Quotes About Sinking

#1. She is a pebble skipping
over the surface of a lake.
As I once was.
Not a deep sinking stone that leaves widening ripples behind
after it's disappeared.
As I hope to be.

Padma Venkatraman

#2. at the sight of the sinking,

Steve Berry

#3. Being the richest man on a sinking ship is a bitter victory

John Pugsley

#4. I think of my second lost compass sinking to the bottom of the river, like the stone it was before Ky changed it.

Ally Condie

#5. I'd seen the older children in class look into books for invisible traces, as if they were driven by the same force and, sinking deeper into silence, they were able to draw from the dead paper something that seemed alive.

Muriel Barbery

#6. When I was here there was still a requirement that students had to swim 50 yards to graduate ... because Harry Elkins Widener had drowned with the sinking of the Titanic. And it made me very grateful at the time that he had not gone down in a plane crash.

Barney Frank

#7. Negative feelings can either lead to sinking into oneself and disappearing, or they can make you angry and want to prove that you're worthy to be in the conversation ...

Britta Phillips

#8. How do men act on a sinking ship? Do they hold each other? Do they pass around the whisky? Do they cry?

Sebastian Junger

#9. A plumped feather bed may have looked divine, but occupants quickly found themselves sinking into a hard, airless fissure between billowy hills. Support was on a lattice of ropes, which could be tightened with a key when they began to sag (hence the expression "sleep tight").

Bill Bryson

#10. There's an island over there. On that island there are trees. Under those trees there are animals carrying around chops and roast beefs, and I wouldn't mind a bit sinking my teeth into a little good meat.

Jules Verne

#11. Good literature is a lifeboat! Every time you feel you are sinking, jump on it!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. Life has played her like a cat weaving between her legs, pretending to be tame, friendly, before sinking its claws into soft, vulnerable flesh.

Wendy James

#13. This is the sinking woman
whose soul touched the ocean and
caused it to storm kisses.

Gloria D. Gonsalves

#14. Would it be enough to rock on a stormless sea with each our separate memories tuned to the state of the sinking sun?

Kristen Henderson

#15. The uncertainty of my own experience is crushing. I am drowning in an infinite sea. Sinking slowly, the weight of the lightless depths forcing me down, forcing the air from my lungs, squeezing the blood from my heart.

Rick Yancey

#16. Lately in a wreck of a Californian ship, one of the passengers fastened a belt about him with two hundred pounds of gold in it, with which he was found afterwards at the bottom. Now, as he was sinking- had he the gold? or the gold him?

John Ruskin

#17. In all the heroic tales, dying soldiers saw their lives pass before their eyes. No, Martin realized. The memories were just running like rats from a sinking ship, down the ropes only to drown. He watched the backs of their heads.

J.P. Moore

#18. He felt something he'd never felt before - but he had a sinking sensation that he recognized it anyway.
He was pretty sure he felt like he was in love.

Cassandra Clare

#19. When interviewing for a job, tell the editor how you love to report. How your passion is gathering information. Do not mention how you want to be a writer, use the word 'prose,' or that deep down you have a sinking suspicion you are the next Norman Mailer.

Michael Hastings

#20. Then Arjuma saw in both armies fathers, grandfathers, sons, grandsons; fathers of wives, uncles, masters; brothers companions and friends ... When Arjuna thus saw his kinsmen face to face in both lines of battle, he was overcome by grief and despair and thus he spoke with a sinking heart.

Juan Mascaro

#21. The Pound is sinking, the Peso's failing, the Lira's reeling, and feeling quite appalling.

Paul McCartney

#22. The Sun is never alone as the light remains with him always. Even when he goes down sinking...sinking, the light drowns with him

Munia Khan

#23. But as they settled into their seats in the inn's busy dining room, he looked at her across the table and it wasn't her beauty he saw. It was her heart. And her soul. And he had a sinking feeling that his life was never going to be the same.

Julia Quinn

#24. Amy Grech has a cinematographer's eye, and a surgeon's hand - at once brutal and tender, unsettling yet humane. These stories linger like traces of an acid trip. Highly recommended!"

- Jay Bonansinga, National Best-Selling Author of Twisted, Frozen,
and The Sinking of the Eastland

Jay Bonansinga

#25. There was nearly an inch of snow accumulated and Washington was rapidly sinking into hysteria.

Robert B. Parker

#26. Miss Allison realised with a slight sinking of the heart that she was to be made the recipient of confidences.

Georgette Heyer

#27. I worked on dramas before, I love sinking my teeth into something dramatic or a period piece, but there's something so fun about doing a comedy. When you go to set and your only job is to make people laugh, there's an unbelievable energy on set.

Skylar Astin

#28. Safety, stability
it's an illusion. It's a false god, Simon. It's like clinging to a sinking raft instead of learning to swim.

Rainbow Rowell

#29. Trapped. Sinking. Can't be myself. Made into what other people expect. Is that everyone's fate? Were the great individualists the products of their friends who wanted a great individualist as a friend?

Michael Moorcock

#30. It is by surmounting difficulties, not by sinking under them that we discover our fortitude.

