76 Ocean Quotes That Remind You of the World’s Most Beautiful Thing

The ocean doesn’t try to impress you.

It just shows up, every single day, doing what it does. Crashing, pulling back, crashing again.

And somehow that’s enough to make you stop and stare for hours.

There’s something about it that feels bigger than words. But a few people throughout history have gotten pretty close.

These ocean quotes might do the same thing for you.

Short Ocean Quotes for Instagram

“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.” — Rumi

“If the ocean can calm itself, so can you. We are both saltwater mixed with air.” — Chief Seattle

“The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.” — Jacques Cousteau

“The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too.” — Vincent van Gogh

“We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch, we are going back from whence we came.” — John F. Kennedy

“My soul is full of longing for the secrets of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don’t walk into the river. Listen to the ocean.” — Rumi

“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.” — Karen Blixen

“There is a rapture on the lonely shore, there is society, where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar.” — Lord Byron

“In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.” — Khalil Gibran

“The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach, waiting for a gift from the sea.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.” — Mahatma Gandhi

“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.” — Mother Teresa

“The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.” — Blaise Pascal

“Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.” — H. P. Lovecraft

“There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.” — Khalil Gibran

“If you wish to be a mine of jewels, open the deep ocean within your heart.” — Rumi

“When anxious, uneasy, and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused.” — Rainer Maria Rilke

“The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.” — Jules Verne

“Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll!” — Herman Melville

“There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.” — Victor Hugo

“Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the vast compass of the ocean, and they pass by themselves without wondering.” — Saint Augustine

“To stand by the sea is a lesson of infinity, a proof of eternity.” — Emily Dickinson

“The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.” — Cornelia Funke

“Because there’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away.” — Sarah Kay

“No water, no life. No blue, no green.” — Sylvia Earle

“With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you’re connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live.” — Sylvia Earle

“We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.” — William James

“Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.” — Ryunosuke Satoro

“The sea was as dark as dreams and as deep as sleep.” — Orhan Pamuk

“Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth, then I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.” — Herman Melville

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination, and brings eternal joy to the soul.” — Wyland

“The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them, science will discover these qualities.” — Rachel Carson

“Limitless and immortal, the waters are the beginning and end of all things on earth.” — Heinrich Zimmer

“Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; so on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean.” — Alan Watts

“I find comfort in the rhythm of the sea.” — Charlotte Eriksson

“The ocean will take care of each wave until it reaches the shore.” — Rumi

“Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow.” — Lord Byron

“Dance with the waves, move with the sea, let the rhythm of the water set your soul free.” — Christy Ann Martine

“To me, the sea is like a person, like a child that I’ve known a long time. When I swim in the sea I talk to it. I never feel alone when I’m out there.” — Gertrude Ederle

“The sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will.” — Kate Chopin

“The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude.” — Kate Chopin

“Where once there were a few houses between us, now there are seas.” — Mira R.A.

“The deep roar of the ocean, the break of waves on farther shores that thought can find, the silent thunders of the deep.” — Douglas Adams

“Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it.” — Margaret Atwood

“I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea.” — Alain Gerbault

“The sea has boundless patience.” — Craig Robertson

“You are not a wave. You are part of the ocean.” — Thich Nhat Hanh

“A river seems a natural place for beginning a journey into the unknown, for the river follows its own course to the sea.” — John Muir

“The beauty and mystery of the ocean fills our lives with wonders vast beyond our imagination.” — M. L. Borges

“Our memories of the ocean will linger on, long after our footprints in the sand are gone.” — Unknown

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” — Rabindranath Tagore

“The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.” — Kate Chopin

“Smell the sea and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly.” — Van Morrison

“To me the sea is a continual miracle.” — Walt Whitman

“The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps.” — Christopher Paolini

“The ocean is a mighty harmonist.” — William Wordsworth

“How inappropriate to call this planet Earth, when it is quite clearly ocean.” — Arthur C. Clarke

“Every time I slip into the ocean, it’s like going home.” — Sylvia Earle

“Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.” — Robert Henri

“There’s never an end for the sea.” — Samuel Beckett

“The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective.” — Beyoncé

“I feel we are all islands in a common sea.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“To reach a port we must set sail. Sail, not tie at anchor. Sail, not drift.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The sea has neither meaning nor pity.” — Anton Chekhov

“The sea is life.” — Jean-Michel Cousteau

“Calm seas never made a good sailor.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” — Marcel Proust

“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.” — Pat Conroy

“For whatever we lose, it’s always ourselves we find in the sea.” — e. e. cummings

“At the beach, life is different. We live by the currents, plan by the tides, and follow the sun.” — Sandy Gingras

“I am terrified of the ocean. It is a fearful place, but also unimaginably beautiful as well.” — Daniel Craig

“Away from all land, the ocean. It covers more than half the surface of our planet.” — David Attenborough