Top 100 Drown Out Quotes
#1. There are many cultural scenes in Lahore, just as there are in London. And there is a celebrity culture here, just as there is in London. But in Lahore, the celebrity scene doesn't drown out the rest quite so much.
Mohsin Hamid
#2. I was always into music. I think everyone is when they're a teenager, as a way to drown out the world.
Penelope Spheeris
#3. That was the ballad of suburbia: give me loud to drown out the silence.
Stephanie Kuehnert
#4. Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.
Hank Johnson
#5. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.
[Stanford University commencement speech, 2005]
Steve Jobs
#6. A radio was playing quietly. Nobody was listening. It was there to drown out the silence.
Rachel Abbott
#7. It was like a thousand beautiful voices singing to drown out a million more screaming.
Robert Brockway
#8. I won't put in a load of laundry, because the machine is too loud and would drown out other, more significant noises - namely, the shuffling footsteps of the living dead.
David Sedaris
#9. To encourage children into Rock Music is to place them into the white hot arms of Molech and the beat and power behind the music will drown out the cries of your child as occultic powers consume him and drag him into the fires of hell!
Ray Comfort
#10. The terror is trapped inside of him and paralyzes him. He closes his eyes again and tries to drown out the scream - but it keeps ringing and ringing and ringing in his ears.
Suneeta Misra
#12. I'll take you back to your place. I just want to stop by the duplex and grab one thing first." "What's that?" "My guitar," he said as we trampled through the tall grasses. "I think this time we're going to need more than just your voice to drown out this latest dose of pain.
Megan Squires
#13. Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satisfied, voices that may drown out the faint sounds emitted by our souls and distract us from the careful, arduous task of accurately naming our priorities.
Alain De Botton
#14. Don't let anyone or anything drown out that still small voice that says, "You were made for more.
Kirstin Leigh
#15. I think when it comes to decisions, I try not to be emotional. To drown out the noise and look at the important facts.
David Tepper
#16. Don't let the cynic in you drown out the dreamer.
J.A. DeRouen
#17. The sound of the surf mingled with the wind rushing in his ears, and still it did not drown out the sound of her voice: "Can you think of any reason why I should not stay?"
A thousand. None of them good enough.
Connie Brockway
#18. Seeing all the chattering faces, Paul was suddenly repelled by them. They were cheap masks locked on festering thoughts - voices gabbling to drown out the loud silence in every breast.
Frank Herbert
#19. The music had the ability to conjure images in my head and help me drown out the tension and noise I was trying to avoid at my house.
Duff McKagan
#20. The room was very quiet. I walked over to the TV set and turned it on to a dead channel-white noise at maximum decibels, a fine sound for sleeping, a powerful continuous hiss to drown out everything strange.
Hunter S. Thompson
#21. Don't let your mind drown out your intuitive voice.
Steven Redhead
#22. I realized that whatever your path, whatever your calling, the most damaging thing you can do is let other voices define you and drown out your own. You've got to block them out and find that place deep inside you, shaken but still intact, and hold on to it.
Katie Couric
#23. You're using your headphones to drown out your mind
Regina Spektor
#24. Never forget the morals instilled in you and what really matters in Life. Never let other voices of other people drown out your inner voice
Trey Songz
#25. I looked up from the street and again at the wretched captives. I vowed not to let the noises of the city drown out their voices or rob me of my past. It was less painful to forget, but I would look and I would remember.
Lawrence Hill
#26. Never let the darkness or negativity outside affect your inner self. Just wait until morning comes and the bright light will drown out the darkness.
Haruki Murakami
#27. One negative voice aimed at me has the incredible power to drown out a thousand positive ones. One of the greatest things I can achieve is to never let it.
Dan Pearce
#28. Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything.
Terrence Malick
#30. There will always being those
who say you are too young and delicate
to make anything happen for yourself.
They don't see the part of you that smolders.
Don't let their doubting drown out the sound
of your own heartbeat.
