Shipwreck Quotes

• If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Risk
  • Unknown
  • Waters

• All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Forget
  • Floating
  • Emerging

• We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • God
  • Fear
  • Pilot

• Well, father, in the shipwreck of life, for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes, I cast into the sea my useless encumbrance, that is all, and I remain with my own will, disposed to live perfectly alone, and, consequently, perfectly free.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Life
  • Free
  • Hopes

• I was shipwrecked before I got aboard.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Shipwreck

• Sometimes friends do foolish things. My father told me that true friends are like gold coins. Ships are wrecked by storms and lie for hundreds of years on the ocean floor. Worms destroy the wood. Iron corrodes. Silver turns black but gold doesn't change in sea water. It loses none of its brilliance or colour. It comes up the same. It survives shipwrecks and time.

  

  Michael Robotham
  • Friends
  • Sometimes
  • Foolish