When the darkness gets easier, you know you're sinking deeper, becoming dead yourself. — Lucy Christopher Copy Share Image
The sea is selective, slow at recognition of effort and aptitude but fast in sinking the unfit. — Felix Riesenberg Copy Share Image
“The days of what's left stretch before me like a black ribbon of road sinking into an uncaring horizon.” — Marata Eros Copy Share Image
Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“You can bail water 24/7, and no matter how good you are at not sinking, you still have a hole in your boat.” — Kelli Jae Baeli Copy Share Image
If America is a ship, it looks a lot like it's sinking - financially, morally, spiritually. It's frightening. — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
The law of floatation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things. — Thomas Troward Copy Share Image
My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Weight loss does not make people happy. Or peaceful. Being thin does not address the emptiness that has no shape or weight… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently,… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
We ought not to raise expectations which it is not in our power to satisfy.-It is more pleasing to see smoke brightening… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When I was here there was still a requirement that students had to swim 50 yards to graduate...because Harry Elkins Widener had… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
As I look around, I get this sinking feeling that we're off track, that there's something sick in the soul of our… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
Often, we melt into our ecstasies as though they were jams, as though we were sinking into syrupy bowls of gooseberries, of… — Violette Leduc Copy Share Image
“Trust, is the stone thrown into the sea, sinking deep in all its murkiness, unable to see what it once lived and… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
Roark smiled, "Gail, if this boat were sinking, I'd give my life to save you. Not because it's any kind of duty.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one’s own body...… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Hope is to a man as a bladder to a learning swimmer--it keeps him from sinking in the bosom of the waves,… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
Remember that every guilty compliance with the humors of the world, every sinful indulgence of our own passions, is laying up cares… — Reginald Heber Copy Share Image
I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I resolve to venture into the city on my own. I look at maps in the library—subway maps, bus maps, and regular… — Deborah Feldman Copy Share Image
Maybe that's why he had started to fear suffocation. It wasn't so much drowning in the earth or sea but the feeling… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“There is a screaming in my head. It is me, or some part of me that has been woken up like a… — Kevin Berry Copy Share Image
A tree uses what comes its way to nurture itself. By sinking its roots deeply into the earth, by accepting the rain… — Ming-Dao Deng Copy Share Image
but the real enemy is the cold. It steals up on you quieter than Will, and at first you shiver and your… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I admit that these terms and the diagrams connected with them repel some readers, and fill others with the vain imagination that… — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
The Battle for the Philippines was the greatest naval battle in history, judged in terms of the number of ships taking part,… — Richard Hough Copy Share Image
“The bow still appears stately and upright. The stern lies in a shattered heap, mangled, we believe, by its violent break with… — Bill Allen Copy Share Image
On the one hand, we have the mass; on the other, its historic goal, located outside of existing society. On one hand,… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
“She loved the guy. She did it for him. She would’ve done anything for him. Some people are like that. Some loves… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing. — Plotinus Copy Share Image
Always leave a sinking ship. There's no virtue in hanging on to losers. And stocks don't have feelings. — Nancy Dunnan Copy Share Image
“Not the waves, not the storms, but often we ourselves sink our ships!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
We hold these things inside us that no one else can see they bring us down like anchors and drown us out… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean you're not still underwater. — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
“Your dreams are your solid rock; all other dreams are sinking sands! Recreate Your World and I believe you can!” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
