Inspirational mermaid quotes will get you through anything when the going gets tough and help you succeed in every aspect of life.
Famous Mermaid Quotes
I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living. Anais Nin
I address you all tonight for who you truly are wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers. Brian Selznick
Men are afraid of mermaids. They want to be near mermaids, but they’re afraid of them. Because a man needs to swim with a mermaid while a boat feels safer. Lots of men want to stay in a boat because they’re afraid of drowning. But a mermaid knows life is just not worth living if you’re not ready to drown a few times. C. JoyBell C.
Darwin may have been quite correct in his theory that man descended from the apes of the forest, but surely woman rose from the frothy sea, as resplendent as Aphrodite on her scalloped chariot. Margot Datz
A mermaid has not an immortal soul, nor can she obtain one unless she wins the love of a human being. On the power of another hangs her eternal destiny. Hans Christian Andersen
The mermaid is an archetypal image that represents a woman who is at ease in the great waters of life, the waters of emotion and sexuality. She shows us how to embrace our instinctive sexuality and sensuality so that we can affirm the essence of our feminine nature, the wisdom of our bodies, and the playfulness of our spirits. She symbolizes our connection with our deepest instinctive feelings, our wild and untamed animal nature that exists below the surface of outward personalities. She is able to respond to her mysterious sexual impulses without abandoning her more human, conscious side. What happened to the girls who dreamed of being mermaids? Anita Johnston
A mermaid found a swimming lad, Picked him up for her own, Pressed her body to his body, Laughed; and plunging down Forgot in cruel happiness That even lovers drown. William Butler Yeats
There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath. Herman Melville
You don’t know what it is to live and laugh and love and run a man through. You’ve never tasted salty air on your tongue or waved heartily at a mermaid. Gideon Defoe
I am a siren, and for my adoration of mankind, have been caught in fishing nets one time too many. And in those fishing nets I have learned too many unfavorable things about human intentions and the lack of trust and goodwill; I’m not going to allow myself to be caught, anymore. Sirens do well at singing the sirens’ song and dragging vile people to their deaths, and for good reason! C. JoyBell C.
She would be half the world away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by the moonlight. Janet Fitch
Forgetting was not the same as healing. Rivers Solomon
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
Mermaids don’t drown. Suzanne Palmieri
I’ll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones. Jeffrey McDaniel
I shall always remember how the peacocks tails shimmered when the moon rose amongst the tall trees, and on the shady bank the emerging mermaids gleamed fresh and silvery amongst the rocks. Hermann Hesse
Meet me where the sky touches the sea. Jennifer Donnelly
In your life, right here and now, things like mermaids, fairies, witches and monsters are nothing but fairytales told to your grandchildren and stories you heard from your own grandparents as children. They exist only in your imagination. Did you ever think that there is a chance all this was once real, that it all existed? Perhaps yes, but you would then consider such thoughts irrational, that even if you were to believe it and try telling someone they would think you for mad. In my world those creatures are real I’m real, and I am here to tell you of a story that happened in eons past in the majestic island of Aster. Queen of Merfolk Asteria Ninemia. Marilena Mexi
I have sea foam in my veins, I understand the language of waves. Le Testament d’Orphée
What kind of woman was she anyway to give herself to a man just because of some mangroves and a few birds? Tula Neal
The salt smell of the ocean, sharp and steady, called to her from the window. Looking out, she saw her sisters, the waves, beckoning her with their white arms. Jane Yolen
Maybe I’m still the mermaid. Maybe the ocean is your hand. Kelli Russell Agodon
If you were a mermaid, you said, If you were a mermaid, I was the sea. Francesca Lia Block
I’ve been in the water so much these past few days, I swear I’m growing fins scales. April Mae Monterrosa
I’m always happy when I’m surrounded by water, I think I’m a mermaid or I was a mermaid. The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean. Beyonce Knowles
I was born in the water and I was born of the water. Louise O’Neill
The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. Jacques Yves Cousteau
Vampires were myths, childhood stories as were werewolves, mermaids and dragons. I believed none of it. Ashley Madau
The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure. Cornelia Funke
True pain teaches us to grow. You aren’t finished yet. Dylan needs you. Rebecca Salas
I am the ocean. I am the sea. There is a world inside of me. Bring Me The Horizon
We ride over the cliffs and then the sea, watching mermaids leap in the spangled waves and selkies rolling along the surf. Past the fog perpetually surrounding the islands and concealing them from mortals. Holly Black
I shall always remember how the peacocks tails shimmered when the moon rose amongst the tall trees, and on the shady bank the emerging mermaids gleamed fresh and silvery amongst the rocks. Hermann Hesse
Love does not work in convenience. Or any kind of sense. Maggie Tokuda Hall
