Quote by Leo Marx

“Whence, it may be asked, had come that plaything of the tempest? From what part of the world did it rise? It surely could…

— Jules Verne

“When on that shivering winter’s night, the Pequod thrust her vindictive bows into the cold malicious waves, who should I see standing at her…

— Herman Melville

Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The tempest was terrible and separated me from my [other] vessels that night, putting every one of them in desperate straits, with nothing to…

— Christopher Columbus

“voyage to render their seeming eccentricities consistent forever. I shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never…

— Mary Shelley

“Like a great ship, this season has run aground. Dawn and dusk alternate at an old man's pace. I live alone in an area…

— Ge Fei

“There was nothing but a lonely magnificence of sea and islands”

— Margaret Craven

“Strange and harrowing must be his story; frightful the storm which embraced the gallant vessel on its course, and wrecked it--thus!”

— Mary Shelley

We shall steer safely through every storm, so long as our heart is right, our intention fervent, our courage steadfast, and our trust fixed…

— Saint Francis de Sales

“People, too, become like islands in such an atmosphere, self-contained, whole and serene; respecting other people’s solitude, not intruding on their shores, standing back…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh