Quotes About Shipwrecks

#1. The last light, in the last window, went out. Only the unstoppable machine of the sea still tears away at the silence with the cyclical explosion of nocturnal waves, distant memories of sleepwalking storms and the shipwrecks of dream.

Alessandro Baricco

#2. 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

#3. Every gazette brings accounts of the untutored freaks of the wind,
shipwrecks and hurricanes which the mariner and planter acceptas special or general providences; but they touch our consciences, they remind us of our sins. Another deluge would disgrace mankind.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. In the United States, of the ten million certified scuba divers, it is likely that only a few hundred dive deep for shipwrecks. To those few, it is not a matter of if they will taste death, only of whether they'll swallow.

Robert Kurson

#5. Historically, maritime travelers had to pass around the entire mass of North and South America, including the bottom tip, the tempestuous Cape Horn, which was littered with shipwrecks.

Alan Huffman

#6. Adventurous men enjoy shipwrecks, mutinies, earthquakes, conflagrations, and all kinds of unpleasant experiences. They say to themselves, for example, 'So this is what an earthquake is like,' and it gives them pleasure to have their knowledge of the world increased by this new item.

Bertrand Russell

#7. And this was the surprising thing about life on Berk. It was a bit like the sea itself. One minute it was all storms, and shipwrecks, and desperate escapes from deadly dragons, the next it was as calm, and peacefully restful, as if these things had never happened.

Cressida Cowell

#8. The passion for popularity brings such injury upon those it masters that it shipwrecks faith itself. Our Lord confirms this when He says, 'How can you have faith in Me when you receive honour from one another and do not seek for the honour that comes from the only God?' (cf. Jn. 5:44).

Gregory Palamas

#9. Now the night's breath responds to the sea, which I can scarcely hear from here, as it reminisces about its shipwrecks.

Joe Bousquet

#10. They had lived their older lives like strangers from different shipwrecks, washed up on the same island, without the benefit of a common language.

Tracy Guzeman

#11. Post tot naufragia portus, which translates as "After so many shipwrecks, a haven.

Belinda Jones

#12. Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.

J.G. Ballard

#13. One can make one's life a complete misery, worrying about burglaries and shipwrecks, but ask anyone, anyone you know ... earth-shattering disasters and fabulous inheritances all seems to take place exclusively in the newspapers.

Jean Anouilh

#14. Many dead divers have been found inside shipwrecks with more than enough air remaining to have made it to the surface. It is not that they chose to die, but rather that they could no longer figure out how to live.

Robert Kurson

#15. I think about those two guys in the sky causing shipwrecks, causing things to burst into flame ...

Jandy Nelson

#16. In a world where even the moon had been traveled, the floor of the Atlantic remained uncharted wilderness, its shipwrecks beacons for men compelled to look.

Robert Kurson

#17. Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life.

Mary Ritter Beard

#18. It hurts so bad that I cannot save him, protect him, keep him out of harm's way, shield him from pain. What good are fathers if not for these things?

Thomas Lynch

#19. Working with and collaborating with and for Peter Jackson was an incredible experience because he is such a phenomenal filmmaker.

Andy Serkis

#20. Looking back ... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.

Zola Budd

#21. Our children are our greatest resource and Head Start grants help them reach their full potential.

Christopher Dodd

#22. I try to get over to Iraq and Afghanistan as much as I can.

R. Lee Ermey

#23. I don't have to be walking around like some peasant. I'm royalty!

Scott Disick

#24. Make a right down 7th Ave to 4th St Park, feeling the whole ghetto vibe and set my mark

C.L. Smooth