Top 100 Drown Quotes
#1. It's a pity that the rich have more freedom to hang or drown themselves than the rest of us Christians.
William Shakespeare
#2. I say I drownin' in river. She don't look me like I'm crazy but say, If you just sit there the river gonna rise up drown you! Writing could be the boat carry you to the other side. (97)
Sapphire.
#4. When someone is drowning and you try to save them, they're more likely to drown you before you pull them out.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#5. Don't drown yourself in the pool of lies; fly high on the clouds of truth.
Vinita Kinra
#6. Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown or to burn the world. Earth would become an hell; for future rewards when put off to a great distance, would cease to encourage, and future punishments to alarm.
Charles Caleb Colton
#7. If you let it, the noise of the world will drown out the voice of God, which is your intuition.
Oprah Winfrey
#8. We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us ... and we drown.
T. S. Eliot
#9. 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
#10. The gloomy months of November, when the people of England hang and drown themselves.
Joseph Addison
#11. God brings men [and women] into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse [teach and improve] them. [It is fair and appropriate to get excited about what those lessons and improvements to you will mean for the future happiness of you and those you care about.]
John H. Aughey
#12. Many waters cannot quench love,
Nor can the floods drown it.
Rolf Schonberger
#13. 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
#14. I give up," Baz whined. "I'm going to go drown myself in the moat. Tell my mother I always knew she loved me best.
Rainbow Rowell
#15. Anything that didn't impale itself on the sharp line of this sleeping boy's cruel mouth would be tangled in the merciless hooks of his tattoo, pulled beneath his skin to drown.
Maggie Stiefvater
#17. You are loved deeper than any ocean. Let your mind swim through it's depth because I will never let you drown.
Shannon L. Alder
#18. Homer say, Pretty gal go a river and see herself in water. Pretty gal drown when she go down to kiss herself.
Marlon James
#19. You drown him by your talk.
Plautus
#20. Fire can warm or consume,
water can quench or drown,
wind can caress or cut.
And so it is with human relationshps;
we can both create and destroy,
nurture and terrorize,
traumatize and heal each other
Bruce D. Perry
#21. 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
#22. Do you want to drown, baby?" he asks. "No," I answer. "I want to fly.
A. Zavarelli
#23. If you don't treat an ingredient and its flavors with respect - if you drown it in oil, for instance - you'll spoil it.
Alain Ducasse
#24. For in tremendous extremities human souls are like drowning men; well enough they know they are in peril; well enough they know the causes of that peril;
nevertheless, the sea is the sea, and these drowning men do drown.
Herman Melville
#25. Do not
drown yourself in a man.
He will leave you struggling to
breathe.
Ijeoma Umebinyuo
#26. 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
#27. I wonder about death, I who may never know it. It looks much like ecstacy, the way they open their mouths as they drown, the way their fingers dig into your skin. Their eyes are wide and startled and they trash in your hands as though with an excess of passion.
Holly Black
#28. I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies tragedy suffocate him.
Nelson Mandela
#29. The tyrannosaurus looked a little shamefaced - but only a little, for dinosaurs would rather drown in tar than admit they're wrong. That unfortunate attitude played a key role in their extinction.
Catherynne M Valente
#31. My mind is like a sea
You will only drown,
If you think you can swim
There are things that devours me,
No love can ever save me.
J. Limbu
#32. He stops rocking and looks into my eyes. We're inches apart and I'm mesmerized by the tiny flecks of indigo in his blue eyes. A girl could drown in those eyes. And it wouldn't be the worst way to go.
Lisa Daily
#33. Spit on your own and you can't do anything, but if you all spit together you can drown the bastards
Bob Crow
#34. 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
#35. Conceive a canvas for a lyrical or fairytale buffoonery, for a pantomime, and translate it into a serious novel. Drown everything in an abnormal and dreamy atmosphere, - in the atmosphere of the great days. - It must be something soothing, - even serene in its passion. - Regions of pure Poetry.
