Loutraki Greece – 12 Quotes About the Sea

The Harbour – Loutraki

After a week of dull, cloudy days, the sun has returned to Loutraki

I shall take a walk down to to the harbour, or maybe take a walk in the park.

Here, at the harbour, I watch the fishing boats returning with their catch and chat with the friendly fishermen, sometimes even share their tasty mid-morning snacks.

The sea is magnificent at any time of year, in any weather, and at any time of day, but her beauty is shown at its best in sunlight.

The rays of light turn into diamonds, sparkling on the surface of the water.

12 beautiful quotations about the sea

Sparkling Sea

1. “The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever”

Jacques Yves Cousteau

The sea, the deep blue sea

2. “The sea! the sea! the open sea!, The blue, the fresh, the ever free!”

Bryan W. Procter

Loutraki Harbour

3. “In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans”

Kahlil Gibran

Sail Away

4. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore”

Andre Gide

Mending the Nets

5. “The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.”

Vincent Van Gogh

Fishing boats

6. “There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only one you.”

Ernest Hemingway: “The old man and the sea”

Sailing

7. “Hark, now hear the sailors cry,
smell the sea, and feel the sky
let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic…”

Van Morrison “Into The Mystic”

Boats at anchor

8. “To reach a port we must set sail, not tie at anchor, sail, not drift.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Coming Home

9. “To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim–the rocks–the motion of the waves–the ships, with men in them, What stranger miracles are there?”

Walt Whitman

Sit a While in Thought

10. “We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch – we are going back from whence we came…”

John F. Kennedy

Jellyfish – Medusa

11. “There is the life of the plankton in almost endless variety; there are the many kinds of fish, both surface and bottom living; there are the hosts of different invertebrate creatures on the seafloor; and there are those almost grotesque forms of pelagic life in the oceans depths. Then there are the squids and cuttlefish, and the porpoises, dolphins and great whales.”

Sir Alister Hardy

Sea urchins on the rocks

12. “Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure.They’re huge and abstract. And they’re very beautiful.”

David Lynch

“To Atthis”

(By Sappho, an ancient Greek poet from Mytilene on the island of Lesbos; known for her lyrical poetry, meant to be sung while accompanied by music.)

My Atthis, although our dear Anaktoria

lives in distant Sardis,

she thinks of us constantly, and

of the life we shared in days when for her

you were a splendid goddess,

and your singing gave her deep joy.

Now she shines among Lydian women as

when the red-fingered moon

rises after sunset, erasing

stars around her, and pouring light equally

across the salt sea

and over densely flowered fields;

and lucent dew spreads on the earth to quicken

roses and fragile thyme

and the sweet-blooming honey-lotus.

Now while our darling wanders she thinks of

lovely Atthis’s love,

and longing sinks deep in her breast.

She cries loudly for us to come! We hear,

for the night’s many tongues

carry her cry across the sea.

Sappho