“Her hands clung to my neck; they would not have held me so fast in a shipwreck. And I did not understand… — Raymond Radiguet Copy Share Image
Now the night's breath responds to the sea, which I can scarcely hear from here, as it reminisces about its shipwrecks. — Joë Bousquet Copy Share Image
When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“And I saw Clara Spohr coming from the Oyster Bar or being washed forth into this sea, dismasted, clinging to her soul… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The Church had the words reason and liberty on her lips when the inalienable rights of the human race were threatened with… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
The cross means there is no shipwreck without hope; there is no dark without dawn; nor storm without haven. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The only sea I saw Was the seesaw sea With you riding on it. Lie down, lie easy. Let me shipwreck in… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
Some places speak distinctly. Certain dark gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane you also invent the plane crash; and… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Don't let us rejoice in punishment, even when the hand of God alone inflicts it. The best of us are but poor… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is a persistent funny form of suspicion in most of us that we can solve our own problems and be the… — Harry Stack Sullivan Copy Share Image
Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born, Relieve my languish and restore the light; With… — Samuel Daniel Copy Share Image
Today, there is a whole generation of Christian men who are laughing at things that ought to make them weep, and not… — R. Kent Hughes Copy Share Image
My daughter," I said blankly. "I see. Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought it took a man, as well… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
But it ain't our feelings we have to steer by through life--no, no, we'd make shipwreck mighty often if we did that.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'd always felt like I was going to take part in adventures in my life. That's what led me to diving in… — Phil Keoghan Copy Share Image
“Many of those who elected to remain might have escaped. 'Chivalry' is a mild appellation for their conduct. Some of the vaunted… — The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters Copy Share Image
“There's always a siren, singing you to shipwreck. Some of us may be more susceptible than others are, but there's always a… — Caitlín R. Kiernan Copy Share Image
I am determined, even if they throw mud in my face, never to show any resentment, nor break with them, nor deviate… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Most days I feel like the sole survivor of a shipwreck, rowing my paddleboat across a sea of people on waves made… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
A decade ago, my poems were precious little boxes, small and claustrophobic, completely inward gazing. I didn't possess the command to speak… — Robin Beth Schaer Copy Share Image
You’re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own reflection in the water.… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave, Then some leap'd overboard… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the cliffs, where… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Jane Austen can in fact get more drama out of morality than most other writers can get from shipwreck, battle, murder, or… — Ronald Blythe Copy Share Image
We’ll go.” Her voice is surprisingly deep and forceful. Set in her sunken, shipwreck face, her eyes burn like two smoldering coals.… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age… — Philip Dunne Copy Share Image
Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them; but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Reserve some hours daily to examine yourself and fortune; for if you embark yourself in perpetual conversation or recreation, you will certainly… — Anne of Austria Copy Share Image
Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of… — Josef Skvorecky Copy Share Image
When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster...I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
Like a shipwreck or a jetty, almost anything that forms a structure in the ocean, whether it is natural or artificial over… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
“So exquisitely perfect was the darkness of the heavens above that one would have difficulty believing it was a prison to the… — Micheal Rivers Copy Share Image
Shipwreck in youth is sorrowful enough, but one looks for storms at the spring equinox. Yet it is the September equinox that… — Helen Waddell Copy Share Image
“It was a symposium of horror and heroism, the like of which has not been known in the civilized world since man… — The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters Copy Share Image
I've been canyoning, snorkelled a shipwreck, and learnt to Irish dance, all in the same week. — Ashley Roberts Copy Share Image
The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them.… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
