The beach is not always a place, sometimes it’s a feeling. I love how a few words have the capability of expressing exactly the way we feel. In this case: The Beach. Continue reading to find a list of my favourite beach quotes. This ultimate list contains all of my favourites that I’ve accumulated over the years. To add some form of organisation and easier for you to find just the right one, I’ve split the list into sections. So whether you’re looking for short beach quotes, beach quotes about life, beach inspirational quotes, beach love quotes, soulful beach quotes, or even a quote about the ocean…

I’ve got something for you… beach lover!

Because isn’t that what it’s about — connecting with the vast possibility of nature whether through words, images, or…. An actual trip to the beach.

The ocean holds an endless amount of inspiration, hope, and possibility. The fusion of sea, waves, sand and beach have touched the souls of generations captured in words by philosophers, writers, artists, musicians. These beautiful beach quotes and quotes about ocean would serve as an ode to life.

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FIND THE RIGHT BEACH QUOTE + OCEAN QUOTE FOR YOU

I hope that these beach quotes about oceans will bring a sense of nostalgia for a previous encounter at the beach, anticipation of your next meeting, or even inspire you to plan an upcoming adventure.

I hope that these words about the beach lift your spirit and get you to daydream a little.

That was my intention in publishing this list.

We’re all attracted to nature and the beach for differing reasons. The feeling of calm it brings, the sense of adventure, the mystery it holds.

But no matter the reason…

Find the right ocean quote about the beach for you ⇓

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SHORT BEACH QUOTES

Let the waves carry you where the light can not. ― Mohit Kaushik

The sea, to be happy, like hearts, must be stirred. ― Will Advise

You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf

You are the ocean; everything else is just waves and wind. ― Steve Maraboli

Life is an ocean and waves are our paths. ― Diana Matoso

Life is like the ocean. You can either be the ball floating on the waves, or make your own waves. ― Oliver Gaspirtz

I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides. ― Dejan Stojanovic

The other side of shore is always the success ― Dido Stargaze

Not all beaches are fun and sunscreen. ― Bryant A. Loney

Beaches are God’s poetry. ― Steve Maraboli

How foolish to believe we are more powerful than the sea or the sky. ― Ruta Sepetys

I was happy anywhere I could see the ocean. ― Ai Yazawa

Ocean separates lands, not souls ― Munia Khan

The beach is not a place to work; to read, write or to think. ― Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Wild beach is my primordial address. ― Talismanist Giebra

When two roads diverge… take the one that leads to the beach! ― Hannah McKinnon

Meet me there, where the sea meets the sky. ― Oksana Rus

A long walk in a long beach shortens every kind of sorrow! ― Mehmet Murat ildan

The sea has a way of showing us ourselves ― Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar

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

Whoever thought a naked beach was a good idea never sat in one. ― Janet Evanovich

Meet me where the sky touches the sea — Jennifer Donnelly

Even castles made from sand fall to the ocean — Jimi Hendrix

I followed my heart, and it led me to the beach. — Odyssey

Nothing soothes the soul like a walk on the beach.

The sun shines everywhere, not just at the beach. — Brande Roderick

We dream in colors borrowed from the sea.

Don’t grow up too quickly, lest you forget how much you love the beach. Michelle Held

I want to run the beach’s length, because it never ends. — Deborah Ager

Eternity begins and ends with the ocean’s tides.

The sea lives in every one of us. — Wyland

Even the upper end of the river believes in the ocean. — William Stafford

INSPIRATIONAL BEACH QUOTES

You never really know what’s coming. A small wave, or maybe a big one. All you can really do is hope that when it comes, you can surf over it, instead of drown in its monstrosity. ― Alysha Speer

I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony. ― Gustave Flaubert

Sometimes even a thousand waves hitting the shore continuously one after the other also can’t erase few footprints on the seashore. ― Akshay Vasu

Time is the wave upon the shore. It takes some things away, but it brings other things. ― Amy Neftzger

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living. ― Anais Nin

In still moments by the sea life seems large-drawn and simple. It is there we can see into ourselves. ― Rolf Edberg

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. ― Mahatma Gandhi

Our great seas and oceans sure do offer a voyage of a lifetime for those willing to dive in. ― Rajesh

The sea is one rare wild card left in the homogenous suburban life. ― Tim Winto

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

Be alone with the sea for it is there you will find answers to questions you didn’t realize exist. ― Khang Kijarro Nguyen

I bought salvation from a man on the street. He said, Go down to the beach and let the waves wash your feet. ― Gabriel Rheaume

At the beach, life is different. Time doesn’t move hour to hour but mood to moment. We live by the currents, plan by the tides and follow the sun. 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

After a visit to the beach, it’s hard to believe that we live in a material world. ― Pam Shaw

