15616. Beach Hiking in Port Townsend, Washington April 9, 2020

15021. “It is not the ocean that you hear in the empty shell of a nautilus, it is the echo of your soul.” ― Khang Kijarro Nguyen April 6, 2020

15020. “The waves came up towards us, fumbling and gnawing at the beach like an immense soft mouth.” ― Ross Macdonald, The Archer Files: The Complete Short Stories of Lew Archer, Private Investigator, Including Newly Discovered Case Notes April 6, 2020

15019. “The shipwrecked captains have already conquered the sight of an immense blue ocean.” ― Alan Maiccon April 6, 2020

15018. “The supple water is forever changing. It’s almost like it never happened, which gives me hope that one day it will be like it never happened.” ― Sophie Mackintosh, The Water Cure April 6, 2020

15017. “No writing is good enough until you, as an author, make a small contribution, the size of a drop, into the ocean of the world’s literature.” ― Nuruddin Farah April 6, 2020

15016. “Within him, there was an ocean’s worth of grief; which could only be stopped for a moment, never emptied.” ― Madeline Miller, Circe April 6, 2020

15015. “One does not have to see the sea to know that monsters live there.” ― Katie Cross, Flight April 6, 2020

15014. “The ocean is a dangerous place, but it’s also a place you can still go and have to yourself, a place that’s clean and, yes, wild. If you go into the ocean you’re making a choice. You need to know you can drown, you can get lost, or you can be eaten by great beasts.” ― David Helvarg, Saved by the Sea: Hope, Heartbreak, and Wonder in the Blue World April 6, 2020

15013. “The sea-shore is a sort of neutral ground, a most advantageous point from which to contemplate this world.” ― Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod April 6, 2020

15012. “Softly, surrounded by a fringe of inquisitive bright creatures, itself a silver shape beneath the steadfast constellations, Simon’s dead body moved out towards the open sea.” ― William Golding, Lord of the Flies April 6, 2020

15011. “The next morning the sea was calm again, the sun was shining, and the water was so blue and innocent a man might never know that under it my brother floated, dead with all his men.” ― George R.R. Martin, Fire & Blood April 6, 2020

15010. “Only you could have won me away from the sea. I came back from the ends of the earth for you.” ― George R.R. Martin, Fire & Blood April 6, 2020

15009. “Life without the determination to do something meaningful each day is like a ship sailing in the vast oceans without a glimpse of the shore.” ― Dr Prem Jagyasi April 6, 2020

15008. “Not all the rivers want to meet oceans. Some of them just want to stay the way they are. Still and flowing ever so slowly. She’s like that.” ― Nitya Prakash April 6, 2020

15007. “Libby’s been lecturing me, she claims seawater is the surest antidote for heartbreak. ‘It’s the salt. Makes up for all the crying.” ― Marci Vogel, Death and Other Holidays April 6, 2020

15006. “She is a rose filled guitar sitting by the ocean. Both a cat’s ‘purr’ along with the ‘hiss’. And lastly, a love poem carved into an old birch tree.” ― J.B. English, Fireflies April 6, 2020

15005. “After living so many years near San Francisco, she missed the ocean with its dual nature of calm and chaos. It called to her in voices of both lover and adversary. Always, she felt that if she could sit beside it still enough, long enough, she might solve mysteries. About life. About herself.” ― Linda Cassidy Lewis, The Brevity of Roses April 6, 2020

15004. “The power of the ocean wasn’t questioned.” ― Yelena Akhtiorskaya, Panic in a Suitcase April 6, 2020

15003. “You could stand there two hours; you could stand there five minutes. The Pacific didn’t give a hoot about time. It would eat a year for breakfast. Is that why they’d always been so drawn to it? Is that why, still, they came and stood at the edge, day after day? Its blessed indifference? [Pacific]” ― Peter Orner, Maggie Brown & Others: Stories April 6, 2020

15002. “Some souls cannot be confined to a particular place. They are vast as the sky and deep as the ocean!” ― Avijeet Das April 6, 2020

15001. “True love has no boundaries. It is vast as the ocean and limitless as the sky!” ― Avijeet Das April 6, 2020

15000. “When you look at sand do you see its relation to water or do you see its imprints of life?” ― Lorin Morgan-Richards April 5, 2020

14999. “The ocean is not a big lake; the lake is not a small ocean! Ocean is ocean, lake is lake!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan April 5, 2020

14998. “I am an ocean of trust, love, and refuge; I respect humanity. I defend people’s rights. I am light, not the darkness; you will find peace for your mind, heart, and soul that you never-ever would have thought. Just enter into my life, you will see and meet your love and soul-mate.” ― Ehsan Sehgal April 5, 2020

14997. “They were beautiful shells, as white as the surf in the sea. When you held one up to your ear you could hear the sound of your best friend talking to you, even if she was a thousand miles away.” ― Alice Hoffman, Aquamarine April 5, 2020

