Sunk Quotes

131 Sunk quotes by 115 unique authors

Leave behind the passive dreaming of a rose-tinted future. The energy of happiness exists in living today with roots sunk firmly in reality's soil. — Daisaku Ikeda
I got back in my car, starting the engine, then drove off. It wasn't until I pulled onto the highway that it all really sunk… — Sarah Dessen
The words were unexpected, but so incisively true. So much of prayer is like that - an encounter with a truth that has sunk to… — Sue Monk Kidd
No art is sunk in the self, but rather, in art the self becomes self-forgetful in order to meet the demands of the thing seen… — Flannery O'Connor
It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that… — Jane Austen
There was never an accident.Rebecca was not drowned at all. I killed her.I shot Rebecca in the cottage in the cove.I carried her body to… — Daphne du Maurier
You must not imagine that Papa or I have the least notion of compelling you to marry anyone whom you hold in aversion, for I… — Georgette Heyer
We didn't stow away!" Dan protested. "You sunk our boat and pulled us out of the canal!" "Good point," Ian agreed. "Return them to the… — Gordon Korman
Sometimes I used to think that one day i should wake up, and all that had been would be over. forgotten, sunk, drowned. Nothing was… — Erich Maria Remarque
For while we are enclosed in these confinements of the body, we perform as a kind of duty the heavy task of necessity; for the… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I often wonder what would have happened to me if I hadn't made that decision. I suppose I would have sunk. I suppose I would… — V.S. Naipaul
Not like this vision before us, who was shaking water out of his slightly overlong reddish-brown hair as he leaned over to lay down his… — Meg Cabot
I was oppressed with the sensations I then felt; I sunk under the weight of them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You are so terribly nimble, so clever. I distrust your cleverness. You make a wonderful pattern, everything is in its place, it looks convincingly clear,… — Anais Nin
She could not mourn. She could no longer weep grasping the essence of annihilation, she wished only to cease, to be no more, as if… — Tanith Lee
I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure. — Virginia Woolf
Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of… — Lord Byron
The realization that I’d have nothing to take home had finally sunk in. My knees buckled and I slid down the tree trunk to its… — Suzanne Collins
After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom. — Arthur Golden
Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads… — H P Lovecraft
…and there, in the background, the sky’s sediment had sunk to a place where all the woe of the words ‘I am’ dissolved into blue… — David Mitchell
I had to use my wits or else I'd have been sunk - and nothings going to sink me. Everyone was always pulling at me,… — Marilyn Monroe
Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown… — Margaret Atwood
Strong people stick to their morals, no matter what the trials and tribulations, Weak people, many a times, do not even realize how low they… — Amish Tripathi
What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk… — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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