With all cruising put on hold due to “the virus that shall now be named”, here are some of the best cruise quotes to get you through these tough times! 🛳
Below, you will find some inspiring sayings, puns, and quotes about cruises for those who love to travel and dream of the open seas.
Side note: If I have missed any must-have quotes, please share your favorite down below as I will be sure to include them in future updates! 😀
75+ Inspiring Cruise Quotes For Travel & Ocean Lovers
1. “Happiness comes in waves.” – Unknown
2. “A rough day at sea is better than any day in the office.” – Proverb
3. “Sunsets are always better on a cruise.” – Unknown
4. “All you need is a good dose of vitamin sea.” – Proverb
5. “The journey, not the arrival matters.” – T. S. Eliot
6. “Find a beautiful place to drop your anchor.” – Unknown
7. “The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination.” – Proverb
8. “It’s out there at sea that you are really yourself.” – Vito Dumas
9. “There are more sharks on the land than in the sea.” – Neil Wheatley
10. “Attitude is the difference between ordeal and adventure.” – Bob Bitchin
11. “Smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul and spirit fly.” – Van Morrison
12. “Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.” – Zora Neale Hurston
13. “We travel, not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Unknown
14. “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” – Anita Desai
15. “Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
16. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” – Hilaire Belloc
17. “The cure for anything is saltwater – sweat, tears, or the sea.” – Isak Dinesen
18. “At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much.” – Robin Lee Graham
19. “A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not why ships were built.” – John A. Shedd
20. “Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.” – Brooks Atkinson
21. “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
22. “The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.” – Joseph Conrad
23. “It is not that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.” – Sir Francis Drake
24. “The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails.” – Joshua Slocum
25. “A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.” – Grace Hopper
26. “In life, it’s not where you go, it’s who you travel with.” – Charles M. Schulz
27. “The thing I realized this last few days is that the earth is a big place.” – Paul Cayard
28. “Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.” – Zora Neale Hurston
29. “I wanted freedom, open-air, and adventure. I found it in the sea.” – Alaine Gerbault
30. “Nothing lasts forever, expect the day before you start your vacation.” – Gayland Anderson
31. “As the ocean is never full of water, so is the heart never full of love.” – Proverb
32. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide
33. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust
34. “There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land again after a cheerful, careless voyage.” – Mark Twain
35. “Our memories of the ocean will linger on long after our footprints in the sand are gone.” – Unknown
36. “Ships are the nearest thing to dreams that hands have ever made.” – Robert N. Rose
37. “One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.” – Andre Gide
38. “When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you’re either going to sink or you’re going to swim.” – Tom Cruise
39. “The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination, and brings eternal joy to the soul Wyland.” – Proverb
40. “Dance with the waves, move with the sea. Let the rhythm of the water set your soul free.” – Christy Ann Martine
41. “To move, to breathe, to fly, to float. To roam the roads of lands remote, to travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Anderson
42. “If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.” – Gail Sheehy
43. “Don’t be scared of depths, you never know what astonishing beauty it holds.” – Shristy Sinha
44. “You’re not just paying for a trip, you’re paying for an experience and a lifetime of memories.” – Unknown
45. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust
46. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber
47. “The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself.” – John Rousmaniere
48. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Unknown
49. “The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
50. “May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.” – Trenton Lee Stewart
51. “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
52. “We travel, initially, to lose ourselves, and we travel, next to find ourselves.” – Pico Iyer
53. “There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.” – Kate Douglas Wiggin
54. “A bigger business is like a cruise ship: There are lots of amenities and you can go a lot further, but it’s harder to turn quickly.” – Tony Hsieh
55. “Go down to the beach before the tide comes in, and write your worries on the sand, then watch the ocean come in and wash them away.” – Proverb
56. “Teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
57. “The beauty and mystery of the ocean fill our lives with wonders, vast beyond our imagination.” – M. L Borges
58. “Anchor as though you plan to stay for weeks, even if you intend to leave in an hour.” – Lee Allred
59. “Together we can face any challenges as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky.” – Sonia Gandhi
60. “There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.” – Jacques- Yves Cousteau
61. “To find the pearls in life’s ocean, you have to venture out far past the shore.” – Unknown
62. “You can either see yourself as a wave in the ocean or you can see yourself as the ocean.” – Oprah Winfrey
63. “Cruising has two pleasures. One is to go out in wider waters from a sheltered place. The other is to go into a sheltered place from wider waters.” – Howard Bloomfield
64. “The lovely thing about cruising is that planning usually turns out to be of little use.” – Dom Degnon
65. “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
66. “Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at sea.” – Charles Cook
67. “I wanted freedom, open-air, and adventure. I found it in the sea.” – Alaine Gerbault
68. “It’s remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living.” – Ernest K. Gann
69. “When a man comes to like a sea life, he is not fit to live on land.” – Dr. Samuel Johnson
70. “It isn’t that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.” – Sir Francis Drake
71. “Time is the wave upon the shore. It takes some things away, but it brings other things.” – Amy Neftzger
72. “Doing your very best is the most rewarding game of achievement, your best is always going to make differences in any event of your life’s journey.” –Â Â Kemmy Nola
73. “When the draught of your vessel exceeds the depth of the water, you are most assuredly, aground.” – Ian Walsh
74. “We could learn to leave things alone and rest in the awareness – the ocean – rather than being thrown around by the waves. This is what meditation practice is all about.” – Gelong Thubten
75. “The Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river. I mean here that over the past two days, we managed to shoot down 196 missiles before they hit their target.” – Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
Conclusion Of The Best Cruise Quotes
Hopefully, this list of cruise quotes has inspired you to start planning your next cruise trip, whether that’s locally or overseas. Again, if you have your own cruise quote or saying that you like to reflect on, please comment below as I would love to add it incoming updates!
Also, if you are about to go on your first-time cruise, this is a really awesome beginner guide on how to get started, must-go destinations, best cruise companies, the best time of year to travel, and more! For more travel inspiration, you can also see my other posts on sailing quotes.