Clementine Von Radics
#31. Affliction is able to drown out every earthly voice ... but the voice of eternity within a man it cannot drown. When by the aid of affliction all irrelevant voices are brought to silence, it can be heard, this voice within.
Mark Galli
#32. Such is the power of truth that even the slightest whisper of it can handily drown out the most boisterous of lies, which may explain why in many instances God only needs to whisper.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#33. For years, I tried medication, blade, work, escape, all attempts to drown out that incessant, reverberating drum of self-rejection.
Ann Voskamp
#34. It is normal to be curious. The only shame is if all the musts and shoulds drown out the wants that we hear inside ourselves.
Madeline Hunter
#35. We all have our la-la-la song. The thing we do when the world isn't singing a nice tune to us. We sing our own nice tune to drown out ugly.
Rita Williams-Garcia
#36. Faced with a brass band that was positioned to drown out free speech, Russian activists reacted to the potential confrontation with lemons. With activists eating lemons or pretending to, involuntary saliva reaction of the band made it impossible for them to interrupt.
Masha Gessen
#38. I'm learning how to drown out the constant noise that is such an inseparable part of my life. I don't have to prove anything to anyone, I only have to follow my heart and concentrate on what I want to say to the world. I run my world.
Beyonce Knowles
#39. If you let it, the noise of the world will drown out the voice of God, which is your intuition.
Oprah Winfrey
#40. They rock against each other, holding on, and the birds in the forest raise their voices to drown out the secret of creation.
Barbara Kingsolver
#41. Ignore the received wisdom of any industry you're entering. Never be trapped by dogma. Never let other people's opinions drown out your own inner voice.
Tim Waterstone
#42. Dilly closed his eyes and tried to find some way to drown out all the emotions that sliced at his soul. "No. I am so not okay that I don't even have words for how not okay I am.
Lyn Gala
#43. So for the moment, she contented herself with leaning against Bellamy, letting the sound of his steady heartbeat temporarily drown out the rest of her thoughts.
Kass Morgan
#44. All the shitty stuff people do to themselves ... it can all be the same thing, you know? Just a way to drown out your own voice. To kill your memories without having to kill yourself.
Isaac Marion
#45. No matter how loud you shout, you will not drown out the voice of the people!
William Wilberforce
#46. My parents always wanted me to know why eating healthfully was important to overall performance, probably to drown out my whining for junk food.
Daphne Oz
#47. Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
Barbara Kingsolver
#48. As all of us are only too aware, the loud and frantic voices of the outer world easily drown out the small, still loving voice within.
Marianne Williamson
#49. drown out the noise of time, is transformed into the whisper of history. This
Julian Barnes
#50. In the bar, the jukebox comes on. Molley must be trying to drown out the sounds of raised voices. I move toward her, unable to resist; her eyes are wet, her face flushed, and I can finally look at her, want her, let myself touch her without grief turning everything to ashes in my mouth.
Amie Kaufman
#52. Discovered that some of our efforts can actually drown out the good news and become stumbling blocks to faith.
Philip Yancey
#53. You've spent half of your life
Trying to fall behind
You're using your headphones
Just to drown out your mind.
Regina Spektor
#54. Never believe someone cares for you because of other people's reactions. Sometimes you have to drown out the noise from the crowd, in order to figure out if there is a song playing between the two of you or simply annoying static that you thought was a tune.
Shannon L. Alder
#56. The great move mountains;
the cowardly hide behind them.
The extraordinary walk on water;
the mediocre drown on land.
The excellent perform miracles;
the inferior carry out mischief.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#57. I enjoy performing, always, but when you're taping a gig, you've got to blank out this mass apparatus of self-consciousness that's surrounding you, this invitation to drown in self-consciousness. Otherwise you just won't be able to do anything.
Dylan Moran
#58. Okay, Fine. I'm glad you didn't drown. Sort of. Good luck with whatever it is you're doing out here.
