sinking quotes

We ofthesinking middle class†havenothing to losebut our aitches.

- George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair Orwell
  The Road to Wigan Pier, ch.13.

I know not how it wasbut, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit† There was aniciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heartan unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime.

- EdgarAllan Poe
  'The Fall of the House of Usher', in the Gentleman's Magazine, Sep.

It isthe onlycase on record of a man swimming toward a sinking ship.

- Ralph Yarborough
  On formerTexas GovernorJohn B Connally's switch from Democratic to the Republican party in his bid for the presidential nomination. Quoted in theWashington Post,18 Jan 1988.