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Quotes about Ocean


A thousand leagues of ocean, a company of kings, You came across the watching world to show how heroes die. When the splendour of your story Builds the halo of its glory, 'Twill belt the earth like Saturn's rings And diadem the sky.

Unattributed Author

The soul of man is larger than the sky, Deeper than ocean, or the abysmal dark Of the unfathomed centre.

Hartley Coleridge

O Cicero, I have seen tempests when the scolding winds Have rived the knotty oaks, and I have seen Th' ambitious ocean swell and rage and foam To be exalted with the threat'ning clouds; But never till to-night, never till now, Did I go through a tempest dropping fire.

William Shakespeare

Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this son of York; And all the clouds that lowered upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.

William Shakespeare

Coal-black is better than another hue In that it scorns to bear another hue; For all the water in the ocean Can never turn the swan's black legs to white, Although she lave them hourly in the flood.

William Shakespeare

The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions.

Italo Calvino

Our Union is river, lake, ocean, and sky: Man breaks not the medal, when God cuts the die! Though darkened with sulphur, though cloven with steel, The blue arch will brighten, the waters will heal!

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

OCEAN, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man—who has no gills.

Ambrose Bierce

If you love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion.

Will Lin-chi

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