Identity Quote by Anna Kavan

“To be truly challenging, a voyage,like a life,must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. Otherwise you are doomed to a routine traverse.”

— Sterling Hayden

“In the voyage of your worldly existence, the sails at which your life float upon, are tethered by the thoughts and emotions that which…

— Will Barnes

“So many truths have been kept from me. This violent, pointless voyage has been sopping with blood. I feel thick and sick with it.…

— China Miéville

“We travel together, passengers on a little space ship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil; all committed for our safety to…

— Adlai Stevenson

“Well, my dear father, in the shipwreck of life--for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes--I throw all my useless baggage in the…

— Alexandre Dumas, père

“There is not, perhaps, a more painful exercise of the mind than that of treading, with weary and impatient pace, the entire round of…

— Anonymous

“The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away. Once there was this and that; and now-and the ship had gone.”

— William Golding

“We were now about to penetrate a country at least two thousand miles in width, on which the foot of civilized man had never…

— John Bakeless

“He found himself in the strange predicament all sailors share: essentially he belonged neither to the land nor to the sea. Possibly a man…

— Yukio Mishima

For in this walk, this voyage, it is yourself, the profound history of your 'self,' that now as always you encounter.

— Conrad Aiken

“How many people, on that voyage, load up the boat till it is ever in danger of swamping with a store of foolish things…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“suddenly stopped myself, knowing, by an inverse logic familiar to superstitious people, that the very foretaste of sorrows to come presumed a degree of…

— André Aciman