Life Raft Quotes

#1. Doubt is the pinprick in the life raft." She stepped close and we hugged. I could feel her trembling ever so slightly. She wasn't bulletproof. I knew then that my shaky faith in myself was starting to dig a hole in hers, and Emma's confidence was what held everything together. It was the life raft.

Ransom Riggs

#2. Kirtan is food for the spirit, a life raft of song.

Jai Uttal

#3. It's easier in some ways being on the life raft and the other guy's in the boat and you can row alongside and be supportive. In some ways, that's an easier role.

Kyra Sedgwick

#4. You have to have spent the night at sea, sitting in a life raft and looking at your watch, to know that the night is immeasurably longer than the day.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#5. Julian, I need you. Not in ways you can see. But in ways that I feel. If I'm your life raft, we're in trouble - because you're mine.

Sabrina Elkins

#6. Even a life raft is only supposed to get you from the sinking ship back to land, you were never intended to live in the life raft, to drift years on end, in sight of land but never close enough.

Nick Flynn

#7. She was my life raft, my turtle.

Janet Fitch

#8. Because we were Russian, sadness came naturally to us. But so did reading. In my family, a book was a life raft.

Alice Hoffman

#9. All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.

Erica Jong

#10. The narrow, middle, common-ground is the life-raft in a turbulent sea of extremism. We are overwhelmed by common hopes.

Bryant McGill

#11. The two men's gazes lock and I am suddenly swimming in a pool of testosterone, in need of a life raft.

Lisa Renee Jones

#12. Hope was a dangerous thing, I knew, but it didn't stop your heart from latching on to it like a life raft.

Karina Halle

#13. You're my life raft in an endless ocean. You saved me from drowning. You saved me from myself.

K.A. Linde

#14. Sometimes he feels like he can't breathe.
Sometimes his thoughts come so fast he has to find one perfect memory.
Cling to it.
A life raft.

Blake Crouch

#15. In my family, a book can be a life raft.

Alice Hoffman

#16. As we age we begin to grasp at youthful bliss like a life raft in a sea of harsh reality.

Brad Herzog

#17. All my life, books had been the life raft, the safe haven, the place I ran to when nothing else worked.

Elyn R. Saks

#18. I wouldn't trust you if you were the last life raft leaving the Titanic.-max

James Patterson

#19. Drowning, she clung fiercely to that small, splintered piece of mast bobbing in the ocean we call justice. There is no justice, of course, or very little of it, and counting on it as a life raft is a big mistake.

Siri Hustvedt

#20. He was a life raft in a sea of assholes.

Anna Jarzab

#21. When you're the ones in the life raft and you have four or five women in the life raft who put it together, by the end of it your nerves are blown. The people you're going to attack are the people who are helping you, who you are holding it together with.

Junot Diaz

#22. Emma shook her head. Doubt is the pinprick in the life raft.

Ransom Riggs

#23. In love madly,
traveling though the
life-raft's unraveling
in a beautiful tragedy,
but gladly i'm still
paddling through
the ocean
of your
anatomy.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

#24. Fox's hand was a life raft, the only thing stopping me from sinking further into empty blackness.

Lili Wilkinson

#25. There is no life raft' you're just freaking swimming all the time.

Barbara Kingsolver

#26. You're the icing on the cake on the table at my wake, You're the extra ton of cash on my sinking life raft, You're the loud sound of fun when I'm trying to sleep, You're the flowers in my house when my allergies come out.

Modest Mouse

#27. It's an opportunity that's there for all of us, like a life raft or preserver to hang onto when there's nothing else or no one else around because man, we're human and no matter what, one way or another, everyone of us in our lives, at some point in time, are going to feel alone.

Chuck Ragan

#28. You are so in over your head that even a life raft can't keep you afloat.

Holly Stephens

#29. Life was the gift that you were given the day you were born, and in turn you are the gift to life. Only in the moments of being alone in the darkness on the raft, will you have the space to speak, listen, and to act from the heart.

Forrest Curran

#30. A man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this like a raft over the waters of life.

Plato

#31. I'm 5 9, and there were two stars in my life who didn't mind that I was taller than they - George Raft and John Garfield.

Marie Windsor

#32. Safety, stability
it's an illusion. It's a false god, Simon. It's like clinging to a sinking raft instead of learning to swim.

Rainbow Rowell

#33. It is our duty to select the best and most dependable theory that human intelligence can supply, and use it as a raft to ride the seas of life.

Plato

#34. One of them hissed-not the hiss of a cat, a long, steady tone-more like the hiss of air escaping the rubber raft that is all that lies between you and a dark sea full of sharks, the hiss of your life leaking out at the seams.

Christopher Moore