Sinking Quotes

• We've greatly exaggerated the risk of sinking, without celebrating the value of swimming.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Risk
  • Values
  • Celebrate

• The Pound is sinking, the Peso's failing, the Lira's reeling, and feeling quite appalling.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Feeling
  • Feelings
  • Politics

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

  

  Sarah Palin
  • Ship
  • Sinking
  • Helm

• 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
  • Cry
  • Ships

• We do not want another committee, we have too many already. What we want is a man of sufficient stature to hold the allegiance of all the people and to lift us up out of the economic morass into which we are sinking. Send us such a man, and whether he be God or devil, we will receive him.

  

  David Spangler
  • People
  • Economic
  • Sufficient

• In the recent Virginia election, the black vote diminished. Now why was that? I think a lot of black folks are wondering what this guy is really going to do, not only for them but for the country. If the country is injured, they will be injured. That may be sinking in.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Vote
  • Election
  • Injured

• No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful smile can escape the reflection that this picture persists as a prototype of the expression of sexual satisfaction in later life.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Reflection
  • Pictures
  • Satisfaction

• In my rear view mirror the sun is going down sinking behind bridges in the road and I think of all the good things that we have left undone and I suffer premonitions confirm suspicions of the holocaust to come.

  

  Roger Waters Pink Floyd
  • Mirror
  • Suffer
  • Sinking

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

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Feeling
  • Realize
  • Airborne

• God bless this tiny little boat, And me who travels in it. It stays afloat for years and years, And sinks within a minute. And so the soul in which we sail, Unknown by years of thinking, Is deeply felt and understood, The minute that it’s sinking.

  

  Michael Leunig
  • Soul
  • Boat
  • Understood

• The man who goes up in a balloon does not feel as if he were ascending; he only sees the earth sinking deeper below him.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Man
  • Feel
  • Sinking

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

  

  William Evander Penn
  • Christian
  • inspirational
  • Eternal

• I felt that the world, and in particular this country, were going in circles. What had happened 40 or 50 years ago was happening again, but even in a worse form - that we were sinking into a lot of ignorance and a lot of superficial change.

  

  Raoul Peck
  • Ignorance
  • Particular
  • Superficial

• 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.

  

  Ernest Bevin
  • Hope
  • Belief
  • Generosity

• I don’t know that doom is a very nice word. It does suggest, I think, shuddering and cold sweat. There was none of that, though, about Coco’s welcome to it when it opened my front door and walked in, nor can it be fairly said that there was any of it about mine. True I had a feeling, unusual so soon after breakfast, that I was in the hands of God, but otherwise I wasn’t aware of any particular discomfort. Nor did I remember, till later, that the only other time in my life I had had this feeling was when I was dressing to go to the party in Italy at which I met my first husband. It is a sinking feeling. Perhaps husbands have never altogether agreed with me.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • I Remember
  • Sweat
  • Husbands

• 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?

  

  Michael Moorcock
  • Fate
  • Wanted
  • Products

• My dinner party,' Miles grated. 'It's just breaking up.' And sinking. All souls feared lost.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Soul
  • Lost
  • Party

• I have the impression of moving in the shadow of syllables, in regions before secrets, where language cannot yet answer the call of thought, in swamps where you risk sinking with every breath.

  

  Edmond Jabes
  • Shadow
  • Impression
  • Breath