Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea Quotes

“The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural...”

― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

topic:lifenature

“I ask no more than to live a hundred years longer, that I may have more time to dwell the longer on your memory.”

― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

topic:timememory

“Ah! sir, live—live in the bosom of the waters! There only is independence! There I recognise no masters! There I am free!”

― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

topic:freedomindependence

“The thunderbolt without the reverberations of thunder would frighten man but little, though the danger lies in the lightning, not in the noise.”

― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

topic:feardanger

“Poor chance! but hope is so firmly rooted in the heart of man!”

― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

topic:hearthope

“The earth does not want new continents, but new men.”

― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

topic:menchange

“The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature.”

― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

topic:nature

“We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.”

― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

topic:naturelaw

“I have done with society entirely, for reasons which I alone have the right of appreciating. I do not, therefore, obey its laws, and I desire you never to allude to them before me again!”

― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

topic:societylaw

“We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.”

― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

topic:lonelinessdarkness