Frankie Rose
#59. I stopped showering ever since I realized water causes people to drown. I cannot risk being so close to something that can murder me. Do you let killers into your house? Oh, but you let a murderer come out of your own faucet. Hypocrite.
Thom Yorke
#60. The church is like Noah's ark. It stinks, but if you get out of it, you'll drown.
Shane Claiborne
#61. Awkwardness with the boyfriend who tried to drown you because he thought he was his own dead brother who turned out not to be dead. Probably not a lot of advice lying around for this particular relationship problem -Hannah
Emma Carlson Berne
#62. From the moment we'd met, he'd dragged me into the deep, swearing to me he was in there with me. It was a lie. He'd waded back out to the shallows and left me to drown.
Samantha Young
#63. She went out, going rapidly towards the country, and trying to drown reflection by swiftness of motion.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#64. I decided I had to find out if it was my scene or not. So I stepped in at the deep end. It leads you to survive or drown. Very often you survive.
Theresa Sjoquist
#65. The sand swallows burst out of their scupper holes in the bluffs and out over the transparent drown of the water, back again to the white, to the brown, to the black, from moving to stock-still sand waves and water-worked woods and roots that hugged and twisted in the sun.
Saul Bellow
#66. He should've let her drown.
Tally Cruise had the most God-awful voice Michael had ever heard, and he'd heard some doozies in Asian karaoke bars. Fortunately the violence of the storm, and the thunder of the waves, drowned out most of it.
Cherry Adair
#67. She shuddered. What is it with slobbery kissers? Are they trying to drown us in spit? I mean, Jesus, swallow every now and then.
Tammara Webber
#68. See, guys freak out. They hit critical mass and blast nuclear, white-hot anger out over the world like walking flamethrowers. But girls freak in. They absorb the pain and bitterness and keep right on sponging it up until they drown.
Laura Wiess
#69. By continually going out for reverie, a day comes when you go out to drown yourself.
Victor Hugo
#70. Man is not to drown himself in the well of the Shastras, but he is to dive in their broad ocean and bring out pearls.
Mahatma Gandhi
#71. Blood in and blood out," he says, kissing my neck in between his words. "Your fuckin' choice. But know this: it is forever now my blood that runs through your veins. And I will drown you in it before I let you escape me again.
Nicole Reed
#72. It's nice, but it's also getting to the point where if they keep swooning into each other's eyes, we're all going to drown in their saccharine sweetness as rainbows fly out their butts.
T.J. Klune
#73. The tick-tick-booms are softer now. I can barely hear them, and I think if I play loud enough, I can drown them out completely.
Jonathan Larson
#74. The sign of a true woman isn't the ability to recite French poetry or play the pianoforte or cook Chateaubriand. The sign of a true woman is learning to listen to her own voice even when society does its best to drown it out.
Eve Marie Mont
#75. In a family, what isn't spoken is what you listen for. But the noise of a family is to drown it out.
Joyce Carol Oates
#76. Life's hard and when you know there are ways to drown it out, it's hard to stay on the right path. It's a constant struggle. For a long time, I did it by myself.
Lisa De Jong
#77. You, Lilah, scare the hell out of me."
"Why?" she whispered.
He met her gaze and held it. "Because I could fall for you, Lilah. Hard and deep and never want to come back up."
She could scarcely breathe. "What's wrong with that?"
"We'd drown.
Jill Shalvis
#78. As I was saying. He could never use you. You own him. You should've seen the way he was looking at you while you were out."
I smiled a little. "How?"
"Like you're the ocean and he's desperate to drown.
Michelle Hodkin
#79. Doing a picture with Willie Wyler is like getting the works at a Turkish bath. You damn near drown, but you come out smelling like a rose.
Charlton Heston
#80. ...Pff... there is always a reason for everything if you go deeper and deeper under the sea you will die in the same time, even you will drown however you will find the reason. It's about 50 out of 100 which will mean 50% chance you have to live and 50% there is a chance to die.