Charles Baudelaire
#36. If you try to test a river's depths with both feet, you will drown.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#37. True confessions are written with tears only. But my tears would drown the world, as my inner fire would reduce it to ashes.
Emil Cioran
#38. You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried, you float.
John Barrymore
#39. 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
#40. Ocean?""Yeah baby." "Please don't leave me like everyone else, don't let me drown Ocean." "I hugged her tighter. "Livie I won't let you drown. If you drown, I drown baby." I held onto her and closed my eyes, and silently cried myself to sleep. *Ocean Hawthorne*
MEL D
#41. Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?
W.C. Fields
#42. I need to cry some more. I'll drown if I don't...Sometimes you're swimming in unwept tears and you'll go under if you store them up inside.
Nina George
#43. You can't drown yourself that simply. All good suicides involve speed and irreversibility, because the body will always move to protect itself against the sicko mind trying to do it in.
Josephine Humphreys
#44. Every night I drown and every morning I wake up struggling to breathe.
Carrie Ryan
#45. Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown.
William Henry Harrison
#46. The person most likely to drown in the river is the one who believes he can swim.
Nadia Hashimi
#47. People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
Ann Landers
#48. I had to hold on to the mad so the sad didn't drown me.
Susan Crandall
#50. Give him a good ducking, anyhow.
-But he'd crawl back.
Duck him again; and keep ducking him.
-Suppose he should take it into his head to duck you, though - yes, and drown you - what then?
Herman Melville
#51. Literature is a vast ocean, in which one has to drown themselves to be able to conquer it. Those on shore can see a side of it or have tasted a part of it. And I choose to drown myself in it than just to see it.
Nikita Dudani
#52. it is when we don't believe we are enough for ourselves
that we start looking for people to drown in.
Upile Chisala
#53. Don't drown yourself in details. Look at the whole.
Ferdinand Foch
#54. Before I could cry or scream I whirled around and stalked to my bedroom,slamming the door behind me.
I hope they all drown.
"Zoey your mother and I need to speak with you."
Great. Clearly they didn't drown.
P.C. Cast
#55. Man hurts man, time and time again. As we drown in the wake of our power, somebody tell me why?
Amy Grant
#56. Why is it that some secrets can drown you while some pull you close to others in a way you never want to lose?
Libba Bray
#57. She was as different from her dazzling sister as night was to day. Ballard found it difficult to look at the younger girl for more than a moment at a time. Beauty such as hers blinded him, like looking directly at the sun. Louvaen though--he could happily drown in the dark Louvaen.
Grace Draven
#58. I want to dive into his being, experience him with all 5 senses, drown in the waves of wonder enveloping my existence.
Tahereh Mafi
#59. 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
#61. Only those sadnesses are dangerous and bad which one carries about among people in order to drown them out.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#62. I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
Jimmy Carter
#63. 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
#64. All the water in the world cannot drown you unless it gets inside of you.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#65. If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures, we would let the church-bells ring louder, the church-organ swell its peal and drown the hideous sound. The sugar they raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#66. She's had so little love, Jesse thought, I will drown her in it for the rest of her life.
LaVyrle Spencer
#67. When you have lost your inns, drown your empty selves, for you will have lost the last of England.
Hilaire Belloc
#68. 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
#69. I don't own my emotions unless I can think about them. I am not afraid of feeling but I am afraid of feeling unthinkingly. I don't want to drown. My head is my heart's lifebelt.
Jeanette Winterson
#70. 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
#71. A mermaid found a swimming lad,
Picked him up for her own,
Pressed her body to his body,
Laughed; and plunging down
Forgot in cruel happiness
That even lovers drown.
W.B.Yeats
#72. How had she ever thought his blue eyes placid as a lake? But there was untold power in any water: to buoy, to drown, to toss, to carry one to the safety of shore.
Julie Anne Long
#73. Hey, Rosalie? Do you know how to drown a blonde? Stick a mirror to the bottom of a pool.
Stephenie Meyer
#74. I cannot remember you
when the rain flows down -
I cannot remember you
and
my heart begins to drown ...
