Mermaid Quotes, Sayings, Captions
This collection of mermaid quotes describe the enchanting being from the deep blue sea who we all love. In fable and lore, the mermaid’s tale is one of mystery. We hope the wisdom expressed in these sayings provides insight into the aquatic half-woman and her elusive existence.
Enchanting and mysterious mermaid quotes
Let’s start out with some of the best mermaid sayings about life and love.
Mermaid quotes about life
I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
Anais Nin
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.
When mermaids sleep in oceans deep inside their coral caves, they lay their heads on seaweed beds, rocked softly by the waves.
Unknown
About love
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
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
I love the rain because I am a mermaid who lives too far from the sea.
Unknown
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
Romantic creatures
She would be half the world away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by the moonlight.
Janet Fitch
As endless as the ocean, as timeless as the tides.
Unknown
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
I’ll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.
Jeffrey McDaniel
Beauty
Rainbows and mermaids are proof that imagination and beauty go hand in hand.
Unknown
Mermaid ocean quotes
Meet me where the sky touches the sea.
Jennifer Donnelly
The ocean’s roar is music to the soul.
Unknown
I have sea foam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
Le Testament d’Orphée
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
If you were a mermaid, you said, If you were a mermaid, I was the sea.
Francesca Lia Block
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
The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.
Cornelia Funke
I am the ocean. I am the sea. There is a world inside of me.
Bring Me The Horizon
More inspiring ocean quotes and sayings.
Beach
Write your secrets in the sand and trust them with a mermaid.
Unknown
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
I was happy anywhere I could see the ocean.
Ai Yazawa
On land
She is a mermaid on dry land and the world is her ocean.
J. Iron
Mermaids and sailors
Keep being a mermaid in a sea of sailors.
Unknown
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
Mermaids are not the monsters you humans think we are.
Sarah Henning
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.
Positive mermaid quotes
Mermaid: A sea woman who chooses imagination over fear.
Unknown
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 Survival Guide for Landlocked Mermaids
If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.
Tori Amos
Inspirational
Dive deep for the treasure that you seek.
Unknown
There’s a million fish in the sea, but I’m a mermaid.
Unknown
Always be yourself. Unless you can be a mermaid. Then always be a mermaid.
Unknown
I was born in the water and I was born of the water.
Louise O’Neill
Motivational
Make your story so beautiful, mermaids have trouble believing it’s true.
Unknown
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are an ocean in a drop.
Joy N. Hensley
Be a mermaid. Swim fast, wear a crown, and dream big.
Unknown
Strength
You are stronger than the tide.
Allison Ivy
Mermaids don’t lose sleep over the opinions of shrimp.
Unknown
She is water, powerful enough to drown you, soft enough to cleanse you, deep enough to heal you.
Adrian Michael
Dream
We dream in colors borrowed from the sea.
Unknown
Like a mermaid in seaweed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.
John Keats
She dreams of the ocean late at night and longs for the wild salt air.
Unknown
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Mermaid soul sayings
A mermaid’s heart is the most fragile thing in the sea.
Emm Cole
They were beautiful dark lakes in which her thoughts swam about like mermaids.
Hans Christian Andersen
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
Siren
The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
Walter Savage Landor
No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.
Henry Taylor
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.
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
Mermaid tears
O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note, to drown me in thy sister’s flood of tears.
William Shakespeare
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Funny mermaid quotes
The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.
Mark Twain
Old ladies in wheelchairs with blankets over their legs, I don’t think so…retired mermaids.
Milton Jones
Cute sayings
I’ve been in the water so much these past few days, I swear I’m growing fins & scales.
April Mae Monterrosa
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
Short quotes
Mermaids don’t drown.
Suzanne Palmieri
Fishwives. Fishwidows. And we all set out to be mermaids.
Marian Engel
A smooth sea never made a skilled mermaid.
Unknown
Maybe I’m still the mermaid.
Maybe the ocean is your hand.
Kelli Russell Agodon
Aye, tough mermaids are.
Blackbeard
Mystic mermaid quotes
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, Moby-Dick
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
She is a mermaid but approach her with caution. Her mind swims at a depth most would drown in.
J. Iron
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
“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
I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.
Brian Selznick
Poetry and poems
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 started early, took my dog, And visited the sea; The mermaids in the basement Came out to look at me
Emily Dickinson
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
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.
T. S. Eliot
Mermaid quotes from books and movies
The Little Mermaid book sayings
It was the last night that she would breathe the same air as he, or look out over the deep sea and up into the star-blue heaven. A dreamless, eternal night awaited her, for she had no soul and had not been able to win one.
Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid and Other Tales
Because she could not go near all these wonderful things, she longed for them all the more.
Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid and Other Tales
When a storm was coming on, and they anticipated that a ship might sink, they swam before it, and sang most sweetly of the delight to be found beneath the water, begging the seafarers not to be afraid of coming down below.
Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid and Other Tales
She had never danced so elegantly before. Her tender feet felt as if cut with sharp knives, but she cared not for it; a sharper pang had pierced through her heart.
Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid and Other Tales
Nothing gave her so much pleasure as to hear about the world above the sea. She made her old grandmother tell her all she knew of the ships and of the towns, the people and the animals.
Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid and Other Tales
The Little Mermaid movie quotes
Who says that my dreams, have to stay, just my dreams?
Ariel, The Little Mermaid
I don’t see how a world that makes such wonderful things could be bad.
Ariel, The Little Mermaid
The waves obey my every whim!
Ursula, The Little Mermaid
Teenagers. They think they know everything. You give them an inch, they swim all over you.
Sebastian, The Little Mermaid
Isn’t this great? The salty sea air, the wind blowing in your face. A perfect day to be at sea!
Eric, The Little Mermaid
Now I am the ruler of all the ocean! The waves obey my every whim!
Ursula, The Little Mermaid
I consider myself a reasonable merman.
King Triton, The Little Mermaid
The human world is a mess. Life under the sea is better than anything they got up there.
Sebastian, The Little Mermaid
Ariel, please! Will you get your head out of the clouds and back in the water where it belongs?
Sebastian, The Little Mermaid
If you want to cross the bridge, my sweet, you’ve got to pay the toll.
Ursula, The Little Mermaid
Life under the sea is better than anything they got up there.
Sebastian, The Little Mermaid
As long as you live under my ocean, you’ll obey my rules.
King Triton, The Little Mermaid
Boy, what a soft shell I’m turning out to be.
Sebastian, The Little Mermaid
So much for true love!
Ursula, The Little Mermaid
Pirates of the Caribbean mermaid quotes
Mermaid waters, that be our path.
Captain Hector Barbossa, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
There’ll be dangers along the way, firstly mermaids, zombies, Blackbeard.
Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Two silver chalices, the teardrop of a mermaid, and water from the fountain. One chalice will contain the tear, the other will not. Whoever drinks from the chalice with the tear will have their life extended, from the person who drinks from the other chalice…
Angelica, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
You’re the one who insisted on bringing the bloody mermaid!
Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Peter Pan mermaid quotes
I’ll think of a mermaid lagoon, underneath a magic moon.
Wendy, Peter Pan movie
She was often at the lagoon, however, on sunny days after rain, when the mermaids come up in extraordinary numbers to play with their bubbles. The bubbles of many colours made in rainbow water they treat as balls, hitting them gaily from one to another with their tails, and trying to keep them in the rainbow till they burst.
J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
by and by there was to be heard a sound at once the most musical and the most melancholy in the world: the mermaids calling to the moon.
J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
Mermaid captions for Instagram
Use these captions with your mermaid photos on social media sites like Instagram.
- Always be a mermaid.
- Call me on my shell phone.
- Mom of the mermaid.
- I’m done adulting. Let’s be mermaids.
- Majestically awkward, like a mermaid on land.
- Secretly a mermaid.
- Mermaid life.
- All men beware!
- Life is better under the sea.
- I’m really a mermaid!
- Mer-momma.
- Mermaids are real.
- Be a mermaid and make waves.
- Mermaid hair don’t care.
- Soul of a mermaid.
- Get off my tail.
- Aim to be mer-mazing.
- Mermaid at heart.
- Salty attitude.
- I washed up like this.
- I was going to change the world, but today I’ll just be a mermaid.
- Mermaid in training.
- Meet me under the sea.
- Off-duty mermaid.
- I don’t want to be where the people are.
- Mermaid in America.
- This is what a mermaid looks like.
- Swim with mermaids.
- Mermaid for life.
- Salty sea witch.
- Part-time mermaid.
- I can’t run. I’m a mermaid.
- Mermaid at heart.
- Have you ever kissed a mermaid?
- Mermaid kisses, starfish wishes.
How to use these mermaid quotes
Discover new ways to use your favorite mermaid quotes. Here are a few ideas to get you started:
- For birthday – Add mermaid birthday wishes to your birthday card or birthday cake. Throw a mermaid-themed birthday party, with Little Mermaid decor and party favors.
- For nursery – Decorate the walls of your nursery with your favorite mermaid quote. Find a message that best suits your baby girl or boy to display artfully.
- For special occasions – Celebrate your love for mermaids by incorporating mermaid quotes in your wedding and holidays like Christmas, Halloween, and Valentine’s Day.
- For tattoo – Use a great saying from this list to create a mermaid tattoo.
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By Greg Johnson | Published 7/29/2021
