Life often seems like a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love. - The shores of existence are strewn with them. Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. Virginia Woolf
The progress of science, like an ancient desert trail, is strewn with the bleached skeletons of discarded theories, doctrines, and axioms which seemed to possess eternal life. Arthur Koestler
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards. Walter Bagehot
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. Virginia Woolf
The road to hell is strewn with roses. Mexican Proverb