Quote by Rumi

“I awoke at dawn, thrown up on a rock, the skeleton of a ship choked in its own sails.”

— Anaïs Nin

“Time is the reef upon which all our mystic ships are wrecked.”

— Noël Coward

“And I will now rock the brown basin from side to side so that my ships may ride the waves. Some will founder. Some…

— Virginia Woolf

“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

“It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of the voyage.”

— Anonymous

“If the stillness is Volcanic In the human face When upon a pain Titanic Features keep their place- If at length the smoldering anguish…

— Emily Dickinson

“Their ships were steeds, and they rode the waves like jennets.”

— Felipe Fernández-Armesto

“[The waves] move across a faint horizon, the rush of love and the surge of grief, the respite of peace and then fear again,…

— Susan Casey

“A graveyard of boats, cloaked in the shadows of their storm-beaten sails, rest like long-forgotten tombstones on the edges of the docks.”

— Lee Kelly

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

— Mary Shelley

“Imagine all the people you meet in your life. There are so many. They come in like waves, trickling in and out with the…

— Colleen Hoover

“Now Borluut was seeing it from close to. And to its very end, it seemed, from the way the line of the horizon merged…

— Georges Rodenbach