Quotes About Sinking

Below me, inside me, there's a pit that's dark and comforting and quite completely insane. If I sink into it, I can be free of all torture.

Echoes of unknown origin. Words that went skipping across minds for centuries, apparently, before sinking into mine.

Thy conscience may be drawing ten inches of water, or ten fathoms, I can't tell; but as thou art still an impenitent man [...] I greatly fear lest thy conscience be but a leaky one; and will in the end sink thee foundering down to the fiery pit.

His descent was like nightfall.

The stricken vessel started getting deeper in the water, slowly going down, as if she too were reluctant to give up the battle. With her colors proudly flying and the last signal flags, reading 'I am abandoning ship,' still waving at the yardarm, she went under on an even keel, like the lady she always was.

It's very noble of President Obama to want to stay at the helm and maybe go down with this sinking ship.

Are you saying the INS should've taken the boat out of U.S. waters before sinking it?

Because if I fell any deeper for the way his eyes crinkled with his smile or his habit of tapping on his nose to emphasize a point, my ship would be sunk.

our life a short pilgrimage, the interval between emergence from original oneness and sinking back into it!

Silently night appears, a wild thing bleeding Which slowly sinks to earth on the hillside.

Candidate Obama promised to fundamentally transform America and that's one promise he has kept. Turning a shining city on a hill into a sinking ship.

It was like a life-line to a sinking man. It seemed to bring hope where there was none. The generosity of it was beyond our belief.

Mrs. Hale, still leaning against the door, had that sinking feeling of the mother whose child is about to speak a piece. Lewis often wandered along and got things mixed up in a story. She hoped he would tell this straight and plain, and not say unnecessary things that would just make things harder for Minnie Foster.

These are the gifts that last. Small, as easy as breathing in and out, as plain as bread, they sink beneath what we think we remember, what we think we know, but they remain.

I didn't talk all the way home, trying not to cry. A missed lesson! But why did it bother me so much? I'd missed lessons before. So what? Mrs. Lawrence was coming back, wasn't she? She had a right to visit her son in Houston, didn't she?...How could I explain I felt as thought part of my personal scaffolding was broken, and how I dangled one-handed from a rope? One-handed from a rope on a sinking ship? (128)

Compassion is not prevention of all negative certainty, it is a home floating on the sea of fear, that equally brings assistance to those sinking.

Unable to sleep for the third night in a row, he continued to dwell obsessively on the circumstances of the ship's sinking. He could not get the creature out of his mind.

We are dying birds we are sinking ships— the world rocks down against us and we throw out our arms and we throw out our legs like the death kiss of the centipede: but they kindly snap our backs and call our poison "politics.

During all this time, the ship—without so much as an inch of sail flying—was being driven nine or ten leagues (roughly thirty miles) in each four-hour watch. And all this time, Strachey said, those on board, even those who had never done a hard day's work in their lives, struggled to keep the sinking ship from slipping beneath the waves.

Two drowning people can't save each other. All they can do is drag each other down.

I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact.

If America is a ship, it looks a lot like it's sinking - financially, morally, spiritually. It's frightening.

felt himself fall off the center line for the first time. Deeply into self-pity. He didn't even bother to try to break his own fall. He just sank all the way down. Let the current take him away.

Whoever reads the account of the cries that came to us afloat on the sea from those sinking in the ice-cold water must remember that they were addressed to him just as much as to those who heard them, and that the duty of seeing that reforms are carried out devolves on every one who knows that such cries were heard in utter helplessness the night the Titanic sank.