Jules Verne Quotes

The sea is everything. It covers seven-tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and life-giving. It is an immense desert place where man is never lonely, for he senses the weaving of Creation on every hand. It is the physical embodiment of a supernatural existence... For the sea is itself nothing but love and emotion. It is the Living Infinite, as one of your poets has said. Nature manifests herself in it, with her three kingdoms: mineral, vegetable, and animal. The ocean is the vast reservoir of Nature.

If his destiny be strange, it is also sublime.

There is no more sagacious animal than the Icelandic horse. He is stopped by neither snow, nor storm, nor impassable roads, nor rocks, glaciers, or anything. He is courageous, sober, and surefooted. He never makes a false step, never shies. If there is a river or fjord to cross (and we shall meet with many) you will see him plunge in at once, just as if he were amphibious, and gain the opposite bank.

And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.

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

Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.

Is the Master out of his mind?' she asked me.
I nodded.
'And he's taking you with him?'
I nodded again.
'Where?' she asked.
I pointed towards the centre of the earth.
'Into the cellar?' exclaimed the old servant.
'No,' I said, 'farther down than that.

What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?

"As for difficulties," replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, "they were made to be overcome."

There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!

"Your dead sleep quietly, at least, Captain, out of reach of sharks" "Yes, sir, of sharks and men."

[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.

It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.

The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the 'Living Infinite'...The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it? In it is supreme tranquility.

Look with all your eyes, look.