Left behind Quote by Italo Calvino

“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

“To see what's beyond the horizon, we must paddle out, leave our familiar shores, and venture into the unknown.”

— Khoo Swee Chiow

“Maybe we all need ships to hold our dreams, to be bigger and steadier than we ever could be, and to guard the mistery…

— Hilary T. Smith

“The world carried on before we arrived. We make our entrance, adapt to our surroundings and join the chase to nowhere. We depart without…

— Kamil Ali

“When all seems to be against you, remember, a ship sometimes has to sail against the current, not with it.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“The ship did not leave without you. It left to make room for your ship soon to arrive…the power of hope and faith.”

— Val Edward Simone

“We are like sailors who on the open sea must reconstruct their ship but are never able to start afresh from the bottom.”

— Otto Neurath

“And I will close my eyes and prepare myself so that they can unscrew my head and allow the map to slip into my…

— Marlene Van Niekerk

“[Southward and a little west A thousand kilometers at best Here in Area Fifty-one Is where they took us, all undone. Other ships are…

— Marcha A. Fox

“The future was glorious once. It was filled with sleek silver spaceships, lunar colonies, and galactic empires. The horizon seemed within reach; we could…

— Kevin J. Anderson

“Read on and I will tell you what to do in the future to avoid getting smashed and find yourself with nothing but little…

— John W. Trimmer

“All we who write put me in mind of sailors hastily making rafts upon doomed ships. When we break up under the heavy years…

— Lord Dunsany