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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

Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. — Voltaire

We'll go." Her voice is surprisingly deep and forceful. Set in her sunken, shipwreck face, her eyes burn like two smoldering coals. "We'll fight. — Lauren Oliver

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

If you can realistically render
a cypress tree, would you include one when commissioned to paint
a sailor in the midst of a shipwreck? — Horace

Tired of life, afraid of death, not unlike
A lost brig, toy of ebb and flow on the ocean,
My soul weighs anchor for a frightful shipwreck. — Paul Verlaine

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

Voyaging begins when one burns one's boats, adventures begin with a shipwreck. — Michel Serres

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

When Zeno received news of a shipwreck and heard that all his luggage had been sunk he said, Fortune bids me to be a less encumbered philosopher. — Seneca.

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

The invention of the ship is also the invention of the shipwreck, — Jenny Offill

Only that which cannot be lost in a shipwreck is yours. — Al-Ghazali

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

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea. — Ovid

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

For mankind you've made your wintry bed.
A shipwreck of your own mortality — Marie Symeou

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

The best way to meet a woman is in an emergency situation - if you're in a shipwreck, or you find yourself behind enemy lines, or in a flood. — Mark Helprin

Like a shipwreck or a jetty, almost anything that forms a structure in the ocean, whether it is natural or artificial over time, collects life. — Sylvia Earle

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

So much is lost, he said, in the shipwreck. What remains are fragments, and if you don't hold on to them the sea will take them too. — Rachel Cusk

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

I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster. — Philip Dunne

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

There's nothing like a shipwreck to spark the imagination of everyone who was not on that specific ship. — Jon Stewart

The cross means there is no shipwreck without hope; there is no dark without dawn; nor storm without haven. — Pope John Paul II