Sinking Quotes - Page 8

• Things Isabella Wouldn't Care About: - Titanic sinking again. - Metror striking Earth and landing directly on top of world's most innocent panda. - Titanic sinking again and this time the entire crew is puppies.

  Jim Benton

  Pandas, World, Earth

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• A man would know the end he goes to, but he cannot know it if he does not turn, and return to his beginning, and hold that beginning in his being. If he would not be a stick whirled and whelmed in the stream, he must be the stream itself, all of it, from its spring to its sinking in the sea.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Spring, Men, Sea

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “A Wizard of Earthsea”, p.151, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me. And after you have read this story of great misfortunes, you will no doubt dine well, blaming the author for your own insensitivity, accusing him of wild exaggeration and flights of fancy. But rest assured: this tragedy is not a fiction. All is true.

  Honore de Balzac

  Book, Hands, Doubt

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• 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.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Morning, Heart, Kitchen

  Marya Hornbacher (2008). “Madness: A Bipolar Life”, p.266, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking.

  Anne Lamott

  Wings, Water, Grace

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.43, Penguin

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• I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis, tens of thousands more would remain unexplored, forgotten forever. I felt myself surrounded by millions of abandoned pages, by worlds and souls without an owner sinking in an ocean of darkness, while the world that throbbed outside the library seemed to be losing its memory, day after day, unknowingly, feeling all the wiser the more it forgot.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Memories, Ocean, Book

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.79, Penguin

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• when the sky is as grey as this - impeccably grey, a denial, really of the very concept of colour - and the stooped millions lift their heads, it's hard to tell the air from the impurities in our human eyes, as if the sinking climbing paisley curlicues of grit were part of the element itself, rain, spores, tears, film, dirt. Perhaps, at such moments, the sky is no more then the sum of the dirt that lives in our human eyes.

  Martin Amis

  Rain, Eye, Climbing

  Martin Amis (2010). “Money”, p.72, Random House

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• When Janie looked out of her door she saw the drifting mists gathered in the west -- that cloud field of the sky -- to arm themselves with thunders and march forth against the world. Louder and higher and lower and wider the sound and motion spread, mounting, sinking, darking.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Doors, Sky, Clouds

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.189, University of Illinois Press

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• But God!Who could live like this , anyway, with the kind of guesswork that was enough to make a person crazy, just sailing along, taking bumps here and there, no course navigated whatsoever, with any big wave capable of just tipping and sinking you entirely. IT was madness, stipidity, and- (then I saw him)

  Sarah Dessen

  Crazy, Sailing, Here And There

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• With one glance he had got himself trapped in the brown fundament of her eyes, he was in danger of sinking, as if into a soft, brown swamp, and he had to close his own eyes for a second to get out of it.

  Patrick Süskind

  Eye, Swamps, Danger

  Patrick Süskind (2015). “The Pigeon”, p.21, Penguin UK

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• She was truly a beautiful girl. I could feel a small polished stone sinking through the darkest waters of my heart. All those deep convoluted channels and passageways, and yet she managed to toss her pebble right down to the bottom of it all.

  Haruki Murakami

  Beautiful, Girl, Heart

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• If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Depression, Fighting, Lifelong

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.317, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The horse grunted softly. He had huge teeth, Clary noticed uneasily; each one the size of a Pez dispenser. She imagined those teeth sinking into her leg and thought of all the girls she'd known in middle school who'd wanted ponies of their own. She wondered if they were insane.

  Cassandra Clare

  Girl, Horse, School

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1027, Simon and Schuster

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• Only one thing bothered me: at this very moment, as they say, of inexplicable bliss there would be a sinking feeling at the pit of my stomach and my abdomen would be assailed by a melancholy, cold shivering. In the end I couldn't abide such happiness and ran away.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Sinking Feeling, Feelings, Would Be

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• And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Stars, Poetry, Desire

  "Ulysses" l. 30 (1842)

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• When the darkness gets easier, you know you're sinking deeper, becoming dead yourself.

  Lucy Christopher

  Darkness, Becoming, Easier

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• 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.

  Warren Buffett

  Investing, Should, Equity

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.167, John Wiley & Sons

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• 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.

  Samuel Johnson

  Flames, Expectations, Raises

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

  Hannah Webster Foster

  Fortitude, Difficulty

  Hannah Webster Foster (2015). “The Coquette: or, The History of Eliza Wharton”, p.93, Courier Dover Publications

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• The Battle for the Philippines was the greatest naval battle in history, judged in terms of the number of ships taking part, the number of ships sunk, and the importance of its outcome. It included every form of naval warfare of the 20th century: gunnery duels between battleships; destroyer battles at night and by day, as ferocious and sustained as any at the Battle of Jutland; submarines that stalked the depths; sinking many ships; and finally, carrier warfare on a scale never dreamed of even by the most ardent enthusiasts of air warfare at sea.

  Richard Hough

  Night, Naval Warfare, Numbers

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• A film is a boat which is always on the point of sinking-it always tends to break up as you go along and drag you under with it.

  Francois Truffaut

  Movie, Film, Boat

  Interview in Peter Graham's, The New Wave, 1968.

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• A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a dull routine of textbooks.

  Helen Keller

  Education, Children, Disappointment

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.26, Om Books International

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• Upon the shoulders of you mothers rests; in a great measure, the responsibility of correctly developing the mental and moral powers of the rising generation...I have often said it is the mother who forms the mind of the child. Take men anywhere, at sea, sinking with their ship, dying in battle, lying down in death almost under any circumstances, and the last thing they think if, the last word they say is "mother." Such is the influence of woman.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Mother, Children, Lying

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• If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty, he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, has no obligation toward the poet. A majority by definition, society thinks of itself as having other options than reading verses, no matter how well written. Its failure to do so results in its sinking to that level of locution at which society falls easy prey to a demagogue or a tyrant. This is society's own equivalent of oblivion.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Fall, Reading, Writing

  "Less Than One: Selected Essays".

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• The literary scene is a kind of Medusa’s raft, small and sinking, and one’s instinct when a newcomer tries to clamber aboard is to step on his fingers.

  John Updike

  Trying, Medusa, Steps

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