I was happy anywhere I could see the ocean. Ai Yazawa
Simidele. Listen to me. I know you will make things right. What is done is done. We cannot change the past, only learn from it. What happens next is up to you. Natasha Bowen
She is a mermaid on dry land and the world is her ocean. J. Iron
Enraptured by an aberration of beauty, I cannot move. I find myself helpless against a woman whose pale lips sing to me. Every note, every hymn that escapes those lips, I want to hear like a story being told to a child. I want to listen to its crinkled page as it turns, but more so, I desired this creature before me. Marilyn Velez
In grave danger of suffocation, the mermaid peeled away from him and emitted a sonar wail that woke drowned sailors from their oyster beds. Kevin Ansbro
Mermaid lore spanned several ancient cultures, in fact, thought to have no connection at all. Ancient Assyrians, ancient Greeks, Celts, Babylonians we are talking almost every culture and continent. Native Americans. Russia, parts of Africa, Australia you name it. Amanda Adam
Mermaids are not the monsters you humans think we are. Sarah Henning
We are the descendants of Agwe and Calypso, conceived in the crescent waves under a crescent moon. Our cousins are the mermaids on the eastern shore, though long ago we chose land and earth over ocean and water. The waves still calls to us, for they remember our long forgotten names. I suppose they always will. C.S.R. Calloway
But I’m a mermaid. We don’t go down with ships we don’t try to conquer the ocean; we swim and flow with the waves, we sink the ships that need to be sunk and we save the people that need to be saved. C. JoyBell C.
Everyone knows they’re only stories. Mermaids aren’t real they’re a legend. As long as humans believe that, Ingo is safe. Helen Dunmore
Darwin may have been quite correct in his theory that man descended from the apes of the forest, but surely woman rose from the frothy sea, as resplendent as Aphrodite on her scalloped chariot. Margot Datz
Fishwives. Fishwidows. And we all set out to be mermaids. Marian Engel
If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning. Tori Amos
A man might as well say that millers and cats and princesses are fabulous animals, because they appear side by side with goblins and mermaids in the stories of the nursery. G.K. Chesterton
I was born in the water and I was born of the water. Louise O’Neill
Of course she died There’s no other way she could have died. If she’d been dying for something, the world would have realized it was a stupid thing, and given her back. Mira Grant
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are an ocean in a drop. Joy N. Hensley
Write like each word is oxygen, each sentance a vital breath. Dezarea Dunn
You are stronger than the tide. Allison Ivy
You steer the ship. I’ll kill the mermaids. Cloey Kinney
She is water, powerful enough to drown you, soft enough to cleanse you, deep enough to heal you. Adrian Michael
Of Mermaids Sure, the preening things are comely enough, but I think any sensible man should prefer his woman be properly bifurcated. Daniel Thorman
Like a mermaid in seaweed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest. John Keats
We have never seen a Zoti Aleyu this new, this small, this fragile. How many who’d been just like this were swallowed whole? Precious pup, we say. We cannot think about its origins. We cannot think of what sickness plagues surface life affairs that they throw living creatures to the sea to die alone. We must not think of the surface dwellers and two legs at all. Only Zoti Aleyu. Rivers Solomon
A mermaid’s heart is the most fragile thing in the sea. Emm Cole
And for a moment you wondered if you were angry you should be angry, you thought, because the water you had played in that had been so blue as a child was covered in silt and piles of strange items, like shipwrecks of trash, and in and among them were the corpses of the mermaids that had once sung you to sleep. Sara Barka
They were beautiful dark lakes in which her thoughts swam about like mermaids. Hans Christian Andersen
But the truth is this the whole world is dangerous for young women like me. There was only one place the Captain trusted I would be safe, and that was the sea. Emma V. R. Noyes
I’ve always been obsessed with things that are half animal and half human like mermaids and Minotaurs because they are trapped in an animal body. And I felt trapped in my own life. Riccardo Tisci
I’m a boss! A diamond in the rough! A Queen of Queens and I do dare say this, a magical and mysterious mermacorn. Helen Edwards
The Siren waits thee, singing song for song. Walter Savage Landor
This continued for many weeks. Sometimes, la sirena would join Suma in her singing, and together, their voices would bring dreams of the sea to the people of the plantation. It was in these moments that Suma could taste freedom. It was then that she began to know love. Vita Ayala
No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren. Henry Taylor
Somehow the sea flowers finished Meg’s despondency. She tucked the glow blooms into her shell corset, and wove the fin fronds into her hair. Then she swam out and enjoyed herself, for she danced to her heart’s content. Megan Lois Whitehill
I am a siren, and for my adoration of mankind, have been caught in fishing nets one time too many. And in those fishing nets I have learned too many unfavorable things about human intentions and the lack of trust and goodwill; I’m not going to allow myself to be caught, anymore. Sirens do well at singing the sirens song and dragging vile people to their deaths, and for good reason! C. JoyBell C.
