„We may now picture this great Fleet, with its flotillas and cruisers, steaming slowly out of Portland Harbour, squadron by squadron, scores of gigantic castles of steel wending their way across the misty, shining sea, like giants bowed in anxious thought. We may picture them again as darkness fell, eighteen miles of warships running at high speed and in absolute blackness through the narrow Straits, bearing with them into the broad waters of the North the safeguard of considerable affairs…. The king’s ships were at sea.“

— Winston S. Churchill

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„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
„Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in, and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding-line, and had no way of knowing how near the harbour was. "Light! give me light!"“
— Helen Keller
„The rain that fell on the city runs down the dark gutters and empties into the sea without even soaking the ground“
— Haruki Murakami