8 Bernard Moitessier Quotes that Speak to your Wanderlusting Soul
- sailawayblog
- May 27, 2016
- 2 min read
Aboard S/V Wanderlust, we're big Moitessier fans. Here's a few quotes from the historic writer and sailor that speak directly to our sailing, wanderlusting, traveling souls!
Enjoy!
"How long will it last, this peace I have found at sea?
It is all of life that I contemplate —
sun, clouds, time that passes and abides.
Occasionally it is also that other world, foreign now,
that I left centuries ago.
The modern, artificial world where man
has been turned into a money-making machine
to satisfy false needs, false joys.”
"My real log is written in the sea and the sky;
the sounds of water on the hull,
the sounds of wind gliding on the sails,
the silences full of secret things
between my boat and me,
like the times I spent as a child
listening to the forest talk. ”
“There are two terrible things for a man:
not to have fulfilled his dream,
and to have fulfilled it.”
"A sailor’s joys are as simple as a child’s."
"The questions that used to bother me at times,
do not weigh anything before the immensity
of a wake so close to the sky,
and filled with the wind of the sea."
"I am a citizen of the most beautiful nation on earth,
a nation whose laws are harsh yet simple,
a nation that never cheats,
which is immense and without borders,
where life is lived in the present.
In this limitless nation,
this nation of wind, light, and peace.
There is no other ruler besides the sea."
"You do not ask a tame seagull
why it needs to disappear from time to time
toward the open sea.
It goes, that's all."
“When a great adventure is launched
with a powerful thrust,
fatigue in the muscles and doubts in the mind
are swept away by a fullness
that moves life along
like a breath from the depths of the soul.”
Thanks for Reading,
Ben, Quinn and Ruca
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