The Sea; emotion incarnate
“The Sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.” ― Jacques Cousteau
↳ The Wave by Gustave Courbet, 1869
“The memory of you emerges from the night around me. The river mingles its stubborn lament with the sea.” ― Pablo Neruda, The Song of Despair
“Grey sky, grey sea — grey mind, the man thinks. He thinks: To grow old with it and kicks a stone into the water.” ― Matthew Nienow, Bad Year Anthem
↳ La Mer by Alexandre Calame, 1851 // Armed Three-Master by Cock + Bruegel the Elder, 1561–65
“I am too long away from water. I have a need of water near.” ― Edna St. Vincent Millay, Exiled
“Who can face the sea and not inherit its loneliness?” ― Olin Ivory
“I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky” ― John Masefield, Sea-Fever
“I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“You ask the sea, what can you promise me and it speaks the truth, it says erasure.” ― Louise Glück, March
↳ A Seascape, Shipping by Moonlight by Claude Monet, ~1864
“The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can't.” ― Christopher Paolini, Eragon
↳ Near Land's End by William Trost Richards, 1879
“I want to be where no possessions remind me of the past and by the sea, which is for me the great healer.” ― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home
“The sea knows no limits, makes no concessions. It has given us everything and it can take everything away from us.” ― John Ajvide Lindqvist, Harbor
↳ Stormy sea by Ramon Martí Alsina, 1884
“The deep sea is a haunted house: a place in which things that ought not to exist move about in the darkness.” ― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
“The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart
↳ The Black Sea by Ivan Aivazovsky, 1881
“Some nights you are the lighthouse some nights the sea what this means is that I don't know desire other than the need to be shattered & rebuilt” ― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds
↳ Ships in Distress off a Rocky Coast by Ludolf Bakhuizen, 1667
“The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too” ― Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
“But such a tide as moving seems asleep, Too full for sound and foam, When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home.” ― Lord Alfred Tennyson, Crossing the Bar