Drowning Death Quotes

#1. Death by drowning, death by snakebite ... death by memory loss, death by claymore ... death by paper cuts, death by whoreknife, death by poker game ... death by authority, death by isolation, death by genocide, death by Kennedy ... death by signature, death by silence ... death by performance

Colum McCann

#2. We're all drowning, but don't say it out loud.

Marty Rubin

#3. All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge ... And now revenge was all that life had left for him.

Vernor Vinge

#4. It was more necessary to him than redemption. She could break him. Him. In their year together, the surprise had still not left him. He had lived through cataclysms.

Thea Harrison

#5. He gave a sudden shake as if he couldn't stand to feel his life still holding on to him.

Sarah Porter

#6. Sometimes life isn't worth the pain. i'm going for a swim. goodbye, my love.

Jake Vander Ark

#7. Nanak's encounter of God and God's court was in fact a profound hallucinatory Near-Death Experience caused by drowning that strengthened his pre-conceived notion of a rational, compassionate and unorthodox society.

Abhijit Naskar

#8. Did God get out of bed one morning and draw back the curtains (Reggie's imaginary God led a very domesticated life) and think, 'A drowning in a hotel swimming pool, I fancy. We haven't had that one in a while.

Kate Atkinson

#9. Thank God for the tough times. They are the reason you are there - to be the leader. If everything was going well, the people wouldn't need you!

John C. Maxwell

#10. One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.

Earl Wilson

#11. Tell her this
And more,
That the king of the seas
Weeps too, old, helpless man.
The bustling fates
Heap his hands with corpses
Until he stands like a child
With surplus of toys.

Stephen Crane

#12. Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

#13. I think I'm drowning
Asphyxiated
I wanna break this spell
That you've created
You're something beautiful
A contradiction
I wanna play the game
I want the friction
You will be the death of me
You will be the death of me

Muse

#14. It's only water," she said.
"Tell that to a drowning man," Giddon said.

Kristin Cashore

#15. I'm gonna leave you drowning until you reach for my hand.

Marina And The Diamonds

#16. A man who knows that time and the train wait for no man.

Neil Gaiman

#17. ... Her desire was close to that of the person who drowns himself; he does not necessarily covet death so much as what comes after the drowning - something different from what he had before, at least a different world.

Yukio Mishima

#18. They say that when a man is going to drown, when he finally gives up the struggle - it's sort of blissful, for a moment. And then he drowns.

John Hodge

#19. The bastard. How dare he? I was drowning in a fucking river that he was still attempting to save me from, and he was telling me he was going to push me back in and hold me under. My father's death had nearly destroyed me. Cal's death would finish me.

T.J. Klune

#20. In the afternoon, the king and queen sat to hear the business of their kingdom. At least, the queen sat to hear the business; Costis was still not sure what the king was doing.

Megan Whalen Turner

#21. Taken slowly, or mindfully, even eating an orange or a bowl of soup, or a small piece of dark chocolate for that matter, can take on the flavor or prayer.

Mary DeTurris Poust

#22. His eyesight was possessed by the colours of trauma, cracking and bubbling like an old Super Eight film to remind him of his near-death drowning some two months ago in that very moment when he needed to act.

Luke Taylor

#23. The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.

Norman Borlaug

#24. The problem I have with making an intelligent statement is that some people then think it's not an isolated occurrence.

Simon Travaglia

#25. She was now drowning in that pool of desires without having any idea about the depth of it.

Viraj J. Mahajan

#26. Believe that you are someone worth saving.

Slade Combs

#27. I'm wide open and will entertain anything anybody has to say, but if it's MTV and radio, well, they're great things, but can't be the only thing. I don't know that it would work even for the Beatles.

John Mellencamp

#28. If I was drowning you would part the sea
And risk your own life to rescue me ...

Jamie McGuire

#29. The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.

Larry Elder

#30. Owning a great golf course gives you great power.

Donald Trump

#31. At the moment developing a nice little inoffensive cancer somewhere on dry land seemed infinitely preferable to what she was grimly convinced was soon to be her death by drowning way too far out at sea.

Dana Stabenow

#32. There is a specific kind of day when I feel like writing poems. My senses become really sharp. This day is when I feel as if I am drowning into the abandonment of death.

Kim Hyesoon

#33. Helen hadn't realized how heavy the burden of hate had been until she was allowed to put it down.

Josephine Angelini

#34. Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

Edna Ferber

#35. Coroner's inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn't been to the sea-shore in ten years.

Leonard Cohen

#36. If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train.

Markus Zusak