Sinking Quotes - Page 7

• 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.

  Felix Adler

  Encouragement, Struggle, Water

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• If you're looking ecologically, then we are in very big trouble, yes. But if you're talking about people sinking, I'm not so sure that's true. There are cycles of rise and fall, as there have been since time immemorial.

  Jean Houston

  Fall, Talking, People

  Source: scottlondon.com

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

  John Pugsley

  Men, Victory, Ships

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

  Matthew Hale

  Tongue, Reputation, Praise

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• In lots of books I read, the writer seems to go haywire every time he reaches a high point. He’ll start leaving out punctuation and running his words together and babble about stars flashing and sinking into a deep dreamless sea. And you can’t figure out whether the hero’s laying his girl or a cornerstone. I guess that kind of crap is supposed to be pretty deep stuff—a lot of the book reviewers eat it up, I notice. But the way I see it is, the writer is just too goddam lazy to do his job. And I’m not lazy, whatever else I am. I’ll tell you everything.

  Jim Thompson

  Girl, Running, Jobs

  Jim Thompson (1997). “Crime novels: American noir of the 1950s”

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• 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.

  David Starkey

  Writing, Thinking, Depth

  Source: andreaauten.wordpress.com

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• Here's a simple experiment that you might want to try if there is absolutely nothing else going on in your life. All you need is a cork, a bar magnet, and a pail of water. Simply attach your magnet to your cork, then drop it into the water, and voilà (literally, "you have a compass")-you have a compass. How does it work? Simple. Notice that, no matter which way you turn the bucket, the cork always floats on top of the water (unless the magnet is too heavy). Using this scientific principle, early hardy mariners were able to tell at a glance whether they were sinking!

  Dave Barry

  Science, Simple, Water

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• 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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• If you go by other people's opinions or predictions,
  you'll just end up talking yourself out of something.
  If you're running down the track of life thinking that
  it's impossible to break life's records,
  those thoughts have a funny way of sinking into your feet.

  Carl Lewis

  Running, Thinking, Talking

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• To some Christians today, this world is not a sinking ship or a world reserved for fire. It is an international capitol building overrun with undesirables whom these believers plan to kick out. They will then take their place, renovating and governing it all themselves. Such thinking is symptomatic of a dying love for Jesus and a clinging to this world!

  David Wilkerson

  Christian, Jesus, Thinking

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• Watching him during the first several minutes of his delivery, Cecilia felt a pleasant sinking sensation in her stomach as she contemplated how deliciously self-destructive it would be, almost erotic, to be married to a man so nearly handsome, so hugely rich, so unfathomably stupid. He would fill her with his big-faced children, all of them loud, boneheaded boys with a passion for guns and football and aeroplanes.

  Ian Mcewan

  Football, Children, Stupid

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• Roark smiled, "Gail, if this boat were sinking, I'd give my life to save you. Not because it's any kind of duty. Only because I like you, for reasons and standards of my own. I could die for you. But I couldn't and wouldn't live for you.

  Ayn Rand

  I Like You, Giving, Kind

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.580, Penguin

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• John you say you met in an elevator. Was the elevator going up at the time, or down? This is very important, for going down in an elevator one always has that sinking feeling and for all I know you may have this confused with love. If you were going up, it is clearly a case of love at first sight.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Confused

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

  Sarah Dessen

  Feelings, Realizing, Airborne

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• How do men act on a sinking ship? Do they hold each other? Do they pass around the whisky? Do they cry?

  Sebastian Junger

  Men, Ships, Cry

  Sebastian Junger (2010). “The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea”, p.9, HarperCollins UK

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• It's like the Tibetan Wheel of the Passions. As the wheel turns, the values and feelings on the outer rim rise and fall, shining or sinking into darkness. But true love stays fastened to the axle and doesn't move.

  Haruki Murakami

  Moving, Fall, Passion

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• I grew up hearing over and over, to the point of tedium, that "hard work" was the secret of success: "Work hard and you'll get ahead" or "It's hard work that got us where we are." No one ever said that you could work hard - harder even than you ever thought possible - and still find yourself sinking ever deeper into poverty and debt.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Hard Work, Secret, Finding Yourself

  "Nickel and Dimed". Book by Barbara Ehrenreich, progressive.org. January 1, 2010.

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• Grief is like sinking, like being buried. I am in water the tawny color of kicked-up dirt. Every breath is full of choking. There is nothing to hold on to, no sides, no way to claw myself up. There is nothing to do but let go. Let go. Feel the weight all around you, feel the squeezing of your lungs, the slow, low pressure. Let yourself go deeper. There is nothing but bottom. There is nothing but the taste of metal, and the echoes of old things, and days that look like darkness.

  Lauren Oliver

  Letting Go, Grief, Echoes

  "Pandemonium". Book by Lauren Oliver, 2012.

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• I love you, Hermione,” said Ron, sinking back, rubbing his eyes wearily. Hermione turned faintly pink, but merely said, “Don’t let Lavender hear you saying that.” “I won’t,” said Ron into his hands. “Or maybe I will . . . then she’ll ditch me . . .

  J. K. Rowling

  Love You, Eye, Hands

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• but the real enemy is the cold. It steals up on you quieter than Will, and at first you shiver and your teeth chatter and you stamp your feet and dream of mulled wine and nice hot fires. It burns, it does. Nothing burns like the cold. But only for a while. Then it gets inside you and starts to fill you up, and after a while you don't have the strength to fight it. It's easier just to sit down ot go to sleep. They say you don't feel any pain toward the end. First you go weak and drowsy, and everything starts to fade, and then it's like sinking into a sea of warm milk. Peaceful, like.

  George R. R. Martin

  Dream, Pain, Real

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.16, Bantam

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• Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love—but sometimes it was so hard to love. Sometimes my heart was sinking so fast with anger, desolation and weariness, I was afraid it would sink to the very bottom of the Pacific and I would not be able to lift it back up.

  Yann Martel

  Letting Go, Heart, Opening Up

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.300, Canongate Books

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• Grief is like sinking, like being buried.

  Lauren Oliver

  Grief, Buried

  Lauren Oliver (2012). “Pandemonium”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• Touching his hair, she leaned hesitantly forward, and he folded his arms around her, sinking into sensation again as they kissed--the slight weight of her on his lap, the smell of her. He glided his hands up the warm dip of her spine, felt her shiver and press closer. He could never get enough of this. Never.

  L.A. Weatherly

  Hair, Hands, Smell

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• Sometimes it seems unfair that events so old can reach forward through the years, sinking claws into one's life and twisting all that follows it. Yet perhaps that is the ultimate justice: we are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us. There is no escaping that, not for any of us.

  Robin Hobb

  Escaping, Years, Justice

  Robin Hobb (2004). “Fool's Fate: The Tawny Man Trilogy”, p.8, Spectra

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

  William Evander Penn

  Christian, Night, White

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