Top 100 Drowned Quotes
#2. May I ask you if you've noticed,
May I ask you if you've seen.
My minnow Minnie
Who was swimmin'
In you Ovaltine?
For you've gone and drunk it up, dear,
And she isn't in the cup, dear.
And she's nowhere to be found, dear.
Do you think that she has drowned, dear?
Shel Silverstein
#3. Everything that drowned me taught me how to swim.
Jenim Dibie
#4. I thought I could have leaped from earth to heaven at one spring when I first saw my sins drowned in the Redeemer's blood.
Charles Spurgeon
#5. I'm also like a half-drowned woman on a wreck. No one to suffer with; no one to care for.
Henrik Ibsen
#6. Truth is the first thing that present-day literature lacks. The writer has drowned himself in lies, he is too accustomed to speak prudently, with a careful look over his shoulder.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#8. When I was here there was still a requirement that students had to swim 50 yards to graduate ... because Harry Elkins Widener had drowned with the sinking of the Titanic. And it made me very grateful at the time that he had not gone down in a plane crash.
Barney Frank
#10. Tool glanced over his shoulder, looking to see if the girl might have changed her mind, but she was gone. Swallowed up by the land. The Drowned Cities ate its children.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#11. I literally believe in the possibility of a Sudhanva smiling away whilst he was being drowned in boiling oil.
Mahatma Gandhi
#12. Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned.
William Butler Yeats
#13. She couldn't tell where his pupils ended and the irises began; looking into those eyes was like looking into a well where children had drowned.
MaryJanice Davidson
#14. One of life's joys was to have friends who gave you reality checks ... who would call you on your crap before it rose so high you drowned in it.
David Brin
#15. Honesty can sometimes be so brutal to take in. It's usual to get so drowned in perceived idealism that you can't seem to separate it from honest reality. If, and when, you can separate the two, the gaiety of fantasy is destroyed
Ufuoma Apoki
#16. I hit him on the back of the neck. He submerged. Help. I've drowned the Beast Lord.
Ilona Andrews
#17. The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned.
Alan Bradley
#18. But then over the years I spent time with her because of her, because in junior high school she drowned the dolls in chocolate pudding and called it 'Little People in Deep Shit: a Retrospective.
Amy Stolls
#19. With the requests of some he complied, and has published a discourse, delivered before the Society for recovering drowned persons, which may be justly pronounced one of the most beautiful and interesting sermons in the English language.
John Strachan
#20. I wanted to cry but I didn't, I probably should have cried, I should have drowned us there in the room ending our suffering.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#21. I took my better nature out, drowned it in a babbling stream/took the blossom of my youth and blew it all to smithereens.
Elvis Costello
#22. There is something exceedingly improving to the mind in a contemplation of the Divinity. It is a subject so vast, that all our thoughts are lost in its immensity; so deep, that our pride is drowned in its infinity.
J.I. Packer
#23. BETTER DROWNED THAN DUFFERS IF NOT DUFFERS WONT DROWN
Arthur Ransome
#24. This letter is written on the skin of one of the water sprites who drowned your parents.'
'Ick!' I cried, and dropped the letter on the kitchen table.
Charlaine Harris
#25. Innocence is drowned in anarchy. The best lack conviction given time to think, and the worst are full of passion without mercy.
Joni Mitchell
#26. The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. I
Dan Simmons
#27. Olivia: What's a drunken man like, fool?
Feste: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him.
William Shakespeare
#28. Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#29. Moreover he saw a skull floating on the surface of the water and he said unto it: Because you drowned others they drowned you; and those that drowned you will eventually be drowned.
Hillel The Elder
#30. Looking around
there is nothing but illusion
Everything is drowned
in the oceans of illusion
Rixa White
#31. Be still:
There is no longer any need of comment.
It was a lucky wind
That blew away his halo with his cares,
A lucky sea that drowned his reputation.
Thomas Merton
#32. Want to hear a sad story about the Dukakis campaign? The governor of Massachusetts, he lost his top naval advisor last week. His rubber ducky drowned in the bathtub.
Dan Quayle
#33. I've had some mighty mean moments afore I kem to this spot,
Lost on the plains in '50, drowned almost, and shot;
But out on this alkali desert, a hunting a crazy wife,
Was ra'ly as on-satis-factory as anything in my life.
Bret Harte
#34. The joyous clamor in my mind drowned out the strange sound outside the car: a humming noise that was gathering speed and growing louder, a roar that was not the waves curling up the beach.
Padma Venkatraman
#35. It's like a memorial to Atlantis or Lyonesse: these are the stone buoys that mark a drowned world.
Christopher Hitchens
#36. And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts.
