John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes

The cries of the sufferers on the remaining part of the wreck were heard during the night.

When I was 15, I came downstairs one morning, picked up mother's newspaper and, oh, what a shock! The Titanic had gone. The 'unsinkable' ship - but it had gone down so simple.

But he was so great!' Yes, and the people who got on the Titanic thought they were going on a vacation

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

I had a nightmare about being on a cruise ship and the ship going down. It was an arduous process of the ship going down and we knew it was going down. There was everyone I know and love on the ship.

Oh my God. My God. It’s all over.

It's like being on the Titanic and seeing there's only one lifeboat left.

About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone.

It was inevitable the Titanic was going to set sail, but that doesn't mean it was a good idea to be on it.

Many corpses will be floating in the sea.

Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.

One day, when we were coming back from school, we saw this big cloud of smoke coming up, and all these fire-trucks in the yard. The garage was burning down. I was 14, and we'd lost everything.

When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.

This dream of King’s is going to be turned into a nightmare

This was worse than anything I thought I would ever see.

Each summer, as Lake Michigan finally begins to warm, I think of the men of the World War II cruiser Indianapolis and the worst disaster at sea in United States naval history. I go down to the lake, and I wonder: How would I have survived what they experienced?

I don't like to watch train wrecks.

I like to think that I could survive should the apocalypse or zombies show up.

i am like a survivor of the flood walking through the streets drenched with God surprised that all of the drowned victims are still walking and talking

I just can't sleep tonight knowing that things ain't right.

I am not lucky. I am the type who would go to Lourdes and drown in the waters.

Disaster can take a nation by surprise, slowly, and then all at once.

I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.

You have an utterly sincere glance when you look around after you are shipwrecked. You weep a long time on an island when you realize what's happened to you.

No time to grieve for roses when the forests are burning.