The ocean is powerful, endless and awe-inspiring, so we have gathered all the best ocean captions for you to share. And if you’re looking for short ocean quotes for Instagram, we also have you covered.
Now go ahead and browse through to find your favorite.
Ocean Captions and Quotes
“The ocean was the best place, of course. It was a feeling of freedom like no other, and yet a feeling of communion with all the other places and creatures the water touched.” – Ann Brashares
It’s time for the sun, sea and sand.
Smell the ocean, Feel the breeze, Hear the ocean, Be at ease
“The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.” – Vladimir Nabokov
“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.” – Willa Cather
The ocean is mesmerizing me.
The ocean breeze puts my mind at ease
“Even castles made from sand fall to the ocean.” – Jimi Hendrix
“The waves came up towards us, fumbling and gnawing at the beach like an immense soft mouth.” – Ross Macdonald
Let’s go somewhere the sun kisses the ocean.
“She made gentle the wild oceans of my soul.” — Atticus
Beachology. Be shore of yourself. Don’t be crabby. Let your worries drift away. Drown out pier pressure. Soak up positive energy. Oceans life’s moments.
“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
Happiness is the sunset and the ocean
“The sea is as near as we come to another world.” – Anne Stevenson
“Life is like the ocean. It can be calm or still, and rough or rigid, but in the end, it is always beautiful.”
“How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is clearly Ocean.” – Arthur C. Clarke
“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“But where, after all, would be the poetry of the sea were there no wild waves?” – Joshua Slocum
“One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach – waiting for a gift from the sea.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“The secrets of the sea are forgotten at the seashore.” – Giorgos Seferis
“The ceaseless twinkling of laughter of the waves of the sea.” – Aeschylus
“The sea is a desert of waves, A wilderness of water.” – Langston Hughes
You will find that endless ocean, and that’s how my love will always be
I love you more than there are grains of sand on the beach, fish in the sea, waves in the ocean.
“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.” – Isak Dinesen
“One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach – waiting for a gift from the sea.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“Together we can face challenges as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky.” – Sonia Gandhi
“Dance with the waves, move with the sea. Let the rhythm of the water set your soul free.” — Christy Ann Martine
“Take me to the ocean. Let me sail the open sea. To breathe the warm and salty air and dream of things to be.” – Erica Billups
“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.” – Willa Cather
The voice of the ocean speaks to the soul.
“The sea lives in every one of us.” – Robert Wyland
“The best cure for sea sickness is to sit under a tree.” – Spike Milligan
Just like the ocean I can be a little salty.
“A pool just isn’t the same as the ocean. It has no energy. No life.” – Linda Gerber
“It is pleasant to watch the wild sea.” – Lucretius
“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
“You’re not a wave, you’re a part of the ocean.” – Mitch Albom
Happiness is blue ocean & white sand
Long time no sea. Let’s fix that ASAP.
“The sound and smell of the sea cleanses my soul.”
“I go to the ocean to calm down, to reconnect with the creator, to just be happy.” – Nnedi Okorafor
“If everyone could just live near the ocean, I think we’d all be happier.” – Crystal Woods
“The sea has boundless patience.” – Craig Robertson
“Follow the river and you will find the sea.” – French Proverb
I’m happiest laying on the sand looking at the ocean.
The best days are ocean days.
“The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.” – Rachel Carson
“Take me to the ocean. Let me sail the open sea. To breathe the warm and salty air and dream of things to be.” – Erica Billups
Where there’s a will, there’s a wave.
“I like the peace and quiet of being at sea.” – Rafael Nadal
Palm trees and ocean breeze
My favourite day is an ocean day.
I think I need some vitamin sea.
We dream in colors borrowed from the ocean.
“Together we can face any challenges as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky.” – Sonia Gandhi
I love you like the ocean loves the shore.
“Let the waves carry you where the light cannot.” – Mohit Kaushik
“We are tied to the ocean.” – John F. Kennedy
You can find me where the beach meets the ocean.
“Life is a sea of vibrant color. Jump in.” – A.D. Posey
I love the ocean. I’ve always liked the blue, so tranquil and peaceful and gliding. And the fear of it.” – Siouxsie Sioux
The ocean was waving so I waved back.
