Quotes
Quotes about Sea
And this new start meant a new leaf, life, willingness to atone, a search for stability, a fresh persona.
Life is circular and the beginning of a circle is also its end; life is not a rectilinear continuum. Thus the season of renewal is cruel because renewal entails the death of the old, and we may have committed ourselves to the old.
I wait no longer now: wide lies the way, unsure, uncharted. Only this I know: the sea has dubious currents
Love water, love it will all your being, but only from the well or the picnic spring. Tasteless but grateful in summer, embracing the hollow of any vessel. But never follow water to the river or sea.
He saw, in one of his fiery instants, all beasts that ever were, torn, hunted, baited, betrayed, bleeding; their cries seared his brain
This book, this exterior thing, must take its buffets from a world as indifferent as the sea, knowing and caring nothing of the author, making no allowances
The poet fears he is going to die or fears he is not going to die. Rather like seasickness
The sea spelled life, whispered or shouted fertility; that voice could never be completely stilled
The rain came from the sea and stood for life
My whole world's shattered ... I have to build it up again, searching for a God I can believe in
I suffer from a disease which used to be called a shortage of money
A diseased body is as tyrannical as any upstart dictator
Disease, of its nature, either kills or is cured
This thing they call love is as common around New York as it is in Sheboygan during the young onion season.
Youth has a body in search of a wisdom, and with age the wisdom gained is in search of a body.
A smooth sea never made a skillful sailor.
A smooth sea never made a skillful sailor.
A pessimist is one who is seasick on the entire voyage of life.
Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.
Accustom to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.
The best way to inspire fresh thoughts is to seal the envelope.
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
A book must be an axe for the frozen sea inside of us.
