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Quotes About Stranded

I'm cold, the lover says, let's go back, but there is no road, no way, the boat is wrecked.
~ Roland Barthes
At the very same moment, close by, a car breaks down. Two young Canadians are trying to get to New York City to sell a treasure. They're stranded at a lonely motel in the middle of nowhere. It's a
~ Lee Child
It is interesting to note that life never leaves us stranded. If life hands us a problem, it hands us also the abilities with which to meet the problem.
~ W. Clement Stone
In the wake of 9/11, my wife Trish and I were stranded on the East Coast. We had planned a vacation to Greece, but flights had been halted. Instead, we ended up on a tiny island off the coast of Georgia.
~ Brad Thor
Todd drove into camp in one of the vehicles, saying he needed to take the can of gas out to Katie, who was stranded in Baby Hummer.
~ Robin Jones Gunn
Austin sniggered. "Barge full of stranded convicts, I'm sure we're top priority for the Empire.
~ Joe Schreiber
There's the juiciest music that makes me so happy, music that I need on that deserted island when I'm stranded for the rest of my life, and nobody cares that it's there.
~ Esperanza Spalding
I consider myself responsible to the coming generations, which are left stranded in a blitzed world, unaware of the soul trembling in awe before the mystery of life.
~ Oskar Kokoschka
I had not been stranded upon the shore of this strange world to find myself alone and companionless.
~ Edward Bellamy
Both camels are dead and our provisions are done.
~ William John Wills
Silence, I believe, avoids me, as water on the beach avoids stranded fish.
~ Franz Kafka
Best wine if you're stranded on a deserted island? 1982 Salon Champagne.
~ Gary Vaynerchuk
Now I felt like I was drifting, sucked down by an undertow, and too far out to swim back to the shore.
~ Sarah Dessen
What I was afraid of was my own grief, the weight of it, the ineluctable corrosive force of it, and the stark awareness I had of being, for the first time in my life, entirely alone, a Crusoe shipwrecked and stranded in the limitless wastes of a boundless and indifferent ocean.
~ John Banville
My biggest regret is that there are only 24 hours in a day. I wish there was at least a few more hours. Each hour of me being awake means I can help a few more migrants who are stranded and are desperate to reach home.
~ Sonu Sood
Stranded, stranded, stranded on the toilet bowl/What do you do when you're stranded and there ain't nothing on the roll?/To prove you're a man, you must wipe with your hand/Stranded, stranded, stranded on the toilet bowl.
~ Anthony Kiedis
It seemed to him that his ship was rather like a stranded whale that had managed a difficult birth in an alien element. He hoped that the new calf would survive.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
The music had ceased. Alex walked over to the gramophone, wound it up again, and put on more blues, a woman singing this time, gay and sad at once, like a stranded angel who had traded holiness for humanity but remembered what it used to be like to know God.
~ Barbara Hambly
'Lost' is about a bunch of people stranded on an island. It's compelling, but kind of tiny. But what sustains you are the characters.
~ Carlton Cuse
Fifteen years was a long time to be stranded anywhere, particularly somewhere as mind-boggingly dull as Earth.
~ Douglas Adams
leaving those on board with no place else to go.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
The last thing I wanted was to look down at the stranded face of my teenager. A pretty girl. Her whole death was now ahead of her.
~ Markus Zusak
Stanbrook once told me, he said, that suicide is the worst kind of selfishness, as it is often a plea to specific people who are left stranded in the land of the living, unable for all eternity to answer the plea
~ Mary Balogh
They were stranded on the opposite sides of death, at least for now, and that was all there was to it.
~ Mary Balogh