„This quiet roof, where dove-sails saunter by,Between the pines, the tombs, throbs visibly.Impartial noon patterns the sea in flame —That sea forever starting and re-starting.When thought has had its hour, oh how rewardingAre the long vistas of celestial calm!“

— Paul Valéry

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„In her sepulcher there by the sea —In her tomb by the sounding sea.“
— Edgar Allan Poe
„How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man?How many seas must a white dove sail before she sleeps in the sand?“
— Bob Dylan
„Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.“
— Nikos Kazantzakis
„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
„A fragrant breeze wandered up from the quiet sea, trailed along the beach, and drifted back to the sea again, wondering where to go next. On a mad impulse it went up to the beach again. It drifted back to sea.“
— Douglas Adams