14996. “The salt smell of the ocean, sharp and steady, called to her from the window. Looking out, she saw her sisters, the waves, beckoning her with their white arms.” ― Jane Yolen, How to Fracture a Fairy Tale: 2 April 5, 2020

14995. “If the lake sees the ocean, it will want big waves! If the ocean sees the lake, it will want calm days that lasts for years!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan April 5, 2020

14994. “It’s not the size nor the power of the ocean that amazes me. Rather, it’s the way that something so powerful and immense can repeatedly caress a beach with such tenderness and never tire of doing it.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough April 5, 2020

14993. “Go to the top of the mountain, go to the middle of the ocean, or just sit under a big tree, or just from the corner of your room, with pure heart send blessings, love and compassion to the world and notice the transformation in you and the world” ― Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion April 5, 2020

14992. “I’d never ride a rocket into out space, so standing at the edge of the ocean was probably the closest I’d get to touching something boundless and greater than myself. For me, the ocean had a way of putting the rest of the world into context for a couple seconds.” ― Shaun David Hutchinson, Brave Face April 5, 2020

14991. “My dreams and nightmares have the same people in them.” ― Jordan Hoechlin April 5, 2020

14990. “To see the plankton glow was like being able to touch the stars.” ― Neus Figueras, Lorac April 5, 2020

14989. “It’s as if the river within me has turned into an ocean today and I can’t help but keep watching the waves crashing onto the shore.” ― Nitya Prakash April 5, 2020

14988. “Yesterday I was an ocean. Today I am just another wave crashing on the shore.” ― Nitya Prakash April 5, 2020

14987. “Being by the sea is like a permanent baptism; the light and air hypnotizes, and your soul is washed by vastness.” ― Iain Pears, The Portrait April 5, 2020

14986. “Wish to Dive into an Ocean of Dreams & Come up with Neverending Happiness!” ― Somya Kedia April 5, 2020

14985. “We dream in colors borrowed from the seaside” ― Jordan Hoechlin April 5, 2020

14984. “Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded forever.” ― Herman Melville, Moby Dick April 5, 2020

14983. “Below us, the ocean moved like a giant dish of blue Jell-O under the sweeping winds.” ― Kien Nguyen, The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood April 5, 2020

14982. “In the vast oceanic universe starfishes are the stars in the sky of the shore…” ― Munia Khan April 5, 2020

14981. “As much Happiness as you finds in the arms of the ocean, i am equally happy when you are near me” ― Pavan Desai April 5, 2020

14980. “I never tired of picturing sharks.” ― Eileen Granfors, Flash Warden and Other Stories April 5, 2020

14979. “Shearwater sighed, like a whale in the night.” ― Aldous Huxley, Antic Hay April 5, 2020

14978. “The human animal began as a mere wriggling thing in the ancient seas, struggling out onto land with many regrets. That is what brings us so full of longing to the sea.” ― Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture April 5, 2020

14977. “What an incomparable creature is the sea! (“Absolute Evil”)” ― Julian Hawthorne, American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps April 5, 2020

14976. “It was like trying to bail out an ocean of water with a teaspoon.” ― Jodi Picoult April 5, 2020

14976. “The world is a navy in an empty ocean.” ― Dejan Stojanovic April 5, 2020

14975. “Day and night I guarded the pearl of my soul. Now in this ocean of pearling currents, I’ve lost track of which was mine.” ― Rumi April 5, 2020

14974. “She felt like a creature born to reside on the bottom of the ocean floor, dark and flat and half-blind, slowly rising through the icy water to the glittering light above.” ― Lisa Jewell, The Truth About Melody Browne April 5, 2020

14973. “Screw sharks; a Transformer could be stretching up on its tippy toes and would still have a mile of cover to eat me.” ― Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Draus, The Real Real April 5, 2020

14972. “An ocean which thinks there is nothing to learn from a lake is not a wise ocean!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan April 5, 2020

14971. “Knowledge is knowing the depth of the ocean. Wisdom is knowing till where to swim.” ― Saleem Sharma April 5, 2020

14970. “We all have an edge. We all are floating our psyche on top with a great ocean underneath.” ― Brad Dourif April 5, 2020

14969. “Don’t you dare come into my world and tell me what color the ocean is! It’s black. Black as midnight. Black and awful!” ― Nadia Scrieva April 5, 2020

14968. “He feels himself buried in those two infinities, the ocean and the sky, at one and the same time: the one is a tomb; the other is a shroud.” ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables April 5, 2020

14967. “At beyond continent of reality, there are oceans of ideas.” ― Toba Beta April 5, 2020

14966. “I know about me. I am the moons sister, a tidal child stranded on land. The sea always in my ear, a surf of eternal discontent in my blood.” ― Keri Hulme April 5, 2020

