Sailing to the Edge of Time Quotes

“Time is the currency of our life—how we spend it defines our existence.”
― John Kretschmer, Sailing to the Edge of Time: The Promise, the Challenges, and the Freedom of Ocean Voyaging

“but I know one sacred place where the clock does not define time and can be disregarded—on a sailboat far from land. You have control of your days, and nights, your minutes, and seconds, you can turn off the GPS, the satellite phone, and the all the other devices that demand you get down on your knees and pray to their time gods, who extract your offerings through monthly service plans. At sea, nobody can tell you when to open or when to close shop. Your schedule is dictated by your human needs, not those of some atomic clock overlord”
― John Kretschmer, Sailing to the Edge of Time: The Promise, the Challenges, and the Freedom of Ocean Voyaging

“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested. But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no good activity, we are forced at last by death’s final constraint to realize that it has passed away before we knew it was passing. So it is: we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not ill supplied but wasteful of it… Life is long if you know how to use it.” —Seneca, On the Shortness of Life”
― John Kretschmer, Sailing to the Edge of Time: The Promise, the Challenges, and the Freedom of Ocean Voyaging

“There is always a certain risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there’s more risk.” —Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House”
― John Kretschmer, Sailing to the Edge of Time: The Promise, the Challenges, and the Freedom of Ocean Voyaging

“The very idea that my time could be owned by someone else, monitored by a clock, and traded not for freedom but for money struck me as lunacy. Where did happiness factor in, and what about the desire for a meaningful life defined not by your possessions but by your experiences?”
― John Kretschmer, Sailing to the Edge of Time: The Promise, the Challenges, and the Freedom of Ocean Voyaging

“From Grenada we soared across the bottom of the Caribbean, staying well offshore of the now-dangerous coast of Venezuela, a once-proud country spiraling into anarchy as its experiment with a populist strongman collapses, standing as a stark warning to other countries.”
― John Kretschmer, Sailing to the Edge of Time: The Promise, the Challenges, and the Freedom of Ocean Voyaging