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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.
- Ezekiel 27:34
But it was not long before a cyclone called the Northeaster swept down across the island.
- Acts 27:14
We were tossed so violently that the next day the men began to jettison the cargo.
- Acts 27:18
On the third day, they threw the ship’s tackle overboard with their own hands.
- Acts 27:19
However, we must run aground on some island.”
- Acts 27:26
After the men had eaten their fill, they lightened the ship by throwing the grain into the sea.
- Acts 27:38
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.
- Acts 27:41
The rest were to follow on planks and various parts of the ship. In this way everyone was brought safely to land.
- Acts 27:44
Love of novelties has been the shipwreck of many a soul.
- Horatius Bonar
Where [God] is, tragedy is only provisional and partial, and shipwreck and dissolution are not the absolutely final things.
- William James
Both jaws, like enormous shears, bit the craft completely in twain.
- Herman Melville
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.
- Henry David Thoreau