Sank Quotes

114 quotes by 98 authors

Kings built tombs more splendid than the houses of the living and counted the names of their descent dearer than the names of their sons.… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf.… — Robert Frost
I sometimes used to ask myself, what on earth did I love her for? Maybe fore the warm hazel iris of her fluffy eyes, or… — Vladimir Nabokov
The more conscious I was of goodness and of all that was 'sublime and beautiful,'the more deeply I sank into my mire and the more… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Nothing could be slow enough, nothing lasts too long. No pleasure could equal, she thought, straightening the chairs, pushing in one book on the shelf,… — Virginia Woolf
Still in my coat and hat, I sank onto the stair to read the letter. (I never read without making sure I am in a… — Diane Setterfield
He closed his eyes and sank into the warm dusk that separates consciosness and sleep, where reality bends and sways to the wind of thought,… — Christopher Paolini
There was such an incredible logic to kissing, such a metal-to-magnet pull between two people that it was a wonder that they found the strength… — Ann Patchett
He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery lessons,… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the… — Joseph Conrad
...though I cannot promise to take you home," said North Wind, as she sank nearer and nearer to the tops of the houses, "I can… — George MacDonald
He awoke, opened his eye. The room meant very little to him; he was too deeply immersed in the non-being from which he had just… — Paul Bowles
She looked into the distance, and the old terror flamed up for an instant, then sank again. Edna heard her father's voice and her sister… — Kate Chopin
He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than… — Franz Kafka
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
It seemed to take Sirius an age to fall: his body curved in a graceful arc as he sank backwards through the ragged veil hanging… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
And then he sank back and tried, as usual, not to think. He must succeed. That's what the world was made for. That's what he… — Theodore Dreiser
Exhaustion was pressing upon and overpowering her. "Good-by--because I love you." He did not know; he did not understand. He would never understand. Perhaps Doctor… — Kate Chopin
Pale blind diver, luckless slinger, lost discoverer, in you everything sank! — Pablo Neruda
I liked books - the respite and privacy of them - books about plants and the formation of ice and the business of world wars.… — Tim Winton

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