Sailing quotations, with their sources.

I felt that there could be no turning back, and that I was engaging in an adventure the meaning of which I thoroughly understood.

Joshua Slocum · Sailing Alone Around the World

O youth! The strength of it, the faith of it, the imagination of it!

Marlow · Youth: A Narrative

The acute pain of solitude experienced at first never returned. I had penetrated a mystery, and, by the way, I had sailed through a fog.

Joshua Slocum · Sailing Alone Around the World

The ultimate word is I LIKE. It lies beneath philosophy, and is twined about the heart of life.

Jack London · The Cruise of the Snark

Then leaving the Cape Verde Islands out of sight astern, I found myself once more sailing a lonely sea and in a solitude supreme all around.

Joshua Slocum · Sailing Alone Around the World

To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go.

Joshua Slocum · Sailing Alone Around the World

Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; … then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.

Ishmael · Moby-Dick; or, The Whale