I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.
What's one more torpedo in a sinking ship.
Being the richest man on a sinking ship is a bitter victory
When old companions, old lusts, and sins crowd in upon you, and when you feel that you are ready to sink, what can save you, sinking sinner ? This alone - I have a high priest in heaven, and he can support in the hour of affliction. This alone can give you peace-I have a high priest in heaven. When you are dying - when friends can do you no good - when sins rise up like spectres around your bed - what can give you peace ? This - "I have a high priest in heaven"
Maybe you're afraid of sinking. Don't think about it. If you don't think about it, you won't sink. If you do, you will.
Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.
God save us from living in comfort while sinners are sinking into hell!
Words are like butter Rolling off my lips Cut like a knife And now I'm sinking battleships
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.
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.
Everything depends on this: a fathomless sinking into a fathomless nothingness.
If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking
We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.
Don't you see all the people sinking down? Don't you care? Are you gonna let them drown?
When I can't sleep, I always wrap something around my neck and close my eyes and imagine myself being strangled to death. Then I can fall asleep--it feels like sinking deep underwater
The sea is selective, slow at recognition of effort and aptitude but fast in the sinking of the unfit.
And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart - an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime
Never rest on your oars as a boss. If you do, the whole company starts sinking.
