Top 209 Sunk Quotes & Sayings

Darkness now rose, as daylight sunk, and brought in low'ring Night her shadowy offspring.

The magnitude of the film and the life of Gandhi had not yet sunk in then as it is now when I look back.

We sunk everything into it. It came close to going under several times.

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering

It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that upright integrity, that strict adherence to truth and principle, that distain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life.

Now deep in ocean sunk the lamp of light, And drew behind the cloudy vale of night.

The middle of the universe is tonight, is here, And everything behind is a sunk cost.

Do not be thoughtless, always be mindful, watch your thoughts! Draw yourself out of the path of evil, like an elephant sunk in mud.

It is, I think, a good deal owing to the preponderance of the commercial element in Society that conversation has sunk to its present dull level of conventional chatter.

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.

I was oppressed with the sensations I then felt; I sunk under the weight of them.

…and there, in the background, the sky’s sediment had sunk to a place where all the woe of the words ‘I am’ dissolved into blue peace. He said it. ‘The ocean.

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.

It is so unexpected, it goes beyond my wildest dreams. Sometimes I just sit back and think. 'Oh my God, I'm in the movies!' It still hasn't sunk in.

To have this gold medal around my neck is just bonkers and still hasn't really sunk in.

Nothing ever comes to an end. Wherever one has sunk roots that emanate from one's best or truest self, one will always find a home.

Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants.

Sometimes I used to think that one day i should wake up, and all that had been would be over. forgotten, sunk, drowned. Nothing was sure - not even memory.

My father would play Stevie Wonder in the car, but that never sunk in.

I just wrote the book and was amazed and astounded that it became a bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize. It still hasn't sunk in.

I went to an art school and you learn very quickly there that you're only as good as your next idea, not so much what you've got going on at the moment. And so I embraced that. It sunk in at an early point.

There is no way a spirit of resistance that has sunk so deep in the population can be repressed.

No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.

Sunk costs? We pay too much attention to them.

If a ship has been sunk, I can't bring it up. If it is going to be sunk, I can't stop it. I can use my time much better working on tomorrow's problem than by fretting about yesterday's. Besides, if I let those things get me, I wouldn't last long.

When superstars go down, no matter how sympathetic the circumstances, fans know the franchise could be sunk.

I ransack public libraries & find them full of sunk treasure.

The standards have sunk so low throughout our culture that who really knows.

Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach pits and death and where the world went when I closed my eyes.

Who knows but that England may revive in New South Wales when it has sunk in Europe.

The mystery of the humanity of Christ, that he sunk himself into our flesh, is beyond all human understanding.

I was absolutely obsessed with the Titanic - not the film, the actual boat. I'd draw diagrams about it and theorise that if it was built in a different way, it wouldn't have sunk.

Men sunk in the greatest darkness imaginable retain some sense and awe of the Deity.

I was once the captain of Akagi, and it is with heartfelt regret that I must now order that she be sunk.

Everyone has sunk on this plane to such a low state of consciousness, it is the natural state. We have deviated so far from the norm in this age of darkness.

I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands.

It's essentially taught in high school and college survey courses as an item on a timeline: 'The Lusitania was sunk; the U.S. gets into World War I'.

The 'frankness' of people sunk below shame is a very cheap frankness.

The cinema is an institution nowadays, with its roots sunk deep in the hearts of the millions of people who find enjoyment and entertainment in going to the pictures.

What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness?

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.

As soon as you think you can do whatever you want and you have whatever great professional in the world waiting to work with you, then you are sunk.

I went to religious schools. I wasn't that enthusiastic, by and large, but it sunk in.

Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.

Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust!

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

What props up biological research, at least in the vaunted U.S. of A., involves a situation so deeply imbued with entitlement mentality that it has sunk into institutional corruption.

Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise.

I have fallen, I have sunk so low. I have messed up, better I should know.

The waves have rolled upon me, the billows are repeatedly broken over me, yet I am not sunk down.

The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their meaning.

I'm glad acting sunk its teeth into me, because now I can't imagine doing anything else.

We have sunk so low it has become the obligation of every decent, thinking individual to re-state the obvious!

Is it because you are sunk in the cruelty of superstition, or feel no interest in the honor of your Creator, that you listen to the horrid tales of the Bible, or hear them with callous indifference?

And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.

It has sunk into my head that I want to be winning four or five tournaments a season.

Leave behind the passive dreaming of a rose-tinted future. The energy of happiness exists in living today with roots sunk firmly in reality's soil.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

I firmly believe that if the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be better for mankind-and all the worse for the fishes.