Shipwrecked Quotes

38 quotes by 34 authors

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety. — Ben Hecht
Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest that intense, eager,… — Robert Collier
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music… — Henry David Thoreau
And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself,… — Soren Kierkegaard
Are we not all shipwrecked,...condemned to death?... However impatient our neighbours make us, however much indignation our race arouses, we are all bound together, and… — Henri Frederic Amiel
For the most part we humans live with the false impression of security and a feeling of being at home in a seemingly familiar and… — Albert Einstein
One of my many horrors is to become the man with the frayed jacket and unfastened flies standing at the Co-op counter with egg on… — Per Petterson
The despondency that follows makes me feel somewhat like a shipwrecked man who spies a sail, sees himself saved, and suddenly remembers that the lens… — Jean Genet
Victoria was just as much in love with me as I was with her. We could not bear to be apart for a single second.… — Andy Gibb
In a very real sense, we are shipwrecked passengers on a doomed planet. Yet, even in a shipwreck, human decencies and human values do not… — Norbert Wiener
If you're shipwrecked on an island with 10 million dollars and your wife has gold and diamonds, but there's no water, no arable land, no… — Jacque Fresco
Delusions, errors and lies are like huge, gaudy vessels, the rafters of which are rotten and worm-eaten, and those who embark in them are fated… — Gautama Buddha
I want to lie, shipwrecked and comatose, Drinking fresh mango juice. Goldfish shoals, nibbling at my toes. Fun fun fun in the sun sun sun.… — Howard Goodall
Or shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost. — William Wordsworth
If you're ever shipwrecked on a tropical island and you don't know how to speak the natives' language, just say "Poppy-oomy." I bet it means… — Jack Handey
He is foolish to blame the sea that is shipwrecked twice. — Publilius Syrus
These are the only genuine ideas, the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
It is hope which makes the shipwrecked sailor strike out with his arms in the midst of the sea, though no land is in sight. — Ovid
A man never is happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so; he seldom attains his… — Arthur Schopenhauer
They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought. — Virginia Woolf

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