Sinking Quotes

The man who goes up in a balloon does not feel as if he were ascending; he only sees the earth sinking deeper below him.

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

The patient is sinking while the doctors deliberate.

We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the fact that American carriers were nearby.

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

What's one more torpedo in a sinking ship.

If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.

Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel-dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.

There is a law of neutralization of forces, which hinders bodies from sinking beyond a certain depth in the sea; but in the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

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

Grief is like sinking, like being buried.

When the darkness gets easier, you know you're sinking deeper, becoming dead yourself.

Always leave a sinking ship. There's no virtue in hanging on to losers. And stocks don't have feelings.

When I can't sleep, I always wrap something around my neck and close my eyes and imagine myself being strangled to death. Then I can fall asleep--it feels like sinking deep underwater

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.

I think my cheerfulness keeps my writing from sinking into the depths of melancholy, while the darker side keeps in check any literary silliness I might be inclined toward.

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

It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.

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

Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.

We've greatly exaggerated the risk of sinking, without celebrating the value of swimming.

Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.

I thought I would try my hand at sailing. It was too small and kept sinking, so I decided to try a boat instead.

Negative feelings can either lead to sinking into oneself and disappearing, or they can make you angry and want to prove that you're worthy to be in the conversation.

There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart - an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime

I love the process of cracking the spine for the first time and slowly sinking into a book. That will soon seem old-fashioned, I'm sure, like the time of illuminated manuscripts.

We stand, as it were, on the shore, and see multitudes of our fellow beings struggling in the water, stretching forth their arms, sinking, drowning, and we are powerless to assist them.

A film is a boat which is always on the point of sinking-it always tends to break up as you go along and drag you under with it.

Words are like butter Rolling off my lips Cut like a knife And now I'm sinking battleships

Being the richest man on a sinking ship is a bitter victory

Inside your own self pity there you swim, in sinking down to drown her voice still haunts you, and only with your laughter can you win.

Fear is like the wilderland - Stepping stones or sinking sand

The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship

My dinner party,' Miles grated. 'It's just breaking up.' And sinking. All souls feared lost.

If a fish feels sad when a fisherman's boat is sinking, and that fish owns a priceless treasure: The compassion! Have compassion, even for your enemies!

I spent hours as a kid on the putting green of the local golf course imagining I was sinking a putt to win the Masters.

The Pound is sinking, the Peso's failing, the Lira's reeling, and feeling quite appalling.

Christ is the foundation of all our hopes for time and for eternity. Oh, build on this divine foundation! All other foundations are sinking sand.

We ought not to raise expectations which it is not in our power to satisfy.-It is more pleasing to see smoke brightening into flame, than flame sinking into smoke.

It's a funny feeling, being suddenly airborne. Just as you realize it, it's over, and you're sinking.

But all the love in the world won't save a sinking ship. You have to either bail or jump overboard.

Years have passed and how I am anxiously watching the twilight of my childhood, quietly sinking, never to rise again.

You sounded like someone who should be singing on a cruise ship. Halfway through your song, I wished the ship was sinking.

I respond, thoughts dropping away, like pebbles plopping one by one in water, sinking down, down into dark oblivion.

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

O Christian! do not falter, The harvest field is white, And many souls are sinking Into eternal night.

They were all on his side. Hi boat sank.

You can bail water 24/7, and no matter how good you are at not sinking, you still have a hole in your boat.

The Sun is never alone as the light remains with him always. Even when he goes down sinking...sinking, the light drowns with him

Life is an ocean and every ocean necessitates right thinking and right action or else sinking becomes the only fate realisable!