The last light, in the last window, went out. Only the unstoppable machine of the sea still tears away at the silence… — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
He comes to us in the brokenness of our health, in the shipwreck of our family lives, in the loss of all… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
... the passion for popularity brings such injury upon those it masters that it shipwrecks faith itself. Our Lord confirms this when… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
He hazardeth much who depends for his learning on experience. An unhappy master, he that is only made wise by many shipwrecks;… — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
Adventurous men enjoy shipwrecks, mutinies, earthquakes, conflagrations, and all kinds of unpleasant experiences. They say to themselves, for example, 'So this is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Edgar Allen Poe wrote a story in 1838 about a shipwreck and how three survivors killed and ate the third man, Richard… — Adam Anderson Copy Share Image
I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to… — John Donne Copy Share Image
“Into the nothingness of scorn and noise, Into the living sea of waking dreams, Where there is neither sense of life or… — John Clare 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
Every gazette brings accounts of the untutored freaks of the wind,--shipwrecks and hurricanes which the mariner and planter acceptas special or general… — Henry David Thoreau 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
