Feelings towards the ocean

Cutty Sark, Greenwich (UK)

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

(attributed to Mark Twain)

Museo del Mar de Vigo (ES)

O barco está silencioso, apenas as amarras rangem... Nessas horas em que fico sozinho, ou melhor, mais sozinho, uma angústia tem aparecido como que para me avisar da enorme distância que me espera. Distância no mar e no tempo. Distância de min mesmo, do outro que vai chegar ao final da viagem, se chegar. Enfim, só me resta partir. Adeus. Para min mesmo. 

(Pancho Audrá, Diário de bordo de uma viagem ao Caribe)

Hasselösund (SE)

Then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me.

(Herman Melville, Moby Dick)