Robert Jay Lifton
#37. Diverting a river is easier than facing the truth; Cyrus did not want to acknowledge the fact that his horse would not have drowned if he had not forced it to try and cross the river.
Marcelo Figueras
#38. Resentments, carried too far, expose us to a fate analogous to that of the fish-hawk, when he strikes his talons too deep into a fish beyond his capacity to lift, and is carried under and drowned by it.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#39. My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they'd nearly drowned out everything else.
Arthur Golden
#40. Though drowned was just as dead as any other way of dying.
Mercedes Lackey
#41. And where does god get the nerve from
telling people how to rear their children
when he drowned his own?
A.J. Beirens
#42. If you are ever drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations.
Edgar Allan Poe
#43. Anyone as stupidly brave as Atsumori is not going to understand Kenichi
I was not stupid. Odds were that I would have drowned; I was in full armor.
Wen Spencer
#44. 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
#45. The pigs, either because of the shock of it or because they hated being possessed by demons, went wild and threw themselves over the cliff, all two thousand of them, and into the lake, where they drowned.
Jose Saramago
#46. We are creatures of fire and water. We wither under a surfeit of light as readily as we wither beneath drowned hopes.
Yoon Ha Lee
#47. Naturally men are drowned in a storm, but it is a perfectly straightforward affair, and the depths of the sea are only water after all.
Virginia Woolf
#48. We were meant to enjoy life, not be drowned by it.
Donald Miller
#49. A girl that's born for hangin' ain't likely to be drowned.
L.A. Meyer
#50. The Drowned God did not answer. He seldom did. That was the trouble with gods.
George R R Martin
#51. If I faint, pull me out. No Lannister has ever drowned in his bath and I don't mean to be the first." "Why should I care how you die?" "You swore a solemn vow.
George R R Martin
#52. The crowd's murmuring rose to a roar, and for the first time in a week the agony of worry for my son was drowned out as his father strode out onto the sand.
Arius.
Kate Quinn
#53. Woman, thou shouldst ever be clothed in rags and in mourning, appearing only as a penitent, drowned in tears, and expiating thus the sin of having caused the fall of the human race. Woman thou art the gate of the devil. It is thou who hast corrupted those whom Satan dare not attack face to face.
Tertullian
#54. Every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned.
George Monbiot
#55. Words, isolated in the velvet of radio, took on a jeweled particularity. Television has quite the opposite effect: words are drowned in the visual soup in which they are obliged to be served.
Frederic Raphael
#56. Somewhere in the distance, the synchronic circles of our pasts had tripped a domino, and the steady whirr had grown till it now drowned with the roar of contingency
Craig Johnson
#57. It's a fine murdering day, (sang Bunch) And as balmy as May And the sleuths from the village are gone." A rattle of crockery being dumped in the sink drowned the next lines, but as the Rev. Julian Harmon left the house, he heard the final triumphant assertion: "And we'll all go a'murdering today!
Agatha Christie
#58. Either you are drowned in the past or you are drowned in the future. That's why you are not. That's why you yourself have become a falsehood. You are too concerned with the false, and that concern makes you pseudo.
Withdraw yourself from the past and the future. Love is always an emperor.
Rajneesh
#59. A storm caught them on the way. The fisherman drowned, but his daughter got Stark to the Sisters before the boat went down. They say he left her with a bag of silver and a bastard in her belly. Jon Snow, she named him, after Arryn.
George R R Martin
#60. That's the water calling. It's a long time since anyone was drowned.
Georg Buchner
#61. I don't know. I never heard anything about her again after I landed her man," she said, peering back at me. "She was drowned in my wake. You better hope you can swim if you go up against me."
This bitch was lucky I was letting her leave in one piece. "Like a damn fish.
Nicole Williams
#62. Her father had been a sailor. Her mother had been a siren. That particular relationship had worked out better than normal, with the sailor not being drowned then eaten, and Sharon had been the result, brought back to human civilization and raised to be a civilized young lady.
Larry Correia
#63. The question is what will Mitt Romney do as president if his policy is simply to be hands off and let the government be made so small it can be drowned in a bathtub. In the 21st century global economy, no state alone has the ability to compete against China.
Jennifer Granholm
#64. Captain Ahab drowned, he reminded himself; it was the trimmer, Ishmael, who survived.
Salman Rushdie
#65. No wonder the sky had to be blotted out by advertisements. The stars drowned with lights. If everyone could see beyond Coalition horizons, perhaps they'd see the titans of humanity for what they were: tiny creatures, smaller than insects, and in the scale of things, every bit as insignificant.
