Castaway Quotes:

Could it be that the planets are castaway heads.

- Visar Zhiti

topic: Planets, Castaway

Woe to him who seeks to please rather than appall.

- Herman Melville

source: Herman Melville (2012). “Moby Dick (Illustrated & Annotated Edition)”, p.60, Jazzybee Verlag

topic: Woe, Castaway, Please

I had to keep breathing. Even though there was no reason to hope... I stayed alive. I kept breathing. And one day my logic was proven all wrong because the tide came in, and gave me a sail. And now, here I am. Im back... Because now i know what I have to do now. I have to keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?

- Tom Hanks

topic: Here I Am, Breathing, One Day, Cast Away, Inspiring Movie

The most melancholy thing about human nature, is, that a man may guide others into the path of salvation, without walking in it himself; that he may be a pilot, and yet a castaway.

- Prince Augustus William of Prussia

topic: Men, Hypocrisy, May, Castaway

I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me. In my experience, a castaway’s worst mistake is to hope too much and to do too little. Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one’s life away.

- Yann Martel

source: "Life of Pi". Book by Yann Martel, September 11, 2001.

topic: Dream, Mistake, Hands, Castaway, Stop Hoping

Speechless, castaway, and wry, a spellbound oddity am I. My feet are planted in the clay, my gaze is locked upon the sky.

- Cecilia Dart-Thornton

source: Cecilia Dart-Thornton (2011). “Ill-Made Mute”, p.1, Pan Macmillan

topic: Oddities, Sky, Feet, Castaway, Wry

Who knows what the tide could bring.

- William Broyles, Jr.

topic: Tides, Inspiring Movie, Cast Away, Castaway, Valuable Life

There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning. For loneliness assumed the absence of other people, and the solitude she found in that desperate terrain had never admitted the possibility of other people. She wept then. Tears for the deaths of the littlest things: the castaway shoes of children; broken stems of marsh grass battered and drowned by the sea; prom photographs of dead women she never knew; wedding rings in pawnshop windows; the tiny bodies of Cornish hens in a nest of rice.

- Toni Morrison

source: Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

topic: Children, Loneliness, Sea, Castaway, Wedding Ring

And in between the two, in between the sky and the sea, were all the winds. And there were all the nights and all the moons. To be a castaway is to be a point perpetually at the centre of a circle. However much things may appear to change-the sea may shift from whisper to rage, the sky might go from fresh blue to blinding white to darkest black-the geometry never changes. Your gaze is always a radius. The circumference is ever great. In fact, the circles multiply. To be a castaway is to be caught in a harrowing ballet of circles.

- Yann Martel

topic: Moon, Night, Blue, Castaway, Radius

I've made quite a number of movies like Castaway and a few others where I'm the only guy in the movie and the only place to be is right next to the camera in costume ready to go in order to get it. The years, and more specifically probably the four months prior to beginning shooting, is where the big preparation is that the director does because I knew we were going to get on the set. And the good news is, if you're the boss, if it ain't good, you don't use it. You just cut it out.

- Tom Hanks

topic: Cutting, Order, Years, Castaway

The preacher who is concerned with gaining a reputation, rising in his profession, is always in bondage. The itch for bigness is a dangerous thing. It has made a castaway of many a man whom God once richly blessed. A man should desire to be neither larger nor smaller than pleases God. Better than that, he should not bother at all about how large or how small but rather how faithful he shall be.

- Vance Havner

topic: Blessed, Men, Faithful, Castaway

Some voluntary castaways there will always be, whom no fostering kindness and no parental care can preserve from self-destruction; but if any are lost for want of care and culture, there is a sin of omission in the society to which they belong.

- Robert Southey

source: Robert Southey (2006). “Colloquies on Society: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.88, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Kindness, Omission, Self, Self Destruction, Castaway

I still feel like a castaway, th elast of a once numerous species. It was as though Robinson Crusoe discovered the telltale footprint on the beach and then realized that it was his own. Myself, small as a leaf, thin as water, begins to cry.

- Audrey Niffenegger

topic: Beach, Water, Cry, Castaway, Robinson Crusoe

A journalist is the lookout on the bridge of the ship of state. He notes the passing sail, the little things of interest that dot the horizon in fine weather. He reports the drifting castaway whom the ship can save. He peers through fog and storm to give warning of dangers ahead. He is not thinking of his wages or of the profits of his owners. He is there to watch over the safety and the welfare of the people who trust him.

- Joseph Pulitzer

topic: Thinking, Fog, Bridges, Castaway, Fine Weather

Not to leave planet Earth would be like castaways on a desert island not trying to escape...Sending humans to other planets ... will shape the future of the human race in ways we don't yet understand, and may determine whether we have any future at all.

- Stephen Hawking

topic: Race, Islands, Trying, Castaway

A castaway in the sea was going down for the third time when he caught sight of a passing ship. Gathering his last strength, he waved frantically and called for help. Someone on board peered at him scornfully and shouted back, "Get a boat!

- Daniel Quinn

topic: Sight, Sea, Gathering, Third Time, Castaway

Woe to him whom this world charms from Gospel duty. Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God has brewed them into a gale. Woe to him who seeks to please rather than to appal. Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness. Woe to him who, in this world, courts not dishonor! Woe to him who would not be true, even though to be false were salvation. Yea, woe to him who, as the great Pilot Paul has it, while preaching to others is himself a castaway.

- Herman Melville

source: Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.53, Velvet Element Books

topic: Names, Oil, Water, Castaway, Dishonor

Rome, believe me, my friend, is like its own Monte Testaceo, Merelya marvellous mass of broken and castaway wine-pots.

- Arthur Hugh Clough

topic: Believe, Wine, Rome, Castaway