Literature Quote by Edith Wharton

“It is possible, he thought, to be completely happy in marriage--though you must be willing to hold on when your ship was lost at…

— Adam Ross

He felt a momentary pang of regret that he had not spent more time with his beloved wife. But it passed when he remembered…

— Dave Barry

Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when…

— Anonymous

“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

“The perfect metaphor," he said, "looming up suddenly out of nowhere in the middle of your maiden voyage, unseen until it is nearly upon…

— Connie Willis

To be homeward bound, no matter what tragic memories you have harbored, is unlike any voyage a man can ever make.

— Leon Uris

He who has suffered shipwreck, fears to sail Upon the seas, though with a gentle gale.

— Robert Herrick

“She told him of ship voyages she had taken to places he had never heard of, and stories he knew were all untrue, were…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“But a wide sea voyage severs us at once. It makes us conscious of being cast loose from the secure anchorage of settled life,…

— Washington Irving

“The old sailors who traveled Earth's seas were said to have loved the ocean. The great captains said they were married to the sea…

— Steven L. Kent

“Marriage came with storms and rocks.  He’d watched his parents long enough to know that.  Sometimes the outside world threw problems at you—and sometimes…

— Debora Geary

“There was nothing in life harder or more important than agreeing every morning to stay the course, to go back to your forgotten self…

— Emma Straub