2. “Where there’s water, we find mermaids. Maybe it’s time we started asking ourselves exactly why that is.” – Mira Grant
3. “I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.” – Anais Nin
4. “I’m going to change the world but today, I’ll just be a mermaid.” – Anonymous
5. “She is a mermaid but approach her with caution. Her mind swims at a depth most would drown in.” – J. Iron
6. “The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.” – Jacques Yves Cousteau
7. “Like a mermaid in seaweed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.” – John Keats
8. “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
9. “The difference between a miracle and a fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.” – Mark Twain
10. “But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.” – Hans Christian Andersen
11. “If you were a mermaid, you said, if you were a mermaid, I was the sea.” – Francesca Lia Block
12. “I sat upon a promontory, and heard a mermaid on a dolphin’s back. Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath. That the rude sea grew civil at her song; and certain stars shot madly from their spheres, to hear the sea-maid’s music.” – William Shakespeare
13. “There are people all over the world who carry the mermaid inside them.” – Carolyn Turgeon
14. “Your soul is so bohemian, free, and gypsy wild. Come swim with me in the calming sea, let’s be mermaids for a while.” – Melody Lee
15. “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
16. “I just love mermaids. I was a mermaid in my past life. I just feel it when I go in the sea.” – Ella Henderson
17. “The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.” – Cornelia Funke
18. “I’ll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall.” – William Shakespeare
19. “Newly come from the river, she knew nothing. She was a mermaid who had lost her way.” – Pablo Neruda
20. “If you are curious you might never come home, like all the men who now live with mermaids at the bottom of the sea. Or the people who found Atlantis.” – Jeanette Winterson
21. “Mermaids are not the monsters you humans think we are.” – Sarah Henning
22. “They were beautiful dark lakes in which her thoughts swam about like mermaids.” – Hans Christian Andersen
23. “The sea waves stirred before me; they dashed against the rocks. Like a mermaid rising from its depths, curled white sea foam were her lock.” – Giselle V. Steele
24. “You’ve never tasted salty air on your tongue or waved heartily at a mermaid!” – Gideon Defoe
25. “Mermaid tears were treasure, meant to be guarded close to one’s heart. They brought wishes of true love and kept you safe.” – Kerry Lonsdale
26. “And then I cried a flood of tears as if I really were a mermaid who had absorbed too much sea into herself.” – Francesca Lia Block
27. “Mermaids don’t lose sleep over the opinions of shrimp.” – Anonymous
28. “Maybe I would become a mermaid—my fingernails would be tiny shells and my skin would be like a jade with light shining through it. I would never have to come back up.” – Francesca Lia Block
29. “Way down to the bottom of the ocean to find where the mermaids sang, each to each. Where there was danger and beauty and light.” – Marisha Pessl
30. “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
31. “What you have to understand about the mermaid legend is that it’s universal. No matter where you go, the mermaids got there first.” – Mira Grant
32. “I have seen them riding seaward on the waves. Combing the white hair of the waves blown back. When the wind blows the water white and black.” – T.S. Eliot
33. “Be a mermaid who doesn’t stop until she makes tidal waves. Be a mermaid who knows to stop before she devastates the world with her.” – Amanda Lovelace
34. “The safest way to get what you want is to deserve what you want.” – Charlie Munger
35. “When you love someone completely, you’ll do anything to protect them, even if you sacrifice your soul. Because if you don’t, you destroy your soul anyway.” – Joey W. Hill
36. “She is water, powerful enough to drown you, soft enough to cleanse you, deep enough to heal you.” – Adrian Michael
37. “We are the glamorous mermaids in the ocean that offers us another magical journey.” – Cinda Swalley
38. “One day, in its own time, the ocean will give her back.” – Anonymous
39. “The last thing they want is for you to thrive in your habitat because they stand in their atmosphere where they beg and gasp for some air.” – C. JoyBell C.
