating images and stories that both celebrate the sea yet also highlight environmental problems. Photography can be a powerful instrument for change. By Brian Skerry Trouble Oceans Problems People Clear

I can smell the ocean in the distance. The salt wraps around my body, making my skin feel tight, and already I want to shower. I can do big cities, and small cities, and the even the occasional mountaintop is cool. But oceans are ridiculous. They take up way too much space in this overcrowded world and are filled with creatures that have several sets of teeth, like one row of man-eating teeth isn't enough. And just to add insult to injury, all that water isn't even drinkable. If you ask me, the ocean is kind of a prick. By Victoria Scott Distance Smell Cities Ocean Teeth

I love the sea as much as I love the veldt of Africa. By Wilbur Smith Africa Love Sea Veldt

Ocean people are different from land people. The ocean never stops saying and asking into ears, which don't sleep like eyes ... Sometimes ocean people are given to understand the newness and oldness of the world; then all morning they try to keep that boundless joy like a little sun inside their chests. The ocean also makes its people know immensity. By Maxine Hong Kingston Ocean People Land Ears Eyes

A Drop of the Ocean is still the Ocean. By John Friend Ocean Drop

I go to the ocean to say goodbye. By Charlotte Eriksson Goodbye Ocean

The sea calls us home By J.r.r. Tolkien Home Sea Calls

The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it? By Jules Verne Nature Sea Vast Reservoir Speak

This is the seashore. Neither land nor sea. It's a place that does not exist. By Alessandro Baricco Seashore Sea Exist Land Place

The sea is a desert of waves,A wilderness of water. By Langston Hughes Water Sea Desert Wavesa Wilderness

Being by the ocean is the greatest thing. By Genesis Rodriguez Thing Ocean Greatest

I love the ocean. Boats, not so much. By Jeff Goldblum Boats Ocean Love

A sea made of tears from every lover who never loved. By Pleasefindthis Loved Sea Made Tears Lover

The ocean, whose essence is fluid and unresisting, is more prison than the staunchest bricks or iron bars. By Eli Brown Ocean Unresisting Bars Essence Fluid

Ocean's remarkable stories, depth of commitment, and eloquent communication make him a fantastic resource for conferences, universities, and indeed everyone who wants a potent dose of grounded inspiration. By Van Jones Universities Ocean Stories Depth Commitment

Ocean?""Yeah baby." "Please don't leave me like everyone else, don't let me drown Ocean." "I hugged her tighter. "Livie I won't let you drown. If you drown, I drown baby." I held onto her and closed my eyes, and silently cried myself to sleep. *Ocean Hawthorne* By Mel D Yeah Ocean Drown Baby Livie

The Ocean's Heart too Smooth - too Blue -To break for you. By Emily Dickinson Smooth Blue Ocean Heart Break

Nim loved the ocean because it was always there, wherever she looked and as far as she could see, but it was too huge and powerful to understand and too dangerous to By Wendy Orr Nim Loved Ocean Looked Huge

The ocean is a place of paradoxes. It is the home of the great white shark, two-thousand-pound killer of the seas, and of the hundred-foot blue whale, the largest animal that ever lived. It is also the home of living things so small that your two hands might scoop up as many of them as there are stars in the Milky Way. By Rachel Carson Paradoxes Home Ocean Place Milky

The ocean is the only alien and potentially hostile environment on the planet into which we tend to venture without thinking about the animals that live there, how they behave, how they support themselves, and how they perceive us. I know of no one who would set off into the jungles of Malaysia armed only with a bathing suit, a tube of suntan cream, and a book, and yet that's precisely how we approach the oceans. By Peter Benchley Behave Alien Potentially Hostile Environment

My passion is to open people's eyes to the sea using the power of photography as a universal language to convince the unconvinced among us that the oceans are fragile and finite. By David Doubilet Finite Passion Open People Eyes