Hannah Webster Foster

#31. By the year 2025, 500 million people will die of smoking. Now, that's a Vietnam War every day for 27 years. That's the Titanic sinking every 27 minutes for 27 years.

C. Everett Koop

#32. Placing blame in marriage is like saying, 'Your side of the boat is sinking.'

Hank Smith

#33. He approached her with great care. Sinking to his haunches, he contemplated her with immeasurable tenderness and concern. One of his big hands moved, shoving aside some of the books until the space between their bodies was clear. "It's me, love," he said softly. "Everything's all right.

Lisa Kleypas

#34. You can bail water 24/7, and no matter how good you are at not sinking, you still have a hole in your boat.

Kelli Jae Baeli

#35. What's one more torpedo in a sinking ship.

Lynn Dickey

#36. I always thought that I was a good swimmer, you know? That in a sink or swim situation I would rise to the top. But the truth is I was drowning. I was sinking fast and you threw me a lifeline. I never expected to love you. But you saved my life. How could I not?

Rachel Hayes

#37. If you're Noah, and your ark is about to sink, look for the elephants first, because you can throw over a bunch of cats, dogs, squirrels, and everything else that is just a small animal and your ark will keep sinking. But if you can find one elephant to get overboard, you're in much better shape.

Vilfredo Pareto

#38. She was a dangerous, dangerous girl. A plague. A Mountain of Adamant who tore the iron from ships, sinking them to their watery graves without a second thought. With a mere smile and a wrinkle of her nose.

Renee Ahdieh

#39. The sinking of the Gustloff is the largest maritime disaster, yet the world still knows nothing of it. I often wonder, will that ever change or will it remain just another secret swallowed by war? You

Ruta Sepetys

#40. Jean Louise had a sinking feeling. The Hundred Years' War had progressed to approximately its twenty-sixth year with no indications of anything more than periods of uneasy truce.

Harper Lee

#41. A man would know the end he goes to, but he cannot know it if he does not turn, and return to his beginning, and hold that beginning in his being. If he would not be a stick whirled and whelmed in the stream, he must be the stream itself, all of it, from its spring to its sinking in the sea.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#42. Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking.

Anne Lamott

#43. This is so weird," said Simon. "I keep expecting the truck to start sinking." "I can't believe you just went through what we went through and you think this is weird," said Jace, but

Cassandra Clare

#44. Your side of the boat is sinking!

Hank Smith

#45. This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

Douglas Adams

#46. And so it went, sand piling up to the heavens and homes sinking toward hell.

Hugh Howey

#47. Each side, hypocritical enough to pretend that it lives up to its own hype, is equally insistent that the other side's worst is truly all that it is. American political advertising is sinking slowly toward a level worthy of Soviet propaganda.

Os Guinness

#48. And this grey spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge, like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.

Richard Flanagan

#49. Trust, is the stone thrown into the sea, sinking deep in all its murkiness, unable to see what it once lived and believed to be a promise.

Anthony Liccione

#50. If you're feeling low, don't despair. The sun has a sinking spell every night, but it comes back up every morning.

Dolly Parton

#51. Ah come on, these streams of light are not so subtle. All along the ditch, signs of life in sinking puddles!

Sarah Harmer

#52. I love dipping into dreams and sinuously sinking into sleep. It's the freest place to be. The possibilities are limitless and my imagination becomes a weightless wonder.

Jaeda DeWalt

#53. Sinking. Sinking, but instead of feeling panic or anything else, I realized that "Please guys, don't" were terrible last words.

John Green

#54. If we don't love and respect ourselves, everything else disintegrates: our relationships, our work, our faith, and our dreams. We are the only filter between the world and ourselves. The more we doubt the filter, the more we doubt everything, sinking into indifferent apathy.

Jonathan Heston

#55. The more thinking minds, the less sinking world!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#56. It sounds mercenary and it smacks of rats leaving the sinking ship. But get real, when everyone is bailing out, you don't want to be the last man standing.

Robbie Fowler

#57. Some decisions in life naturally lead to an unhappy ending, leaving you sinking by degrees in a lake of quicksand. And, unless someone reaches to pull you out, chances are you will drown in the consequences.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#58. Why are we not tasting the bliss of Bhakti? Because we are taking shelter of stone boats. We are sinking and drowning in Maya & still we are further taking shelter of stone boats and this can go on life after life.

Radhanath Swami

#59. I'll project myself into several futures simultaneously," I should have said, "a minor tremor in my hand; I'll work my way from irony to sincerity in the sinking city, a would-be Whitman of the vulnerable grid.

Ben Lerner

#60. If America is a ship, it looks a lot like it's sinking - financially, morally, spiritually. It's frightening.

Kirk Cameron

#61. The law of floatation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things.

Thomas Troward

#62. But all the love in the world won't save a sinking ship. You have to either bail or jump overboard.

Sarah Dessen

#63. Everything depends on this: a fathomless sinking into a fathomless nothingness.

Johannes Tauler

#64. I fret for Sylvia.
She appears anchored
to the idea of sinking,
which is silly when she so clearly
soars above almost everyone.

