Sinking Feeling Quotes

#1. He was fairly drunk, and feeling melancholy about all the sinking he had done in the world. Throughout the rough years the Greek alphabet had leaked out of his mind a letter at a time - in fact, the candle of knowledge he had set out with had burned down to a sorry stub.

Larry McMurtry

#2. She liked to think of drowning, of sinking down into cool green water, and feeling herself slowly pressed into nothingness ...

J.K. Rowling

#3. What is fear?" she breathed. 'Fear is nothing. Fear is illusion. Pass through its fire. Truth lies at its core. What it Truth?" She stood up, feeling calmer and glared up at the sinking sun. "I am Truth," she whispered fiercely.

J.D. Lakey

#4. In this case I read on. And on. First with the sinking feeling that it was not bad enough to quit, then with a prickle of interest, then a growing excitement, and finally an incredulity: surely it was not possible that it was so good.

Walker Percy

#5. This feeling is not unlike the sinking in one's stomach when one is in an elevator that suddenly goes down, or when you are snug in your bed and your closet door suddenly creaks open to reveal the person who has been hiding there.

Lemony Snicket

#6. You can imagine, if somebody's approaching retirement, and all of a sudden the funds that he or she is depending on is depleted by 50% or however many, it gives them a sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach.

Pat Robertson

#7. When the word art gives you a sinking feeling, what's left for you in the real world?

Will Chancellor

#8. It's how I refer to that sinking feeling that none of this matters. Not the money. Not the academic prestige. Not the fame or influence. Not the beautiful girls. Not anything. It's all meaningless in the end.

Zack Love

#9. As I look around, I get this sinking feeling that we're off track, that there's something sick in the soul of our country. I examine the fruit that's hanging on the tree of America, and I can see that it's rotting. And that concerns me deeply.

Kirk Cameron

#10. I was immersed in comfortable Christianity. Years ago, I found myself living what seemed like the American church dream - pastoring a large church, living in a large house, and surrounded by all the comforts this world has to offer. But inside I had a sinking feeling that I was missing the point.

David Platt

#11. In other words, it's the familiar hot sinking feeling experienced by everyone who has let the waves of their own anger throw them far up on the beach of retribution, leaving them, in the poetic language of the everyday, up shit creek.

Terry Pratchett

#12. You catch all that, Humphrey?" I asked.
"Get to eat demons for breakfast," he said with a grin.
"Hey, only if they misbehave," I said.
"Demons always do," he said, licking his lips.
I had a sinking feeling that the gargoyle had a point.

E.J. Stevens

#13. You can't change where you came from, but you can change where you go from here.

Sarah Addison Allen

#14. Forgive yourself for what you think you've done or not done. At every moment, you had your reasons for all of your actions and decisions. You've always done the best that you could do. Forgive yourself.

Doreen Virtue

#15. It was worse than having a sinking feeling; I was a sinking feeling, an unplayable adagio for strings; internal distances expanded and collapsed when I breathed.

Ben Lerner

#16. It was not miserable - often I did not miss her at all. But there was sometimes a quick, sinking ache when I walked in the door and saw she was not there. Twice, however, I'd felt the same sinking feeling when she was.

Lorrie Moore

#17. We passed gas stations and chain food restaurants, with their billboards advertising happiness. I know the images in magazines and on TV aren't true representations of the world; I mean, that's obvious. But I still get this sinking feeling of disappointment, as if it is the world I should see.

Ethan Hawke

#18. I think the greedy corporate owners have to be confronted with the fact that they are ignoring their most powerful resource - their workers.

John Sweeney

#19. The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.

Zach Braff

#20. Every instance of obedience, from right motives, strengthens us spiritually, whilst every act of disobedience weakens us.

George Muller

#21. Travel has always been my way of defeating this sinking feeling, partly because travel is a form of escape, and travel itself - the elemental farewell - becomes the fugitive fantasy of a new life, travel inspiring a sense of hope. I

Paul Theroux

#22. Ruby's eyes shot open when she woke, for she felt a constraint around her wrists and ankles. Feeling with her fingers, she touched cold metal. Her small movement gave the chains a slight jingle. A sinking feeling washed over her at the realization that she was chained.

Jettie Necole

#23. Lend, by your imperfections, self-esteem to others, and you will be invited everywhere.

Robert Breault

#24. I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.

Robyn Davidson

#25. With two little boys in diapers, I had to keep it simple if I were going to have a life at all.

Esther Williams

#26. Long before I was a success, my parents made me feel like I could be one.

Toni Morrison

#27. Success is buried in the garden of failure.

Rick Wakeman

#28. Erlender thought about Marion Briem and their shared story, which was now at an end. He felt a sense of loss and regret ... He thought about their relationship, the experiences they had shared,the story that was part of him, that he could not and would not have done without. It was him.

Arnaldur Indridason

#29. Only the pure of heart can make a good soup.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

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

Paul McCartney

#31. 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

#32. Plus, I have two television sets. How many does Cal have? Oh, that'd be none. I asked. Yeah, Cal doesn't "believe" in TV. Right. You know what I don't believe in? People who don't believe in TV.

Meg Cabot

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. If I don't work for a while, I don't work for a while.

China Chow

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

John Green

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

Sarah Dessen

#38. 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

#39. Only one thing bothered me: at this very moment, as they say, of inexplicable bliss there would be a sinking feeling at the pit of my stomach and my abdomen would be assailed by a melancholy, cold shivering. In the end I couldn't abide such happiness and ran away.

Ivan Turgenev

#40. Throughout the history of el Bulli, there have been many changes in its organisation or philosophy. This is another one of those moments. There will be risk, and freedom, and creativity. But there won't be opening hours, or reservations, or routines.

Ferran Adria

#41. His words are like the sound of a needle dragging across a record. A sinking, sickening feeling washes over me. This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So, when the whole things spills, you aren't as devastated.

Emily Giffin

#42. Seeking perfection just ends up creating ridiculous amounts of stress and disappointment.

Arielle Ford

#43. ...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