“ Through the black night and driving rain A ship is struggling, all in vain, To live upon the stormy main; — Miserere Domine! ”
- Adelaide Anne Procter- Copy
- 2.5K
“ And fast through the midnight dark and drear, Through the whistling sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept Towards the reef of Norman's Woe. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
- 2.7K
“ He wrongly accuses Neptune, who makes shipwreck a second time. ”
- Publilius Syrus- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 1.1K
“ 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- Copy
- 581
“ Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck. ”
- Guy de Maupassant- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to. ”
- Ben Hecht- Copy
- 354
“ Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
- 2.2K
“ We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down. ”
- Jean Anouilh- Copy
- 758
“ 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- Copy
- 73
“ Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
- 1.8K
“ 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- Copy
- 1.3K
“ O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer! a brave vessel (Who had no doubt some noble creature in her) Dashed all to pieces! O, the cry did knock Against my very heart! Poor souls, they perished! ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Again she plunges! hark! a second shock Bilges the splitting vessel on the rock; Down on the vale of death, with dismal cries, The fated victims shuddering cast their eyes In wild despair; while yet another stroke With strong convulsion rends the solid oak: Ah Heaven! — behold her crashing ribs divide! She loosens, parts, and spreads in ruin o'er the tide. ”
- William Falconer- Copy
- 837
“ In few, they hurried us aboard a bark, Bore us some leagues to sea; where they prepared A rotten carcass of a butt, not rigged, Nor tackle, sail, nor mast; the very rats Instinctively have quit it. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 1.3K
“ 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- Copy
- 3K
“ 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- Copy
- 1.9K
“ A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure; she embarks her whole soul on the traffic of affection; and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless — for it is a bankruptcy of the heart. ”
- Washington Irving- Copy
- 2K
“ Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest that intense, eager, longing, craving, insistent, demanding, ravenous Desire which is akin to the persistent, insistent, ardent, overwhelming desire of the drowning man for a breath of air; of the shipwrecked or desert-lost man for a drink of water; of the famished man for bread and meat. ”
- Robert Collier- Copy
- 2.9K
“ 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. ”
- Joseph Conrad- Copy
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