Where history saddened others, we felt only a glorious, burning anger. We liked the challenge of it. It suited us. Anger was our favorite emotion. We were at home in it. It gave us purpose. Rivers Solomon
Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence someone might possibly have escaped from their singing but from their silence, certainly never. Franz Kafka
Your soul is so bohemian, free and gypsy wild. Come swim with me in the calming sea, let’s be mermaids for awhile. Melody Lee
The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal. Mark Twain
For mermaids are the most unnatural of creatures and their hearts are empty of love. Imogen Hermes Gowar
Old ladies in wheelchairs with blankets over their legs, I don’t think so retired mermaids. Milton Jones
In grave danger of suffocation, the mermaid peeled away from him and emitted
I’ve been in the water so much these past few days, I swear I’m growing fins & scales. April Mae Monterrosa
I think you’ll find since I already love you, your Siren’s serenade will have no effect on me. Dominique Eastwick
I would wanna be a mermaid, but I think I’m a little bit more of a unicorn, because I’m like a little bit more horsey. Blake Lively
First of all, never call a mermaid a fish unless you’re trying to insult her. Tiana Warner
Mermaids don’t drown. Suzanne Palmieri
The salt smell of the ocean, sharp and steady, called to her from the window. Looking out, she saw her sisters, the waves, beckoning her with their white arms. Jane Yolen
Fishwives. Fishwidows. And we all set out to be mermaids. Marian Engel
Mermaids are not the monsters you humans think we are. Sarah Henning
Maybe I’m still the mermaid. Maybe the ocean is your hand. Kelli Russell Agodon
Why do you sleep so late? he asked the mermaid. Because the shadows are pretty and the lights look like stars in the sky said the mermaid. C. JoyBell C.
Aye, tough mermaids are. Blackbeard
He’s harmless. Well, he could do some serious harm with that thing between his legs. For the love of all that’s holy, what am I thinking? Gods, it’s big. Monica La Porta
Oh love, rose made wet by mermaids and foams, fire that dances and climbs up the invisible stairs and awakens the blood in the tunnel of sleeplessness. Pablo Neruda
Call me a proud American, if you want, but I truly believe that no other nation on Earth possesses the capabilities to put on a more powerful display of underwater mermaid patriotism. Dave Barry
She is a mermaid but approach her with caution. Her mind swims at a depth most would drown in. J. Iron
We sail in leaky bottoms and on great and perilous waters; and to take a cue from the dolorous old naval ballad, we have heard the mer maidens singing, and know that we shall never see dry land any more. Old and young, we are all on our last cruise. If there is a fill of tobacco among the crew, for God’s sake pass it round, and let us have a pipe before we go! Robert Louis Stevenson
The mermaid is an archetypal image that represents a woman who is at ease in the great waters of life, the waters of emotion. Anita Johnson
Its appearance is unbeautiful. It is not what people expect of a mermaid. Imogen Hermes Gowar
Why do you sleep so late? he asked the mermaid. Because the shadows are pretty and the lights look like stars in the sky said the mermaid. C. JoyBell C.
The ultimate corner of sugar and toast, where the mermaids catch the branches of the willows and the heart opens to a flute’s sharpness. Federico Garcia Lorca
Emma, I will love you with every breath in my body and beyond my own death. I swear to be your shield, your protector, your worshipper. There is nothing I will deny you. I am yours. Anna Banks
I address you all tonight for who you truly are wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers. Brian Selznick
Are you saying you don’t want me, nymph? Because your pussy is calling you a liar. Setta Jay
Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach? I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.T.S. Eliot
I’m going to wreck you, Rain You’ll be mine completely after this. You may deserve more than you’re getting, but I won’t let go once I’ve had you. Setta Jay
I started early, took my dog, And visited the sea; The mermaids in the basement Came out to look at me. Emily Dickinson
I could never understand the purpose of my kind. They are cruel, heartless beings. And the way they obtain legs is even crueler still. But what can be said about a being who is heartless even though they possess one? Amy Astorga
