Shipwreck Quotes
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Shipwreck Quotes & Sayings
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The Church had the words reason and liberty on her lips when the inalienable rights of the human race were threatened with shipwreck.
— Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.
— Jean Anouilh
They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Accordingly, death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked.
— Ambrose
I always thought a shipwreck was a well-organized affair, but I've learned the devil a lot in the last five minutes.
— Erik Larson
Old age is a shipwreck.
— Charles De Gaulle
Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck
— Albert Einstein
He blames Neptune unjustly who twice suffers shipwreck.
— Publilius Syrus
Society in shipwreck is comfort to all.
— Publilius Syrus
Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't drown in the metaphor.
— Robert Breault
Art is like a shipwreck; it's every man for himself.
— Marcel Duchamp
Jane Austen can in fact get more drama out of morality than most other writers can get from shipwreck, battle, murder, or mayhem.
— Ronald Blythe
Tired of life, afraid of death, not unlikeA lost brig, toy of ebb and flow on the ocean,
My soul weighs anchor for a frightful shipwreck. — Paul Verlaine
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Where [God] is, tragedy is only provisional and partial, and shipwreck and dissolution are not the absolutely final things.
— William James
Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
— Guy De Maupassant
Shipwreck in youth is sorrowful enough, but one looks for storms at the spring equinox. Yet it is the September equinox that drowns.
— Helen Waddell
Shipwreck? Snow Job? I know. Firefly. I sort of feel a connection to him. Can't explain it.
— Richard Castle
We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.
— Josef Skvorecky
None of us is immune to shipwreck. Come, beckons the fatal shore: come and die on my white sands, it said. And we do.
— Alexander McCall Smith
The only sea I saw Was the seesaw sea With you riding on it. Lie down, lie easy. Let me shipwreck in your thighs.
— Dylan Thomas
Birth is a shipwreck, the mewling infant shored on unknown land.
— Jeanette Winterson
So how long do I have to pack?
— Don Darkes
In a shipwreck, it is every drowning man for himself.
— Philippa Gregory
What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.
— Charles Spurgeon
When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.
— Pablo Picasso
To name her is to sink her," he told me. "That which we name takes greater weight than the sea it displaces. Ask any shipwreck.
— Neal Shusterman
Society in shipwreck is a comfort to all.
— Publilius Syrus
He who has suffered shipwreck, fears to sail Upon the seas, though with a gentle gale.
— Robert Herrick
In the shipwreck of life - for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes
— Alexandre Dumas
He wrongly accuses Neptune, who makes shipwreck a second time.
— Publilius Syrus
I'm very resourceful. I'd be good in prison. I'd be good in a shipwreck. I'd make a great hostage.
— David Letterman
By the time she was fifteen, the age she was the day of the shipwreck, opinions by the dozen landed in each hollow track left by her feet.
— Jodi Lynn Anderson
Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.[On Water] — Guy De Maupassant
Life often seems like a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love. - The shores of existence are strewn with them.
— Madame De Stael
Personally, I don't think that having a water goddess for an ancestress is a guarantee of freedom against seasickness, nor come to that, shipwreck.
— Philippa Gregory
But here, two thousand miles from home, there was a real shipwreck, a real hope. A choice big enough to change our lives forever.
— Gordon Korman
There are more consequences to a shipwreck than the underwriters notice.
— Henry David Thoreau
She holds you like a whore in the night, but she'll take your soul and not think twice.
— Micheal Rivers
Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
— Francis Bacon