Muse
#75. I didn't make you come here." Jin's eyes bored into mine, but I wasn't backing down. He said I had traitor eyes. Let him see the betrayal there. Let him drown in it. "I didn't trick you and I didn't ask you to.
Alwyn Hamilton
#76. I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.
Frida Kahlo
#77. Today, take a pledge to love yourself. Do not cut, drown, get caught in the fire, or hang yourself. Reasons behind committing suicide can be cured!
Nikita Dudani
#78. I'm living three dreams:
Biggie Smalls', Dr. King, Rodney King's.
Cause we can't get along, no resolution?
'Til we drown all these haters ...
Rest in peace to Whitney Houston
Kanye West
#79. Ye lover of the picturesque, if ye wish to drown your grief, take my advice and visit the ancient town of Crieff.
William Topaz McGonagall
#80. 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
#81. It is permissible to use wine not only for necessity, but also to make us merry ... [it must be moderate] lest men forget themselves, drown their senses, ... in making merry [those who enjoy wine] feel a livelier gratitude to God.
John Calvin
#82. Fate is never fair. You are caught in a current much stronger than you are; struggle against it and you'll drown not just yourself but those who try to save you. Swim with it. and you'll survive
Cassandra Clare
#83. And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?
Robert G. Ingersoll
#84. An artist owed a duty to nothing except his own irresponsibility. It was OK for an artist to frolic in the water, no matter how bloody the waves or how high the tide rose. An ethicist had an obligation to drown.
Howard Jacobson
#85. The cat that Prim got hates me, I think partly because I tried to drown it.
Suzanne Collins
#86. His nostrils flared then,and he lifted his head."Oh,God,Princess.Your scent.As much as I would love to see you work your cunt again,up close and personal this time,I must have you,taste you.Fuck,I want to drown in you,bury my face in your pussy and lap up every drop."
~Lucian Roman
Laura Wright
#87. Laughter shall drown the raucous shout;And, though these shelt'ring walls are thin,May they be strong to keep hate outAnd hold love in.
Louis Untermeyer
#88. I like to read and write because it is the ONLY thing that takes my mind off of the real world and my spinning worries. It is a time I can be free of anxiety, worry, and stress. When my life gets hectic I HAVE to read and write or I'll drown.
Shandy L. Kurth
#89. Finn is my happy. But he can't be the only source. I'll drown that way.
Kristen Callihan
#90. Yes, she moaned, and then nodded, just in case he didn't get the picture, because if he didn't, dear God, she was going to drown him in the bathtub. And wouldn't that be embarrassing to explain to the police and all the family?
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#91. Yeshua shows us the Way to be saved from all that we think threatens us on the dark seas of our lives. Only when we, too, see what He sees can we leave the treasured boat that we think will save us and walk on the troubled waters that we thought would surely drown us.
Ted Dekker
#92. Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't drown in the metaphor.
Robert Breault
#93. She is a mermaid, but approach her with caution- her mind swims at a depth that most would drown it.
Unknown
#94. 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
#95. God has and always will remain faithful to His word. Even when my doubts and fears threaten to drown me as I thrash blindly against my Rescuer, He carries me to the other side. When fiery circumstances take my breath away, He hides me in the shelter of His wings.
Katherine J. Walden
#96. On the way I thought about how millions of people drowned so that the first person could learn to swim. The amazing thing is that people still drown.
Shahrnush Parsipur
#97. She planned to make a roast beef, a pile of mashed potatoes, corn- then mounted it into a bowl and drown it in gravy. Some people ate ice cream or pie when depressed; she went for the warm comfort food she learned to make in her grandma's kitchen.
Amy E. Reichert
#98. For years, I tried medication, blade, work, escape, all attempts to drown out that incessant, reverberating drum of self-rejection.
Ann Voskamp
#99. The distractions of the world are great and many. Let's not allow ourselves to become entrenched to the neck, or we may well drown.
Dara Reidyr
#100. ...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
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