Quotes About The Beach And The Many Joys It Brings

I love the beaches and so are quotes about the beach. Beaches is one of the places which most of us won’t ever get tired of visiting.

During the day, it’s full of happy people: frisky kids playing in the sand, courting couples splashing each other in the water, families enjoying themselves or lonely folks seeking solace.

Yes, it is one place on earth brimming with happiness and enjoyment.

The beach is also one therapeutic place where you can have some solitude in times of emptiness. It can comfort and pacify our lonely souls.

Let the gentle sea breeze caress your face, listen to the crashing sounds of the waves, or just watch the undulating water glistening in the sunlight.

Now lay back and enjoy these beautiful quotes about the beach and the many joys it brings.


“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


“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 Lindbergh


“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


Our footprints on the sand are gone, but the memories on the beach still imprinted on our mind“Our footprints on the sand are gone, but the memories on the beach still imprinted on our mind.”  – by Quotationize


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


“Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.” – David Searls


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


“The cure for anything is salt water – sweat, tears, or the sea.” – Isak Dinesen(Karen Blixen)


“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


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


“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.” – Unknown


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


“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


“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


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


“I still love things that you don’t even need to pay for. Going to the beach and being around five of your friends and having a good time means so much more than going out and spending hundreds of dollars.” – Maria Sharapova


“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 honestly think the beach is the only place children actually entertain themselves.” – Donna McLavy


“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.” – Sandy Gingras


“Come walk with me, take off your shoes, let’s walk the beach with only the moon to light the path and waves to hear you tell me you love me. Why does the ocean rock the moon to sleep every night? So the sun will wake and kiss the beach.” – J. Henson


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


“One learns first of all in beach living the art of shedding; how little one can get along with, not how much.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh


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


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


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


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


“It is easier to do nothing by the sea than anywhere else.. because bathing and basking on the shore cannot be considered an employment but only an apotheosis of loafing.” – E.F.Benson


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


“If there’s a heaven for me, I’m sure it has a beach attached to it.” – Jimmy Buffett


“My dream is to have a house on the beach, even just a little shack somewhere so I can wake up, have coffee, look at dolphins, be quiet and breathe the air.” – Christina Applegate


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