Drowning In Quotes

#1. Just look at the messages today's media are sending everybody, from TV and commercials to actors and singers. Kids are just drowning in that 24-7 and it's getting really bad.

Evan Rachel Wood

#2. A psychotic person is drowning in the very same things that a mystic swims in.

Pema Chodron

#3. The constant dangers of sudden electrocution from above or drowning in liquid shit below keep him looking up and down as well as side-to-side.

Neal Stephenson

#4. 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

#5. How can a person have so much noise inside their head and at the same time feel like they're drowning in silence?

Victoria Green

#6. When I love, I love: wholly, thoroughly, completely, drowning in everything. Every glance can be a conversation, eyes just playing and saying what needs to be said. Silence is loud, and the air becomes heavy. I want you. I want all of you.

Warsan Shire

#7. Peter is suffering from an attack of nostalgia, she knows the symptoms. She mustn't join in otherwise she'll be swept away too, drowning in a quicksand of the past.

Elly Griffiths

#8. I have yet to be completely submerged in reality, for drowning in the sky.

Kellie Elmore

#9. What makes you believe, that you are the only person with so much problems and bad luck? If you wear everyone's shoes, you will certainly understand that the whole world is drowning in crisis and even you are not among them.

M.F. Moonzajer

#10. I'm a bit of a Luddite, really: I don't use email much, as I started drowning in it. So I said 'screw this' and dumped my laptop, though I've begun to re-engage with it.

Charles Hazlewood

#11. I can't speak. I have no voice. I just stare at his dark blue yes. It feels as though I let the lifeboat sail away. I'm drowning in a sea of pain. He reached out, but I can't take his hand.

H.M. Ward

#12. Being called Black in America is the struggle to keep us moving and breathing over bloody water. Being a Nig**r or [Ni**a] without the context of history is like drowning in bloody water, dragging down those yet knowing to swim.

Chuck D

#13. She was sad. Always sad. Water flowed from her mouth and then it changed to blood, more blood than a person could lose and still live. She was drowning in the very thing that gave her life.

Celia Aaron

#14. Our world is drowning in a sea of self-centeredness. You can make yourself quite unique right away by leaving this ocean of selfishness and choosing to be curious about other people.

John Bytheway

#15. No matter how hard it gets, I'd rather be a soldier drowning in my own blood than a coward in my own piss

Chino XL

#16. She was drowning - in friendliness, in community - and she was starting to think she didn't want to get pulled out.

Tricia Goyer

#17. Kissing Jack was dangerous, like drowning in something that tasted good. He was like the artery-clogging chocolate cake she couldn't resist, heaven in her mouth but hell on her heart.

Amanda Usen

#18. The world is drowning in weirdness and lies ... and here we are, so used to it that we're actually bored!

Inio Asano

#19. Life is drowning in the ocean sometimes you get killed by the onething you relied on to keep you alive

Kwanele Dee Nyembe

#20. The magic rarely happens within our comfort zone, but outside it, on the ragged, scary edge, where we have to fight like hell to keep from drowning in the unknown.

David DuChemin

#21. This is a setback. You get back up, you dust yourself off, and you get back in the game. We had a great singer named Ray Charles who wrote a song called 'Drowning in My Tears.' You can't afford to drown in your tears. You gotta go back, rededicate yourself, redouble your efforts, and persevere.

Don King

#22. The black man has become a shell, a shadow of man, completely defeated, drowning in his own misery, a slave, an ox bearing the yoke of oppression with sheepish timidity.

Steven Biko

#23. We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.

John Naisbitt

#24. The only thing worse than drowning in grief is sharing a lifeboat with other drowning people. Besides, if anyone needs a grief group, it's him.

Courtney Cole

#25. The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued.

Mignon McLaughlin

#26. My sister was drowning in the ocean once, and my brother and I dove in and saved her. True story. She owes us her life. It's great leverage; we abuse it all the time!

Matt Barr

#27. ... my face is buried in the soft material of his shirt and my cheek is pressed against his chest and he smells like strength and courage and the world drowning in rain.

