150 Mermaid Quotes for Instagram To Inspire You

Mermaids have captured our imaginations for centuries. They are the perfect blend of beauty and strength, and they remind us to follow our dreams. If you’re looking for some inspiration, check out these 150 mermaid quotes that will make you want to dive into the ocean!

Mermaid Quotes

1. “She dreams of the ocean late at night and longs for the wild salt air.” – Unknown
2. “Make your story so beautiful, mermaids have trouble believing it’s true.” ― R.I.D.
3. “I’ll think of a mermaid lagoon, underneath a magic moon.” – Wendy, Peter Pan movie
4. “Maybe I’m still the mermaid. Maybe the ocean is your hand.” — Kelli Russell Agodon.
5. “As the sunlight flickered along her scales, the mermaid shimmered.” — Lisa Thompson.
6. “I am the ocean. I am the sea. There is a world inside of me.” – Bring Me The Horizon
7. “Always be yourself. Unless you can be a mermaid. Then always be a mermaid.” – Unknown
8. “Maybe I’m still the mermaid.” – Maybe the ocean is your hand.” – Kelli Russell Agodon
9. “I’ll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall.” ― William Shakespeare, ‘King Henry VI’.
10. “She dreams of the ocean late at night and longs for the wild salt air.” ― Hannah Fraser.
11. “I have sea foam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.” ― Le Testament d’Orphée
12. You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. — Rabindranath Tagore
13. “I felt a little like a mermaid, rendered voiceless by her own longing.” — Seanan McGuire.
14. “I have sea foam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.” – Le Testament d’Orphée
15. “There are people all over the world who carry the mermaid inside them.” — Carolyn Turgeon.
16. “She is water, powerful enough to drown you, soft enough to cleanse you.” ― Adrian Michael.
17. “As long as you live under my ocean, you’ll obey my rules.” – King Triton, The Little Mermaid
18. “The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.” ― Cornelia Funke
19. “You’ve never tasted salty air on your tongue or waved heartily at a mermaid!” — Gideon Defoe.
20. “If you were a mermaid, you said, If you were a mermaid, I was the sea.” – Francesca Lia Block
21. “The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.” – Cornelia Funke
22. “First of all, never call a mermaid a fish unless you’re trying to insult her.” – Tiana Warner
23. “I must be a Mermaid. I have no fear of depth and a great fear of shallow living.” ― Anias Nin.
24. The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. — Jacques Yves Cousteau
25. Dear Ocean, thanks for making us feel tiny, humble, inspired, and salty… all at once. — Unknown
26. “Like a mermaid in seaweed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.” – John Keats
27. “Like a mermaid rising from an ocean of paper, the girl emerged across the room.” — Brian Selznick.
28. “The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.” – Jacques Yves Cousteau
29. “Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.” ― John Keats.
30. “The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.” — Jacques Yves Cousteau.
31. “We are the glamorous mermaids in the ocean that offers us another magical journey.” — Cinda Swalley.