14965. “I heard silence, silence infinite as the bottom of the ocean, a silence that sealed.” ― Anne Spollen, The Shape of Water April 5, 2020

14964. “Mist to mist, drops to drops. For water thou art, and unto water shalt thou return.” ― Kamand Kojouri April 5, 2020

14963. “I couldn’t imagine living in a state that didn’t reach the ocean. It was a giant reset button. You could go to the edge of the land and see infinity and feel renewed.” ― Avery Sawyer, Notes to Self April 5, 2020

14962. “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are an ocean in a drop.” ― Joy N. Hensley, Rites of Passage April 5, 2020

14961. “I have always wanted to give you the world, so I started giving you pieces of the oceans that kept us apart.” ― Karen Quan, Write Like No One is Reading April 5, 2020

14960. “I wish to spend a lifetime near a lighthouse where loneliness will be the glimmer of luminous prancing upon ocean waves… rising and falling only for my breathing.” ― Munia Khan April 5, 2020

14959. “I ain’t afraid to drown if that means I’m deep up in your ocean.” ― Chris Brown April 5, 2020

14958. “No dirt can touch me, like an ocean, everything that comes to me becomes clean.” ― Debasish Mridha April 5, 2020

14957. “I go to the ocean to say goodbye.” ― Charlotte Eriksson April 5, 2020

14956. “Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.” ― Anne Carson, Decreation April 5, 2020

14955. “I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.” ― Le Testament d’Orphée April 5, 2020

14954. “Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life,” murmured Niko. “They bring new food for shore creatures, and take ships out to sea. They are the ocean’s pulse, and our own heartbeat.” ― Tamora Pierce, Sandry’s Book April 5, 2020

14953. “[Jellyfish] are 97% water or something, so how much are they doing? Just give them another 3% and make them water. It’s more useful.” ― Karl Pilkington April 5, 2020

14951. “Ocean separates lands, not souls..” ― Munia Khan April 5, 2020

14950. “‎I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I’m touching eternity, that it goes on forever until it begins here again.” ― Lauren DeStefano, Wither April 5, 2020

14949. “It was like watching a man smile as he surrendered himself to drown in deep water.” ― C.S. Pacat, Captive Prince April 5, 2020

14948. “I don’t trust the ocean, either; it would kill me as soon as not. It doesn’t mean I’m afraid of it.” ― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races April 5, 2020

14947. “I looked upon the sea, it was to be my grave” ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein April 5, 2020

14946. “The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession there of.” ― Queen Elizabeth I, Letters April 5, 2020

14945. “A pool just isn’t the same as the ocean. It has no energy. No life.” ― Linda Gerber, Death by Bikini April 5, 2020

14944. “The sea is a desert of waves, A wilderness of water.” ― Langston Hughes, Selected Poems April 5, 2020

14943. “And the ocean, calling out to us both. A song of freedom and longing.” ― Alexandra Christo, To Kill a Kingdom April 5, 2020

14942. “She watched the gap between ship and shore grow to a huge gulf. Perhaps this was a little like dying, the departed no longer visible to the others, yet both still existed, only in different worlds.” ― Susan Wiggs, The Charm School April 5, 2020

14941. “I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea– do I have to choose between the two?” ― David Byrne, How Music Works April 5, 2020

14940. “There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.” ― Khalil Gibran April 5, 2020

14939. “Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I’m talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean.” ― Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing April 5, 2020

14938. “Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.” ― Bob Dylan April 5, 2020

14937. “I wonder if the ocean smells different on the other side of the world.” ― J.A. Redmerski, The Edge of Never April 5, 2020

14936. “Her happiness floated like waves of ocean along the coast of her life. She found lyrics of her life in his arms but she never sung her song.” ― Santosh Kalwar April 5, 2020

14935. “Ocean, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man — who has no gills.” ― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary April 5, 2020

14934. “I was happy anywhere I could see the ocean.” ― Ai Yazawa, Nana, Vol. 18 April 5, 2020

14933. “For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.” ― Jacques-Yves Cousteau April 5, 2020

14932. “I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides.” ― Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape April 5, 2020

14931. “There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it.” ― Ranata Suzuki April 5, 2020

14930. “There’s nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on underwater,you realize that you’ve been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent.” ― Dave Barry April 5, 2020

14929. “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 April 5, 2020

14928. “What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.” ― Werner Herzog April 5, 2020

14927. “She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.” ― Holly Black, Tithe April 5, 2020

14926. “She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.” ― Janet Fitch, White Oleander April 5, 2020

14925. “We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.” ― Mother Teresa April 5, 2020

14924. “I was always an unusual girl. My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean.” ― Lana Del Rey April 5, 2020

14923. “The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can’t.” ― Christopher Paolini, Eragon April 5, 2020