Quotation Explorer - 'Sunk'

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
Had he learned nothing from all those years of teaching Hawthorne? Through story after story he’d led his boys to consider the folly of obsession with purity its roots sunk deep in pride, flowering condemnation and violence against others and self. - Tobias Wolff
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!
You walked into my heart, Without my permission And the more I've tried to hold on to the control, They deeper you have sunk. Your a love I can't grasp hold of, maybe that's why it scares that absolute shit out of me. - Nikki Rowe
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. - Daisaku Ikeda
No matter how many times you get sunk in life, but there have been always a new hope and opportunity to rise. - Anshul Dubey
As illusory attachment (moha) spread, one sunk deeper and deeper into the pit. - Dada Bhagwan
Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. - George Orwell
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