Each man makes his own shipwreck.
You can't complain about the sea if you suffer shipwreck for the second time.
No sentía sed ni hambre. No sentía nada, aparte de una indeferencia general por la vida y la muerte. Pensé que me estaba muriendo. Y esa idea me llenó de una extraña y oscura esperanza.
Old age is a shipwreck.
Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
Like a shipwreck or a jetty, almost anything that forms a structure in the ocean, whether it is natural or artificial over time, collects life.
They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
The best way to meet a woman is in an emergency situation - if you're in a shipwreck, or you find yourself behind enemy lines, or in a flood.
The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
For mankind you've made your wintry bed. A shipwreck of your own mortality
Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck
The channel is known only to the natives; so that if any stranger should enter into the bay without one of their pilots he would run great danger of shipwreck.
Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.
We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.
Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.
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.
They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought[.]