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach ― waiting for a gift from the sea. ― Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Worry is something you can make as big as the tallest mountain, or as small as a pebble on the beach. It is up to you to decide which you would rather have. —Byron Pulsifer

There are always waves on the water. Sometimes they are big, sometimes they are small, and sometimes they are almost imperceptible. The water’s waves are churned up by the winds, which come and go and vary in direction and intensity, just as do the winds of stress and change in our lives, which stir up the waves in our minds. ― Jon Kabat-Zinn

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of non-knowledge. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

Writers begin with a grain of sand, and then create a beach. — Robert Black

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It’s always ourself we find in the sea. — E. E. Cummings

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

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 — Mother Teresa

The beach is truly home, its broad expanse of sand as welcoming as a mother’s open arms. What’s more, this landscape, which extends as far as the eye can see, always reminds me of possibility. — Joan Anderson

It’s not worth it to build castles on the sand if they get destroyed by the waves of reality. ― Mladen Đorđević

When we walk along the beach and feel the sand beneath our toes and then the surf sends small waves to gently caress our feet; then we smell the saltiness upon the wind; that is when we know that we have come home from whence we came. ― Anthony Hincks

BEACH LIFE QUOTES

Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink in the wild air. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The sand may brush off, the salt may wash clean, the Tans may fade, but the memories will last forever.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life, murmured Niko. They bring new food for shore creatures, and take ships out to sea. They are the ocean’s pulse, and our own heartbeat. ― Tamora Pierce

The waves broke and spread their waters swiftly over the shore. One after another they massed themselves and fell; the spray tossed itself back with the energy of their fall. The waves were steeped deep-blue save for a pattern of diamond-pointed light on their backs which rippled as the backs of great horses ripple with muscles as they move. The waves fell; withdrew and fell again, like the thud of a great beast stamping. ― Virginia Woolf

Nothing like poetry when you lie awake at night. It keeps the old brain limber. It washes away the mud and sand that keeps on blocking up the bends. Like waves to make the pebbles dance on my old floors. And turn them into rubies and jacinths; or at any rate, good imitations. ― Joyce Cary

Sometimes she wants to drift away like ocean waves and sometimes she wants to stay still like a river, wrapped in solitude. ― Nitya Prakash

She was no better than the shells by her feet, tumbling this way and that at the beck and call of the waves. ― Katherine McIntyre

A wave can kill you. Or you can ride it. It’s sometimes more dangerous to shy away. You can’t live your life in fear. You have to be prepared to get on your board and stand on your feet. If you are in the barrel of a wave you have to ignore the fear. You have to be in that moment. You have to carve on through. You get scared, and the next thing you know you are off your board and smashing your head on a rock. I’m never going to live in fear. ― Matt Haig.

When life gives you happiness deficiency try adding Vitamin SEA to your travels, believe me it always works! — Aakash Nand

… con tantos encajes pareces una ola y me das el mismo miedo que de niño tuve al mar. ― Federico García Lorca

I thought I could avoid continually crashing, but as it turns out, it’s unavoidable. Even on the calmest day, the ocean still rolls into the beach and pulls pebbles out to sea. ― Rebekah Crane

I wish to spend a lifetime near a lighthouse where loneliness will be the glimmer of luminous prancing upon ocean waves… rising and falling only for my breathing. ― Munia Khan

If you never lose sight of the shore, you’re not on a voyage of discovery. You’re on a day cruise. ― J. Earp

If everyone could just live near the ocean, I think we’d all be happier. It’s hard to be down about anything knee deep in the sand. ― Crystal Woods

You fish, swim, eat, laze around, and everyone’s so friendly. It’s such simple stuff, but… If i could stop the world and restart life, put the clock back, i think I’d restart it like this. For everyone. ― Alex Garland

There was a magic about the sea. People were drawn to it. People wanted to love by it, swim in it, play in it, look at it. It was a living thing that as as unpredictable as a great stage actor: it could be calm and welcoming, opening its arms to embrace it’s audience one moment, but then could explode with its stormy tempers, flinging people around, wanting them out, attacking coastlines, breaking down islands. It had a playful side too, as it enjoyed the crowd, tossed the children about, knocked lilos over, tipped over windsurfers, occasionally gave sailors helping hands; all done with a secret little chuckle ― Cecelia Ahern

There is no place like the beach… where the land meets the sea and the sea meats the sky ― Umair Siddiqui

Be careful… not all are what they seem. Some people pretend to be the beach, but they’re actually quicksand ― Steve Maraboli

Today was about chasing sun-rays, beach waves, & sunsets. All things beautiful that give you peace are worth chasing. Everything else isn’t ― April Mae Monterrosa

I believe in the ocean curing all bad moods. I believe in the waves wiping away worries. I believe in seashells bringing good luck. I believe in toes in the sand grounding my soul.
A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up by the ocean. — Henry Grunwald

Sometimes in the waves of change we find our true direction.