Life on this earth first emerged from the sea. As the polar ice melts and sea level rises, we humans find ourselves facing the prospect that once again we may quite literally become ocean. By John Luther Adams Life Sea Earth Emerged Rises

I love the ocean, but I'm just not one to lie on the beach. By Naomi Judd Ocean Beach Love Lie

Living submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air. By Evangelista Torricelli Living Air Submerged Bottom Ocean

I love the sea because it is boundless. By Craig Thompson Boundless Love Sea

That's coral!" she cried in astonishment. "We must be down in the deeps of the sea!"Well, wasn't that what you wanted?" said the trout. "I thought you wished you could see the sea!"I did," said Jane, looking very surprised. "But I never expected the wish to come true."Great oceans! Why bother to wish it then? I call that simply a waste of time. But come on! Mustn't be late for the party! By P.l. Travers Sea Coral Astonishment Cried Jane

The oceans are the planet's last great living wilderness, man's only remaining frontier on earth, and perhaps his last chance to produce himself a rational species. By John Culliney Wilderness Man Earth Species Oceans

Every breath of air we take is coming from the ocean. By Jean-Michel Cousteau Ocean Breath Air Coming

The Atlantic Ocean was something then. By John Guare Atlantic Ocean

The seaisn't a placebut a fact, anda mystery ... By Mary Oliver Fact Anda Mystery Seais Placebut

The deepest, most mysterious ocean in the world is a woman's heart. By Cheryl Koevoet Deepest Heart Mysterious Ocean World

The number one issue that Ocean Mysteries has opened my eyes to is, no matter where you are, whether you're on a beach in Hawaii, you're diving in the Pacific, you're in a remote archipelago, or you're in the middle of nowhere - I am blown away and sobered and crushed, emotionally crushed, by the amount of marine debris, of garbage, that is now in our ocean. By Jeff Corwin Crushed Ocean Hawaii Pacific Mysteries

I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I'm a board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation. By Ted Danson Beach Ocean Interested Issues Daughters

Tell me once more about the eternal surf. By Rob Bignell, Editor Surf Eternal

For the water animals, the ocean is like a garden; for the land animals, it is death and pain. By Rumi Animals Garden Pain Water Ocean

There is vast sea of all kind of creatures. By Lailah Gifty Akita Creatures Vast Sea Kind

The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey. By Enya Image Ocean Central Journey Symbolism

I adore the ocean and its vastness, as if it is trying to teach me something, as if it is trying to teach me to remain calm whatever the situation maybe. It holds such a huge amount of water but always remains content and at peace, while we people lose our calm even at smallest of tensions that we get in life. It teaches us to keep our secrets safe within. It has an entire habitat residing in its heart, but we haven't been able to explore it fully, same way, we must keep our secrets tightly bound within us. If we will share them, the world will lose the curiosity, just like we will lose curiosity if we will come to know fully about the aquatic life. It teaches us to provide without seeking. It houses innumerable species inside and never asks them for anything, we must also help the needy and provide if we have in abundance. The ocean teaches us lessons that books or school can't teach us. By Mehek Bassi Calm Teaches Lose Teach Vastness

Rivers do all the work, but the ocean gets all the glory. By Matshona Dhliwayo Rivers Work Glory Ocean

Over the years, I have seen the power of the oceans to excite, feed, and sustain people. I have also seen them undergo a growing onslaught of attacks, from destructive fishing practices to rising acidification. By Frances Beinecke Feed Years Excite People Power

The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human life begins, the ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves ... it is unstable and threatening as the earth is not; it spawns new life daily, yet swallows up lives; it is changeable like the moon, unregulated, yet indestructible and eternal. By Adrienne Rich Ocean Moon Life Respond Menses

Coastal people never really know what the ocean symbolizes to landlocked inland people - what a great distant dream it is, present but unseen in the deepest levels of subconsciousness, and when they arrive at the ocean and the conscious images are compared with the subconscious dream there is a sense of defeat at having come so far to be so stopped by the mystery that can never be fathomed. The source of it all. By Robert M. Pirsig Ocean People Dream Coastal Present

