Best sea & voyages Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff

“In the shortest sea voyage there is no sense of time. You have been down in the cabin for hours or days or years. Nobody knows or cares. You know all the people to the point of indifference. You do not believe in dry land any more - you are caught in the pendulum itself, and left there, idly swinging.”

Source: KATHERINE MANSFIELD Premium Collection: 160+ Short Stories & Poems (Literature Classics Series): The Complete Short Stories and Poetry of Katherine Mansfield: Bliss, The Garden Party, The Dove’s Nest, Something Childish, In a German Pension, The Aloe, Poems at the Villa Pauline, Child Verses...

“Every sea-captain who sailed to the West Indies was expected to bring home a turtle on the return voyage for a feast to his expectant friends.”

Home Sea Return West Expected Captains Voyages Turtles West Indies

Book:Stage-coach and Tavern Days

Source: Stage-coach and Tavern Days

“To Meath of the pastures, From wet hills by the sea, Through Leitrim and Longford, Go my cattle and me.”

Past Sea Hills Wet Voyages Cattle Pastures

Book:Selected Poems of Padraic Colum

Source: Selected Poems of Padraic Colum

“Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go to sea? Why upon your first voyage as a passenger, did you yourself feel such a mystical vibration, when first told that you and your ship were now out of sight of land? Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother of Jove? Surely all this is not without meaning.”

Giving Feels Firsts Soul Water Boys Sea Crazy Land Brother Holy Healthy Sight Environmental Ships Greek Mystical Deities Vibrations Voyages Passengers Robust Healthy Soul

Book:Moby Dick

Source: Moby Dick

“I suppose we shall soon travel by air-vessels; make air instead of sea voyages; and at length find our way to the moon, in spite of the want of atmosphere.”

Way Want Air Sea Moon Atmosphere Spite Aviation Length Predictions Vessel Voyages Sea Voyage

Author:Lord Byron

“We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”

Should Black Views Sea Ignorance Point Of View Islands Midst Infinity Voyages Placid Lovecraft

Author:Scott Adams

“To one given to day-dreaming, and fond of losing himself in reveries, a sea-voyage is full of subjects for meditation; but then they are the wonders of the deep and of the air, and rather tend to abstract the mind from worldly themes.”

Mind Dream Given Wonder Meditation Air Sea Subjects Losing Abstract Theme Worldly Voyages Reverie Sea Voyage

Book:The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. – The Complete Collection: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Voyage, Roscoe, A Royal Poet, A Sunday in London and many more (Illustrated)

Source: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. – The Complete Collection: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Voyage, Roscoe, A Royal Poet, A Sunday in London and many more (Illustrated)

“I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.”

“If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!”

Ifs Certain Journey Sea Ought Battle Certainty Uncertainty Voyages Sea Voyage

Book:Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works

Source: Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works

“There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.”

“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”

Thinking World Should Mind Humans Black Sea Ignorance Islands Midst Human Mind Infinity Dread Inability Voyages Merciful Placid

Author:H. P. Lovecraft

Sea Quotes

Related topics

Sea Quotes