Top 135 Wrecked Quotes & Sayings

When I have a good performance, I'm wrecked at the end of it. I feel completely empty, and tears are pouring down my face - I'm just gone.

Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked.

I tend to get sounds that sound a little bit wrecked.

Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy.

The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.

The secularists have not wrecked divine things; but the secularists have wrecked secular things, if that is any comfort to them. The Titans did not scale heaven; but they laid waste the world.

What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?

Nobody, man or woman, has ever wrecked a good marriage.

We are apt to think it the finest era of the world when America was beginning to be discovered, when a bold sailor, even if he were wrecked, might alight on a new kingdom.

If you want to go around saying that giving women the vote wrecked the country and still be taken seriously, it helps to be handing out $100 bills.

It was Comey who wrecked the FBI and allowed this witches brew of biased managers to simmer and boil over when things didn't go as he planned.

My hair has been so wrecked over the years by various things.

Your system was liable to periodical convulsions, business crises at intervals of five to ten years, which wrecked the industries of the nation.

Hamburg totally wrecked us. I remember getting home to England and my dad thought I was half-dead. I looked like a skeleton, I hadn't noticed the change, I'd been having such a ball!

My mind's sunk so low, Claudia, because of you, wrecked itself on your account so bad already, that I couldn't like you if you were the best of women, -or stop loving you, no matter what you do.

Jesus wrecked my life, shattered it to pieces, and put it back together more beautifully.

Anytime you are superspeedway racing, we're messing around with inches here and when you feel like it's your friend that wrecked you, you get a little bit more upset.

It was one of the occasions when Lymond asleep wrecked the peace of mind of more people than Lymond awake.

But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.

I didn't confess how wrecked I was. Let them keep thinking I was Superwoman if they wanted. I knew the truth.

Some books are drenchèd sandsOn which a great soul's wealth lies all in heaps,Like a wrecked argosy.

By wrecking something, it's always reinventing. All modern movements in art and music wrecked what came before, in a way - and surprised the cooler generation that was one step ahead. That's how you get ahead.

If it's going to be wrecked, I want to make sure I wreck it.

I've wrecked a lot of good cars in my day.

Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.

If you've wrecked one train, you've wrecked them all.

It's true that after spending as long as I have at the highest level, a number of injuries have nearly wrecked my career along the way.

When I was young I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.

Women and God are the two rocks on which a man must either anchor or be wrecked.

No one's ever done one of my songs badly. People say to me, "God, so-and-so wrecked that song." Well, I'm unaware of it. Anybody doing one of my tunes has earned my gratitude, and I don't get that many covers where I have the luxury to choose.

When I was young, I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.

We are all passengers aboard one ship, the Earth, and we must not allow it to be wrecked. There will be no second Noah's Ark.

When we met I was wrecked, blasted, and damned, and I am slowly pulling myself together because I can see that you are a human being and I would like to be one, too.

I was 16. I wrecked my truck and the only way I could pay to fix it was to get a job. So I applied at a Subway.

?"I look upon this world as a wrecked vessel. God has given me a lifeboat and said, 'Moody, save all you can.

When passion has wrecked the body in one life, it is stamped upon the seed atom. In the next descent to rebirth, it is therefore impossible for him to gather sound material with which to build a brain of stable construction.

It wasn't a secret that I was gay. I'd come out to my parents during my junior year of high school, on the day that I also wrecked the family car.

Debt is a task master to be feared almost as much as the dictators themselves. It has enslaved thousands in its meshes. It has wrecked happy homes.

I think something will soon have to be done to protect people from hacking and blogging and lying and spreading rumors and chasing you down the street. Lives are wrecked that way.

Acquaintance; companion; One dear brilliant woman; The best-endowed, the elect, All by their youth undone, All, all, by that inhuman Bitter glory wrecked.

I think it is going to take another fifty years for the report to be in. If I were to give a preliminary report, I would say that [Margaret Thatcher] wrecked this country.

My table seats eight, so that's my maximum. Having a small number of guests is the only way to generate good conversation. Besides, your whole house doesn't get wrecked that way.

I don't think my relationship with the idea of womanhood is that attached to giving birth... like, I'm fully aware that I'll never give birth to a baby, and that's not something that I'm wrecked over.

When I was 16, I used to drive huge loads of laundry in a three ton truck. I would turn round at night to drive back and see the band in a place north of Toronto called Dunn's Pavilion. I would drive that truck all day and they drive back and all the way until one day I wrecked the truck. I fell asleep and wrecked it. I was OK and so was my helper. I called my dad and the first words out of his mouth were, "are you OK?" I was really lucky I had a kind father.

Wrecked on the lee shore of age.

Continuous wars - which we have now had since 2001 - starting with Afghanistan, continuing on to Iraq. And even since Iraq, it's been more or less continuous. The appalling war in Libya, which has wrecked that country and wrecked that part of the world, and which isn't over by any means. The indirect Western intervention in Syria, which has created new monsters. These are policies, which if carried out by any individual government, would be considered extremist. Now, they're being carried out collectively by the United States, backed by some of the countries of the European Union.

A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft.

I don't think any one relationship in my life has wrecked me. I think I am a collection of wrecks.

But it seemed to me that this was the way we all lived: full to the brim with gratitude and joy one day, wrecked on the rocks the next. Finding the balance between the two was the art and the salvation.

Natural heart's ivy, Patience masks Our ruins of wrecked past purpose.

So, you wrecked Alcatraz Island, made Mount St. Helens explode, and displaced half a million people, but at least you're safe." "Yep, that pretty much covers it.

Before the acorn can bring forth the oak, it must become itself a wreck. No plant ever came from any but a wrecked seed.

One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class.

Under no circumstances will I allow the Fianna Fail party back into government. They wrecked the economy twice.

I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.

The only relationships I haven't wrecked right away were the ones that wrecked me later.

Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman.

And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse - the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization that allowed a sociopolitical monster called the welfare state to exist.

If I'd stayed on in London and carried on going to literary parties, it would have wrecked me as a writer.

After all, it was never Darnay he quoted, only Sydney, drunk and wrecked and dissipated. Sydney, who died for love.