By the time she was fifteen, the age she was the day of…

This spring of love, resembles the uncertain glory of an April day. A shipwreck left stranded a castaway.

— Chiodos

All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up…

— Sarah Dessen

When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it…

— Willa Cather

Voyaging begins when one burns one's boats, adventures begin with a shipwreck.

— Michel Serres

My story starts at sea, a perilous voyage to an unknown land. A shipwreck. The wild waters roar and heave. The brave vessel is…

— William Shakespeare

The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most…

— Joseph Conrad

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

— Joë Bousquet

If you see the fury and hear the howling of the tempest, or read of shipwrecks, think of the storm of human passions causing…

— John of Kronstadt

Erie, and Ontario, and Huron, and Superior, and Michigan possess an ocean-like expansiveness, with many of the ocean's noblest traits... they are swept by…

— Herman Melville

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…

— Henry David Thoreau

“So exquisitely perfect was the darkness of the heavens above that one would have difficulty believing it was a prison to the passengers and…

— Micheal Rivers

They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Salvation is not some felicitous state to which we can lift ourselves by our own bootstraps after the contemplation of sufficiently good examples. It…

— Robert Farrar Capon

Have you ever considered, beloved other, how invisible we are to each other? We look at each other without seeing. We listen to each…

— Fernando Pessoa

Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them; but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck the ignorant…

— Philip Sidney