Titanic Ship Quotes

“… yet a little colder, gray sky deepening into haziness as evening fell, making the water look like molten silver as it caught the soft beams of a misty moon. A soothing peace and an ever increasing chill set in that drove one indoors, an excuse for bed and a good book. I slipped out on deck, my nightly custom before retiring, for a few moments alone with my thoughts. It was all so quiet, but how penetratingly cold it had become! Little wisps of mist like tiny fairies wafted gently inboard from the sea and left my face clammy. I shivered. It was indeed a night for bed, warmth and cozy thoughts of home and firesides.”
― Violet Jessop, Titanic Survivor: The Newly Discovered Memoirs of Violet Jessop Who Survived Both the Titanic and Britannic Disasters

“The Titan's Fall by Stewart Stafford

Colossus ship of the Titans,
Flames of Tartarus in its belly,
Unsinkable beneath the stars,
Champagne popped too soon.

In infinite glacial hubris,
Collided with its own ambition,
Immortal Gordian Knot slashed,
And freezing death crept aboard.

Cantering up Scotland Road,
Trojan Seahorse's Achilles' Heel,
Solitary children drowning,
In heartbroken submersion.

The River Styx fell silent,
But for whimpered prayers.
As Charon's boat of death,
Ferried them to Hades.

The tangled Medusan wreckage,
Once a great wonder of the earth,
Plunged into an underworld abyss -
A terrible beauty on the seabed nests.

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