You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.

Rabindranath Tagore

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Francis Bacon

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

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

Joseph Conrad

This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children’s eyes.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.

Virginia Woolf

But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

H. P. Lovecraft

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

Publilius Syrus

Catch me by the sea.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Franz Kafka