“Don't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat - and the boat is perpetually sinking.”

“We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

“Sinking faster than a boat without a hull.”

Richard Ashcroft (1971) English singer-songwriter

“We Are All in the Same Boat.”

Angela Merkel (1954) Chancellor of Germany

“I thought I would try my hand at sailing. It was too small and kept sinking, so I decided to try a boat instead.”

Arthur M. Jolly (1969) American writer

“Well you've been brought here against your will, just like I have. If you ask me, we're all in the same boat. And it's leaking.”

John Boyne (1971) Irish novelist, author of children's and youth fiction

“All loyalists are now in the same boat.”
Una navis est iam bonorum omnium.

Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman

“What happened?" he demanded. "I heard an explosion!"

"Yeah. That was me. I set the boat alight."

"What?"

"I set fire to the boat."

"But we're on the boat!"

"I know.”

Anthony Horowitz book Skeleton Key

“We came from the sea originally, now we're going back in it. Don't go in it, unless you're in a boat.”

Karl Pilkington (1972) English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer

“What's the point? was my attitude. We're all just going to die and then NOT be let on the boat.”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist