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1. “A hermitage in the forest is the refuge of the narrow-minded misanthrope; a hammock on the ocean is the asylum for the generous distressed. The ocean brims with natural griefs and tragedies; and into that watery immensity of terror, man’s private grief is lost like a drop.”
Herman Melville
Ocean Asylum, Private Grief, Ocean, Grief, Hermitage, Refuge
10. “Now, in calm weather, to swim in the open ocean is as easy to the practised swimmer as to ride in a spring-carriage ashore. But the awful lonesomeness is intolerable. The intense concentration of self in the middle of such a heartless immensity, my God! who can tell it?” Herman Melville Open Ocean, Lonesomeness, Ocean Swim, Ocean, Solitude, Immensity
Ocean Quotes by Famous Authors
1. “A hermitage in the forest is the refuge of the narrow-minded misanthrope; a hammock on the ocean is the asylum for the generous distressed. The ocean brims with natural griefs and tragedies; and into that watery immensity of terror, man’s private grief is lost like a drop.”
Herman Melville Ocean Asylum, Private Grief, Ocean, Grief, Hermitage, Refuge
10. “Now, in calm weather, to swim in the open ocean is as easy to the practised swimmer as to ride in a spring-carriage ashore. But the awful lonesomeness is intolerable. The intense concentration of self in the middle of such a heartless immensity, my God! who can tell it?”
Herman Melville Open Ocean, Lonesomeness, Ocean Swim, Ocean, Solitude, Immensity
