Shore Quotes

“You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.”
― Mary Oliver

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

“So I find words I never thought to speak

In streets I never thought I should revisit

When I left my body on a distant shore.”
― T.S. Eliot

“Had I told the sea
What I felt for you,
It would have left its shores,
Its shells,
Its fish,
And followed me.”
― Nizar Qabbani

“My mother always wanted to live near the water," she said. "She said it's the one thing that brings us all together. That I can have my toe in the ocean off the coast of Maine, and a girl my age can have her toe in the ocean off the coast of Africa, and we would be touching. On opposite sides of the world.”
― Megan Miranda, Vengeance

“Let my toes teach the shore
how to feel a tranquil life
through the wetness of sands

Let my heart latch the door
of blackness, as all my pain
now blue sky understands”
― Munia Khan

“White-crested waves crash on the shore. The masts sway violently, every which way. In the gray sky the gulls are circling like white flakes. Rain squalls blow past like gray slanting sails, and blue gaps open in the sky. The air brightens.
A cold silvery evening. The moon is overhead, and down below, in the water; and all around it-a wide frame of old, hammered, scaly silver. Etched on the silver-silent black fishing boats, tiny black needles of masts, little black men casting invisible lines into the silver. And the only sounds are the occasional plashing of an oar, the creaking of an oarlock, the springlike leap and flip-flop of a fish. ("The North")”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, The Dragon: Fifteen Stories

“Without Psychological Evolution there cannot be any form of revolution. The self is constantly changing. Be involved, be evolved, be revolutionized as lucent and fresh as the new wave hitting at the shore. Become the Sea of Changes. It starts from within.”
― Grigoris Deoudis

“Taking risks will teach you deep ocean things that sea shore experiences will never teach you.”
― Lebo Grand

“The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths; of exquisite interrelationships; of the awesome machinery of nature. The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. On this shore we've learned most of what we know. Recently we've waded a little way out, maybe ankle deep, and the water seems inviting. Some part of our being knows this is where we came from. We long to return. And we can. Because the cosmos is also within us. We're made of star-stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.”
― Carl Sagan

“You are not born
to stand near the seashore
you are here
to fight against the waves
- savor life and its magic”
― Jyoti Patel, ANAMIKA: BEYOND WORDS

“The other side of shore is always the success”
― The other side of shore is always the success

“I write
I breathe
Words ebb and flow
An ocean of verse
Moves out on the current
To wash up on the shore
Of your infinite soul”
― Collette O'Mahony, The Soul in Words: A collection of Poetry & Verse

“I began to inhale the breeze
carrying ancient love and mercy
reflected by the lake
The architectural beauty
of the oval-shaped Château de Chillon
buried all its historical mortification and guilt

From the poem- Along the Shore”
― Munia Khan, Fireclay

“The beach has all the knowledge and wisdom of the sea, because it has witnessed all the stages of the life of the sea and touched every moment, every detail of its life!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The shore is neither land nor sea! It is both land and sea!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Life is full of electronic desires
where one dream spliced with currents of wires
Leading our footsteps to the online shore,
we expect the waves to bring us some more
of those binary tides to wash us away
to the cyber beach for a lonesome day”
― Munia Khan

“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

“Sometimes a shore almost captures you! Boats come, boats go, but you always stay on the same shore without knowing why! And you know what, do not try to understand why you stay there! Some things must be as they are!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Some waves will touch your shore; they have come from the sea, carrying messages from me to you.”
― Avijeet Das

“In faith I hear a whisper in the air as it sweeps:
secrets sparkling from the waters unto the shore;
but the wind does not stir upon the deeps,
the poets' mandolas play no more.”
― Gabriele D'Annunzio

“Man is a very strange creature! He wants to be on a floating ship in the sea while sitting on the shore; and while sitting on the ship, he wants to be sitting on a fixed bench on the shore!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“His father, a civil servant, had raised him and his sister singlehanded after their mother’s death; the sickly old man had worked overtime in order to send Ryuji to school; despite everything, Ryuji had grown up into a strong, healthy man; late in the war his home had been destroyed in an air raid and his sister had died of typhus shortly after; he had graduated from the merchant-marine high school and was just starting on his career when his father died too; his only memories of life on shore were of poverty and sickness and death, of endless devastation; by becoming a sailor, he had detached himself from the land for ever. ... It was the first time he had talked of these things at such length to a woman.”
― Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

“For a moment, Stuart and Helen stood silent, just watching Lyric darting in and out of the white-fringed brine. Helen wondered if perhaps the child was smiling, maybe just a tiny bit, but her back was to them and it was difficult to get a glimpse of her face. But this Helen knew—the only times this strange, quiet child seemed to find any shard of peace was when she was close to water. The waves seemed thrilled to see her, and together they reared up like wild horses greeting each other before the waves crashed down on the stony shore with their hooves. When smaller waves came, the girl closed her eyes and slowly let her arms sway from side to side, as though listening to some music that the others could not hear. It made Helen’s ears prick up and strain, but it was lost to her.”
― Corinne Beenfield, The Ocean's Daughter

“Faith is the vessel that carries us to the shore, regardless of the storm.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, The Essence of Faith: Daily Inspirational Quotes

“On a crowded beach, you see the crowd, not the beach; if you want to experience the beach, find an empty beach!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“I didn't want to leave the sea, so I snuck away without anyone noticing and spent 2 days on the stormy shore. This is where I belonged, where all the silver walls led. To salt and sea and wind pockets that could carry you away.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations

“When a ship gets wrecked, I have a sense it is going to be able to make it to the shore.”
― Leo Patrick Lipana

“We fell in love with each other as the waves fall in love with the shore.”
― Avijeet Das

“You lock up all the memories in your heart and the day they explode...you become a beautiful flower, or a star in glitter, or the waves crashing on the shores....”
― Jayita Bhattacharjee