Top 93 Shipwreck Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
The channel is known only to the natives; so that if any stranger should enter into the bay without one of their pilots he would run great danger of shipwreck.
What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.
?Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Life often seems like a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love. - The shores of existence are strewn with them.
Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign.
Society in shipwreck is comfort to all.
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.
There are more consequences to a shipwreck than the underwriters notice.
Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them; but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck the ignorant passenger.
The cross means there is no shipwreck without hope; there is no dark without dawn; nor storm without haven.
Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
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.
Reserve some hours daily to examine yourself and fortune; for if you embark yourself in perpetual conversation or recreation, you will certainly shipwreck your mind and fortune.
But it ain't our feelings we have to steer by through life--no, no, we'd make shipwreck mighty often if we did that. There's only the one safe compass and we've got to set our course by that--what it's right to do.
There's nothing like a shipwreck to spark the imagination of everyone who was not on that specific ship.
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.
Jane Austen can in fact get more drama out of morality than most other writers can get from shipwreck, battle, murder, or mayhem.
Don't let us rejoice in punishment, even when the hand of God alone inflicts it. The best of us are but poor wretches, just saved from shipwreck. Can we feel anything but awe and pity when we see a fellow-passenger swallowed by the waves?
He wrongly accuses Neptune, who makes shipwreck a second time.
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.
He blames Neptune unjustly who twice suffers shipwreck.
Only that which cannot be lost in a shipwreck is yours.
They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.
Old age is a shipwreck.
There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the cliffs, where love was more intense because it seemed like a shipwreck.
Voyaging begins when one burns one's boats, adventures begin with a shipwreck.
Birth is a shipwreck, the mewling infant shored on unknown land.
The sceptic, when he plunges into the depths of infidelity, like the miser who leaps from the shipwreck, will find that the treasures which he bears about him will only sink him deeper in the abyss.
Accordingly, death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked.
I've been canyoning, snorkelled a shipwreck, and learnt to Irish dance, all in the same week.
We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.
The Church had the words reason and liberty on her lips when the inalienable rights of the human race were threatened with shipwreck.
Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.
Into the nothingness of scorn and noise, Into the living sea of waking dreams, Where there is neither sense of life or joys, But the vast shipwreck of my life's esteems; And e'en the dearest--that I love the best-- Are strange--nay, rather stranger than the rest.
I'm very resourceful. I'd be good in prison. I'd be good in a shipwreck. I'd make a great hostage.
Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
I'd always felt like I was going to take part in adventures in my life. That's what led me to diving in the shipwreck to begin with. But when you're faced with your own demise, you have to accept that you are vulnerable and that you are only here for a set period of time.
Shipwreck in youth is sorrowful enough, but one looks for storms at the spring equinox. Yet it is the September equinox that drowns.
With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.
In the name of God, Monsieur, let us have greater confidence in Him than we do; let us allow Him to steer our little bark; if it is useful and pleasing to Him, He will save it from shipwreck.
The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death.
We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
The SS Sapona shipwreck, is such a cool site.
Art is like a shipwreck; it's every man for himself.
I'd heard about a shipwreck that was never found - John Paul Jones' Bonhomme Richard. So I thought, 'Well, I'll go look for it.'
The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck.
The only sea I saw Was the seesaw sea With you riding on it. Lie down, lie easy. Let me shipwreck in your thighs.
The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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.
The romantic chivalric tradition takes, or at any rate has in the past taken, the young man's eye off women as they are, as companions in shipwreck not guiding stars.
When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster...I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That's the story.
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.
Some places speak distinctly. Certain dark gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwreck.
Well, father, in the shipwreck of life, for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes, I cast into the sea my useless encumbrance, that is all, and I remain with my own will, disposed to live perfectly alone, and, consequently, perfectly free. (Eugenie to her father)
If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck
Today, there is a whole generation of Christian men who are laughing at things that ought to make them weep, and not a few of them will suffer shipwreck, and some-the loss of their souls. Let the indiscriminate viewer beware.
He who has suffered shipwreck, fears to sail Upon the seas, though with a gentle gale.
All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below.
