Quotes and Sayings about Shipwreck
"Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time."
- Francis Bacon
(Related: History, Time, Shipwreck)
"Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness."
- John Calvin
(Related: Fear, Reason, Will)
"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."
- Willa Cather
(Related: People, Kindness, Moments, Reason, Security, Shipwreck)
"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."
- Charles Caleb Colton
(Related: Danger, Sea, Shipwreck)
"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
(Related: Age, Life, Disaster, Shipwreck)
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
- Albert Einstein
(Related: Truth, Knowledge, Gods, Laughter)
"Old age is a shipwreck."
- Charles de Gaulle
(Related: Age, Old, Shipwreck)
"Victoria was just as much in love with me as I was with her. We could not bear to be apart for a single second. We were like two lovers shipwrecked on a desert island. There was no world outside our love."
- Andy Gibb
(Related: Love, Lovers, World)
"Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety."
- Ben Hecht
(Related: Mind, Prejudice, Safety)
"They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds."
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
(Related: Shipwreck)
"Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck."
- Guy de Maupassant
(Related: Government, War, Duty, Shipwreck)
"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."
- Thomas More
(Related: Danger, Shipwreck)
"The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea."
- Ovid
(Related: Man, Sea, Shipwreck)
"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
(Related: People, Shipwreck, Will)
"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
(Related: Criticism, Literature, Lovers, Sea, Shipwreck, Treasure, Will)