Lost At Sea Quotes:

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea.

- e. e. cummings

source: E. E. Cummings, “Maggie And Milly And Molly And May”

topic: Inspirational, Ocean, Lakes, Ocean Sea, Ocean Water

Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at sea.

- Charlie Cook

topic: Sight, Sea, Forever, Lost At Sea, Sailing And The Sea

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

- Joseph Conrad

topic: Sea, Boat, Enticing, Mariners, Ocean Sea

And when she dreams, she dreams of a girl who was lost at sea but one day found the shore.

- Gabrielle Zevin

source: Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.167, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Girl, Dream, Sea, Lost At Sea

Not merely hope, but any burdensome yearning: ambition, hatred, love (especially love) - how rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve? How hopelessly we signal; how dark the sky; how big the waves. We are all lost at see, washed between hope and despair, hailing something that may never come to rescue us. Catastrophe has become art; but this is no reducing process. It is freeing, enlarging, explaining. Catastrophe has become art: that is, after all, what it is for.

- Julian Barnes

source: Julian Barnes (2010). “A History Of The World In 10 1/2 Chapters”, p.137, Random House

topic: Art, Ambition, Dark, Lost At Sea, Hatred For Love

I'd like to be in a tiny indie where I'm lost at sea.

- Jenny Slate

source: Source: www.indiewire.com

topic: Sea, Tiny, Lost, Lost At Sea

I'd just like to think that there's some kind of underworld where whoever's been lost at sea is there... I dunno, there probably isn't, but I'd like to believe there is.

- Ellie Goulding

topic: Believe, Thinking, Sea, Lost At Sea

Sometimes maybe you should let someone you love travel great distances away from you. You shouldn’t think you needed to set out to retrieve them and put them back where they belonged. Sometimes they were only safe and happy, like Annabelle Aurora. And then other times, it was just possible they were lost at sea. It would be your duty, then, to get out into the boat and search, even if the waves were choppy and the wind was howling the protests of the dead.

- Deb Caletti

source: Deb Caletti (2011). “Stay”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

topic: Distance, Thinking, Wind, Aurora, Lost At Sea

Trash? The only trash I see here are two little boys lost at sea and a pathetic excuse for a seaworthy vessel!

- Davy Jones

topic: Boys, Sea, Two, Lost At Sea

After you die, your body is just there. Isn't it kind of embarrassing that your body is going to be there and you have no say or control over it? Somebody's going to have to deal with it. I've always respected people who kill themselves and find a way to get rid of the body. Very clean. Lost at sea. I can see why they do that. There's nothing left.

- Laurel Nakadate

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Sea, People, Body, Lost At Sea

He looked at the book, took my name, and consulted his records. Then he informed me I had been lost at sea and was dead. Under the circumstances, he could not possibly give me any money... Even the fact that he was dealing with someone who had been dead for several days failed to awaken interest in his official heart.

- Elizabeth Kenny

topic: Book, Heart, Sea, Lost At Sea

Every book that anyone sets out on is a voyage of discovery that may discover nothing. Any voyager may be lost at sea, like John Cabot. Nobody can teach the geography of the undiscovered. All he can do is encourge the will to explore, plus impress upon the inexperienced a few of the dos and don'ts of voyaging.

- Wallace Stegner

source: Wallace Stegner (2002). “On Teaching and Writing Fiction”, p.28, Penguin

topic: Teaching, Book, Discovery, Lost At Sea, Voyages Of Discovery

I thought I loved him when he went away; I love him now in another degree: he is more my own. [ . . . ] Oh! a thousand weepers, praying in agony on waiting shores, listened for that voice, but it was not uttered--not uttered till; when the hush came, some could not feel it: till, when the sun returned, his light was night to some!

- Charlotte Bronte

topic: I Love Him, Night, Light, Lost At Sea

But if I hadn't shoved you off the boat back there,you'd be lost at sea now,wouldn't you? We'd all be lost! So thanks to me you're all standing on land." (Pirates, its a good thing they're idiots)

- Dave Barry

topic: Sea, Land, Pirate, Lost At Sea

Our shipment of mowers was lost at sea and while we waited, winter descended and covered our green lawns with snow. That taught me a key lesson, the importance of timing. The shipping company lost the lawnmowers! By the time they showed up no one wanted them, as you can't cut grass when it's covered with snow.

- Terry Matthews

topic: Mistake, Cutting, Winter, Mowers, Lost At Sea