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Could it be that the planets are castaway heads. -- Visar Zhiti
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
Rome, believe me, my friend, is like its own Monte Testaceo, Merelya marvellous mass of broken and castaway wine-pots. -- Arthur Hugh Clough
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
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
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
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
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
[T]o be a castaway is to be caught up in grim and exhausting opposites. -- Yann Martel
Speechless, castaway and wrya spellbound oddity am Imy feet are locked upon the claymy gaze is locked upon the sky -- Cecilia Dart Thornton
Very few castaways can claim to have survived so long at sea as Mr.Patel, and none in the company of an adult Bengal tiger. -- Yann Martel
Sunny held Kit, and Violet held Klaus, and for a minute the four castaways did nothing but weep, letting their tears run down their faces and into the sea, which some have said is nothing but a library of all tears in history. -- Lemony Snicket
We have nothing left. Orphans. Castaways." She turns to me"Childless. That is what we are. The unwanted or the un-killed. Weare together only by the wrongs done to us. There is no-one else to worry about us, to fear for our safety, or to give us comfort. -- Bill Blais
They were ready to sell people a future in exchange for their past... They wanted to compel him to cast his life away and become a shadow, a man without past, an actor without a role, and turn even his castaway life, even the role the actor had abandoned, into a shadow. Having turned him into a shadow, they would let him live. -- Milan Kundera
Fame is an island, and right before the castaway, the getaway of being known without being known. -- Criss Jami

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