Sinking Life Quotes

#1. You're the icing on the cake on the table at my wake, You're the extra ton of cash on my sinking life raft, You're the loud sound of fun when I'm trying to sleep, You're the flowers in my house when my allergies come out.

Modest Mouse

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Douglas Adams

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

Sarah Harmer

#7. 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

#8. 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

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

Sarah Dessen

#10. 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

#11. A sort of halo, an occidental glow, came over life then. Troubles and other realities took on themselves a metaphysical impalpability, sinking to mere mental phenomena for serene contemplation, and no longer stood as pressing concretions which chafed body and soul.

Thomas Hardy

#12. We're all the same. We all want the same thing in life. Everybody going around like they know how to sail but there is no captain and we are all only passengers aboard the same sinking ship.

Donal O'Callaghan

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

John C. Calhoun

#16. 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

#17. She still craved the fantasy while reality was busy sinking in its sharp teeth.

Belle Malory

#18. 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

#19. Fox's hand was a life raft, the only thing stopping me from sinking further into empty blackness.

Lili Wilkinson

#20. My world is about FEELings. Sometimes, these feelings run so deep i fear i will drown.
Creatively, it's a dream to be so sensitive. In real life, it's exhausting, as i tread water to keep myself from sinking.

Jaeda DeWalt

#21. His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

Edmund Wilson

#22. If you go by other people's opinions or predictions,
you'll just end up talking yourself out of something.
If you're running down the track of life thinking that
it's impossible to break life's records,
those thoughts have a funny way of sinking into your feet.

Carl Lewis

#23. It was like a life-line to a sinking man. It seemed to bring hope where there was none. The generosity of it was beyond our belief.

Ernest Bevin

#24. 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

#25. Live to revel in just another twilight. Life may sink and disappear along with the sunset never to rise again

Munia Khan

#26. No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful smile can escape the reflection that this picture persists as a prototype of the expression of sexual satisfaction in later life.

Sigmund Freud

#27. All I need is just a beautiful hand which pulls me up when I am sinking

Nelson Jack

#28. Develop distinct habits of wreaking havoc on any stinking thinking addicted to launching mental missiles aimed at sinking your unique magic.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

#29. Why is it that fathers so often ensure the outcome they are trying to avoid? Is their need to dominate so much stronger than their instinct to protect? Did Thomas know, Amina wondered as she watched him, that he had just done the human equivalent of a lion sinking his teeth into his own cub?

Mira Jacob

#30. 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

#31. Instead of the weight that sinks us, consequences are often the life preserver that saves us.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#32. Sometimes, after shedding all the loads with the view of making your heavy and sinking boat lighter so that you can sail and move on with the journey of purposeful life, you realize that there is one more thing to offload: disobedience, and there is one more thing to load: absolute faith!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#33. The biggest thing we get out of it is seeing the kids smile. And hopefully we will also see that the lessons we're teaching - not only the fundamentals of hockey, but also the life values - are sinking in.

Bobby Orr