„Safety is not to be secured, then, by the wisest foresight. I shall embark more composedly in our merchant-ship, praying fervently, indeed, that it may not be my lot to lose my boy at sea, either by unsolaced illness, or amid the howling waves; or, if so, that Ossoli, Angelo, and I may go together, and that the anguish may be brief.“

— Margaret Fuller

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„I don't define myself by the boys who may or may not like me.“
— Rick Riordan
„Religion is, as it were, the calm bottom of the sea at its deepest point, which remains calm however high the waves on the surface may be.“
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
„The land may vary more;But wherever the truth may be —The water comes ashore,And the people look at the sea.“
— Robert Frost
„It’s only the sea,’ said Moomintroll. ‘Every wave that dies on the beach sings a little song to a shell. But you mustn’t go inside because it’s a labyrinth and you may never come out again.“
— Tove Jansson
„I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson