Goes on Quote by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O Sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Oh, for the touch of a vanished hand, and the sound of a voice that is stilled

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

I myself have seen the floating ships And nothing will ever be the same The shouts, The harrowing voices within the house. I stand…

— Hilda Doolittle

“Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern…

— Joseph Conrad

Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.

— Margaret Mead

Two voices are there; one is of the sea, One of the mountains: each a mighty Voice.

— William Wordsworth

Where lies the land, to which the ship would go? Far, far ahead is all, her seamen know. And where the land she travels…

— Arthur Hugh Clough

“There's always a siren, singing you to shipwreck. Some of us may be more susceptible than others are, but there's always a siren. It…

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.

— Charles Lamb

“Did those with passage booked on death’s silent ship always scan the dock for faces of the long-departed?”

— Kate Morton

All is going on as it was wont. The waves are hoarse with repetition of their mystery; the dust lies piled upon the shore;…

— Charles Dickens

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

— Joë Bousquet