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Such sorrow - The cry of true compassion Sinks into my hard ego. — Taitetsu Unno

A ship doesn't sink because it is in the ocean in the midst of a storm. It only sinks when the hull is breached, and the ocean get inside it. — Arthur Jackson Jr.

In the future, all religions will sink, only God will remain stand still! The untruth can survive only for a while and then it sinks! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The blue of daylight
fades and chills as the sun sinks
beneath clouds of fire. — Richelle E. Goodrich

There is a desert on the moon where the dreamer sinks so deeply into the ground that she reaches hell. — C. G. Jung

My heart sinks. Shit - it's like he's my dad. — E.L. James

Something falls inside me. Sinks down deep. I look at my lap. A terrible leaden loneliness. Try to breathe under the weight of it. — Amy McNamara

It is not the lie that passes through the mind, but the lie that sinks in and settles in it, that does the hurt. — Francis Bacon

Alas the Master; so he sinks in death. But whoso knows the mystery of man Sees life and death as curves of the same plan — Aleister Crowley

A great tragedy passes from crest to hollow of passion, rises and sinks again, as rhythmically as sea-waves. — Austin O'Malley

All day I've built
a lifetime and now
the sun sinks to
undo it. — Anne Sexton

Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead;
It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel. — Pierre Corneille

Insecurity sinks its teeth in, vicious and biting. But — A.G. Howard

Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger. — Bill Cosby

You have to just look at it like Titanic: I know the ship sinks, but this is a love story — Dan Harmon

Just as my heart sinks every time I hear her harsh words, that's how her heart sank when she realised there was no more love between us. — Anne Frank

When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Honour sinks where commerce long prevails. — Oliver Goldsmith

There sinks the nebulous star we call the sun. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

This dream of our youth will fade out as the splendor Fades from the skies when the sun sinks to sleep. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Engineering without imagination sinks to a trade. — Herbert Hoover

LOOK back on time with kindly eyes, He doubtless did his best; How softly sinks his trembling sun In human nature's west! — Emily Dickinson

It is in the prime of youth that man sinks into empty phrases and grimaces. It's in this smithy that our maturity is forged. — Witold Gombrowicz

This ocean circulation, a northbound current that sinks and then moves southbound, tends to go through multi-decadal changes — William M. Gray

As the sun sinks
It casts that silver bridge
Across the lake — Richard L. Ratliff

When an actor asks you to read his script, your heart sinks. The number of scripts I've been given by actors that are so unbelievably terrible! — Richard Grant

Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later. — Jack Welch

Cities are the sinks of the human race. — Henri Rousseau

Loving others isn't about us at all. And until that sinks in, we'll never be able to love the way Christ truly loved. — Jarrid Wilson

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose. — Walter Savage Landor

The cradles of civilization are the putrid sinks of the world. — Henry Miller

Sex swims in marriage, while sex sinks in sin of being single. — Anthony Liccione

You know," she says. "You're still alive. I don't know how many different ways I can try to tell you before it finally sinks in. — Courtney Summers

think our country sinks beneath the yoke. It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash Is added to her wounds. I — William Shakespeare

My wife is immature. Whenever I take a bath, she sinks my boats. — Woody Allen

Instead of the weight that sinks us, consequences are often the life preserver that saves us. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Hope sinks a world of imagination. — Amanda McKittrick Ros

I don't have a lot to share with other men. My heart sinks when I get into a taxi and someone starts talking to me about football. — David Walliams

Tobacco addiction sinks its claws in deeply, it's just as powerful of [sic] an addiction as heroin or crack cocaine ... — Al Gore

Any action, in the fullness of time, sinks to nothingness. — Donna Tartt

And behold the greatest mystery of them all: an unopened can of diet Pepsi floats in water while an unopened can of regular Pepsi sinks. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

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

The world shrieks and sinks talons into our hearts. This we call memory. — Tim O'Brien

this boat is and is not
when it sinks both disappear — Ikkyu

The way the word sinks
into the deep snow of the page — Gregory Orr

All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins. — Ovid

God sinks into dust before man. — Max Stirner

Tell the men to fire faster and not to give up the ship; fight her till she sinks. — James Lawrence

What sinks the devil sails the Christian. — Matshona Dhliwayo

And you know what happens when a ship gets too many rats on board? It sinks. That's what.
I wondered if a ship had ever really sunk that way. — David Wong

Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time. — Robert Smithson

Your life and how you experience it is entirely your making. Only if this absolutely sinks in, will you make the necessary changes. — Sadghuru

