The ocean is a mysterious place, full of life and beauty. Its depths are unknown, its power undeniable and inspiring awe as it crashes upon the shore in an infinite cycle. People have taken inspiration from the sea for ages: songs, art, stories…the list goes on!

These hundred quotes about the ocean capture not only its magnificence but also its enigmatic nature.

Whatever the quote might be, each one is sure to remind you of something deep within all of us – respect, admiration, and almost appreciation of the great waters that endear us so.

95+ Quotes, Sayings & Captions About The Ocean

1. Boken or tired, feel the waves, the ocean has healing power.
2. Love the ocean he will not betray you. He will always send waves to inspire your life.
3. The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective… it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean. – Beyoncé Knowles
4. 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
5. She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air. – Holly Black
6. 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
7. All matter, including you and I, has rhythmic movement within it and our quest should be to create a proper rhythmic harmony within ourselves…you feel happy when you sit near an ocean because your vibrations try to synchronize with the frequency of the waves. – Ed Viswanathan
8. The sea does not like to be restrained. – Rick Riordan
9. In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans. – Kahlil Gibran
10. Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers comprehend its mystery! – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
11. Limitless and immortal, the waters are the beginning and end of all things on earth. – Heinrich Zimmer
12. The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination, and brings eternal joy to the soul. – Robert Wylan
13. A sailor is an artist whose medium is the wind. – Webb Chiles
14. With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you’re connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live. – Sylvie Earle
15. But where, after all, would be the poetry of the sea were there no wild waves? – Joshua Slocum
16. The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. – Jacques Cousteau
17. 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
18. Each kiss of an ocean wave is passed along, as long as there is life on and in the seas. – Anthony T. Hincks
19. 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
20. The ocean is more ancient than the mountains and freighted with the memories and dreams of Time. – H. P. Lovecraft
21. Hark now hear the sailors cry, Smell the seas and feel the sky, let your soul and spirit fly. – Van Morrison
22. Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean. – Ryunosuke Satoro
23. Each kiss of an ocean wave is passed along, as long as there is life on and in the seas. – Anthony T. Hincks
24. 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
25. The ocean is more ancient than the mountains and freighted with the memories and dreams of Time. – H. P. Lovecraft
26. Hark now hear the sailors cry, Smell the seas and feel the sky, let your soul and spirit fly. – Van Morrison
27. Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean. – Ryunosuke Satoro
28. While inner beauty stays permanent like an ocean. By all means, hold strong to your inner beauty. – Edmond Mbiaka
29. What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams. – Werner Herzog
30. To me the sea is a continual miracle; the fishes that swim, the rocks, the motion of the waves, and the ships with men in them. What stranger miracles are there? – Walt Whitman
31. The sea is an underwater museum still awaiting its visitors. – Phillip Diole
32. Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers comprehend its mystery! – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
33. That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit. – John Joly
34. The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure. – Cornelia Funke
35. At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space. – Natalie Wood
36. 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
37. The sea! the sea! the open sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever-free! – Bryan W. Procter
38. The sea is a desert of waves, A wilderness of water. – Langston Hughes
39. To me, the sea is like a person – like a child that I’ve known for a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea I talk to it. I never feel alone when I’m out there. – Gertrude Ederle
40. The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea. – Karen Blixen
41. The sound and smell of the sea cleanse my soul.
42. See the line where the sky meets the sea? It calls me. And no one knows, how far it goes. – Disney’s Moana
43. 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
44. 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
45. 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
46. 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
47. If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn’t worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge because it’s life or death. – Morgan Freeman
48. A beach is not only a sweep of sand but shells of sea creatures, sea glass, seaweed, and the incongruous objects washed up by the ocean. – Henry Grunwald
49. Being out there in the ocean – God’s creation – it’s like a gift he has given us to enjoy. – Bethany Hamilton
