Could it be that the planets are castaway heads.

Rome, believe me, my friend, is like its own Monte Testaceo, Merelya marvellous mass of broken and castaway wine-pots.

— Arthur Hugh Clough

I had to keep breathing. Even though there was no reason to hope... I stayed alive. I kept breathing. And one day my logic…

— Tom Hanks

Woe to him whom this world charms from Gospel duty. Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God has…

— Herman Melville

The most melancholy thing about human nature, is, that a man may guide others into the path of salvation, without walking in it himself;…

— Prince Augustus William of Prussia

A castaway in the sea was going down for the third time when he caught sight of a passing ship. Gathering his last strength,…

— Daniel Quinn

The preacher who is concerned with gaining a reputation, rising in his profession, is always in bondage. The itch for bigness is a dangerous…

— Vance Havner

“[T]o be a castaway is to be caught up in grim and exhausting opposites.”

— Yann Martel

“The Castaway" Obscurest night involved the sky, The Atlantic billows roared, When such a destined wretch as I, washed headlong from on board. Of…

— William Cowper

I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could…

— Tom Hanks

Everybody is a castaway. Everybody's in the same boat. Yeah, it's easy to sink when you're all alone, but together, we can stay afloat.

— The Ready Set

“In my experience, a castaway’s worst mistake is to hope too much and to do too little.”

— Yann Martel

“this castaway, that, like a man transplanted into another planet, was separated by an immense space from his past and by an immense ignorance…

— Joseph Conrad

There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had…

— Toni Morrison

Some voluntary castaways there will always be, whom no fostering kindness and no parental care can preserve from self-destruction; but if any are lost…

— Robert Southey

'Castaway' is my favorite movie, and any time I read about a castaway or a story like that, it just interests me a lot.

— Dale Earnhardt Jr