Never before have I lived through a storm like the one this night. … The sea has a look of indescribable grandeur, especially when the sun falls on it. One feels as if one is dissolved and merged into Nature. Even more than usual, one feels the insignificance of the individual, and it makes one happy.
Entry in a travel diary (10 December 1931) discussing a storm at sea, p. 23 - Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)