60 Amazing Seashell Quotes And Sayings you Should Know

Last Updated on November 1, 2020 by Scott M. Thomas

Seashell is one kind of exoskeleton of animals. Basically it is working like a shield of a sea animal. Seashell is one kind of aesthetic thing anyway. Everybody kinda loves this thing. And why not? In the Jewelry industry, you can make almost everything by these exoskeletons. Some people use seashells for scientific purposes. These shells are usually made of Calcium carbonate. Whatever, if you are looking for seashell quotes then this is the right place for you to stay. Below we covered the best seashell quotes and sayings with pictures. Make your day better by reading these. Thank you.

“The bird dares to break the shell, then the shell breaks open and the bird can fly openly. This is the simplest principle of success. You dream, you dare and you fly” – Israelmore Ayivor

“If you want to hear the distant voice of the ocean put your ear to the lips of a seashell” – Curtis Tyrone Jones

we are like seashells on the beach

“Never venture and risk a seashell for a pearl; conversely, one can choose and select it in an open field, without risk” – Ehsan Sehgal

“There’s no place like home. Except for the beach” – Unknown

“I take the seashell from my jeans pocket and rub my fingers across its silken, indented surface, shallow as my own open hand. This chalice, subtly shaped by some divine intelligence to allow water to flow in and out with ease, is what I aspire to become: a vessel through which feelings can pour in and spill right out again, without all the grasping and holding that obstructs the flow. Can I be as serene and simple as this bleached shell, rubbed smooth by wind and water, receiving and releasing, filling and emptying and filling again, eternally receptive to the currents of life?” – Katrina Kenison

“Everybody needs a seashell in her bathroom to remind her the ocean is her home” – Sue Monk Kidd

“I am a tiny seashell that has secretly drifted ashore and carries the sound of the ocean surging through its body” – Edward Hirsch

“I have paid as much as $300 a night to throw up in a sink shaped like a seashell” – Erma Bombeck

“I don’t know what I may seem to the world, but as to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me” – Joseph Spence

“Give me my scallop-shell of quiet, / My staff of faith to walk upon, / My scrip of joy, immortal diet, / My bottle of salvation, / My gown of glory, hope’s true gage, / And thus I’ll take my pilgrimage” – Walter Raleigh

“May the British Lion have his talons eradicated by the noble bill of the American Eagle, and be taught to play upon the Irish Harp and the Scotch Fiddle that music which is breathed by every empty shell that lies upon the shore of green Columbia” – Charles Dickens

“The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever” – Jacques Yves Cousteau

seashell quotes about friendship

“Pretty sure birthstone is a seashell” – Unknown

“Those who look for seashells will find seashells. Those who open them will find pearls” – Al-Ghazali

“To find a seashell is to discover a world of imagination” – Michelle Held

“He held her like a seashell and listened to her heart” – Unknown

“I have a large seashell collection which I keep scattered along the beaches around the world. Maybe you’ve seen it” – Steven Wright

“Sandy feet and seashells welcome here” – Unknown

“When I lean my ear up against your seashell heart, I can hear an ocean of loving roaring inside” – John Mark Green

short seashell quotes

“Saltwater and seashells heal everything” – Unknown

“She sells seashells by the seashore” – Terry Sullivan

“Nothing soothes the soul like a walk on the beach” – Unknown

seashell quotes sayings

“We must not trust the translation whose words are entirely ‘unbroken.’ As with a seashell, the translator can listen strenuously but mistake the rumor of his own pulse for the beat of the alien sea” – George Steiner

“How did these beautiful rainbow tints get into the shell of the freshwater clam buried in the mud at the bottom of our dark river? Even the sea-bottom tells of the upper skies” – Henry David Thoreau

“There is not a single color hidden away in the chalice of a flower, or the curve of a shell, to which, by some subtle sympathy with the very soul of things, my nature does not answer” – Oscar Wilde

“Don’t let the waves of others drown out your own ocean song. Hold your heart as though it was a seashell. And listen to it. Listen to its music. To the whispers of your ocean within. And then swim. Swim to your ocean music” – S.C. Lourie

“Oh, stranger / You came and entered / such a way / In a depth of my heart / As stays a drop of rain / In the seashell / And becomes the pearl / And shines / I feel scared / So I keep silent / The world may rob that / And deprive me / Now you come yourself / And with your perfumed words / Of love / Give the life / To break the spirit / Of my silence / Show the truth and reality / And fetch out / Your credit treasure / To relieve me” – Ehsan Sehgal

“I’m collecting seashells, putting them in a plastic bag, taking them home, putting them in the garage, and never ever looking at them ever again” – Frank

