Quotes About Sinking

that habituation is a slow, imperceptible sinking, whose point of no return is not clearly marked.

this boat is and is not when it sinks both disappear

We start by sinking a barge, I decided. Then I blinked and looked at the Erlking. Can we sink a barge? The shadow-masked Erlking tilted his head slightly to one side, his burning eyes narrowed. Wizard, please.

Wizard!' it howled in triumph. 'Wizard, the sun is sinking! I will tear out thy heart! I will hunt thy friends and their children! I will slay them all!' 'It's thine heart,' I muttered.

Trust, is the stone thrown into the sea, sinking deep in all its murkiness, unable to see what it once lived and believed to be a promise.

People on sinking ships do not complain of distractions during their prayer.

I did not seek love with Thomas, but I did not resist it. And now I am trapped in desire like a butterfly with its feet in honey, and the more I struggle, the deeper I sink.

I went down to the river, I set down on the bank.I tried to think but couldn't, So I jumped in and sank.

made up Southern Hope. The snowfields rolled out flat in all directions. The sky was hard and clear, the sun beginning to sink toward

Titanic as it sank into the icy sea? Would you prefer that the men leap ahead of you into the lifeboats, leave you and your children to die?" Alva answered without pause. "If a woman had designed the ship in the first place, there would have been enough lifeboats for everyone.

The ship was sinking and the rats were jumping overboard.

Lately in a wreck of a Californian ship, one of the passengers fastened a belt about him with two hundred pounds of gold in it, with which he was found afterwards at the bottom. Now, as he was sinking- had he the gold? or the gold him?

No. No—only a kind of sinking in the heart. Maybe later I'll sort it out to hatred. There was no interval from loveliness to horror, you see. I'm confused, confused.

You wake up one morning and there it is, sitting in an old plaid bathrobe in your kitchen, unpleasant and unshaved. You look at it, heart sinking. Madness is a rotten guest.

Trapped. Sinking. Can't be myself. Made into what other people expect. Is that everyone's fate? Were the great individualists the products of their friends who wanted a great individualist as a friend?

If hearts really could sink, Kaylin's was busily rearranging her internal organs.

I felt myself sinking into the killer's eyes and into his soul. It was a cold and bitterly lonely place. There was no wind or sunlight there, only intense pain. I felt it, all of it.

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

In the sinking of the Dorothea, they had seen the future of naval warfare.

Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink.

He's battling the Mayor, across some kind of sand-covered square in front of what looks like a chapel– And I get a sinking feeling of how many terrible things have happened to me and Todd in churches

plummeting like a grouse full of bird shot.

But when he saw the strength of the wind, he was afraid, and beginning to sink, cried out, “Lord, save me!”