50. The ocean is more ancient than the mountains and freighted with the memories and the dreams of. – Time.H. P. Lovecraft
51. Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they’ve spent time in and around the ocean, and they’ve personally seen the beauty, the fragility, and even the degradation of our planet’s blue heart. – Sylvia Earle
52. 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
53. Ocean: A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills. – Ambrose Bierce
54. How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is clearly Ocean. – Arthur C. Clarke
55. The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination, and brings eternal joy to the soul. – Robert Wyland
56. The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea. – Isak Dinesen
57. So that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts, seemed consolingly to repeat over and over again. – Virginia Woolf
58. In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans. – Kahlil Gibran
59. Even the upper end of the river believes in the ocean. – William Stafford
60. Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea, and drink the wild air. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
61. 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
62. 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
63. I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves. – Le Testament d’Orphée
64. For whatever we lose (like you or me), it’s always our self we find in the sea. – E.E. Cummings
65. I will find comfort in the rhythm of the sea. – Charlotte Eriksson
66. The sea is as near as we come to another world. – Anne Stevenson
67. The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination, and brings eternal joy to the soul. – Robert Wylan
68. The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. – Jacques Yves Cousteau
69. Even the upper end of the river believes in the ocean. – William Stafford
70. Every time I slip into the ocean, it’s like going home. – Sylvia Earle
71. You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop. – Rumi
72. A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. – John A. Shedd
73. A sailor is an artist whose medium is the wind. – Webb Chiles
74. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. – Mahatma Gandhi
75. The human desire to obtain more is a sieve that can never be filled with all the water from the world’s oceans. – Will Bowen
76. The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea. – Vladimir Nabokov
77. It struck me then how much the past – not just the past but history and family – was like the ocean tide. It was always the same ocean, but the waves made it fresh and new each time. – Aimee Friedman
78. An ocean separates lands, not souls. – Munia Khan
79. The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats. – Ernest Hemingway
80. You never really know what’s coming. A small wave, or maybe a big one. All you can really do is hope that when it comes, you can surf over it, instead of drowning in its monstrosity. – Alysha Speer
81. Eternity begins and ends with the ocean’s tides. – Unknown
82. 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
83. We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep. – William James
84. If we look at the ocean in a calm, there is something imposing in its aspect; stretched out in its sleeping tranquility, but looking fearfully deep, and its silence seems like that of the lion when crouching for its prey. – Jenny M Parker
85. A river starts by longing for the ocean. – Will Advise
86. At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much. – Robin Lee Graham
87. 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 Goh
88. The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven. – Martin Luther
89. 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
90. The universe is an ocean upon which we are the waves. While some decide to surf, others venture to dive. – Charbel Tadros
91. The ocean was magical to her, its depths and mysteries were boundless, its call irresistible. – Jeff Mariotte
92. You will love the ocean. It makes you feel small, but not in a bad way. Small because you realize you’re part of something bigger. – Lauren Myracle
93. If the ocean can calm itself, so can you. We are both salt water mixed with air. – Nayyirah Waheed
94. Summer is calling me with the music of an ocean breeze. I must go dance with the waves of love. – Debasish Mridha
95. You could start now, and spend another forty years learning about the sea without running out of new things to know. – Peter Benchley
96. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. – Mahatma Gandhi
97. Be alone with the sea for it is there you will find answers to questions you didn’t realize exist. – Khang Kijarro Nguyen
98. I love the ocean. I’ve always liked the blue, so tranquil and peaceful and gliding. And the fear of it. – Siouxsie Sioux

In conclusion, exploring the vast enormity of these ocean quotes reveals just how influential the sea can be in our minds and imaginations. From Homer to Melville to modern-day authors and poets, people throughout history have taken special inspiration from the beauty and power of the sea.

Whether expressing a longing for connection or admiration of its capability, these quotes show that connecting with the ocean is something that can enrich us all.

From a desire for adventure to delight at its endlessness, these quotes remind us that the sea can always bring renewed appreciation for life’s fragility and potential.