Sinking Quotes

Maybe you're afraid of sinking. Don't think about it. If you don't think about it, you won't sink. If you do, you will.

Don't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat - and the boat is perpetually sinking.

Just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean you're not still underwater.

Don't you see all the people sinking down? Don't you care? Are you gonna let them drown?

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.

I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.

Everything depends on this: a fathomless sinking into a fathomless nothingness.

If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking

It is by surmounting difficulties, not by sinking under them that we discover our fortitude.

I chased money, pretended to be someone else to get it. It got easier the longer I did it... but that's the trap, see? When the deadness gets easier, you know you're sinking deeper, becoming dead yourself.

There's nothing better than sinking into my feather pillows after a hard day's work.

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 my stomach and my abdomen would be assailed by a melancholy, cold shivering. In the end I couldn't abide such happiness and ran away.

Resolve to be merry though the ship were sinking.

And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.

She was like a sinking ship firing on the rescuers.

You don't integrate with a sinking ship.

As I look around, I get this sinking feeling that we're off track, that there's something sick in the soul of our country. I examine the fruit that's hanging on the tree of America, and I can see that it's rotting. And that concerns me deeply.

If grace is an ocean, we're all sinking.

History is sinking and only a very few seem dimly aware that things are getting bad.

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 prices.

Grief is like sinking, like being buried.

I loved sinking my head into Cary Grant's chest.

We semaphore from ship to ship, but they're sinking, too.

Never rest on your oars as a boss. If you do, the whole company starts sinking.

When anything doesn't hit with a huge laugh, as comics, it feels like, Oh no, oh no, we're sinking.