“In the sea of words, the in print is foam, surf bubbles riding the top. And it's a dark sea, and deep, where divers need lights on their helmets and would perish at the lower depths.” NeedsLightDarkSeaDepthPrintBubblesRidingSurfHelmetFoam Author:Jonathan Lethem
“We cannot be satisfied with things as they are. We cannot be satisfied to drift, to rest on our oars, to glide over a sea whose depths are shaken by subterranean upheavals.” SeaDepthSatisfactionSatisfiedUpheavalOar Author:John F. Kennedy
“I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth. My high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me.” LittlesLeftBoysSeaPrideSummerGloryMercyDepthBrokeStreamsLengthSwimWearyRudeWantonBladder Author:William Shakespeare
“I would that with sleepy, soft embraces The sea would fold mewould find me rest In luminous shades of her secret places, In depths where her marvels are manifest; So the earth beneath her should not discover My hidden couchnor the heaven above her As a strong love shielding a weary lover, I would have her shield me with shining breast.” ShouldEarthStrongHeavenSecretSeaLoversEmbraceShiningDepthBreastsManifestShadeWearyFind MeFoldsShieldsLuminousSleepySecret PlacesStrong Love Author:Adam Lindsay Gordon
“It is not to be wondered that men have worshiped the ocean, for in his depths they have seen mirrored the image of Eternity of Infinity. Here they have seen the symbol of God's great plan of oneness with His creatures, for the sea is the union of all infinite particles, and it takes the whole to make the one.” MenWholePlansSeaCreaturesOceanEternityInfiniteUnionsDepthSymbolsOnenessInfinityParticles Book:The Philosophy of Elbert Hubbard Source: The Philosophy of Elbert Hubbard
“Oceania is vast, Oceania is expanding, Oceania is hospitable and generous, Oceania is humanity rising from the depths of brine and regions of fire deeper still, Oceania is us. We are the sea, we are the ocean.” StillsHumanityFireSeaOceanDepthDeeperGenerousRisingRegionsExpandingOceania Author:Epeli Hau'ofa
“Cut off my head, and singular I am, Cut off my tail, and plural I appear; Although my middle's left, there's nothing there! What is my head cut off? A sounding sea; What is my tail cut off? A rushing river; And in their mingling depths I fearless play, Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.” PlayLeftParentSoundForeverCuttingSeaMiddleRiversDepthFishesBoatFearlessLakesFishingTailsSweetestRushingMuteMingling Author:Thomas B. Macaulay
“And where the deepest current crawls/ Like thistledown the dainty fly falls./ Then from the depths a silver gleam/ Quick flashes, like a jewel bright./ Up through the waters of the stream/ An instant visible to sight/ As lightning cleaves to sombre sky/ A rainbow rises to the fly.” FallWaterSeaSkyRiversSightDepthFishesCurrentsBoatInstantStreamsVisibleLakesFishingSilverFlashLightningRainbowJewelsGleamDainty Author:John Buchan
“There is a law of neutralization of forces, which hinders bodies from sinking beyond a certain depth in the sea; but in the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.” BodyLawCertainForceSeaEasierOceanDepthDeeperSinkingHinderBaseness Book:Conversations on Some of the Old Poets Source: Conversations on Some of the Old Poets
“A very sea of thought; neither calm nor clear, if you will, yet wherein the toughest pearl-diver may dive to his utmost depth, and return not only with sea-wreck but with true orients.” IfsMayClearSeaReturnDepthCalmPearlsWrecks Book:Carlyle Reader Source: Carlyle Reader
“The sea's vast depths lie open to the fish; Wherever the breezes blow the bird may fly; So to the brave man every land's a home.” MenMayHomeLyingSeaLandBirdBraveryBraveDepthFishesBlowBreezeBrave Man Author:Ovid
“Are coral reefs growing from the depths of the oceans? ... [The] reply is a simple negative; and a single fact establishes its truth. The reef-forming coral zoophytes, as has been shown, cannot grow at greater depths than 100 or 120 feet; and therefore in seas deeper than this, the formation or growth of reefs over the bottom is impossible.” Has BeensFactsGrowsGrowthSimpleGreaterGrowingImpossibleSeaFeetOceanNegativeDepthBottomDeeperFormationReefsCoral Reefs Author:James Dwight Dana
“Ah, what a life is theirs who live in Christ; How vast the mystery! Reaching in height to heaven, and in its depth The unfathomed sea!” Life IsHeavenChristMysterySeaDepthHeightReaching Book:Religious Poems Source: Religious Poems
“One of my own stray childhood fears had been to wonder what a whale might feel like had it been born and bred in captivity, then released into the wild-into its ancestral sea-its limited world instantly blowing up when cast into the unknowable depths, seeing strange fish and tasting new waters, not even having a concept of depth, not knowing the language of any whale pods it might meet. It was my fear of a world that would expand suddenly, violently, and without rules or laws: bubbles and seaweed and storms and frightening volumes of dark blue that never end.” WorldFeelsEndsMightLawLanguageWaterBornDarkMy OwnWonderKnowingSeeingSeaChildhoodStrangeConceptsBlueDepthCastsFishesStormBubblesFrighteningNot KnowingVolumeWhalesTastingCaptivitySeaweedBlowing UpDark Blue Author:Douglas Coupland
“If the grim realities you are facing at this time seem dark and heavy and almost unbearable, remember that in the soul-wrenching darkness of Gethsemane and the incomprehensible torture and pain of Calvary, the Savior accomplished the Atonement, which resolves the most terrible burdens that can occur in this life. He did it for you, and He did it for me. He did it because He loves us and because He obeys and loves His Father. We will be rescued from death-even from the depths of the sea.” IfsSoulRealitySeemsPainRememberFatherDarkDarknessSeaTerribleAnd LoveDepthBurdenHeavyThis LifeTortureAccomplishedResolveSaviorUnbearableAtonementGrimCalvaryGethsemane Author:Quentin L. Cook
“Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition." "And they rock, and they rock, through the sensual ageless ages on the depths of the seven seas, and through the salt they reel with drunken delight and in the tropics tremble they with love and roll with massive, strong desire, like gods.” AgeDesireStrongSexConsciousnessSeaRocksDepthSevenDelightIntuitionAriseSensualMassiveSaltInseparableAgelessTropicsStrong Desire Author:D. H. Lawrence