9 Shipwreck Quotes for You to Enjoy

Old age is a shipwreck. Charles de Gaulle

Age Old Old Age Shipwreck

There is so much inherent drama in the matter of change. Disappointment in yourself and others, coping with the fact that life is essentially shipwreck, becoming a person you yourself could not imagine yourself to be, for good and for bad, and then ultimately there is the basic matter of loss. Jane Hamilton

Life Good You Change Disappointment Yourself Matter Drama Others Bad Fact Could Becoming Loss Ultimately Shipwreck Person Essentially Then Much Inherent Basic Coping Imagine

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck. Guy de Maupassant

War Government Duty Every Ship Shipwreck Much Avoid Captain

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea. Ovid

Man Calm Shipwreck Experienced Sea Who Even

When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless. Willa Cather

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. Francis Bacon

Time History Some Casually Shipwreck Escaped Which

All legitimate government is a mutual insurance company, voluntarily agreed upon by the parties to it, for the protection of their rights against wrong-doers. In its voluntary character it is precisely similar to an association for mutual protection against fire or shipwreck. Lysander Spooner

Government Character Rights Protection Fire Mutual Similar Voluntarily Voluntary Parties Insurance Shipwreck Precisely Legitimate Against Company Agreed Association