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Sinking Feeling Quotes

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

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
Sinking Feeling, Feelings, Difficult
Robyn Davidson (1992). “From Alice to Ocean: Alone Across the Outback”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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.

Ivan Turgenev
Sinking Feeling, Feelings, Would Be

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.

Kirk Cameron
Country, Sinking Feeling, America
"Kirk Cameron speaks at CPAC" by Caitlin MvDevitt, www.politico.com. February 9, 2012.

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% or however many, it gives them a sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach.

Pat Robertson
Retirement, Sinking Feeling, Giving

It was not miserable - often I did not miss her at all. But there was sometimes a quick, sinking ache when I walked in the door and saw she was not there. Twice, however, I'd felt the same sinking feeling when she was.

Lorrie Moore
Doors, Sinking Feeling, Missing
Lorrie Moore (2009). “A Gate at the Stairs”, p.26, Faber & Faber

I was immersed in comfortable Christianity. Years ago, I found myself living what seemed like the American church dream - pastoring a large church, living in a large house, and surrounded by all the comforts this world has to offer. But inside I had a sinking feeling that I was missing the point.

David Platt
Dream, Sinking Feeling, Years
Source: blog.vyrso.com

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