the wreck QUOTES

1 " Are we the wreck or the ship of God's Word? "

― Sorin Cerin , Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom

2 " And in the midst of our dying, as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn’t touch. For if disaster and oblivion have followed this painting down through time — so too has love. Insofar as it is immortal (and it is) I have a small, bright, immutable part in that immortality. It exists; and it keeps on existing. And I add my own love to the history of people who have loved beautiful things, and looked out for them, and pulled them from the fire, and sought them when they were lost, and tried to preserve them and save them while passing them along literally from hand to hand, singing out brilliantly from the wreck of time to the next generation of lovers, and the next. "

― Donna Tartt , The Goldfinch

3 " How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living. "

― Annie Dillard , The Writing Life

4 " Suicide may be a declaration of bankruptcy which passes judgement on a life as one long history of failures. But it is a history which also amounts at least to this one decision which, by its very finality, is not wholly a failure. Some kind of minimal freedom — the freedom to die in one's own way and in one's own time — has been salvaged from the wreck of all those unwanted necessities. "

― Al Álvarez

5 " We are the wreck of what we have been, and the place of our own future demise. "

― Jesse Ball , A Cure for Suicide

6 " Within the caves of deepest longing
Echoes the sounds of majestic eve!
Upon the sphere of bright white skies
Spreads the paint of evening colours!
Silence divine, Penetrates deep
Onto the void of ethereal joy!
All I have is a bundle of letters
That would sound nothing definite!
Hold my arms to touch my warmth,
O dear, whisper on my ears soft,
Is silence the fall of words or
Are words the wreck of silence? "

― Preeth Nambiar , The Solitary Shores

7 " ...after all, who isn't a survivor from the wreck of childhood? "

― Nicole Krauss , Great House

8 " There’s just as much money to be made in the wreck of a civilization as in the upbuilding of one. "

― Margaret Mitchell , Gone with the Wind

9 " The Hawaiian creation myth relates that the present cosmos is only the last of a series, having arisen in stages from the wreck of the previous universe. In this account, the octopus is the lone survivor of the previous, alien universe. "

― , Oceanic Mythology

10 " She had learned the lesson of renunciation and was as familiar with the wreck of each day's wishes as with the diurnal setting of the sun. "

― Thomas Hardy , The Mayor of Casterbridge

11 " To the lack of incentive to effort which is the awful shadow under which we live may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth. "