Little Mermaid Quotes

1. “So long, lover boy!” – Ursula (The Little Mermaid)
2. “Don’t be such a guppy.” – Ariel (The Little Mermaid)
3. “What’s that word again?” – Ariel (The Little Mermaid)
4. “So much for true love!” – Ursula (The Little Mermaid)
5. “Poor unfortunate souls!” – Ursula (The Little Mermaid)
6. “The waves obey my every whim!” – Ursula (The Little Mermaid)
7. “No more talking, singing. Zip!” – Ursula (The Little Mermaid)
8. “Babies! My poor little poopsies.” – Ursula (The Little Mermaid)
9. “The human world, it’s a mess.” – Sebastian (The Little Mermaid)
10. “Life’s full of tough choices, isn’t it?” – Ursula (The Little Mermaid)
11. “We mustn’t lurk in doorways. It’s rude.” – Ursula (The Little Mermaid)
12. “You’re not getting cold fins now, are you?” – Ariel (The Little Mermaid)
13. “Geez, man. I’m surrounded by amateurs.” – Sebastian (The Little Mermaid)
14. “Who says that my dreams have to stay my dreams?” ― Ariel (The Little Mermaid)
15. “You can’t get something for nothing, you know.” – Ursula (The Little Mermaid)
16. “What would I pay to spend a day warm on the sand.” ― Ariel (The Little Mermaid)
17. “Boy, what a soft shell I’m turning out to be.” – Sebastian (The Little Mermaid)
18. “Well, it’s time Ursula took matters into her own tentacles!” – Ursula (The Little Mermaid)
19. “I don’t see how a world that makes such wonderful things could be bad.” – Ariel (The Little Mermaid)
20. “She laughed and danced with the thought of death in her heart.” ― Hans Christian Andersen (The Little Mermaid)
21. “This has got to be, without a doubt, the single most humiliating day of my life.” – Sebastian (The Little Mermaid)
22. “Teenagers. They think they know everything. You give them an inch, they swim all over you.” – Sebastian (The Little Mermaid)
23. “You got your own style, now let it shine through and remember no matter what, you’ve got to be you.” ― Sebastian (The Little Mermaid)

Short Mermaid Quotes

1. Let the sea set you free. — Unknown
2. “Aye, tough mermaids are.” – Blackbeard
3. “Mermaids don’t drown.” – Suzanne Palmieri
4. I’m done adulting. Let’s be mermaids. — Unknown
5. “You are stronger than the tide.” ― Allison Ivy
6. “A smooth sea never made a skilled mermaid.” – Unknown
7. Trippin’ on skies, sippin’ on waterfalls. — Troye Sivan
8. “But a mermaid has no tears.” ― Hans Christian Andersen.
9. “People want to believe in mermaids.” — Christina Henry.
10. “I was happy anywhere I could see the ocean.” ― Ai Yazawa
11. Meet me where the sky touches the sea. — Jennifer Donnelly
12. “The sea always filled her with longing.” ― Cornelia Funke.
13. As endless as the ocean, as timeless as the tides. — Unknown
14. “Meet me where the sky touches the sea.” – Jennifer Donnelly
15. There’s a million fish in the see, but I’m a mermaid. — Unknown
16. Be a mermaid. Swim fast, wear a crown, and dream big. — Unknown
17. Mermaids don’t lose sleep over the opinions of shrimp. — Unknown
18. “There’s a million fish in the sea, but I’m a mermaid.” – Unknown
19. “Be a mermaid. Swim fast, wear a crown, and dream big.” – Unknown
20. “Mermaids don’t lose sleep over the opinions of shrimp.” – Unknown
21. “One day, in its own time, the ocean will give her back.” ― Unknown
22. “Mermaid: A sea woman who chooses imagination over fear.” – Unknown
23. “She is a mermaid on dry land and the world is her ocean.” – J. Iron
24. “A mermaid’s heart is the most fragile thing in the sea.” – Emm Cole
25. “The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.” – Walter Savage Landor
26. Write your secrets in the sand and trust them with a mermaid. — Unknown
27. “I was born in the water and I was born of the water.” – Louise O’Neill
28. “Mermaids are not the monsters you humans think we are.” – Sarah Henning
29. “Write your secrets in the sand and trust them with a mermaid.” – Unknown
30. I’m going to change the world but today, I’ll just be a mermaid. — Unknown
31. “If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.” – Tori Amos
32. “Fishwives. Fishwidows. And we all set out to be mermaids.” – Marian Engel
33. “I consider myself a reasonable merman.” – King Triton, The Little Mermaid
34. “If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.” — Tori Amos.
35. “I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.” ― T. S. Eliot.
36. She dreams of the ocean late at night and longs for the wild salt air. —Unknown
37. “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are an ocean in a drop.” ― Joy N. Hensley