Deyth Banger
#81. I hammered and sawed, the sawdust sprinkled about, and soon, very soon, I would have my garden, thanks to Joseph, a man who saw three lost, lonely, mentally tangled kids and put out a hand to hold so we wouldn't drown in misery.
Cathy Lamb
#82. The Sufi saint Rabi'a Al-Adawiyya was seen carrying a firebrand and a jug of water - the firebrand to burn Paradise, the jug of water to drown Hell ...
So that both veils disappear, and God's followers worship, not out of hope for reward, nor fear of punishment, but out of love.
Craig Thompson
#83. Don't come to me with your troubles. I have to work for my money and you are young enough to work too. If you can't make enough money to live on you can jump out of the window or drown yourself.
Maria Callas
#84. There's nothing wrong with you Ray, your only trouble is you never learned to get out to spots like this, you've let the world drown you in its horseshit and you've been vexed ...
Jack Kerouac
#85. Life in our world is very sink or swim, and that's for the best. If you can't survive in the deep end, you should get out before you drown.
Seanan McGuire
#86. I'm going to get out of here,' she said.
'That's the spirit.' Tamsin sighed, letting go of her last tears.
'Next time they take me to the tanks,' Ana continued, 'I'll make sure they drown me.'
'OK, it's official. You're mad.
Claire Merle
#87. Only those sadnesses are dangerous and bad which one carries about among people in order to drown them out.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#88. Starlight and comet tails burned the tips of endless grass below into hammered silver. Like thousands of tapers in the chapel, just blown out but still glowing.
If one could drown in the grass ... it might be the best way to die.
Gregory Maguire
#89. Out of a fired ship, which by no way
But drowning could be rescued from the flame,
Some men leap'd forth, and ever as they came
Near the foes' ships, did by their shot decay;
So all were lost, which in the ship were found,
They in the sea being burnt, they in the burnt ship drown'd.
John Donne
#90. Dia wrinkled her nose. "Gross. You need a decent girl, one that can straighten you out."
"I don't need to be straightened out," Carmine said. "Why drown in love when you can have so much fun swimming in lust?
J.M. Darhower
#91. There are so may ways to kills yourself, they're just old-fashioned with their permanganate: do you think I'd take permanganate? I wouldn't want to burn my insides out and live to tell the tale as well: idiots! It's simple, I'd drown myself ... Why be in misery at the last?
Christina Stead
#92. Some decisions in life naturally lead to an unhappy ending, leaving you sinking by degrees in a lake of quicksand. And, unless someone reaches to pull you out, chances are you will drown in the consequences.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#93. With the best of intentions you toss me a lifeline.
Failing to see how a piece of rope will do me any good, I ignore it and drown.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#94. When someone is drowning and you try to save them, they're more likely to drown you before you pull them out.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#95. Acheron the River of Death:
Healed souls in the wake of the vessel;
My Obolus,
He will not redound to the glory of those.
Those who drown in the Acheron;
out loud hands -
that is our downfall,
They scream out of desperate chasms.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#96. If you fall out of the boat put your feet up, lie back and relax. Your life jacket knows which way is up. Let the river hold you. You won't drown." -Zambezi River Guide.
Brenda Davies
#97. They say it all started out with a big bang. But, what I wonder is, was it a big bang or did it just seem big because there wasn't anything else drown it out at the time?
Karl Pilkington
#98. ...tears and rain are the same thing, they're meant to wash you clean and make you grow. If you don't let them out, you'll drown inside.
Celeste De Blasis
#99. When you hear the haunting melody of guilt and shame, drown it out with God's song of forgiveness and love.
Katy Kauffman
#100. Unconditional love also includes - the ardent desire to be abused: at that point it is a defiance directed against itself, and out of its devotion the very wish for self-annihilation finally arises: "Drown in this sea!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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