Sinking Quotes

204 quotes by 187 authors

I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off… — Gilda Radner
You can imagine, if somebody's approaching retirement, and all of a sudden the funds that he or she is depending on is depleted by 50%… — Pat Robertson
And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking. — Bob Dylan
Watching him during the first several minutes of his delivery, Cecilia felt a pleasant sinking sensation in her stomach as she contemplated how deliciously self-destructive… — Ian Mcewan
Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me. And after you… — Honore de Balzac
You wake up one morning and there it is, sitting in an old plaid bathrobe in your kitchen, unpleasant and unshaved. You look at it,… — Marya Hornbacher
Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking. — Anne Lamott
The ship is sinking The ship is sinking There's leak, there's a leak,in the boiler room The poor, the lame, the blind Who ore the… — Tom Waits
I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis,… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
when the sky is as grey as this - impeccably grey, a denial, really of the very concept of colour - and the stooped millions… — Martin Amis
When Janie looked out of her door she saw the drifting mists gathered in the west -- that cloud field of the sky -- to… — Zora Neale Hurston
Fear is like the wilderland - Stepping stones or sinking sand — Joni Mitchell
But God!Who could live like this , anyway, with the kind of guesswork that was enough to make a person crazy, just sailing along, taking… — Sarah Dessen
With one glance he had got himself trapped in the brown fundament of her eyes, he was in danger of sinking, as if into a… — Patrick SÃ¼skind
It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against oneâ€™s own body... On the battlefield,… — George Orwell
She was truly a beautiful girl. I could feel a small polished stone sinking through the darkest waters of my heart. All those deep convoluted… — Haruki Murakami
If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking — Elizabeth Wurtzel
The horse grunted softly. He had huge teeth, Clary noticed uneasily; each one the size of a Pez dispenser. She imagined those teeth sinking into… — Cassandra Clare
Only one thing bothered me: at this very moment, as they say, of inexplicable bliss there would be a sinking feeling at the pit of… — Ivan Turgenev
And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

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