--- title: "Best Sinking Ship Quotes" description: "Browse 61 Sinking Ship quotes by 53 authors. Discover the best Sinking Ship sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af1/sarah-dessen-110_bail_but-all-the-love-in-the-world-won-t-save_620062.png" --- > [But all the love in the world won't save a sinking ship. You have to either bail or jump overboard.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-dessen/but-all-the-love-in-the-world-won-t-save-a-sinking-ship-you-have-to/) [Sarah Dessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-dessen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af1/sarah-dessen-110_bail_but-all-the-love-in-the-world-won-t-save_620062.png) > [His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-wilson/his-style-has-the-desperate-jauntiness-of-an-orchestra-fiddling-away/) [Edmund Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmund-wilson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/290/edmund-wilson-14512_dear_his-style-has-the-desperate-jauntiness-o_2132739.jpg) > [It's very noble of President Obama to want to stay at the helm and maybe go down with this sinking ship.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-palin/it-s-very-noble-of-president-obama-to-want-to-stay-at-the-helm-and/) [Sarah Palin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-palin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/16a/sarah-palin-1441_helm_it-s-very-noble-of-president-obama-to-wa_2426598.png) > [“Unless it is relevant and accurate, knowledge can be the sinking ship the fool insists is sea-worthy, because knowledge often masquerades as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/unless-it-is-relevant-and-accurate-knowledge-can-be-the-sinking-ship/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9bf/anonymous-1_knowledge_unless-it-is-relevant-and-accurate-knowl_425837.jpg) > [Candidate Obama promised to fundamentally transform America and that's one promise he has kept. Turning a shining city on a hill into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-palin/candidate-obama-promised-to-fundamentally-transform-america-and-that/) [Sarah Palin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-palin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ace/sarah-palin-1441_america_candidate-obama-promised-to-fundamentall_2869912.jpg) > [How do men act on a sinking ship? Do they hold each other? Do they pass around the whisky? Do they cry?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sebastian-junger/how-do-men-act-on-a-sinking-ship-do-they-hold-each-other-do-they-pass/) [Sebastian Junger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sebastian-junger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d7c/sebastian-junger-4689_boys_how-do-men-act-on-a-sinking-ship-do-they_2668371.png) > [Always leave a sinking ship. There's no virtue in hanging on to losers. And stocks don't have feelings.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-dunnan/always-leave-a-sinking-ship-there-s-no-virtue-in-hanging-on-to-losers/) [Nancy Dunnan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nancy-dunnan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/927/nancy-dunnan-36010_customer_always-leave-a-sinking-ship-there-s-no-v_21915.jpg) > [People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-buckminster-fuller/people-never-leave-a-sinking-ship-until-they-see-the-lights-of/) [R. Buckminster Fuller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/r-buckminster-fuller/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/469/r-buckminster-fuller-937_light_people-never-leave-a-sinking-ship-until_2435911.png) > [“We're all the same. We all want the same thing in life. Everybody going around like they know how to sail but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donal-o-callaghan/we-re-all-the-same-we-all-want-the-same-thing-in-life-everybody-going/) [Donal O'Callaghan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donal-o-callaghan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/674/donal-o-callaghan-37714_aboard_we-re-all-the-same-we-all-want-the-same_328643.jpg) > [“There is also a fable told by Phaedrus, about how Simonides was once a victim of shipwreck. As the other passengers scurried…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-carson/there-is-also-a-fable-told-by-phaedrus-about-how-simonides-was-once-a/) [Anne Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-carson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/50b/anne-carson-1985_phaedrus_there-is-also-a-fable-told-by-phaedrus-a_2230704.jpg) > [I do not use airplanes. They strike me as unsporting. You can have an automobile accident-and survive. You can be on a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/i-do-not-use-airplanes-they-strike-me-as-unsporting-you-can-have-an/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/753/isaac-asimov-309_accidents_i-do-not-use-airplanes-they-strike-me-as_63981.jpg) > [We see many instances of cities going down like sinking ships to their destruction. There have been such wrecks in the past…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plato/we-see-many-instances-of-cities-going-down-like-sinking-ships-to/) [Plato](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plato/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/551/plato-103_captains_we-see-many-instances-of-cities-going-do_1449351.jpg) > [The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of art for art's sake than a man on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/upton-sinclair/the-proletarian-writer-is-a-writer-with-a-purpose-he-thinks-no-more/) [Upton Sinclair](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/upton-sinclair/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a0c/upton-sinclair-4341_art_the-proletarian-writer-is-a-writer-with_2190435.jpg) > [“In all the heroic tales, dying soldiers saw their lives pass before their eyes. No, Martin realized. The memories were just running…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-p-moore/in-all-the-heroic-tales-dying-soldiers-saw-their-lives-pass-before/) [J.P. Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-p-moore/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f5/j-p-moore-244621_death_in-all-the-heroic-tales-dying-soldiers-s_1993487.jpg) > [“As we are a doomed race, chained to a sinking ship, as the whole thing is a bad joke, let us, at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/as-we-are-a-doomed-race-chained-to-a-sinking-ship-as-the-whole-thing/) [Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/146/virginia-woolf-49_suffering_as-we-are-a-doomed-race-chained-to-a-sin_1186679.jpg) > [“Please remember that the lightning has never apologized for breaking skies open; the ocean has never said sorry for sinking ships. You,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-joybell-c/please-remember-that-the-lightning-has-never-apologized-for-breaking/) [C. JoyBell C](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-joybell-c/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/38c/c-joybell-c-471_force-of-nature_please-remember-that-the-lightning-has-n_1203075.jpg) > [“I didn't talk all the way home, trying not to cry. A missed lesson! But why did it bother me so much?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-shaw/i-didn-t-talk-all-the-way-home-trying-not-to-cry-a-missed-lesson-but/) [Susan Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-shaw/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/644/susan-shaw-51059_way-home_i-didn-t-talk-all-the-way-home-trying-no_1658195.jpg) > [It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one’s own body...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/it-struck-him-that-in-moments-of-crisis-one-is-never-fighting-against/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee8/george-orwell-57_body_it-struck-him-that-in-moments-of-crisis_897897.jpg) > [“I decided I would not go to court to have my mother declared incompetent, I would not fight. I put the car…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kaylie-jones/i-decided-i-would-not-go-to-court-to-have-my-mother-declared/) [Kaylie Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kaylie-jones/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0fd/kaylie-jones-46768_abuse_i-decided-i-would-not-go-to-court-to-hav_2320882.jpg) > [“Perhaps we ought to feel with more imagination. As today the sky 70 degrees above zero with lines falling The way September…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-ashbery/perhaps-we-ought-to-feel-with-more-imagination-as-today-the-sky-70/) [John Ashbery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-ashbery/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a9/john-ashbery-3600_astronomy_perhaps-we-ought-to-feel-with-more-imagi_2179772.png) > [“If on a sinking ship out at sea, the moral law is to always help save women & children first...Why can't we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-pina/if-on-a-sinking-ship-out-at-sea-the-moral-law-is-to-always-help-save/) [Timothy Pina](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-pina/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b9/timothy-pina-290_bullying-ben_if-on-a-sinking-ship-out-at-sea-the-mora_1657547.jpg) ## Top authors on Sinking Ship - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-george-orwell-37887.jpg) George Orwell 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/sinking-ship/george-orwell/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/sinking-ship/#itemlist", "name": "Sinking Ship Quotes", "numberOfItems": 21, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "But all the love in the world won't save a sinking ship. 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