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.

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

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.

She was like a sinking ship firing on the rescuers.

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

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

Resolve to be merry though the ship were sinking.

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

You don't integrate with a sinking ship.

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

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

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

Grief is like sinking, like being buried.

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.

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.

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.