Shipwrecked Quotes

#1. (Catholic) monks taught metallurgy, introduced new crops, copied ancient texts, preserved literacy, pioneered in technology, invented champagne, improved the European landscape, provided for wanderers of every stripe, and looked after the lost and shipwrecked.

Thomas E. Woods Jr.

#2. We are still tossed about by the disturbances of this life, which is like a stormy sea, where those who are not attached to J[esus] C[hrist] and the duties of their state, as was our dear departed, are shipwrecked.

Vincent De Paul

#3. It's like, I'm scared and there're a lot of ugly things, but I'd rather be shipwrecked on this lovely island than safe in a sad, gray cell.

Corey Ann Haydu

#4. They sat side by side, sad and weary, like shipwrecked sailors on a deserted shore.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#5. In a very real sense, we are shipwrecked passengers on a doomed planet. Yet, even in a shipwreck, human decencies and human values do not necessarily vanish, and we must make the most of them. We shall go down, but let it be in a manner to which we may look forward as worthy of our dignity.

Norbert Wiener

#6. Rescue my shipwrecked heart. Come

Julia London

#7. Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.

Ben Hecht

#8. It seems to me," said Magid finally, as the moon became clearer than the sun, "that you have tried to love a man as if he were an island and you were shipwrecked and you could mark the land with an X. It seems to me it is too late in the day for all that.

Zadie Smith

#9. Light, why did the Pattern have to catch me up with you? Why couldn't I have something safe and simple, like being shipwrecked with no food and a dozen hungry Aielmen?

Robert Jordan

#10. 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

#11. He had always despised people who thought about the past. To live was to leave behind; to be as free as a shipwrecked man who has lost everything.

Graham Greene

#12. At present men make shift to wear what they can get. Like shipwrecked sailors, they put on what they can find on the beach, and at a little distance, whether of space or time, laugh at each other's masquerade.

Henry David Thoreau

#13. A lot of people ask me if I were shipwrecked, and could have only one book, what would it be? I always say, How to Build a Boat.

Stephen Wright

#14. Destroy your primitivity, and you will most probably get along well in the world, maybe achieve great success
but Eternity will reject you. Follow up your primitivity, and you will be shipwrecked in temporality, but accepted by Eternity.

Soren Kierkegaard

#15. He seemed a little uneasy, and he welcomed me with something of the gratitude of the shipwrecked mariner who sights a sail.

P.G. Wodehouse

#16. Knowing when and how to change course is important to success. Self-doubt is a lighthouse that will keep you from running aground. Don't become shipwrecked on the rocks of time. Be willing to rethink your decisions and change course.

Harley King

#17. He felt as if he had been shipwrecked on the Titanic, but in the nick of time had been rescued. By the Lusitania

Terry Pratchett

#18. Naked, she lay sprawled on her side like a shipwrecked cello.

Tom Robbins

#19. The baby's eyes were dark, almost black, and when I nursed her in the middle of the night, she'd stare at me with a stunned, shipwrecked look as if my body were the island she'd washed up on.

Jenny Offill

#20. When people began to view their neighborhood as brimming with deprivation and vice, full of "all sorts of shipwrecked humanity," they lost confidence in its political capacity.8

Matthew Desmond

#21. What I was afraid of was my own grief, the weight of it, the ineluctable corrosive force of it, and the stark awareness I had of being, for the first time in my life, entirely alone, a Crusoe shipwrecked and stranded in the limitless wastes of a boundless and indifferent ocean.

John Banville

#22. He is foolish to blame the sea that is shipwrecked twice.

Publilius Syrus

#23. Each time he uttered the word 'Monsieur' in his mild, compassionable voice, the man's face lighted up. The courtesy, to the ex-convict, was like fresh water to a shipwrecked man. Ignominy thirsts for respect.

Victor Hugo

#24. Jesus is all we have; he is all we need and all we want. We are shipwrecked on God and stranded on omnipotence!

Vance Havner

#25. My dear," he sighed when the lights were turned on and they both looked older, "it's been a mistake, our having a family and writing histories and getting middle-aged. We should have been picturesquely shipwrecked together when we were young.

Willa Cather

#26. Any denomination or church group that forsakes inerrancy will end up shipwrecked. It is impossible to prevent the surrender of other important doctrinal teachings of the Word of God when inerrancy is gone.

