Virginia Woolf Quotes, Writing Quotes, Sea Quotes

So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is the penalty we pay for breaking with tradition, and the solitude makes the writing more exciting though the being read less so. One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with ones words.

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Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt. (They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Sea Quotes , Sky Quotes

Since my childhood I learned that to understand the world we need to go further and take the risks of sailing in unknown seas.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Sea Quotes , Childhood Quotes

What the Way is to the world, the stream is to the river and the sea.

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Everything that has been is eternal: the sea will wash it up again.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Sea Quotes , Eternal Quotes

Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave, Then some leap'd overboard with fearful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Farewell Quotes , Sea Quotes

I discovered the secret of the sea in meditation upon a dewdrop.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Sea Quotes , Meditation Quotes

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.

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Always the same. Now a spark of hope flashes up, then a sea of despair rages, and always pain; always pain, always despair, and always the same.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Pain Quotes , Sea Quotes

Better let it all alone in the depths of her heart and the depths of the sea.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Heart Quotes , Sea Quotes

Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Sea Quotes , Sailor Quotes

I'd lay down my life for her - Mas'r Davy - Oh! most content and cheerful! She's more to me - gent'lmen - than - she's all to me that ever I can want, and more than ever I - than ever I could say. I - I love her true. There ain't a gent'lman in all the land - nor yet sailing upon all the sea - that can love his lady more than I love her.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Love Quotes , Sea Quotes

once upon a time all the rivers combined to protest against the action of the sea in making their waters salt. "When we come to you," sad they to the sea, "we are sweet and drinkable; but when once we have mingled with you, our waters become as briny and unpalatable as your own." The sea replied shortly, "Keep away from me, and you'll remain sweet.

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Tags : Aesop Quotes , Sweet Quotes , Sea Quotes

Where is your ancient courage? You were used to say extremities was the trier of spirits; That common chances common men could bear; That when the sea was calm all boats alike showed mastership in floating.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Men Quotes , Sea Quotes

How many of our virtues originate in the fear of Death & that while we flatter ourselves that we are melting in Christian Sensibility over the sorrows of our human Brethren and Sisteren, we are in fact, tho' perhaps unconsciously, moved at the prospect of our own End for who sincerely pities Sea-sickness, Toothache, or a fit of the Gout in a lusty Good-liver of 50?

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Christian Quotes , Sea Quotes

There is a solitude of space. A solitude of sea. A solitude of death, but these societies shall be compared with that profounder site-that polar privacy. A soul admitted to itself--Finite infinity.

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Space Quotes , Sea Quotes

In high seas or in low seas, I'm gonna be your friend... I'm gonna be your friend. In high tide or in low tide, I'll be by your side... I'll be by your side.

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Tags : Bob Marley Quotes , Your Side Quotes , Sea Quotes

You are something that the whole world is doing just as when the sea has waves on it.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Sea Quotes , World Quotes

The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless. The houses are all gone under the sea. The dancers are all gone under the hill.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Humility Quotes , Sea Quotes

People went crazy with tulip bulbs. They went crazy with the South Sea Bubble, they went crazy internet stocks, they went crazy with the uranium stocks back when I was first getting started.

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