Haste Quote by John Tillotson

How wise and how merciful is that provision of nature by which his earthly anchor is usually loosened by many little imperceptible tugs, until…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes.

— Dante Alighieri

Every one of us has a bad conscience, which he tries to escape by going to sleep as quickly as possible.

— Franz Kafka

A few years hence and he will be beneath the sod; but those cliffs will stand, as now, facing the ocean, incessantly lashed by…

— Henry Parry Liddon

As it is pleasant to see the sea from the land, so it is pleasant for him who has escaped from troubles to think…

— Epictetus

“Glimpses do you seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul…

— Herman Melville

He who lets the sea lull him into a sense of security is in very grave danger.

— Hammond Innes

He is foolish to blame the sea that is shipwrecked twice.

— Publilius Syrus

Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that…

— Woodrow Wilson

Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose to the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude, and in the calmest and most stillest…

— William Shakespeare

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

— Robert Herrick

“He’d never liked the ocean, the sense of the unknown beneath his feet, that something hungry and full of teeth might be waiting to…

— Leigh Bardugo