Dark Quote by Robert Hayden

“And Spaceship Earth, that glorious and bloody circus, continued its four-billion-year-long spiral orbit about the Sun; the engineering, I must admit, was so exquisite…

— Robert Anton Wilson

Fate: protects fools, little children, and ships named Enterprise. -Commander Riker

— Star Trek

“The throbbing engines of the ship and its relentless passage onwards through the sea brought back to us the ever urgency of moving Time,…

— Robert Collis

Watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an enigma. There it is before you, smiling, frowning, inviting, grand,…

— Joseph Conrad

“The lights of many battleships drifting like water jewels upon the dark Hudson...”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Great waves, and blaze with fire like them.In beauty, but do not condemn,The seamen who embark and fail,But only those who will not sail.

— John Piper

Every day brings a ship, Every ship brings a word; Well for those who have no fear, Looking seaward well assured That the word…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Leave the dark places in the sea for fools and explorers.”

— Mira Grant

“Some of the smugglers' vessels are former pleasure yachts, hijacked - and never renamed - out of some overdeveloped sense of irony or possibly...sheer…

— Ann Aguirre

“The ships whose masts I saw outlined against the sky looked, with their black hulls, like silent monsters that were raising their hackles and…

— Knut Hamsun

“So I dream nightly of an embarcation, captains, captains, iron passageways, cabin lights, Brooklyn across the waters, the great dull boat, visitors, farewells, the…

— Allen Ginsberg

“a crew of pirates are driven by a storm they know not whither; at length a boy discovers land from the topmast; they go…

— Jonathan Swift