200 Best Sea Quotes and Sea Captions That Will Make You Fall in Love with the Ocean 2024
Soft sand, rolling waves, and endless sunshine. What’s not to love?
From island hopping in the Philippines to learning to surf in Nicaragua and finding hidden coves in the Dominican Republic, seaside vacations have always been some of my favorite breaks.
They are good for your mind, body and soul, but it’s sometimes tough to find the perfect words to capture your emotions.
So if you’re looking for some awesome sea quotes for Instagram, you’ve come to the right place.
I’ve spent hours compiling the most comprehensive list of the best sea captions you’ll find online, from funny sea puns to romantic sea quotes – these sayings are guaranteed to get you in that summer mood and smiling.

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Best Ocean Puns
Seas the day.
I’ve never been more shore of myself
My favorite day is a sea day.
I was mermaid for this sea-sun.
Call me on my shell phone

Top Sea Puns for Instagram
Do you sea what I sea?
Happiness comes in waves
Long time no sea.
Yeah, buoy. It’s currently ocean time
Today, I decided to make waves.

Short Caption about Sea for Instagram
Having a sea-esta
Sea la vie
Where there’s a will, there’s a wave.
Shell-abrate good times.
Lost at sea? I’m not shore.

Puns about the Ocean
Now that I am by the water I can sea clearly.
Sea you soon
I need to be seahabilitated
I shore do love this view.
I can sea clearly now.

Funny Sea Quotes for Instagram
The ocean and I are o-fish-ally best friends forever.
I’m diving to get back to the ocean
Hanging with my gull-friends by the ocean
Quitting my job to be a full-time mermaid
Just like the ocean, I can be a little salty

Instagram Captions for Sea Pictures
I don’t need a DNA test to prove I’m part mermaid
The ocean was waving, so I waved back
Doing my best Ariel from ‘The Little Mermaid’ impression today
Retirement Plan: Sell seashells by the seashore
Sally sounds like she’s living her best life. I would also like to sell seashells by the seashore.

Short Sea Captions for Instagram
Happier than a seagull with a French fry.
Let the sea set you free.
I’m a true oceanholic.
Take me to the sea
The sea is mesmerizing me.

Instagram Captions on Sea
Finding comfort in the rhythm of the sea.
It’s time for the sun, sea and sand.
My dreams are made of sand and sea.
Happiness is..blue sea and white sand.
Wild and free just like the sea

Short Quotes from the Sea
The ocean is calling
High tides. Good vibes.
Saltwater cures all wounds.
Life is simple: just add water
‘Tis the sea-sun to make waves.

Romantic Quotes about the Ocean
You, the ocean, and me
You’re the only fish in the sea for me.
I love you like the sea loves the shore.
“Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.“– Ryunosuke Akutagawa
The ocean has my heart
“In high tide or in low tide, I’ll be by your side.” – Bob Marley

Ocean Love Quotes
I love you more than there are grains of sand on the beach, fish in the sea, waves in the ocean.
Me and the ocean: Love at first sight
Let’s go somewhere the sun kisses the sea.
You, me, and the sea.
Love you to the sea and back.

Sea Lover Quotes
Our love is as deep as the ocean
You and me, as far as the eye can sea.
You will find that endless sea, and that’s how my love will always be
Live by the sea and love by the moon.
I followed my heart and it led me to the sea.

Vitamin Sea Quotes
Getting my daily dose of Vitamin Sea.
All you need is a good dose of vitamin sea.
I need vitamin sea.
Life is better with vitamin sea
I think I need some vitamin sea.

Beautiful Quotes from the Sea
We dream in colors borrowed from the sea.
I can leave the sea but the sea never leaves me.
“Eternity begins and ends with the ocean’s tides.”
Sun, Sea, the Sand and ME
Happiness is the sunset and the sea

Captions Related to Sea
The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.
“The sea is a desert of waves, A wilderness of water.”– Langston Hughes
“The ocean is a mighty harmonist”– William Wordsworth
I want to be wild, beautiful, and free. Just like the sea.
“In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.” –Kahlil Gibran

Ocean Inspirational Quotes
“A sailor is an artist whose medium is the wind.” – Webb Chiles
“Smell the sea and feel the sky, let your soul and spirit fly”– Van Morrison
“Let the waves carry you where the light can not”– Mohit Kaushik
“The sea has boundless patience.” – Craig Robertson
“Dance with the waves, move with the sea. Let the rhythm of the water set your soul free.” –Christy Ann Martine

Sea Captions Instagram
Dear ocean, thank you for making us feel tiny, humble, inspired, and salty all at once
Ocean air, salty hair
“The sea appears all golden. Beneath the sun-lit sky.” – Heinrich Heine
“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?” – Walt Whitman
“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

Sea Beach Quotes
B.E.A.C.H: Best escape anyone can have
Beachology. Be shore of yourself. Don’t be crabby. Let your worries drift away. Drown out pier pressure. Soak up positive energy. Seas life’s moments.
Everyone should believe in something. I believe I should go to the beach.
You can find me where the beach meets the sea.
Friends, Sun, Sand and Sea that sounds like a summer to me

Beach Ocean Quotes Instagram
You can find me where the sand meets the water.
Happiness is the sand between the toes and the sea around your ankles.
I’m happiest laying on the sand looking at the sea.
The memories will last forever… just like the sand at the bottom of my bag.
Let the waves hit your feet and sand be your seat.

Ocean Waves Quotes
“The waves of the sea help me get back to me.” —Jill Davis
Let the waves of the sea be my therapy.
“Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down“ – Vanessa Paradis
I like to let the sea waves take me where they want me to go.
“You’re not a wave, you’re a part of the ocean.” — Mitch Albom

Best Caption for Sea Waves
“The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.” – Vladimir Nabokov
Sometimes in the waves of change, we find our true direction
“Wild waves rise and fall when they arrive. And that’s what makes the calm sea alive.” – Munia Khan
“I spent uncounted hours sitting at the bow looking at the water and the sky, studying each wave, different from the last, seeing how it caught the light, the air, the wind; watching patterns, the sweep of it all, and letting it take me. The sea.” – Gary Paulsen

Quotes about the Sea
The best days are sea days.
I like to let the ocean take me where I’m supposed to go
Friends, Sun, Sand and Sea, that sounds like a summer to me.
“Rough seas make stronger sailors. Tough times build greater people.” – Robin Sharma
“The oceans roar is music to the soul.”

Short Sea Quotes Instagram
“Follow the river and you will find the sea.” – French Proverb
Salty like the ocean
“The sea is an underwater museum still awaiting its visitors.” – Phillip Diole
“The sea is in my blood as much as you are in my heart, and as much as god is in my soul.” – Anthony T. Hincks
“How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is clearly Ocean.”– Arthur C. Clarke

Top Quotes for the Ocean
Dear ocean, feel free to take the spotlight in my selfies any day.
“I’m pretty sure my birthstone is a sea shell.”
“The sound and smell of the sea cleanses my soul.”
“Only you could have won me away from the sea. I came back from the ends of the earth for you.” – George R.R. Martin
“The sea is as near as we come to another world.” – Anne Stevenson

Ocean Captions for Instagram
Smell the sea, Feel the breeze, Hear the ocean, Be at ease
“The sea does not like to be restrained” – Rick Riordan
Being in the ocean is like getting a hug from all sides
“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.” – Isak Dinesen (pen name of Karen Blixen)
“The sea lives in every one of us.” – Robert Wyland

Sky and Sea Captions for Instagram
“See the line where the sky meets the sea? It calls me. And no one knows, how far it goes.” –Moana
“How foolish to believe we are more powerful than the sea or the sky.”– Ruta Sepetys
“The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.” – Jacques Yves Cousteau
“Life is a sea of vibrant color. Jump in.” – A.D. Posey

Inspirational Ocean Quotes
“Life is as inexorable as the sea.” – Thomas Wentworth Higginson
“A rising tide lifts all boats”– Sean Lemass
“A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.”– Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.” —Jacques Cousteau

Sea Love Quotes
“The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths, it has its pearls too.” — Vincent van Gogh
“I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea.” – Alain Gerbeault
“Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.” – Robert Henri
“The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul.” — Robert Wyland
“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.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“There’s nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on underwater, you realize that you’ve been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent.” — Dave Barry

Ocean Quotes for Instagram
“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
“The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective.” — Beyoncé Knowles
“And the sea will grant each man new hope, as sleep brings dreams of home.” — Larry Ferguson
“The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient … One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach—waiting for a gift from the sea.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me.” – Rainer Maria Rilke

Quotes about Sea and Love
“But where, after all, would be the poetry of the sea were there no wild waves?” — Joshua Slocum
“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.” – Natalie Wood
“She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.” – Holly Black
“The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.” – Rachel Carson
“You can never cross the ocean until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Christopher Columbus
“The calming movement of the sea along with the restless ocean breeze gently caresses me creating a soothing trance which lulls me to a place of peace.” — M. L. Borges

Best Sea Caption for Instagram
“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.” – Mother Teresa
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.” — Kate Chopin
“We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.” — Aristotle Onassis
“I could never stay long enough on the shore; the tang of the untainted, fresh, and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought.” – Helen Keller
“The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey.”

Sea Beach Quotes
“On the beach, you can live in bliss.”
“I wish that Beach Therapy was covered by my Health Insurance.”
“To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.”
“To escape and sit quietly on the beach – that’s my idea of paradise.” – Emilia Wickstead
I like to let the waves kiss my feet, while using the sand as my seat

Sea Related Captions
“Good times and tan lines.”
We’re all about the Palm Trees and 80 degrees.
“There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.” – Kahlil Gibran
“The sea! the sea! the open sea!, The blue, the fresh, the ever free!” — Bryan W. Procter
“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

Best Caption Sea
“The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.” – Martin Luther King
“On the beach, you can live in bliss.”- Dennis Wilson
“If there’s heaven for me, I’m sure it has a beach attached to it.” –Jimmy Buffett
“I miss being on beach vacation and never knowing what day of the week it is.”
Having a whale of a time

That’s 200 Instagram Captions about Sea
I hope you’ve managed to find the perfect ocean quote, I’d love to know which one is your favorite, and if I’ve missed any great sea instagram captions then please let me know in the comments below.
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