“Follow the river and you will find the sea.” – French Proverb
Happiness is the sand between the toes and the ocean around your ankles.
Finding comfort in the rhythm of the ocean.
“Every time I slip into the ocean, it’s like going home.” – Sylvia Earle
‘Tis the ocean-sun to make waves.
“If the ocean can calm itself, so can you. We are both salt water mixed with air.” ― Nayyirah Waheed
Getting my daily dose of Vitamin Sea.
I can leave the ocean but the ocean never leaves me.
“It’s always our self we find in the sea.” – E. E. Cummings
“What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.” – Cesare Pavese
Now that I am by the water I can sea clearly.
“No matter how rough the sea, I refuse to sink.”
“The calming movement of the sea along with the restless ocean breeze gently caresses me.” – M. L. Borges
Life is better with vitamin sea
The ocean is my happy place
My dreams are made of sand and ocean.
You can find me where the sand meets the water.
“I’m pretty sure my birthstone is a sea shell.”
“A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The sea does not like to be restrained.” – Rick Riordan
“Ah, well, then you’ve never stood on a beach as the waves came crashing in, the water stretching out from you until it’s beyond sight.” – Patrick Ness
“Summer is calling me with the music of an ocean breeze. I must go dance with the waves of love.” – Debasish Mridha
“The sea has neither meaning nor pity.” – Anton Chekhov
“When she saw the waves crashing on the shore, her heart leaped inside her in excitement. She still had a love affair with the ocean.” – Sharon Brubaker
Let the waves hit your feet & sand be your ocean
“My course is set for an uncharted sea.” – Dante
“Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.” – Saint Augustine
Lost at sea? I’m not shore.
I’ve never been more shore
“Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down.” – Vanessa Paradis
“I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I’m touching eternity, that it goes on forever until it begins here again.” – Lauren DeStefano
“Together we can face challenges as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky” – Sonia Gandhi
“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.” – Rumi
“I feel we are all islands – in a common sea.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
You’re the only fish in the ocean for me.
“In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.” – Kahlil Gibran
“I am a shipwrecked man who fears every sea.” – Ovid
Friends, Sun, Sand and Sea, that sounds like a summer to me.
Everyone should believe in something. I believe I should go to the beach.
“My soul is full of longing for the secrets of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I was mermaid for this ocean-sun.
Our love is as deep as the ocean
I followed my heart and it led me to the ocean.
The ocean is full of untamed magic
The ocean is where I belong
Palm trees, ocean breeze, salty air, sun-kissed hair
Sally sounds like she’s living her best life. I would also like to sell seashells by the seashore.
“It’s when I go down to the beach that the waves come up to greet me.” – Anthony T. Hincks
All you need is a good dose of vitamin sea.
“If we look at the ocean in a calm, there is something imposing in its aspect; stretched out in its sleeping tranquility.”– Jenny M Parker
Love you to the ocean and back.
The memories will last forever… just like the sand at the bottom of my bag.
I like to let the ocean waves take me where they want me to go.
“I couldn’t imagine living in a state that didn’t reach the ocean.” – Avery Sawyer
“The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective.” – Beyoncé Knowles
Saltwater cures all wounds.
“The sea hates a coward.” – Eugene O’Neill
All I need is a good dose of vitamin sea.
“Because 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
The waves of the ocean help me get back to me.
Live by the ocean and love by the moon.
“Ah, well, then you’ve never stood on a beach as the waves came crashing in.” – Patrick Ness
“How I long to be the shore and feel your waves crash upon me over and over again.” – Timothy Joshua Chia
Let the waves of the ocean be my therapy.
“The ocean is both my mistress and my lover. How else can I explain her salty kiss that is still on my lips.” – Anthony T. Hincks
Today, I decided to make waves.
Friends, Sun, Sand and Ocean that sounds like a summer to me
You and me, as far as the eye can sea.
I want to be wild, beautiful, and free. Just like the ocean.
“She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.” – Holly Black
I love the beach and I love the ocean.
So that is it for our list of Ocean Captions and Quotes. We hope you found the perfect one for you!
For more great ideas, check out our other lists of Sunset Captions, Beach Captions and River Captions.
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