„Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.“

— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.“
— Fernando Pessoa
„I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.“
— Louisa May Alcott
„What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.“
— Corrie ten Boom
„… we shall board our imagined ship and wildly sail among sacred islands of the mad till death shatters the fabulous stars and makes us real.“
— Sylvia Plath
„There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes to where life is not painful; nor is there a port of call where it is possible to forget.“
— Fernando Pessoa
„I am not an adolescent, nor a romantic. I analyze objectively.“
— Dilma Rousseff