#ocean

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#carry #life #ocean #oftener #onto

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

#another #darkness #distant #each #life

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

— H. P. Lovecraft

#lore #men #more #ocean #old

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent. ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

#blue #green #grey #ocean #silent

Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time. ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

#dreams #freighted #memories #more #mountains

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#deeper #easier #get #ocean #sinking

Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

#cure #level #nothing #ocean #rise

I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught. ↗

— Jacques Maritain

#another #appear #arises #big #bring

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up. ↗

— Abraham Maslow

#despise #dropped #gave #i #into

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#atlantic ocean #backward #crab #crawling #ever