Shipwreck Quotes

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

You see yourself as a shipwreck, but we see your treasure glowing inside, beneath the oceans in your eyes.

~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

Dreaming of another time,Dreaming of clasping your hands so tight,Dreaming of another time,Dreaming of the shipwreck that is in my heart would end

~ Tanzy Sayadi

She holds you like a whore in the night, but she'll take your soul and not think twice.

~ Micheal Rivers

So exquisitely perfect was the darkness of the heavens above that one would have difficulty believing it was a prison to the passengers and crew of The Black Witch.

~ Micheal Rivers

Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipw

~ Guy De Maupassant

The injured captain, lying in the bow, was at this time buried in that profound dejection and indifference which comes, temporarily at least, toeven the bravest and most enduring when, willy nilly, the firm fails, the army loses, the ship goes down.

~ Stephen Crane

There's always a siren, singing you to shipwreck. Some of us may be more susceptible than others are, but there's always a siren. It may be with us all our lives, or it may be many years or decades before we find it or it finds us. But when it does find us, if we're lucky we're Odysseus tied up to the ship's mast, hearing the song with perfect clarity, but ferried to safety by a crew whose ears have been plugged with beeswax. If we're not at all lucky, we're another sort of sailor stepping off the deck to drown in the sea.

~ Caitlín R. Kiernan

Old age is a shipwreck.

~ Charles De Gaulle