Stephanie Hemphill

#65. I feel an emptiness open in my chest, coupled with a strange downward pull in my throat. I think, this is my heart sinking.

Kermit Roosevelt III

#66. Snow does not freeze the hands, but like ether distends the lungs until they burst. All the ships are sinking with fire in their bowels, and there are fires hissing in the cellars of every house.

Anais Nin

#67. We ought not to raise expectations which it is not in our power to satisfy.-It is more pleasing to see smoke brightening into flame, than flame sinking into smoke.

Samuel Johnson

#68. Sinking onto the sand, I turned my face into the wind, hoping the breeze would blow away the pain. The pain of rejection, the pain of betrayal, and the pain of everything that had been lost to us.

Kerry Lonsdale

#69. The night sky was distended in my dreams, sinking to earth with the weight of destructive glory behind it. In one of those dreams I reached up and touched it gently with a fingertip, and it burst like a yolk, releasing a deluge of light.

Sofia Samatar

#70. It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.

Matthew Hale

#71. With one glance he had got himself trapped in the brown fundament of her eyes, he was in danger of sinking, as if into a soft, brown swamp, and he had to close his own eyes for a second to get out of it..

Patrick Suskind

#72. Forbes did a story on , when I seen it in Forbes I was just like, "This looks good!" and it felt good so I just went ahead and posted it. As soon as I posted it, people started calling and congratulating me and then it really started sinking in that it was a real accomplishment.

Ryan Montgomery

#73. In my rear view mirror the sun is going down sinking behind bridges in the road and I think of all the good things that we have left undone and I suffer premonitions confirm suspicions of the holocaust to come.

Roger Waters

#74. That's the problem with fiction - or the charm, if you want. Even mediocre plots have a way of sinking their hooks into you, until you find yourself concerned for the fates of characters who aren't even fully convincing.

Charles McGrath

#75. A film is a boat which is always on the point of sinking-it always tends to break up as you go along and drag you under with it.

Francois Truffaut

#76. It's a funny feeling, being suddenly airborne. Just as you realize it, it's over, and you're sinking.

Sarah Dessen

#77. That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws; and every step of intestine discord was marked by some deplorable victory of savage man over civilized society.

Edward Gibbon

#78. Definition of failure - wishful sinking!

Stephen Richards

#79. The spirit is liquid and easily flows and surges, sinking and boiling with the currents of circumstances. Bringing every thought into the obedience of Christ is no easy-chair job.

Elisabeth Elliot

#80. Only those who will be sellers of equities in the near future should be happy at seeing stocks rise. Prospective purchasers should much prefer sinking prices.

Warren Buffett

#81. Don't you see all the people sinking down? Don't you care? Are you gonna let them drown?

Keith Green

#82. Part of me wants to ignore the wrongness and just believe him, but then I'd be pretending as much as he is. No matter how much I want to deny the truth, it gets more obvious every day that he's a drowning man clinging to a sinking raft.

Anonymous

#83. Resolve to be merry though the ship were sinking.

Susanna Centlivre

#84. I feel like Luke and I are on an island that's sinking and there's nothing I can do to stop it. I can swim, though. If Luke can't, then it's too bad. He's had sixteen years to learn.

Cath Crowley

#85. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. Even

George Orwell

#86. You run and you run to catch up to the sun but it's sinking, racing around to come up behind you again.

Roger Waters

#87. Just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean you're not still underwater.

Amy Hempel

#88. All self-effort is but sinking sand. Christ alone is the Rock of our salvation.

Henry Allen Ironside

#89. Anne entered it with a sinking heart, anticipating an imprisonment of many months, and anxiously saying to herself, "Oh! when shall I leave you again?

Jane Austen

#90. When sinners are careless and stupid, and sinking into hell unconcerned, it is time the church should bestir themselves. It is as much the duty of the church to awake, as it is for the firemen to awake when a fire breaks out in the night in a great city.

Charles Grandison Finney

#91. God save us from living in comfort while sinners are sinking into hell!

Charles Spurgeon

#92. The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.

Charles Caleb Colton

#93. Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.

Alexander Pope

#94. It's all about perspective. The sinking of the Titanic was a miracle to the lobsters in the ship's kitchen. (Oct 4, 2011)

Wynne McLaughlin

#95. The law of flotation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things. Rather, it was discovered by thinking about things that float naturally.

Wayne Dyer

#96. I respond, thoughts dropping away, like pebbles plopping one by one in water, sinking down, down into dark oblivion.

Sophie Jordan

#97. Even a life raft is only supposed to get you from the sinking ship back to land, you were never intended to live in the life raft, to drift years on end, in sight of land but never close enough.

Nick Flynn

#98. All around, the sea was full of ships. Some were burning, some were sinking, some had been smashed to splinters.

George R R Martin

#99. Inside your own self pity there you swim, in sinking down to drown her voice still haunts you, and only with your laughter can you win.

Joni Mitchell

#100. ...and I realized not without a sinking feeling that he was already completely in Feely's thrall, hanging on her every word like ball on a rubber string, nodding like a demented woodpecker, and grinning like a fool.

Alan Bradley