Top Ten Beach & Ocean Quotes

Some of the most beautiful, fun and thought provoking words ever spoken about the sea.

You've seen them on social media... and I've gotten a lot of requests for my beach, ocean and sea glass themed quotes, so here it is. Volume I of the Real Sea Glass' "Words to Live By: Beach Style"

The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.  Annie Dillard

I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of the waves. Le Testament d'Orphee

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude. Jeanne Moreau

If there's a heaven for me, I'm sure it has a beach attached to it. Jimmy Buffet

The breaking wave cannot explain the whole sea. Vladimir Nabokova

Why do we love the sea: It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think. Robert Henri

Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean. Christopher Reeve

To escape and sit quietly on the beach - that's my idea of paradise. Emilia Wickstead

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. Mother Teresa