Quotes About Your Heart Sinking

#1. Sometimes, the smallest moments in your life have the greatest impact. They soar straight into a place deep inside you, and resonate with the very core of your heart, sinking deep into your memory, to remind you later, that life and love can bring you magic you didn't know existed.

Angela Richardson

#2. With a sinking heart, I realize that the man in bed with me is too large and unruly to be my boyfriend. What have I done?

Amy Avanzino

#3. Never ask a ninja if she can jump - it's degrading.

Rachel Van Dyken

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

Georgette Heyer

#8. 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

#9. Anyone who says that sex is overrated just hasn't done it properly.

Robert A. Heinlein

#10. Any man who thinks he knows the mind of a woman is a man who knows nothing.

Robert Evans

#11. The small pulse of the life within me, and the great heart of the city around me, seemed to be sinking in unison.

Wilkie Collins

#12. I dare to do things - that's how I survive.

Gail Sheehy

#13. Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel-dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#14. The chilly mist settled down around them, sinking like midnight into his bones. His arm hurt, and his heart felt like an open wound in his chest.

Laura Kinsale

#15. But as Acheron so often says, just because you can do something, it doesn't mean you should.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#16. 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

#17. My heart is burning a hole in my chest and every time you speak to me, it keeps sinking, and I'm left with nothing but ashes. I wish she were talking to me, because the more she speaks to me, the more my heart flutters like a rising phoenix.
-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz

Karen Quan

#18. I know my 17-year-old self would read my bourgeois fiction, full of metaphors and rhythmic prose, with a sinking heart.

Jim Crace

#19. She was truly a beautiful girl. I could feel a small polished stone sinking through the darkest waters of my heart. All those deep convoluted channels and passageways, and yet she managed to toss her pebble right down to the bottom of it all.

Haruki Murakami

#20. My heart is sinking and my chest physically aches from the heavy sadness that it carries within.

Shannon Perry

#21. I wonder how much of the rest of his clothes I could convince him to take off, then wonder where that thought came from.
Well I guess I know.

Claudia Gray

#22. A man ought to avow his opinions and defend them with boldness.

John Adams

#23. You wake up one morning and there it is, sitting in an old plaid bathrobe in your kitchen, unpleasant and unshaved. You look at it, heart sinking. Madness is a rotten guest.

Marya Hornbacher

#24. I grew up on film scores and scores from films.

Skitch Henderson

#25. I cannot say that our country could have no secret police without becoming totalitarian, but I can say with great conviction that it cannot become totalitarian without a centralized national police.

Robert H. Jackson

#26. Weight loss does not make people happy. Or peaceful. Being thin does not address the emptiness that has no shape or weight or name. Even a wildly successful diet is a colossal failure because inside the new body is the same sinking heart.

Geneen Roth

#27. I do not want my voice to go out into the air while my heart is sinking.

E. M. Forster

#28. Adults can talk all they want about youth feeling invincible. Surely, some of us had that bravado. But there was also the dark inner voice telling us we were doomed. And then we were doomed. And then we weren't. You should never feel doomed.

David Levithan

#29. A Christian will part with anything rather than his hope; he knows that hope will keep the heart both from aching and breaking, from fainting and sinking; he knows that hope is a beam of God, a spark of glory, and that nothing shall extinguish it till the soul be filled with glory.

Thomas Brooks

#30. O men, grown sick with toil and care, Leave for awhile the crowded mart; O women, sinking with despair, Weary of limb and faint of heart, Forget your years to-day and come As children back to childhood's house.

Phoebe Cary

#31. I left then too, more confused and hurt than ever and with a sadness tugging on my heart like a sinking anchor. If I wasn't careful, I would drown.

Mindee Arnett

#32. Two men look out through the same bars. One sees the mud and the other the stars.

Frederick Longbridge