Passing Ships Quotes

#1. Suffering does not only insulate. It drops its victim in an ocean desert where he sees men as distant ships passing. I not only feel alone, but very far away from you all.

W.N.P. Barbellion

#2. Long before they had ever met, I think this destiny awaited them. They were not like ships passing in the night. It wasn't like they didn't understand each other. They understood each other better than anyone else, and each was focused solely on the other.

Gen Urobuchi

#3. Then Charon looked at me. That cold stare behind his glasses seemed to bore a hole through my chest. "Here now," he said. "You couldn't read my name correctly. Are you dyslexic, lad?"
"No," I said. "I'm dead.

Rick Riordan

#4. There were no romantic ships passing in the night. It was more like dinghies in the dark: Awkward, slow and hard to handle, quickly capsizing without ever finding land.

Candace Vianna

#5. I feel like my life is just passing me by like two ships in the night. And I have missed both boats.

Jane Wagner

#6. The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.

E. M. Forster

#7. Was she telling you to stay away from me?" I asked.
He paused, then said, "Yeah." He squeezed my hand out of Aunt Lauren's sight. "It's okay. We're good."
Chloe and Derek

Kelley Armstrong

#8. I had a huge Indian wedding, and I did it for my wife, and I did it for my white friends.

Hasan Minhaj

#9. We never thought we were. That's the important part.

Betty Comden

#10. Their vaginas were just ships passing in the night, stopping to pick up every dirty sailor.

K.F. Germaine

#11. Not so much two ships passing in the night as two ships sailing together for a time but always bound for different ports.

P.D. James

#12. Use your voice on the local level where it has the potential to be more widely heard.

Kirsten Gillibrand

#13. Ships passing in broad daylight.

Haruki Murakami

#14. The day you apologise for who you are is the day you give another control over who you are.

Shane K.P. O'Neill

#15. It seems princes make me blind. The

Victoria Aveyard

#16. Why didn't God apportion fine looks in equal accordance with deserving personalities? A horrid man ought to be horrid looking.

Tessa Dare

#17. Good books should be an overwhelming assault upon the personality.

Steffan Piper

#18. I looked up at the sky. A mother wants to make friends with her daughter. The daughter wants a mother more than a friend. Ships passing in broad daylight. Mother has a boyfriend. A homeless, one-armed poet. Father also has a boyfriend. A gay Boy Friday. What does the daughter have?

Haruki Murakami

#19. Warriors are incapable of feeling compassion because they no longer feel sorry for themselves. Without the driving force of self-pity, compassion is meaningless.

Carlos Castaneda

#20. Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#21. In space there are no seasons, and this is as true of the ships that cross the distances between humanity's far-flung homes. But we measure our seasons anyway: by a smile, a silence, a song.

Yoon Ha Lee

#22. People might have the impression I had an easy life, but it's been anything but that.

Alana Stewart

#23. The only people who didn't like The Monkees were the French, and they don't even like themselves, so what's the point?

Davy Jones

#24. everything isn't everything

Shel Silverstein