40. “I thought of Atargatis, the first, frightening and beautiful. The mermaid goddess who lived on in the soul of every woman who’d ever fallen in love with the ocean.” – Sarah Ockler
41. “There’s always a woman somewhere, child; a princess, a witch, a , a mermaid, a fairy godmother, or one as wicked as she is beautiful, or as beautiful as she is good.” – Jeanette Winterson
42. “Make your story so beautiful, mermaids have trouble believing it’s true.” – R.I.D
43. “But, all the magic I have known I’ve had to make myself.” –
44. “Write your secrets in the sand and trust them with a mermaid.” – Anonymous
45. “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
46. “The turquoise tide shimmered in shades of mermaid tails against the alabaster shore.” – Karen Marie Moning
47. “Maybe I’m still the mermaid. Maybe the ocean is your hand.” – Kelli Russell Agodon
48. “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
49. “Rainbows and mermaids are proof that imagination and beauty go hand in hand.” – Anonymous
50. “She dreams of the ocean late at night and longs for the wild salt air.” – Hannah Fraser
51. “Walking through this life half-sleeping, everything at arm’s length or farther away. I understood those mermaids. I didn’t care if they sang to me.” – Sarah Densen
52. “The mermaids came to me finally, in the pink hours of my existence. They are my consolation.” – Sue Monk Kidd
53. “I’ll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.” – Jeffrey McDaniel
54. “Be a mermaid. Swim fast, wear a crown, and dream big.” – Anonymous
55. “Like a mermaid rising from an ocean of paper, the girl emerged across the room.” – Brian Selznick
56. “Don’t interrupt. She knows words that mermaids taught her. I’m falling asleep in order to hear her.” – Fernando Pessoa
57. “Always be yourself. Unless you can be a mermaid. Then, always be a mermaid.” – Anonymous
58. “And I am here, the mermaid whose dark hair streams black, the merman in his armored body.” – Adrienne Rich
59. “She would be half the world away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by the moonlight.” – Janet Fitch
60. “I love water and you said, you thought a mermaid, maybe.” – Francesca Lia Block
61. “I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.” – T.S. Eliot
62. “A mermaid found a swimming lad, picked him up for her own.” – William Butler Yeats
63. “My ocean is bluer than the heart you had to break; my sea is deeper than your lake.” – Emilie Autumn
64. “I know a sad little mermaid dwelling in the ocean. Softly, gently blowing her heart into a wooden flute.” – Forugh Farrokhzad
65. “O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note, to drown me in thy sister’s flood of tears.” – William Shakespeare
66. “Ebbing and flowing and pushed by a breeze. I live to make you free.” – Gregory and the Hawk
67. “We have lingered in the chambers of the sea by sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown. Till human voices wake us—and we drown.” – T.S. Eliot
68. “If the bards of old the true has told the Sirens have raven hair. But over the earth, since art had birth, they paint the angels fair.” – L.M. Montgomery
69. “Souls of poets dead and gone, what Elysium has yet known. Happy field or mossy cavern, choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? Have ye tippled drink more fine than mine host’s Canary wine?” – John Keats
70. “Pressed her body to his body, laughed, and plunging down. Forgot in cruel happiness that even lovers drown.” – William Butler Yeats
71. “As the sunlight flickered along her scales, the mermaid shimmered.” – Lisa Thompson
72. “I often have the fantasy that curly girls are mermaids who have had to adapt to life on dry land. We come from the sea.” – Lorraine Massey
73. “Six pull-tabs lay in the ashtray like scales from a mermaid.” – Haruki Murakami
74. “I always wanted to be a mermaid but I never saw the sea.” – Renee Thebeau
75. “Mermaid, a sea woman who chooses imagination over fear.” – Anonymous
76. “The stars twinkled above her brilliantly, representing all of the beautiful laws of the universe.” – Keira D. Skye
77. “It is rooted deep in your bones; the water calls out to you until it causes you physical pain unless you come to it.” – Nadia Scrieva
78. “If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.” – Tori Amos
79. “She is a mermaid on dry land and the world is her ocean.” – J. Iron
80. “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
81. “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
82. “I was born in the water and I was born of the water.” – Louise O’Neill
83. “I am the ocean. I am the sea. There is a world inside of me.” – Bring Me The Horizon
84. “No Siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the Siren.” – Henry Taylor
85. “Mermaid lore spanned several ancient cultures, in fact, thought to have no connection at all.” – Amanda Adam
86. “First of all, never call a mermaid a fish unless you’re trying to insult her.” – Tiana Warner
87. “We gave you an atomic bomb, what do you want, mermaids?” – Isidor Isaac Rabi
88. “My advice—don’t go eating random herbs unless you want to turn into that guy from The Little Mermaid.” – Rick Riordan
89. “Since the 1950s, rural Florida has marketed itself to Northerners and Midwesterners as an unexplored paradise of citrus and mermaids.” – Anne Hull