The ocean extends an invitation to the swimmer that it withholds from the person who has never learned to swim. With every skill we learn, the world reshapes itself to reveal greater possibilities. By Nicholas Carr Swim Ocean Extends Invitation Swimmer

If you want to discover new oceans, you must first have the courage to leave shore. By Winston Churchill Oceans Shore Discover Courage Leave

I should love to see a ground-glass blue ocean By Julia Quinn Ocean Love Groundglass Blue

Whoever deemed the ocean an invigorating place needed to reconsider the reality of crashing waves, sunburn, and sand wedged up into places no one should have it. By Natalia Jaster Sunburn Waves Deemed Ocean Invigorating

The sea is very beautiful and gives us many things, but it must be understood and respected, or it will slap you ... By J.z. Colby Things Respected Sea Beautiful Understood

Mother Mother Ocean, I have heard your call. By Jimmy Buffett Ocean Mother Call Heard

You are my ocean. You are the only thing I can trust. By Kyra Davis Ocean Trust Thing

From the sea, to the sea. By Maggie Stiefvater Sea

What does the breathtaking view of the ocean mean without you? By Craig Thompson Breathtaking View Ocean

I love the ocean; growing up around Laguna Beach, I spent my summers surfing, diving, and snorkeling. By Greg Macgillivray Diving Beach Laguna Ocean Growing

The sea, the majestic sea, breaks everything, crushes everything, cleans everything, takes everything ... from me By Corinne Bailey Rae Sea Breaks Crushes Cleans Majestic

The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher. By Jorge Luis Borges Decipher Sea Idiom

Whether we're standing on the shores of the Pacific or the Atlantic, the water is the same. Love By Sarah Mccoy Atlantic Pacific Standing Shores Water

Become a river and then nothing is needed. That's what The Secret of the Golden Flower says: Achieve inaction through action, achieve effortlessness through effort. But first comes the effort, the action - it will melt you - and then the river starts flowing. In that very flow it has reached the ocean. By Osho Achieve Needed Action Effort River

As I write these lines I lift my eyes and look seaward. I am on the beach of Waikiki on the island of Oahu. Far, in the azure sky, the trade-wind clouds drift low over the blue-green turquoise of the deep sea. Nearer, the sea is emerald and light olive-green. Then comes the reef, where the water is all slaty purple flecked with red. Still nearer are brighter greens and tans, lying in alternate stripes and showing where sandbeds lie between the living coral banks. Through and over and out of these wonderful colours tumbles and thunders a magnificent surf. By Jack London Seaward Write Lines Lift Eyes

A mile below the lowest cloud, rock breaches water and the sea begins.It has been given many names. Each inlet and bay and stream has been classified as if it were discrete. But it is one thing, where borders are absurd. It fills the space between stones and sand, curling around coastlines and filling trenches between the continents. By China Mieville Cloud Rock Mile Lowest Breaches

The rising world of waters dark and deep. By John Milton Deep Rising World Waters Dark

Ah, the ocean. The movement of eternity right in front of us." (61) By Carol Lynn Pearson Ocean Movement Eternity Front

No mercy, no power but its own controls it. Panting and snorting like a mad battle steed that has lost its rider, the masterless ocean overruns the globe. By Herman Melville Mercy Power Controls Panting Rider

Protect the ocean and you protect yourself. By Jean-Michel Cousteau Protect Ocean

I've always believed the ocean held more for me than the island. By Kelly Said Island Believed Ocean Held

The great ocean, crooning its lullaby with one unceasing melody, lapped the island to sleep with a thousand soft touches of its wave's white hands. The By Rabindranath Tagore Ocean Crooning Melody Lapped Hands

The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the 'Living Infinite' ... The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it? In it is supreme tranquility. By Jules Verne Existence Embodiment Supernatural Wonderful Sea

I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for something it cannot have; and so am I. By Greta Garbo Sea Understand Yearning Sighing