105+ Best Cruise Quotes & Sayings to Inspire You to Travel

A lot of people attack the sea. I make love to it.

A ship is safe in harbor but that’s not what ships are for.

Anchor as though you plan to stay for weeks, even if you intend to leave in an hour.

At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much.

Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not.

Being out there in the ocean - God's creation - it's like a gift he has given us to enjoy.

Boats, like whiskey, are all good.

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.

Dance with the waves, move with the sea, let the rhythm of the water set your soul free.

Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.

Every time I slip into the ocean, it's like going home.

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), it’s always our self we find in the sea.

Have you ever been on a cruise ship? Passengers open up these canvas deck chairs so they can sit in the sun... Some people place their chairs facing the rear of the ship so they can see where they've been... Other people face their chairs forward... They want to see where they're going!

He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.

I cannot not sail.

I do so many cruises out of Miami, all the RSVP ones. And I'm on the cruises out of Fort Lauderdale all the time. I'm always doing cruise after cruise out of there.

I need the Sea because it teaches me.

If I'm an advocate for anything, it's to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river.

If you ask where the land of dreams is, I would say it is a ship traveling in a calm ocean under the moonlight!

It’s out there at sea that you are really yourself.

Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.

Let the waves carry you where the light cannot.

Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.

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.

My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water.

My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me.

No literature is richer than that of the sea. No story more enthralling, no tradition is more secure.

Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship’s wake, and vanish into a great silence in which your ship moves on with a sort of magical effect.

Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

Realize that ignorance is bliss. When on board a cruise, do you want to enjoy the sights and perks, or do you want to spend the journey figuring out how and why the ship was built?

Sailing takes me away to where I’ve always heard it could be. Just a dream and the wind to carry me, and soon I will be free.

Sailing unties the knots in my mind.

Ships are my arrows, the sea my bow, the world my target.

Ships are the nearest things to dreams that hands have ever made.

Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.

Smell the sea and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly.

Some years ago, never mind how long precisely, having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.

The cure for anything is saltwater – sweat, tears, or the sea.

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

The idea of elegance and aristocratic indulgence of an ocean cruise was born out of the image of the rich men and women who ruled the British Empire slowly sailing to India and the Far East while sipping gin and tonic on deck - served by men in white jackets.

The lovely thing about cruising is that planning usually turns out to be of little use.

The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey.

The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective.

The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination, and brings eternal joy to the soul.

The planning stage of a cruise is often just as enjoyable as the voyage itself, letting one’s imagination loose on all kinds of possibilities. Yet translating dreams into reality means a lot of practical questions have to be answered.

The point of a cruise ship is the cruise itself. But an ocean liner’s job is to transport people on a schedule.

The sea is as near as we come to another world.

The sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.

The sea! the sea! the open sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free!

The vast open sea at night is a song being written; a rhyme, a mysterious and gentle arpeggiated work of Beethoven. It's sung by the waves as they travel on the face of the ocean, and their lyrics are the rhythm of the pounding surf.

There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land again after a cheerful, careless voyage.

There is nothing absolutely nothing half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

To move, to breathe, to fly, to boat, to gain all while you give, to roam the roads of lands remote, to travel is to live.

To sail is human… to power divine!

Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than those you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from safe harbor. Catch the wind in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an enigma. There it is before you, smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean, insipid, or savage, and always mute with an air of whispering, "Come and find out".

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.

Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.

With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you’re connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live.

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

You haven’t lived until you’ve sailed.

You will love the ocean. It makes you feel small, but not in a bad way. Small because you realize you’re part of something bigger.

It is not that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.

Luxury cruises were designed to make something unbearable (a two week transatlantic crossing) seem bearable.

Living in London is like being on a luxury cruise liner.

I'm not the best cruise ship crooner. I'm not the best karaoke guy.

Broke my femur on a cruise with my wife in Italy. I'd walked back to my cabin after dinner with half a plate of spaghetti when I leaned in to open the door. Turns out it was already open, so I fell flat on my face like something from the Keystone Kops.

I've been to the Bahamas. It's a beautiful country with truly excellent people. When I took a cruise that docked for a couple hours in Nassau, it mostly reminded me of a giant version of my grandmother's neighborhood in Mobile, Alabama... but with better accents.

I have been on a horrible sea cruise. When my wife and I went to Mexico, Jamaica, and the Cayman Islands, I was seasick for a lot of the time. I didn't like being trapped on a ship with a bunch of shuffleboarders.

Perhaps it sounds like a wonderful thing to be born and raised in a small hotel in New York City. Lots of things sound fun until they are subjected to closer inspection. If you lived on a cruise ship, for example, you would have to do the Macarena every night of your life. Think about that.

The only way to get to Antarctica is by cruise ship. Even the smallest one has 150 passengers, which translates into me being trapped with 149 other people who will uniquely annoy the hell out of me.

To my crew: Please be reasonable and do it my way. The Captain

At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still, you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space.

For her the ocean was more than a dream, it was a place she needed to visit to find herself. And when she returned to the city, you could see the sun in her eyes, the wind in her hair, and taste in the infinite salt on her lips.

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it’s so clearly Ocean.

I think the cruise industry has come of age. And older people my age are attracted to the cruise ship industry. And they are booming right now, and all over the world they are booming. And I think they're for the golden oldies, and there are more and more of them around.

I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea.

I was happy anywhere I could see the ocean.

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

Sunsets are proof that no matter what happens, every day can end beautifully.

Take me to the ocean. Let me sail the open sea. To breathe the warm and salty air and dream of things to be.

That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit.

The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails.

The sea appears all golden. Beneath the sun-lit sky.

To me, the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim–the rocks–the motion of the waves–the ships, with men in them, What stranger miracles are there?

When I forget how talented God is, I look to the sea.

Follow the river and you will find the sea.

Time and Tide wait for no man.

I was on a cruise with my grandma when I was a kid. I remember winning $10 on the slot machine.

Grandmas and grandpas e-mail digital photos of their cruise trip and IM their kids in school.

You can find tranquility, you can find party, you can find new friends. I'm a cruise convert.

I have my own boat, but when I first thought about taking a cruise, I thought, 'You're going to trap me on a boat, and I'm going to walk in circles and go crazy,' but it's awesome.

Isn't this great? The salty sea air, the wind blowing in your face. Aaah, the perfect day to be at sea!

The waves obey my every whim!

I have the strangest feeling that I've seen that ship before a long time ago.

See the line where the sky meets the sea? It calls me. And no one knows, how far it goes.

Now bring me that horizon.

I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky. And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.

Oh, it was easy to see why people had whirlwind shipboard romances, for it was a temporary journey into fantasy, where dreams could come true if only for the duration of the cruise.

There must be something between us, even if it's only an ocean.

A 7NC Luxury Cruise is full of these odd little unexpected romantic nuggets, like trying to help each other walk when the ship rolls - you can sort of tell why older couples like to cruise.

Ocean separates lands, not souls.