Sunk Quotes

131 quotes by 115 authors

All human life is sunk deep in untruth; the individual cannot pull it out of this well without growing profoundly annoyed with his entire past,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Yoga says instinct is a trace of an old experience that has been repeated many times and the impressions have sunk down to the bottom… — Swami Satchidananda
Nothing in all nature is so lovely and so vigorous, so perfectly at home in its environment, as a fish in the sea. Its surroundings… — Evelyn Underhill
Had he learned nothing from all those years of teaching Hawthorne? Through story after story he'd led his boys to consider the folly of obsession… — Tobias Wolff
Her companion's discourse now sunk from its hitherto animated pitch, to nothing more than a short, decisive sentence of praise or condemnation on the face… — Jane Austen
We are all so sunk in sin, and so wedded to the world, that we would never turn to God and seek salvation, unless He… — J C Ryle
I'm glad acting sunk its teeth into me, because now I can't imagine doing anything else. — Ryan Kwanten
You may flunk your exams in school and still make it in life, but if you flunk life's exams, you're sunk! — Chris Oyakhilome
My mind's sunk so low, Claudia, because of you, wrecked itself on your account so bad already, that I couldn't like you if you were… — Catullus
It still hasn't sunk in that I'm going to be in Coronation Street. Everything about the role is brilliant and I'm working with some great… — Richard Fleeshman
I firmly believe that if the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be better… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
For hours she had lain in a kind of gentle torpor, not unlike that sweet lassitude which masters one in the hush of a midsummer… — Edith Wharton
That this gentleman [President John Adams] ought not to be the object of the federal wish, is, with me, reduced to demonstration. His administration has… — Alexander Hamilton
Nothing in our politics is any longer driven or designed by individual humans who have a name and a face; we have sunk from theism… — Kenny Smith
The Battle for the Philippines was the greatest naval battle in history, judged in terms of the number of ships taking part, the number of… — Richard Hough
Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust! — Edna St. Vincent Millay
I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty… — Samuel Johnson
I know of a world that is sunk in shame, Where hearts oft faint and tire; But I know of a Name, a precious Name,… — J. Chapman
Everyone has sunk on this plane to such a low state of consciousness, it is the natural state. We have deviated so far from the… — Frederick Lenz

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