Sinking quotes
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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.
-- Aldous Huxley -
She was like a sinking ship firing on the rescuers.
-- Alexander Woollcott -
Just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean you're not still underwater.
-- Amy Hempel -
And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.
-- Bob Dylan -
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History is sinking and only a very few seem dimly aware that things are getting bad.
-- Bret Easton Ellis -
God save us from living in comfort while sinners are sinking into hell!
-- Charles Spurgeon -
If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking
-- Elizabeth Wurtzel -
I loved sinking my head into Cary Grant's chest.
-- Jean Arthur -
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If grace is an ocean, we're all sinking.
-- John Mark McMillan -
Don't you see all the people sinking down? Don't you care? Are you gonna let them drown?
-- Keith Green -
There's nothing better than sinking into my feather pillows after a hard day's work.
-- Kirsten Prout -
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.
-- Lucy Christopher -
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What's one more torpedo in a sinking ship.
-- Lynn Dickey -
We semaphore from ship to ship, but they're sinking, too.
-- Mignon McLaughlin -
I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.
-- Robyn Davidson -
It's a funny feeling, being suddenly airborne. Just as you realize it, it's over, and you're sinking.
-- Sarah Dessen -
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The law of floatation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things.
-- Thomas Troward -
When anything doesn't hit with a huge laugh, as comics, it feels like, Oh no, oh no, we're sinking.
-- Tim Heidecker -
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.
-- Violette Leduc -
The law of flotation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things. Rather, it was discovered by thinking about things that float naturally.
-- Wayne Dyer -
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It is by surmounting difficulties, not by sinking under them that we discover our fortitude.
-- Hannah Webster Foster