90. “If the mermaid had been an idealized projection of a human woman onto a marine mammal, she would have looked different every time.” – Mira Grant
91. “If your thighs touch, you’re closer to being a mermaid.” – Anonymous
92. “I’ve got a swimming pool and I pretend to be like a mermaid, like in the middle of the night. It kind of de-stresses me.” – Rebel Wilson
93. “The first rule of cannibal mermaid fight club is don’t talk about cannibal mermaid fight club.” – Kali Wallace
94. “Now and then a giggling trail of mermaids appeared in our wake. We fed them oatmeal.” – Tove Jansson
95. “I’m always happy when I’m surrounded by water, I think I’m a mermaid or I was a mermaid.” – Beyonce Knowles
96. “Managing a league club is like making love to a mermaid—you should always be aiming for a top-half finish.” – Ian Holloway
97. “Cowards marry fish-head mermaids!” – Super Mario
98. “It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.” – Hunter S. Thompson
99. “I’ve been in the water so much these past few days, I swear I’m growing fins and scales.” – April Mae Monterrosa
100. “We have trained all the famous mer-heroes! Name a famous mer-hero, and we have trained him or her!” – Rick Riordan
101. “Aim to be mer-mazing.” – Anonymous
102. “The ocean’s roar is music to the soul.” – Anonymous
103. “We dream in colors borrowed from the sea.” – Anonymous
104. “You are stronger than the tide.” – Allison Ivy
105. “I was happy anywhere I could see the ocean.” – Ai Yazawa
106. “I felt a little like a mermaid, rendered voiceless by her own longing.” – Seanan McGuire
107. “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are an ocean in a drop.” – Joy N. Hensley
108. “Meet me where the sky touches the sea.” – Jennifer Donnelly
109. “Let the sea set you free.” – Anonymous
110. “As endless as the ocean, as timeless as the tides.” – Anonymous
111. “Be a mermaid and make waves.” – Anonymous
112. “I’m done adulting. Let’s be mermaids.” – Anonymous
113. “You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” – Rabindranath Tagore
114. “I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.” – Le Testament d’Orphée
115. “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
116. “The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.” – Walter Savage Landor
117. “Mississippi Mermaid was a very special experience because we only had the dialogues for the scenes we were shooting the night before.” – Catherine Deneuve
118. “I have also always wanted to be a sultry mermaid or a badass fairy.” – Katrina Law
119. “It was really rather irritating to children who had never seen a mermaid.” – James M. Barrie
120. “Old ladies in wheelchairs with blankets over their legs, I don’t think so—retired mermaids.” – Milton Jones
121. “I sing the small sea Siren who sings to you, riding her bicycle of corals and conches. The light that blinds our eyes is not art. Rather it is love, friendship, crossed swords.” – Federico Garcia Lorca
122. “Clark Gable was the first to have called me a mermaid.” – Esther Williams
123. “I think I was a mermaid and I used to swim the shores or Hawaii and used to pop up and see coconuts and pineapples everywhere.” – Ella Henderson
124. “I was all in gold sequins for Million Dollar Mermaid, 50 feet in the air.” – Esther Williams
125. “Sirens lurk in the dark depths of the pupils as they lurk at the bottom of the sea.” – Jean Lorrain
126. “Maybe when I die and I’m thrown overboard, I’ll turn into a mermaid.” – Aoife O’Donovan
127. “I love the rain because I am a mermaid who lives too far from the sea.” – Anonymous
128. “Nobody wants to admit that mermaids who survive the dangers of the ocean can still be defeated by their own pain.” – Emm Cole
129. “Any soul you are attached to is a mermaid for you because it slowly pulls you into the pond of its bad Karma.” – Shunya
130. “There’s a million fish in the sea, but I’m a mermaid.” – Anonymous
131. “History is the Siren song of the soul.” –
132. “When mermaids sleep in oceans deep inside their coral caves, they lay their heads on seaweed beds, rocked softly by the waves.” – Anonymous
133. “Aye, tough mermaids are, a lot of them.” – Blackbeard
134. “I don’t see how a world that makes such wonderful things could be bad.” – Ariel
135. “Who says that my dreams have to stay my dreams?” – Ariel
136. “What would I pay to spend a day warm on the sand?” – Ariel
137. “Someday I’ll be part of your world.” – Ariel
138. “Life is the bubbles, under the sea.” – Sebastian
139. “You’re not getting cold fins now, are you?” – Ariel
140. “I want to be where the people are.” – Ariel
141. “Be a mermaid in a sea of fish.” – Anonymous
142. “A smooth sea never made a skilled mermaid.” – Anonymous
143. “Dive deep for the treasure that you seek.” – Anonymous
144. “All you need is sea and sand and a cocktail in hand.” – Anonymous
145. “A siren needs her coffee before a long day of wrecking ships and drowning men.” – Anonymous
146. “She is tossed by the waves but she does not sink.” – Anonymous
147. “She heard mermaids, so it follows that there is something rotten in the state of Denmark.” – Diana Wynne Jones
148. “Sirens do well at singing the Sirens’ song and dragging vile people to their deaths, and for good reason!” – C. JoyBell C.
149. “And unless I’m remembering it wrong, mermaids don’t sing and Sirens don’t swim.” – Kelley Armstrong
