#shipwreck

I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster. ↗

— Philip Dunne

#come #disaster #full #grown-up #i

Old age is a shipwreck. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#old #old age #shipwreck

Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism. ↗

— Josef Skvorecky

#criticism #golden #literature #look #lovers

So how long do I have to pack? ↗

— Don Darkes

#lifestyles #madagascar #shipwreck #woman-s-strength #family

Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck." [On Water] ↗

— Guy de Maupassant

#government #leadership #peace #responsibility #shipwreck

The only sea I saw Was the seesaw sea With you riding on it. Lie down, lie easy. Let me shipwreck in your thighs. ↗

— Dylan Thomas

#love #naughty #poem #sex #shipwreck

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#better #danger #encounters #hurricane #lee

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#escaped #history #remnants #shipwreck #some

The men nodded vigorously at me. When they took hold of me and lifted me in their strong arms, I thought nothing of it. I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me in the air. Only when they threw me overboard did I begin to have doubts. ↗

— Yann Martel

#shipwrecks #life

They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds. ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#lost #make #seeking #shipwreck #who