Mind on a permanent vacation, the ocean is my only medication, wishing my condition isn’t ever going to go away.― Jimmy Buffett

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

Advice from the Ocean: Be shore of yourself. Come out of your shell. Take time to coast. Avoid pier pressure. Sea life’s beauty. Don’t get so tide down on work that you miss out on life’s beautiful waves.

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

The beach resorts are a great place to relieve the soul-crushing stress you build up in the traffic going to the beach.

To escape and sit quietly on the beach ― that’s my idea of paradise. ― Emilia Wickstead

Ah, the smell of salt and sand. There is no elixir on this blessed earth like it.

A day at the beach is never lost time. When the warm grains of sand touch our hearts, we know we’re in the right place. Close your eyes, take a deep breath and let the beach invade your body.

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

BEACH LOVE QUOTES

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

Had I told the sea what I felt for you, it would have left its shores, its shells, its fish, and followed me. ― Nizar Qabbani

As she always did, when she went over the dune and saw the waves crashing on the shore, her heart leapt inside her in excitement. She still had a love affair with the ocean. ― Sharon Brubake

True love is the tide that pulls out to sea, but always returns to kiss the shore at sunrise. ― Shannon L. Alder

Her happiness floated like waves of ocean along the coast of her life. She found lyrics of her life in his arms but she never sung her song. ― Santosh Kalwar

She told me I want to go to your hometown. Someday I will go there and I will smile till the time I will stay there and be happy because its your home town. I am going to see you in every wall, every street, every glass, in every person, in every wave of the sea and smile. ― Avijeet Das

We need the tonic of wildness… At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature. ― Henry David Thoreau

Love comes in waves. It’s natural law. There’s always more coming ― Kate McGahan

There is something about the ocean that never fails to amaze me, the way she never fails to kiss the shores even though she is sent away, the way her waves can be both calm and terrifying and the way she never fails to sooth my soul. ― Tilicia Haridat

How I long to be the shore and feel your waves crash upon me over and over again. ― Timothy Joshua Chia

The beach to me is a sacred zone between the earth and the sea, one of those in-between between places where transitions can be experienced – where endings can be mourned and beginnings birthed. A walk along the beach offers the gift of the unexpected. ― Joan Anderson.

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

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

Long walks on the beach are the supposed holy grail of a romantic evening. The beach becomes a kind of utopia – the place where all our dreams come true. ― Roxane Gay

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. ― Jacques Yves Cousteau

In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long time before he remembered that his heart was broken. ― Ernest Hemingway

That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit. — John Joly

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

Even if you never have the chance to see or touch the ocean, the ocean touches you with every breath you take, every drop of water you drink, every bite you consume. Everyone, everywhere is inextricably connected to and utterly dependent upon the existence of the sea. — Dr. Sylvia Earle

If you think about it, finding true love is a lot like finding a particular grain of sand on the beach. ― Chrissy Anderson

I could taste the salt on her lips, each kiss like a summer wave breaking on an empty beach. ― Michael Faudet

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SOULFUL QUOTES ABOUT THE BEACH

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans. —Kahlil Gibran

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop. — Rumi

Not the waves, not the storms, but often we ourselves sink our ships! ― Mehmet Murat ildan

Currents shift and move but it’s only where the water breaks that the wave becomes visible. A pandemonium occurs, where substances collide, and then something new comes into being. ― Clare Strahan

The universe is an ocean upon which we are the waves. While some decide to surf, others venture to dive. ― Charbel Tadros

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

We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep. ― William James

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul. ― Victor Hugo

There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea. ― Khalil Gibran

In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth. ― Rachel Carson

I really don’t know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it’s because in addition to the fact that the sea changes, and the light changes, and ships change, it’s because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea – whether it is to sail or to watch it – we are going back from whence we came ― John F. Kennedy

Sand lines my soul which is filled with the breath of the ocean. ― A.D. Posey

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me. — Isaac Newton

I was always an unusual girl. My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean. ― Lana Del Rey

The beach reminds us of space. Fine sand grains, all more or less uniform in size, have been produced from the larger rocks through ages of jostling and rubbing, abrasion and erosion, again driven through waves and weather by distinct moon and sun. The beach also reminds us of time. The world is much older than human species. ― Carl Sagan

Even nature; the restless waves, irregular trees and stars all out of line show that chaos can be beautiful! ― Sophia McMaster

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

Individually we are one drop. Together we are an ocean. ― Ryunosuke Satoro

Dance with the waves, move with the sea. Let the rhythm of the water set your soul free. ― Christy Ann Martine

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

The beach is a place of solitude where I can set my spirit free and relax. — M. L. Borges

The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul. — Wyland

The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace. — Kate Chopin

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

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High tides, good vibes, and sea you soon beach lover x

Rai