Mermaid Quotes For Birthday

1. She is a mermaid but approach her with caution. Her mind swims at a depth most would drown in. — J. Iron
2. “She would be half the world away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by the moonlight.” ― Janet Fitch.
3. “They were beautiful dark lakes in which her thoughts swam about like mermaids.” – Hans Christian Andersen
4. “I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.” – T. S. Eliot
5. “Mermaid waters, that be our path.” – Captain Hector Barbossa, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
6. “The turquoise tide shimmered in shades of mermaid tails against the alabaster shore.” ― Karen Marie Moning.
7. “And I am here, the mermaid whose dark hair streams black, the merman in his armored body.” — Adrienne Rich.
8. “Old ladies in wheelchairs with blankets over their legs, I don’t think so…retired mermaids.” – Milton Jones
9. “I’ll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.” ― Jeffrey McDaniel.
10. “The mermaids came to me finally, in the pink hours of my existence. They are my consolation.”― Sue Monk Kidd.
11. “I just love mermaids. I was a mermaid in my past life. I just feel it when I go in the sea.” ― Ella Henderson.
12. “I’ve been in the water so much these past few days, I swear I’m growing fins & scales.” – April Mae Monterrosa
13. “O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note, to drown me in thy sister’s flood of tears.” – William Shakespeare
14. “The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.” – Mark Twain
15. “She is water, powerful enough to drown you, soft enough to cleanse you, deep enough to heal you.” – Adrian Michael
16. “She is a mermaid on dry land and the world is her ocean. Her mind swims at a depth most would drown in.” ― J. Iron.
17. “The stars twinkled above her brilliantly, representing all of the beautiful laws of the universe.” — Keira D. Skye.
18. “Where there’s water, we find mermaids. Maybe it’s time we started asking ourselves exactly why that is.” — Mira Grant.
19. “Any soul you are attached to is a mermaid for you because it slowly pulls you into the pond of its bad Karma.” — Shunya.
20. “I started early, took my dog, And visited the sea; The mermaids in the basement Came out to look at me” – Emily Dickinson
21. “No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.” – Henry Taylor
22. “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
23. “Nobody wants to admit that mermaids who survive the dangers of the ocean can still be defeated by their own pain.” ― Emm Cole.
24. “Ariel, please! Will you get your head out of the clouds and back in the water where it belongs?” – Sebastian, The Little Mermaid
25. “You’re the one who insisted on bringing the bloody mermaid!” – Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
26. “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.
27. “There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.”
28. “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.

Mermaid Quotes For Baby Girl

1. “You got your own style, now let it shine through and remember no matter what, you’ve got to be you.” ― Sebastian (The Little Mermaid)
2. “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.
3. “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
4. “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.
5. “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
6. “There’ll be dangers along the way, firstly mermaids, zombies, Blackbeard.” – Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
7. “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.
8. “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.
9. “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.
10. “I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.” – Brian Selznick
11. “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.
12.  “I love water and you said, you thought a mermaid, maybe. If you were a mermaid, you said, if you were a mermaid, I was the sea.” ― Francesca Lia Block.
13. “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
14. “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
15. “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.
16. “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
17. “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, ‘Night Film’.
18. “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
19. ““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.
20. “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
21. “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.
22. “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
23. “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.
24. “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, ‘All The Breaking Waves’.
25. “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
26. “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.
27. “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.
28. “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
29. “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.
30. “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.
31. “I couldn’t imagine living in a state that didn’t reach the ocean. It was a giant reset button. You could go to the edge of the land and see infinity and feel renewed.” ― Avery Sawyer
32. “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
33. “Don’t interrupt. She knows words that mermaids taught her…I’m falling asleep in order to hear her…My heart aches because I wasn’t you when you dreamed at the seashore.” ― Fernando Pessoa.
34. “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.
35. “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
36. “There’s always a woman somewhere, child; a princess, a witch, a stepmother, a mermaid, a fairy godmother, or one as wicked as she is beautiful, or as beautiful as she is good.” — Jeanette Winterson.
37. “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
38. “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.
39. “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
40. “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.
41. “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
42. “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
43. “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
44. “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
45. “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
46. “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
47. “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
48. “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
49. “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
50. “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.

Wrapping Up

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