Caity Bridie

There is something to be said about one’s experiences of the beach. For sand and surf, sun tanning and seashell collecting, the place where ocean meets land is a release for all things work entailing; a balance for all things in our day that take up our time and occupy our lives.

A “beach life” is what inspires the mission statement of my brand! There are days for me as well, however, where the nearest I am to a slice of paradise goes no further than being immersed in the work of presenting my product line with the pieces I share.

For those days when the ends of the earth, the smell of salt air and the sound of ocean waves are far from within reach, a collection of 50 famously inspiring quotes about the beach & the sea to help bring me back to its retreat.

Life is better at the beach! It really is, I truly think.

“I couldn’t imagine living in a state that didn’t reach the ocean. It was a giant reset button. You could go to the edge of the land and see infinity renewed.” - Avery Sawyer

“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

“The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.” - Henry Beston

“Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of time.” - H.P. Lovecraft

“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.” - Isak Dinesen

“The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul.” - Robert Wyland

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

“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), it’s always our self we find in the sea.” - E.E. Cummings

“We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.” - Thomas Fuller

“The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonders forever.” - Jacques Cousteau

“I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want to consistency rather than the highs and the lows.” - Drew Barrymore

“I love the sea’s sounds and the way it reflects the sky. The colors that shimmer across its surface are unbelievable. This, combined with the color of the water over white sand, surprises me every time.” - John Dyer

“The sea will grant each man new hope, and sleep will bring dreams of home.” - Christopher Columbus

“My soul is full of longing for the secrets of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me.” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“I spent uncounted hours sitting at the bow looking at the water and sky, studying each wave, different from the last, seeing how it caught the light, the air, the wind; watching patterns, the sweep of it all, and letting it take me. The sea.” - Gary Paulsen

“Limitless and immortal, the waters are the beginning and end of all things on earth.” - Heinrich Zimmer

“Every time we walk along a beach, some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.” - Loren Eiseley

“I could never stay long enough on the shore; the tang of the untainted, fresh, and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought.” - Helen Keller

“When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused.” - Rainer Maria Rilke

“At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space.” - Natalie Wood

“The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeks. 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

“Because there’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away.” - Sarah Kay

“I took off on a wave, went down the side, popped out the other end, and went ‘shit, I’m still alive’!” - Greg Noll

“Out of water, I am nothing.” - Duke Kahanamoku

“There’s nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on underwater, you realize that you’ve been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent.” - Dave Barry

“My boat is on the shore, and my bark is on the sea.” - Lord George Gordon Byron

“Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.” - William Shakespeare

“With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you’re connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live.” - Sylvia Earle

“And so castles made of sand, fall in the sea, eventually.” - Jimi Hendrix

“It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.” - Hunter S. Thompson

“There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.” - Joseph Conrad

“I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I’m touching eternity, that it goes on forever until it begins here again.” - Lauren DeStefano

“Catch a wave, and you’re sitting on top of the world.” - The Beach Boys

“I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.” - T.S. Eliot

“My life is like a stroll on the beach…as near to the edge as I can go.” - Henry David Thoreau

“Our memories of the ocean will linger on, long after our footprints in the sand are gone.” - Anonymous

“Even the upper end of the river believes in the ocean.” - William Stafford

“One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach; one can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.” - Anne Morrow Lindberg

“Why do we love the sea? it is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.” - Robert Henri

“Every time I stand before a beautiful beach, its waves seem to whisper to me: If you choose the simple things and find joy in nature’s simple treasures, life and living need not be so hard.” - Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

“Eternity begins and ends with the ocean’s tides.” - Unknown

“Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single though of which the sea would not be part.” - Hermann Broch

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.” - Jon Kabat-Zan

“It’s hard for me to put into words why I like the beach so much. Everything about it is renewing for me, almost like therapy…Beach Therapy.” - Amy Dykens

“What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.” - Werner Herzog

“At the beach, life is different. A day moves not from hour to hour but leaps from mood to moment. We go with the currents, plan around the tides, follow the sun. We measure happiness by nothing we can hold, nothing we can catch. Everywhere, life is jumping and elusive and momentously momentary.” - Sandy Gingras

“I felt the full breadth and depth of the ocean around the sphere of the Earth, back billions of years to the beginning of life, across all the passing lives and deaths, the endless waves of swimming joy and quiet losses of exquisite creatures with fins and fronds, tentacles and wings, colourful and transparent, tiny and huge, coming and going. There is nothing the ocean has not seen.” - Sally Andrew

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.“ - Jeanne Moreau

"The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective…it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean.” - Beyoncé Knowles

Amen, Beyoncé. Amen.