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Quote Left The world's whole sap is sunk: / The general balm th' hydroptic earth hath drunk. Quote Right
Quote Left The grass and coloured clay More motion have than they, Joined to the great sunk silences. Quote Right
Quote Left After the ship has sunk, everyone knows how she might have been saved. Quote Right
Quote Left My mind's sunk so low, Claudia, because of you, wrecked itself on your account so bad already, that I couldn't like you if you were the best of women,--or stop loving you, no matter what you do. Quote Right
Quote Left Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy. You've had about seven hours of sleep since Friday. No wonder you feel that lost sensation. You're sunk from a riot of relaxation. Quote Right
Quote Left According to 'God's Plan' Jesus had to die in order to be resurrected and for humankind to achieve salvation. If that is true, then why do Christians lament his crucifixion? Without it, their execrable theology would have never sunk its pernicious talons into the cousciousness of humankind. Quote Right
Quote Left What sunk me very low was the sensation that I was precisely as when in wretched low spirits thirty years ago, without any addition to my char... Quote Right
Quote Left Most weren't hit very hard. A number of barges have broken loose or sunk. It's a matter of getting power back, getting barge traffic moving again so we can get to the elevator, and clearing the port. Quote Right
Quote Left How frequently are the honesty and integrity of a man disposed of by a smile or a shrug. How many good and generous actions have been sunk into oblivion by a distrustful look, or stamped with the imputation of bad motives, by a mysterious and seasonable whisper! Quote Right
Quote Left Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow; and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safely across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion. Quote Right
Quote Left Thus when I come to shape here at this table between my hands the story of my life and set it before you as a complete thing, I have to recall things gone far, gone deep, sunk into this life or that and become part of it; dreams, too, things surrounding me, and the inmates, those old half-articulate ghosts who keep up their hauntings by day and night... shadows of people one might have been; unborn selves. Quote Right
Quote Left The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair. Quote Right
Quote Left It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption. Quote Right
Quote Left I firmly believe that if the whole material medical could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the sea. Quote Right
Quote Left Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives. Quote Right
Quote Left We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. Quote Right

Member Quotes About Sunk

Quote Left In trying times the touch of compassion uplifts the sunk spirit from the depth of depression Quote Right
Quote Left sailed for salvation but sunk into oblivion Quote Right
Quote Left P.S. my heart sunk to the bottom of your lies before I learned to swim... Quote Right

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