Sinking Quotes (page 5)

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• love
• dead
• house

Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body. Lady Gaga

• smile
• heavenly
• heaven

I am going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become. Jean-Paul Sartre

• fate
• end
• saying

To say my fate is not tied to your fate is like saying, your end of the boat is sinking. Hugh Downs

• die
• reading books
• she

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe ether, to sink in and die. Annie Dillard

• children
• stupid
• she

Watching him during the first several minutes of his delivery, Cecilia felt a pleasant sinking sensation in her stomach as she contemplated how deliciously self-destructive it would be, almost erotic, to be married to a man so nearly handsome, so hugely rich, so unfathomably stupid. He would fill her with his big-faced children, all of them loud, boneheaded boys with a passion for guns and football and aeroplanes. Ian Mcewan

• fall
• snow
• mind

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• winning
• pool
• leaving

XXIXYou have set me among those who are defeated. I know it is not for me to win, nor to leave the game. I shall plunge into the pool although but to sink to the bottom. I shall play the game of my undoing. I shall stake all I have and when I lose my last penny I shall stake myself, and then I think I shall have won through my utter defeat. Rabindranath Tagore

• water
• rough
• saves

I ride rough waters, and shall sink with no one to save me. Virginia Woolf

• coffee
• clouds
• hot

Clouds sink down the hills Coffee is hot again. The dog Turns and turns about, stops and sleeps. Gary Snyder

• light
• patience
• running

396. Patience is a Virtue every where; but it shines with great Lustre in the Men of Government.397. Some are so Proud or Testy, they won't hear what they should redress.398. Others so weak, they sink or burst under the weight of their Office, though they can lightly run away with the Salary of it. William Penn

• men
• favorite
• my man

My least favorite thing was a man who had severe white-man's ass, where the jeans just bagged over the butt. I wanted something to hold on to, something to sink my teeth into. When I said I liked meat on my men I didn't just mean one thing. Laurell K. Hamilton

• distance
• manly
• july

And then I wondered if as soon as he came to like me he would sink intoordinariness, and if as soon as he came to love me I would find fault after fault, the way I did with Buddy Willard and the boys before him. The same thing happened over and over: I would catch sight of some flawless man off in the distance, but as soon as he moved closer I immediately saw he wouldn't do at all. That's one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be... Sylvia Plath

• him
• black
• heart

He would say, "How funny it will all seem, all you've gone through, when I'm not here anymore, when you no longer feel my arms around your shoulders, nor my heart beneath you, nor this mouth on your eyes, because I will have to go away some day, far away..." And in that instant I could feel myself with him gone, dizzy with fear, sinking down into the most horrible blackness: into death. Arthur Rimbaud

• stupid
• evening
• mind

We sink too easily into stupid and overfed sensuality, our bodies thickening even more quickly than our minds. M. F. K. Fisher

• serenity
• government
• mindfulness

How infinitely good that Providence is which has provided, in its government of mankind, such narrow bounds to his sight and knowledge of things; and though he walks in the midst of so many thousand dangers, the sight of which, if discovered to him, would distract his mind and sink his spirits, he is kept serene and calm by having the events of things hid from his eyes, and knowing nothing of the dangers which surround him! Daniel Defoe