Sinking Deeper Quotes

#1. The man who goes up in a balloon does not feel as if he were ascending; he only sees the earth sinking deeper below him.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#2. When the darkness gets easier, you know you're sinking deeper, becoming dead yourself.

Lucy Christopher

#3. I felt like I was a good woman, a good person. But I was sinking deeper and deeper into depression, because my soul wasn't living. I was purposely holding down my soul and my spirit. It was dying inside of me.

Evangeline Lilly

#4. 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

#5. Friends first."
"Even before Brett?"
"Always," Bekka said. Her lively freckled face was dead serious.
"Wow," Melody said in surprise. They really were friends. Hearing it helped her feel it. And feeling it was like sinking deeper into a warm bath.

Lisi Harrison

#6. The territory of grief ... is both cruel and commonplace.

Gail Caldwell

#7. Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.

Audrey Niffenegger

#8. Love will let you want and trust in Miracles.

Prakash Hegade

#9. If the UN is to become the instrument for peace now is the time to strengthen it.

Joseph P. Lash

#10. The more time she spent with Tristen, the deeper she was sinking into his darkness. She was drowning in his wild theories, barely treading the water.

LeeAnn Whitaker

#11. Has he made an avowal of his love?'
'No,' Anna said. 'He doesn't need to. I know it, just the same.

Eleanor Catton

#12. What a tragedy it was that the only thing age could offer to youth was its own experience, and that the experiences of others were never profitable.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#13. For paradise in the world to come is uncertain, but there is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven we inhabit when we read a good book.

Christopher Morley

#14. Our patriarchal blessings are paragraphs from the book of our own possibilities.

Karl G. Maeser

#15. In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

James Russell Lowell

#16. Fullness of joy is discovered only in the emptying of will.

Ann Voskamp