Francis Schaeffer

#27. His words are like seawater to the shipwrecked: I'm tempted to drink them in, and at the same time, they feel dangerously deceptive.

Kerry Kletter

#28. A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked.

Alphonse Karr

#29. Even in a world that's being shipwrecked, remain brave and strong.

Hildegard Of Bingen

#30. If a hundred people were shipwrecked on an island, what would it even mean to say that everyone there has a "right" to food, or that everyone has a "right" to health care, or the "right" to a job, or the "right" to a "living wage"?

Larken Rose

#31. We must read the Bible through the eyes of shipwrecked people for whom everything has gone overboard.

Karl Barth

#32. Maya, Indian goddess of illusions. Siren of shipwrecked sailors. If only you lactated Pinot Noir, you'd be perfect.

Rex Pickett

#33. The despondency that follows makes me feel somewhat like a shipwrecked man who spies a sail, sees himself saved, and suddenly remembers that the lens of his spyglass has a flaw, a blurred spot
the sail he has seen.

Jean Genet

#34. Are we not all shipwrecked, ... condemned to death? ... However impatient our neighbours make us, however much indignation our race arouses, we are all bound together, and the companions of a chain-gang have everything to lose by mutual insults ...

Henri Frederic Amiel

#35. If you're shipwrecked on an island with 10 million dollars and your wife has gold and diamonds, but there's no water, no arable land, no fish, you have nothing. Money is a 'nothing' thing.

Jacque Fresco

#36. It's about the terror of an ordinary life" or "It's the story of a man shipwrecked in his own mind." But

Joe Hill

#37. He always had to know who was going. I swear, if that guy was shipwrecked somewhere, and you rescued him in the god damn boat, he'd want to know who the guy that was rowing it before he'd even get in.

J.D. Salinger

#38. If the condition of things which we were made for is not yet, what were any reality which we can substitute? We will not be shipwrecked on a vain reality.

Henry David Thoreau

#39. The follies, vices, and consequent miseries of multitudes, displayed in a newspaper, are so many admonitions and warnings, so many beacons, continually burning, to turn others from the rocks on which they have been shipwrecked.

Thomas Hartwell Horne

#40. He thanked her and left the house in the mood of a shipwrecked man who has allowed the rescue ship to pass him by.

Audrey Niffenegger

#41. I was shipwrecked before I got aboard.

Seneca The Younger

#42. We're all shipwrecked on this idea that everything has to be explained.

Shane Koyczan

#43. Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds.

Marcel Proust

#44. Our body is a ship that sails on deep blue waters. What is our goal? To be shipwrecked!

Nikos Kazantzakis

#45. He sees the land of meaning, and one path to it, and the so-called "normal" people traveling swiftly and in comfort to the land; he does not include the shipwrecked people who arrive by devious lonely routes, and the many who dwell in the land in the beginning.

Janet Frame

#46. I want to lie, shipwrecked and comatose, Drinking fresh mango juice. Goldfish shoals, nibbling at my toes. Fun fun fun in the sun sun sun. Fun fun fun in the sun sun sun.

Howard Goodall

#47. A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those who have never been out of sight of land.

Henry David Thoreau

#48. I am a shipwrecked man who fears every sea.

Ovid

#49. They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought[.]

Virginia Woolf

#50. Delusions, errors and lies are like huge, gaudy vessels, the rafters of which are rotten and worm-eaten, and those who embark in them are fated to be shipwrecked.

Gautama Buddha

#51. Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
[Preface to Brissot's Address to His Constituents (1794)]

Edmund Burke

#52. My mother smoked too but I guessed by now she had quit the habit, which was, I supposed, one of the advantages of being shipwrecked.

Polly Horvath

#53. And I see the houses of the human race perched on the edge of the sea, shipwrecked in their false neighborliness.

Italo Calvino

#54. Analogy and probability are not bedrock; they are lifeboats in an ocean of doubt, and sometimes they founder. So rhetoric tends to the passionate:we argue, not with surety, but as the shipwrecked clinging to the only thing they have.

Andrew J. Patrick

#55. If you want to know what are the events which cast their shadow over the hell of time of King Lear, Othello, Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, look to see when and how the shadow lifts. What softens the heart of a man, shipwrecked in storms dire, Tried, like another Ulysses, Pericles, prince of Tyre?

James Joyce