“Even these shells know I was born to be a mermaid” – Unknown

“To live in an old shack by the sea; breathe the sweet salt air. To live with the dawn and the dusk; the new moon, and the full moon. The tides, the winds, and the rain. To surf and comb the beach and gather seashells and driftwood, and know the thrill of loneliness and lose all sense of time and be free” – Narrator

“When I lean my ear up against your seashell heart, I can hear an ocean of love roaring inside” – John Mark Green

“If you shine, I shine. / My dear, my life / Is washed up like a seashell longing to be dry / So please shine, please shine” – Jonathan Jones

“I see her pearly decks, my love / Set in with twinkling specks, my love / I see her pearly mast, my love / Far from her seashell past / And gently does she sway, all on her starry way” – Donovan Leitch

“Sea Shell, Sea Shell, / Sing me a song, O Please! / A song of ships, and sailor men, / And parrots, and tropical trees, / Of islands lost in the Spanish Main / Which no man ever may find again, / Of fishes and corals under the waves, / And seahorses stabled in great green caves. / Sea Shell, Sea Shell, / Sing of the things you know so well” – Amy Lowell

“What says the sea, little shell? / What says the sea? / Long has our brother been silent to us, / Kept his message for the ships, / Awkward ships, stupid ships” – Stephen Crane

“In fact, we started off with two or three different shells, and the shell had a life of its own” – Ken Thompson

“The flood subsides, and the body, like a worn sea-shell emerges strange and lovely” – D. H. Lawrence

“Never trust anyone to find your treasures for you. Find your own! Children know that. That’s why they treasure seashells and little stones” – Mrs. Frankweiler

inspirational seashell quotes

“By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams” – Gaston Bachelard

“The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear” – Anonymous

“If our splintered attention has led us to oblivion and blindness; and the shell has replaced the substance, it may be enlightening to deep-dive into the roots of our negative qualities and find a surprising guideline for the creation of new horizons. (Not without my shadow)” – Erik Pevernagie

“One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach” – Anne Spencer

“Seashells are love letters in the sand” – Unknown

“I have a large sea shell collection which I keep scattered on beaches all over the world. Maybe you’ve seen it” – Steven Wright

“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

“If you should take the human heart and listen to it, it would be like listening to a sea-shell; you would hear in it the hollow murmur of the infinite ocean to which it belongs, from which it draws its profound inspiration, and for which it yearns” – Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“The flood subsides, and the body, like a worn sea-shell

emerges strange and lovely” – D. H. Lawrence

“I like to take the time out to listen to the trees, much in the same way that I listen to a sea shell, holding my ear against the rough bark of the trunk, hearing the inner singing of the sap. It’s a lovely sound, the beating of the heart of the tree” – Madeleine L’Engle

“The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me” – Isaac Newton

seashell quotes

“There must be something beyond man in this world. Even on attaining to his highest possibilities, he is like a bird beating against his cage. There is something beyond, O deathless like a sea-shell, moaning for the bosom of the ocean to which you belong!” – Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Friends are like seashells we collect along the way” – Unknown

“A baby’s feet, like sea-shells pink, Might tempt, should heaven see meet, An angel’s lips to kiss, we think, A baby’s feet” – Algernon Charles Swinburne

“Went to get coffee today-opened my change purse. Seashells fell out. Barista goes “Sorry, we only take cash or credit.” So there’s that” – Taylor Swift

“He is a boy sleeping against the mosque wall, ejaculates wet dreaming into a thousand cunts pink and smooth as seashells” – William S. Burroughs

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Inspirational Seashell Quotes

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“You know you’ve made it when you can hold a seashell” – Unknown

“When I was 11 years old, my parents wanted me to do something besides getting in trouble. So they enrolled me in sailing classes at the Sea Shell Association in Santa Barbara, Calif. From the moment I climbed into that 8-foot dinghy in 1952, I knew instinctively what to do and sensed I had done it before” – David Crosby

“For whatever we lose (like you or me), It’s always our self we find in the sea” – e. e. cummings

seashell love quotes

“She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring against the rock, might do. The making of the place had been her pain. But now the shell was safely in the rock. It was lodged and ground no longer” – T. H. White

“I like the way the morning can be stormy and the afternoon clear and sparkly as a jewel in the water. Put your hand in the water to reach for a sea urchin or a sea shell, and the thing desired never quite lies where you had lined it up to be. The same is true of love. In prospect or contemplation, love is where it seems to be. Reach in to lift it out and your hand misses” – Jeanette Winterson

“Like seashells, we are beautiful and unique, each with a story to tell” – Soma

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