If you’re headed to the beach and need a caption to pair with that perfect photo, we’ve done all the work for you with this compilation of our favorite beach quotes. We love the being at beach, and our list of inspirational puns and captions will help you cherish those wonderful summer memories.
Cute Beach Puns
1. “Feeling fintastic.”
2. “If you need me, call me on my shell.”
3. “The ocean made me salty.”
4. “Love the beach. Can I be any more Pacific?”
5. “Whale, hello there.”
6. “Don’t let the bad vibes tide you down.”
7. “Seas the day.”
8. “Fresh to depth.”
9. “Avoid pier pressure.”
10. “Water you doing?”
11. “Sea la vie.”
12. “Happy as a clam!”
13. “Long time no sea.”
14. “Tropic like it’s hot.”
15. “Sorry, I’m octopied.”
16. “You’re one in a watermelon.”
17. “Please excuse my resting beach face.”
18. “Beach you to it.”
19. “All you need is a good dose of vitamin sea.”
20. “Talk to the palm.”
21. “Hanging with my gull-friends.”
22. “No one likes a shady beach.”
23. “A change in latitude helps my attitude.”
Awesome Beach Quotes
24. “If everyone could just live near the ocean, I think we’d all be happier. It’s hard to be down about anything knee-deep in the sand.” – Crystal Woods
25. “In the summertime, when the weather is hot. You can stretch right up and touch the sky.” – Mango Terry
26. “Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.” – Brian Wilson
27. “Drinking on a beach with you all over me” – Taylor Swift
28. “In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.” – Kahlil Gibran
29. “One day, all your worries will set like the sun does and deserved happiness will come gushing like waves at the beach do. All you need to make sure is that your trips to beach never end.” – Jasleen Kaur Gumber
30. “At the beach, life is different. Time doesn’t move hour to hour. We live by the currents, plan by the tides and follow the sun.” – Sandy Gingras
31. “Oh I do like to be beside the seaside! Oh I do like to be beside the sea! … So just let me be beside the seaside! I’ll be beside myself with glee!” – John Glover-Kind
32. “To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.” – Jeanne Moreau
33. “Sunset is so marvelous that even the sun itself watches it every day in the reflections of the infinite oceans!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan
34. “I still love things that you don’t even need to pay for. Going to the beach and being around five of your friends and having a good time means so much more than going out and spending hundreds of dollars.” – Maria Sharapova
35. “Baby, you summertime fine.” – J. Cole
Quotes About Beaches
36. “The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.” – Henry Beston
37. “No words can express, The depth of her contentment, As she walks along the beach. As the waves lap against the shores, They create the rhythm of her life. Balmy breeze kiss, Her sun-bronzed skin, And she wonders… Could there ever be a greater destiny, Than to be born with a love, For the treasures of the sea? Here, she is home.” – Suzy Toronto
38. “To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.” – Isaac Newton
39. “In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand, there is the story of the earth.” – Rachel Carson
40. “Dance with the waves, move with the sea. Let the rhythm of the water set your soul free.” – Christy Ann Martine
41. “The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul.” – Robert Wyland
42. “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
43. “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
44. “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
Beach Life Quotes
45. “I can see us holding hands, walking on the beach, our toes in the sand. ” – Justin Timberlake
46. “Every time I stand before a beautiful beach, its waves seem to whisper to me: If you choose the simple things and find joy in nature’s simple treasures, life and living need not be so hard.” – Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
47. “After a visit to the beach, it’s hard to believe that we live in a material world.” – Pam Shaw
48. “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 that is bewildered and confused.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
49. “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
50. “For her, the ocean was more than a dream, it was a place she needed to visit to find herself. And when she returned to the city, you could see the sun in her eyes, the wind in her hair, and taste the infinite salt in her lips.” – Jose Chavez
51. “You never really know what’s coming. A small wave, or maybe a big one. All you can really do is hope that when it comes, you can surf over it, instead of drown in its monstrosity.” – Alysha Speer
Short Quotes
52. “At the beach – time you enjoyed wasting, is not wasted.” – T. S. Eliot
53. “”Meet me where the sky touches the sea.” – Jennifer Donnelly
54. “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
55. “My life is like a stroll upon the beach, as near to the ocean’s edge as I can go.” – Henry David Thoreau
56. “We’re devoting full time to floating.” – Sebastian, The Little Mermaid
57. “Follow the river and you’ll reach the sea.” – French Proverb
58. “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.” – Rumi
59. “If there’s heaven for me, I’m sure it has a beach attached to it.” – Jimmy Buffet
60. “Only worry in the world is the tide gonna reach my chair.” – Zac Brown Band
61. “You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.” – Jon Kabat-Zan
62. “The waves of the sea help me get back to me.” – Jill Davis
63. “Every time I slip into the ocean, it’s like going home.” – Sylvia Earle
64. “Individually we are one drop. Together we are an ocean.” – Ryunosuke Satoro
65. “Catch a wave and you’re sitting on top of the world.” – The Beach Boys
66. “Castles made of sand, fall in the sea, eventually.” – Jimi Hendrix
67. “Smell the sea, and feel the sky, let your soul and spirits fly.” – Van Morrison
68. “The sea lives in every one of us.” – Robert Wyland
69. “Like a sandcastle, all is temporary. Build it, tend it, enjoy it. And when the time comes, let it go.” – Jack Kornfield
70. “The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.” – Pamela Hansford Johnson
71. “To escape and sit quietly on the beach – that’s my idea of paradise.” – Emilia Wickstead
72. “I like anywhere with a beach. A beach and warm weather is all I really need.” – Rob Gronkowski
Funny Captions
73. “I stayed up all night to see where the sun went, and then it dawned on me.”
74. “I don’t want to be tide down.”
75. “The tans will fade, but the memories will last forever.”
76. “I am having a whale of a time.”
77. “I’m going to change the world, but today I’ll just be a mermaid.”
78. “I’m an aquaholic.”
79. “If you’re not barefoot, then you’re overdressed.”
80. “Feeling stressed? There’s a beach for that.”
81. “You’re the piña to my colada.”
82. “Life takes you down many paths but my favorite ones lead to the beach.”
83. “The beach is not a place to work; to read, write or to think.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
84. “Give me coffee to change the things I can, and the beach to accept the things I can’t.” – Anonymous
85. “I’d take that ocean sunset over diamonds any day.”
86. “B.E.A.C.H. – Best Escape Anyone Can Have.”
87. “Refresh and reinvigorate.”
88. “The smell of the ocean never gets old.”
89. “I think it’s time for a trip to the beach.”
90. “Sometimes you just have to go with the waves.”
91. “Life is better in flip-flops.”
92. “Beach hair, don’t care…”
93. “Beach More Worry Less.”
94. “The breeze, the sun, the saltwater, the sand… there’s no better way to spend our summer days.”
95. “Hey, the ocean called. It wants its waves back.”
96. “All I want is to watch some waves roll in.”
97. “Life is simple – just add water.”
98. “Saltwater cures all wounds.”
99. “Time spent at the beach is never wasted.”
100. “Summer goal: Become a mermaid.”
101. “No shoes, no shirt, no problem.”
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