Shipwrecked Quotes

“Dwelling among shipwrecked dreams and losing oneself in wishful thinking cannot be a solution to tribulations. Identifying cracks and apprehending the defaults in one's life is essential to find a way to get out of a ghetto and to start a search for a new haven. ("The world was somewhere else" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Only a shipwrecked person who has just escaped drowning could understand the psychology of someone who breaks out in laughter just because he is able to breathe”
― Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

“When we recognize that what we think that we know, is just an illusion, and we are capable of laying bare our psychological discomforts, we can manage to choose a projection into the future and sail without being shipwrecked on the cliffs of mental enslavement. ("The freedom of new thinking")”
― Erik Pervernagie

“Finally, the rain stopped. The sky draped like a large, starry blanket over the world. The moonlight painted the tiny waves around me the color of my grandfather's hair. I lifted my hands and laughed hysterically. My fingers dripped lustrous, metallic water like mercury. Specks of light danced on the ocean surface, beckoning me to join them. Time melted into space, letting me flow with it into oblivion.”
― Kien Nguyen, The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood

“When a ship gets wrecked, I have a sense it is going to be able to make it to shore.”
― Leo Patrick Lipana

“Although she had never tasted wine, it looked extremely refreshing;
just what she needed to quench her thirst. And she hear his voice call out to her “come on Terry Jo! We're
leaving now!“
Occasionally, a wave splashing into her face brought her into semi-consciousness. She was so numb now from shock, she felt even less fear. The confined world the raft and the water was beginning to become her way of life. The previous world of the Bluebelle, her family, and her home was becoming strangely distant and incomprehensible.”
― Richard D. Logan

“When a ship gets wrecked, I have a sense it is going to be able to make it to the shore.”
― Leo Patrick Lipana

“Paradise Isle by Stewart Stafford

In superstitious guidance,
I discovered your shallows,
Ingénues' on naked dunes,
Edenites of Paradise Isle.

Tragedy and chance are but pirates;
One welcome, both shocking rogues,
Am I a castaway or a sleepwalker?
Let motivations as explorers gather.

Leaving footprints only we can see,
The wet sand, a camouflage ally,
We quit the beach and head inland,
As crabs in shade to the waterline crawl.

© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Faced with growing dissent, he turned the boat around, heading back the way they had come. One marine began to go mad, laughing hysterically, until he slumped over in silence, dead. Another man died shortly after, and then another. Their bodies were tossed into the sea.
It took the surviving party close to two weeks to retrace its path, only to then realize that they had found the strait [of Magellan] all along. Now they had to start east all over again.”
― David Grann, The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

“On February 2, 1709, Rogers' men visited the island of Más a Tierra (officially renamed Robinson Crusoe Island in 1966), located in the Pacific about 400 miles from the Chilean coast. There they found a British sailor named Alexander Selkirk, who had been marooned on the island four years and four months earlier. Rogers took Selkirk onboard and ultimately brought him back to England, where his tale of survival became the backbone for Daniel Dafoe's famous novel, Robinson Crusoe.”
― Eric Jay Dolin, The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail