Quotes about Shipwreck

Now you are shattered by the seas in the depths of the waters; your merchandise and the people among you have gone down with you.

But it was not long before a cyclone called the Northeaster swept down across the island.

We were tossed so violently that the next day the men began to jettison the cargo.

On the third day, they threw the ship’s tackle overboard with their own hands.

However, we must run aground on some island.”

After the men had eaten their fill, they lightened the ship by throwing the grain into the sea.

But the vessel struck a sandbar and ran aground. The bow stuck fast and would not move, and the stern was being broken up by the pounding of the waves.

The rest were to follow on planks and various parts of the ship. In this way everyone was brought safely to land.

Love of novelties has been the shipwreck of many a soul.

Where [God] is, tragedy is only provisional and partial, and shipwreck and dissolution are not the absolutely final things.

Both jaws, like enormous shears, bit the craft completely in twain.

Is not the sea-brine, is not shipwreck, bitter enough to make the cup of life go down here? Yet such, to a great extent, is our boasted commerce; and there are those who style themselves statesmen and philosophers who are so blind as to think that progress and civilization depend on precisely this kind of interchange and activity- the activity of flies about a molasses- hogshead. Very well, observes one, if men were oysters. And very well, answer I, if men were mosquitoes.