S.J. Kincaid
#66. Unlike some older brothers, I never set him on fire, or cut off an arm or leg, or drowned him in the tub.
John Elder Robison
#67. Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors.
Juvenal
#68. Do you think ... "
He raised his eyebrows. "Do I think what?"
"That Valentine might have drowned?"
"Never believe the bad guy is dead until you see a body," said Simon. "That just leads to unhappiness and surprise ambushes.
Cassandra Clare
#69. First smile!! An unseasonal little shower of rain fell here, and a lot of butterflies drowned, so we put them in the sun and they came back to life, and flew up and then Agaat SMILED!
Marlene Van Niekerk
#70. With Damien's back bared before him, he could now see the subtle stamp of scars under the kirin, a lifetime of pain drowned beneath ink and determination.
Rhys Ford
#71. 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.
Erich Maria Remarque
#73. You oughtn't to go in swimming when you're alone," Freddy said. "You might have drowned." "I suppose I might have, at that," said the cow. "But it's such fun when I think I'm going to float, and then I just sink.
Walter R. Brooks
#74. We the survivors are not the true witnesses. The true witnesses, those in possession of the unspeakable truth are the drowned, the dead, the disappeared.
Primo Levi
#75. Women's words are as light as the doomed leaves whirling in autumn, Easily swept by the wind, easily drowned by the wave.
Ovid
#76. Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.
Anatole Broyard
#77. He was like water - cold, deep, unpredictable, and, like the pond up the canyon, dangerous, because you could never see what was beneath the surface. And just like I'd done all my life, I jumped in head first, even though I'd been forbidden. But this time, I drowned.
Amy Harmon
#79. And just then the thin boy yawned. I had labelled him as an ineffectual sort of lad but he certainly could yawn; it was a stretching, groaning, voluptuous paroxysm which drowned my words and it went on and on till he finally lay back, bleary and exhausted by the effort.
James Herriot
#80. The questions worth asking, in other words, come not from other people but from nature, and are for the most part delicate things easily drowned out by the noise of everyday life.
Robert B. Laughlin
#81. I remembered Owen telling me how music had saved him in Phoenix, that it drowned everything out, and it was the same for me now. As long as I had something to listen to, I could blur the things I didn't want to think about, if not block them out completely.
Sarah Dessen
#82. My logic's been drowned in a sea of emotion.
Sting
#83. Her protestations were drowned out by the sound of Gordon Honeycomb barfing up aftershock into the kitchenette sink.
St John Morris
#84. The town does not exist
except where one black-haired tree slips
up like a drowned woman into the hot sky.
Anne Sexton
#85. THAT SCAR. SHE DREW HER EYES FROM IT BUT THEY DESCENDED AGAIN AND YET AGAIN UNTIL SHE FELT PECULIARLY DROWNED IN THE GUILTY MARK.
Rachel Heffington
#86. The hospital was drowned in the bottomless silence that fills
Dean Koontz
#88. No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned ... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
Samuel Johnson
#89. A blinding sunlight drowned all this at times in a sudden recrudescence of glare.
Joseph Conrad
#90. A friend of mine drowned in a bowl of muesli. A strong currant pulled him in.
Tommy Cooper
#91. When the polar ice caps melt, my recording studio will rise up like an ark, and I'll float off into the drowned world like a character from a J.G. Ballard novel.
Thomas Dolby
#92. There are two ways of getting rid of sorrows: one by living them down, the other by drowning them. The coachman drowned his. He informed her that her luggage
Thomas Hardy
#93. In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned.
George Herbert
#94. The Drowned Gods makes men," old Aaron Redhand said, "thousands of years ago." "But it's men who make crowns.
George R R Martin
#95. If it weren't for this hyena, the sailors wouldn't have thrown me into the lifeboat and I would have stayed on the ship and I surely would have drowned; and if I had to share quarters with a wild animal, better the upfront ferocity of a dog than the power and stealth of a cat.
Yann Martel
#96. I had no right to be in love. I had nothing to offer her. But reason drowned in the beat of my heart, and I asked permission to kiss her.#Ren
Colleen Houck
#97. The image of Jiao's face when she was told he had been drowned with a half-naked woman tied to his body made him giggle and he realised he was close to panicking.
G.R. Matthews
#98. A world that won't forget is a world drowned in its not forgetting. Do we want a world full of unedited memory? To be human is to be finite.
Tacita Dean
#99. Gone
She had only meant
to go to sleep
but the sea;
it rocked her
and in its waves
she drowned
in a sadness
so sweet
it engulfed her
(4:22AM)
Mae Krell
#100. He invented a machine for reading underwater and nearly drowned in the bath because it worked.
A.S. Byatt
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