Grief never leaves, It merely sinks into you. — Kamila Shamsie

For in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame. — Aeschylus

What we dwell on much with our mind sinks into our heart and shapes our life. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Why is he so mad about white tiled sinks and 'kitchen machinery' he calls it? People have good hearts whether or not they live like Dharma Bums. — Jack Kerouac

Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted. — Albert Pike

Not prettiness, mind you, whose nature is trite, but beauty, which sinks to the depths — Kanan Makiya

Tell Crabby Abby he's going to sit on the naughty chair if he sinks one more island, Astrid said, catching her ball. — Jennifer Donnelly

We say to ourselves we won't live forever, but I don't think that thought ever really sinks in until the day comes. — Youth Lagoon

Rectitude carried to excess hardens into stiffness; benevolence indulged beyond measure sinks into weakness. — Date Masamune

Until the moment she actually sinks, the Titanic is unsinkable. — Julia Hughes

The lake of my mind, unbroken by oars, heaves placidly and soon sinks into an oily somnolence.' That will be useful. — Virginia Woolf

And if the boat sinks?"
"And if the sun explodes?" Elliot countered. — Diana Peterfreund

I've never grown into loving someone. It's, like, either right away or slowly sinks in. — Tove Lo

Sinks my sad soul with sorrow to the grave. — Homer

Life always sinks downward. It takes effort to avoid that. — Mesa Selimovic

The dignity of man into your hands is given;
Oh, keep it well, with you it sinks or lifts itself to heaven. — Friedrich Schiller

That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness - the Self. — Ramana Maharshi

How quickly a moment sinks into the past. — Anne Perry

I will contend until I am shot that art as soon as it is brought into contact with politics inevitably sinks to the level of any ideological trash. — Vladimir Nabokov

So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore. — Anna Letitia Barbauld

Clinton masturbates in the sinks. — Ann Coulter

I've always held the song in high regard because songs have got me through so many sinks of dishes and so many humiliating courting events. — Leonard Cohen

Shuddering under the autumn stars, each year, the head sinks lower and lower. — Georg Trakl

My soul is like the dead sea, over which no bird can fly; when it gets halfway, it sinks down spent to its death and destruction. — Soren Kierkegaard

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart. — Walter Savage Landor

The sky sinks in the morning, this fact has been insufficiently observed. — Samuel Beckett

I laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me; If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea. — William Ellery Channing

Carelessness with details sinks more careers than anyone will admit. — Lois Wyse

I close the door and click the lock. My stomach sinks. I know I'm in for the fight of my life.
She is bait. If ever I've seen bait, she is it. — Tara Brown

In the long run, the cream always rises and the crap always sinks. — John Elway

The strength of man sinks in the hour of trial; but there doth live a Power that to the battle girdeth the weak. — Joanna Baillie

Happiness is always the inaccessible castle which sinks in ruin when we set foot on it. — Arsene Houssaye

The dignity of mankind is in your hands; protect it!
It sinks with you! With you it will ascend. — Friedrich Schiller

The sun sinks to rise again; the day is swallowed up in the gloom of night, to be born out of it, as fresh as if it had never been quenched. — William Peter Blatty

When the sun sets, life gets darker in the country; when a bad leader sinks, life gets brighter in the country! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Woman's mind Oft' shifts her passions, like th'inconstant wind; Sudden she rages, like the troubled main, Now sinks the storm, and all is calm again. — John Gay

Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements. — Amos Bronson Alcott

When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it. — Pablo Picasso

Tonight, once more, life sinks its teeth into my heart. — Simone De Beauvoir

When she holds that thought up to the light and sees how pathetic it is, how cravenly equivocating, she sinks into black depression. From — M.R. Carey

Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there; Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again. — Victor Hugo

The reader may not see [these meanings], but they have their effect on him nonetheless. This is the way the modern novelist sinks, or hides his theme — Flannery O'Connor

What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth. — Lucretius

And wait for the bus in grey drizzle, arms folded tight around myself, shivering against cold that falls from the sky and sinks deep in my bones. — Teri Terry

The sun, coming hard around the world: the island rises from the sea, sinks, rises, holds. — Peter Matthiessen

The U.S. Senate - an old scow which doesn't move very fast, but never sinks. — Everett Dirksen

However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police. — Quentin Crisp

There are people in this administration who say they don't care if the UN sinks under the East river, and other crude things ... — Hans Blix