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The lights of the town and of the harbour and of the boats seemed like a phantom net floating there to mark something that had sunk.
— Virginia Woolf
...but that ship had sailed; and then the island I had watched it depart from, had sunk.
— Quil Carter
You may flunk your exams in school and still make it in life, but if you flunk life's exams, you're sunk!
— Chris Oyakhilome
If he has love, he will feel he can go on. Without it, I would have sunk many times over.
— Jojo Moyes
Men sunk in the greatest darkness imaginable retain some sense and awe of the Deity.
— John Tillotson
When superstars go down, no matter how sympathetic the circumstances, fans know the franchise could be sunk.
— Stephen Rodrick
I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands.
— Mary Stewart
The waves have rolled upon me, the billows are repeatedly broken over me, yet I am not sunk down.
— Mercy Otis Warren
When I saw Orlando from an airplane, it looked like a LEGO set sunk into an ocean of green.
— John Green
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of maturer age are already sunk into corruption.
— Montesquieu
The middle of the universe is tonight, is here, And everything behind is a sunk cost.
— Marina Keegan
It still hasn't sunk in that I'm going to be in Coronation Street. Everything about the role is brilliant and I'm working with some great people.
— Richard Fleeshman
Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.
— Friedrich Schiller
Hey, this ship hasn't sunk yet," she said, tearing her gaze away from the museum. "We may have one sail, but we're still going.
— Alexandra Bracken
After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.
— Arthur Golden
Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants.
— Jonathan Swift
Had sunk into a sort of incoherence, used to begin one thing and go on with another, as though he were letting himself go altogether.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
So how do you unify a secure, wealthy country that has sunk into a zero-sum political game with itself?
— Sebastian Junger
Common sense, common care, common prudence, were all sunk in Mrs. Dashwood's romantic delicacy.
— Jane Austen
I was oppressed with the sensations I then felt; I sunk under the weight of them.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.
— John Milton
She was an elfShe turned the lake to swamp
A dark and warm marsh
Her body sunk down
There unshaken lay — J.M.K. Walkow
We sunk everything into it. It came close to going under several times.
— Heston Blumenthal
The sunk-cost fallacy keeps people for too long in poor jobs, unhappy marriages, and unpromising research projects.
— Daniel Kahneman
We have now sunk to a depth at which re-statement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. GEORGE ORWELL
— J. Budziszewski
If I had married someone wealthy when I was young, I would have sunk like a stone. Being skint makes life quite clear. You've got to take that job.
— Anna Chancellor
Reality hasn't really sunk in yet, I knew that. I didn't want to know what life was going to feel like when it finally did.
— Keary Taylor
About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone.
— Virginia Woolf
I'm glad acting sunk its teeth into me, because now I can't imagine doing anything else.
— Ryan Kwanten
Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust!
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
For to be sunk, though but for an hour in your esteem is a humiliation to which I know not how to submit. -Susan
— Jane Austen
My heart's already sunk before I can save it.
— Melina Marchetta
He was sunk beneath seas of silence; and his name, which would once have caught his notice above the howling of a storm, had become and empty sound.
— H.P. Lovecraft
Dark Jar Tin Zoo's face is sallow, his cheeks sunk in, and he looks like Edvard Munch's "The Scream," only less colorful.
— Jarod Kintz
Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.
— Daniel Goleman
And then I met a woman,now comes the funny part;
with eyes that petrified my brain
and sunk into my heart. — Hugh Antoine D'Arcy
In March the soft rains continued, and each storm waited courteously until its predecessor sunk beneath the ground.
— John Steinbeck
Many a month of gloomy unconsciousness rolled over me, without date or notice. One thousand waves may welter over a sunk wreck, and be felt as one.
— Charles Robert Maturin
She was open to love, but she was best at managing her own happiness; it was other people's happiness that sunk her.
— Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
It seemed to her that almost everything she possessed had its roots sunk in that dark soil and was deriving its nourishment from it.
— Haruki Murakami
I sink you, that I will not be sunk by you.
— Stacia Kane
The powdered sugar had caramelized and blackened into a sucking tar pit in which my ladyfingers languished like so many sunk mastadons.
— Julie Powell
I could feel the muscles in my face twitch as his response sunk into me. It was a resounding no with a slap of you fucking drunk attached.
— Cassandra Giovanni
he had a strong premonition that ship had already sailed, been set on fire by pirates and sunk into the sea.
— Dana Marton
Do not be thoughtless, always be mindful, watch your thoughts! Draw yourself out of the path of evil, like an elephant sunk in mud.
— Gautama Buddha
Jonathan tried to catch the essence of love but whether he sunk into the words of a song or the smell of his lover, he couldn't get a hold on it.
— Grazyna Plebanek
No, no, my dear Watson. The more deeply sunk impression is, of course, the hind wheel, upon which the weight rests.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
He had no illusions about his addiction to her. She had her fingers sunk firmly into his heart, and could do with it what she wished.
— Julie Kagawa
The entire empire has sunk into a quagmire of extravagance from which they cannot extricate themselves.
— Liu Cixin
I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.
— Virginia Woolf
The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their meaning.
— Samuel Johnson
The mystery of the humanity of Christ, that he sunk himself into our flesh, is beyond all human understanding.
— Martin Luther
We have sunk so low it has become the obligation of every decent, thinking individual to re-state the obvious!
— George Orwell
Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
— Aldous Huxley
I can't say what my first thought was as I sunk below the surface, because it was mostly a string of four-letter words.
— Rachel Hawkins
