Ocean Metaphor Quotes

The desert is an ocean in which no oar is dipped.

The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.

Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the river. Listen to the ocean.

Love rests on no foundation. It is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end.

They say love dies between two people. That’s wrong. It doesn’t die. It just leaves you, goes away, if you aren’t good enough, worthy enough. It doesn’t die; you’re the the one that dies. It’s like the ocean: if you’re no good, if you begin to make a bad smell in it, it just spews you up somewhere to die. You die anyway, but I had rather drown in the ocean than be urped up onto a strip of dead beach and be dried away by the sun into a little foul smear with no name to it, just this was for an epitaph

You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean.

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of damage.

If you want to know all about the sea ... and ask the sea itself, what does it say? Grumble grumble swish swish. It is too busy being itself to know anything about itself.

It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst any more?

There is an ocean of creativity within every human being.

A million dollars in the presidential election is a spit in the ocean. It's not a lot of money.

The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean.

You can either see yourself as a wave in the ocean or you can see yourself as the ocean.

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.

I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven stars go squawking Like geese about the sky.

Time is the silent, never-resting thing ... rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim.

Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.

Because time is a drop in the ocean, and you cannot measure off one drop against another to see which one is bigger, which one is smaller.

Seas wept from our deep sorrows.

We have the ability to be the ocean. And access all that infinite possibility, understanding, knowledge, awareness. Or we can get caught up in identifying ourselves as being the droplet, which cannot disconnect us literally from the ocean but does disconnect us from the awareness of the ocean, which means that we isolate our point of observation to that of the droplet. That’s when we identify with being the image in the mirror.

You don't understand. You're not a wave. You're part of the ocean.

Lo, how to conquer evil thoughts?Easy! One thing, just try -Imagine you are the ocean vast,You are the boundless sky.

It's hard to bullshit the ocean. It's not listening, you know what I mean.