Sinking Quotes

204 quotes by 187 authors

Trapped. Sinking. Can't be myself. Made into what other people expect. Is that everyone's fate? Were the great individualists the products of their friends who… — Michael Moorcock
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… — Sigmund Freud
His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship. — Edmund Wilson
Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than… — Henry Ward Beecher
Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand. — Alexander Pope
On the one hand, we have the mass; on the other, its historic goal, located outside of existing society. On one hand we have the… — Rosa Luxemburg
Let the Truth be known, no ship is unsinkable. The bigger the ship, the easier it is to sink her. I learned long ago that… — Thomas Andrews
Only those who will be sellers of equities in the near future should be happy at seeing stocks rise. Prospective purchasers should much prefer sinking… — Warren Buffett
God save us from living in comfort while sinners are sinking into hell! — Charles Spurgeon
Often, we melt into our ecstasies as though they were jams, as though we were sinking into syrupy bowls of gooseberries, of raspberries, of bilberries. — Violette Leduc
We do not want another committee, we have too many already. What we want is a man of sufficient stature to hold the allegiance of… — David Spangler
The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority. — John C. Calhoun
By the year 2025, 500 million people will die of smoking. Now, that's a Vietnam War every day for 27 years. That's the Titanic sinking… — C. Everett Koop
History is sinking and only a very few seem dimly aware that things are getting bad. — Bret Easton Ellis
The law of floatation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things. — Thomas Troward
Trust in the Lord is the only true antidote to fear. Focusing on God rather than the trial will keep us from sinking in fear.… — Jill Briscoe
O men, grown sick with toil and care, Leave for awhile the crowded mart; O women, sinking with despair, Weary of limb and faint of… — Phoebe Cary
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
To choose a writer for a friend is like palling around with your cardiologist, who might be musing as you talk to him that you… — Anatole Broyard
The sun, a red wheel, was sinking slowly in the west. Besides being spectacularly beautiful, the early-summer sunset was exceedingly soft and gentle: black mulberry… — Mo Yan

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