You sank our toy ship / sank it deep in the cake. You…

No voice; but oh - the silence sank Like music on my heart.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“A trouble - nothing as beautiful as a sorrow - rose to the surface of his mind, displayed its ungainliness and sank. Its precise…

— Edward Morgan Forster

“Too many regrets. Lost chances—and with each one passing the less human we all became, and the deeper into the nightmare of power we…

— Steven Erikson

It was involuntary. They sank my boat.

— John F. Kennedy

“Shallan sat down on the plush, white bed, and sank almost down to her neck. What had they made the thing out of? Air…

— Brandon Sanderson

Japanese-owned cargo ship Tsimtsum, flying Panamanian flag, sank July 2nd, 1977, in Pacific, four days out of Manila. Am in lifeboat. Pi Patel my…

— Yann Martel

“Then his head sank to the floor of its own accord and from his nostrils came the last faint flicker of his breath.”

— Franz Kafka

“You'd never get Burle to behave decently. When a man sank as low as that, the only thing to do was to throw a…

— Émile Zola

“I sank back, deeper into the parallel universe I had found.”

— Olivia Sudjic

“My ship came in,then it sank!”

— Brian T. Shirley

“Chaol sank to his knees.”

— Sarah J Maas

I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn't, So I jumped in and sank.

— Langston Hughes

You left...and I sank. You graduated...and I drank. You said you loved me...was that a prank?

— Jacob Thompson

“Fear swallowed her, deep and dark as the ocean and she sank into it.”

— Abby Slovin

Even when it's not the best of days, you can always tell yourself, hey, at least I'm not the person who sank a $570…

— Green Monk