Tahereh Mafi

#28. There are worse situations than drowning in cash and sitting, sitting, sitting. I remember when I wasn't awash in cash - and I don't want to go back.

Charlie Munger

#29. I'm drowning in papers.

Wislawa Szymborska

#30. One person standing on the Rock can throw a lifeline to others drowning in the sea. He

Francine Rivers

#31. If you are drowning in a sewer, your first concern might be that you are drowning, not how vile you smell.

Geraldine Brooks

#32. I am the love.
I am drowning in your love.
I am drunk with your love.
I am a dumb for your love.
I am crazy about your love.
I dream at night about love.
I know that you're my love,
but I forgot how to love
because I become the love.

Debasish Mridha

#33. I want to die.
I want die by drowning in love.
I want to die by becoming drunk,
by drinking the pure wine of love.
I want to die in an accident,
By falling in love and
breaking my heart.
I want to die by losing
in the game of love.

Debasish Mridha

#34. There was so much to learn and it was all fun. But the best part was getting a laugh from an audience. That was like drowning in candy.

Hal Holbrook

#35. He knew he should be focusing on her, on comforting her, but he was drowning in her instead.

Airicka Phoenix

#36. What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.

Richard Paul Evans

#37. He thinks I suffer from depression. But I'm just quiet. Solitude and depression are like swimming and drowning. In school many years ago, I learned that flowers sometimes unfold inside themselves.

Simon Van Booy

#38. Man, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there.

Billy Bob Thornton

#39. Fallon recognized what Logan was doing. Instead of drowning in wine as Fallon had done, Logan teased and joked his way through the day.

Donna Grant

#40. If it was true that lower taxes for the rich and more wealth to the wealthy leat to job creation, today we would be drowning in jobs.

Nick Hanauer

#41. She was floating in the midst of a black sea, in the darkest of nights, with no hope or care to see light again. She was a mere wave away from drowning in blackness.

Anam Iqbal

#42. But misery is misery, no matter what its cause and we were both drowning in it. I

Denise Grover Swank

#43. Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.

L. Neil Smith

#44. You could try as hard as you could to imagine someone else's tragedy - drowning in icy waters, living in a city split by a wall - but nothing truly hurts until it happens to you. Most of all, to your child.

Liane Moriarty

#45. Always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives

Nancy Mitford

#46. Why are we not tasting the bliss of Bhakti? Because we are taking shelter of stone boats. We are sinking and drowning in Maya & still we are further taking shelter of stone boats and this can go on life after life.

Radhanath Swami

#47. The page is as white as my face after a night of weeping. It is as sterile as my devastated mind. All martyrdoms are in vain. He also is drowning in the blood of too much sacrifice.
Lay aside the weapons, love, for all battles are lost.

Elizabeth Smart

#48. Unfortunately, while people were drowning in data, knowledge was nowhere

Anonymous

#49. I feel like I am drowning in memories. Everything is too bright.

Ava Dellaira

#50. 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

#51. I was afraid of marriage. I had the impression married life would take up all my time. I saw myself drowning in visits and parties. No freedom.

Naguib Mahfouz

#52. Three years later and drowning in lies, we're suddenly prepared to lose everything for the chance at something real.

Krista Ritchie

#53. I can't breathe," she said. "I feel like I'm drowning in a gray sea, like they're flooding the whole city, washing away our past and people, dashing everything from the face of the earth." Jammed

Diane Ackerman

#54. Anyone with an inbox knows what I'm talking about. A dozen emails to set up a meeting time. Documents attached and edited and reedited until no one knows which version is current. Urgent messages drowning in forwards and cc's and spam.

Ryan Holmes

#55. I'm fucking drowning in her, and I'm not even sure I want to come up for air.

K. Bromberg

#56. Although sometimes I know it seems impossible, there ain't no need in drowning in your sorrow. If things are as bad as they can be, you can be sure there'll be a brighter tomorrow.

Shaggy

#57. There is a gulf as wide as an ocean between should and want, and I am drowning in it.

Jodi Picoult

#58. Is there anything more heartbreaking than drowning in sight of land? Is there a single one of us who hasn't at least once felt haunted by the fear of slipping away within sight of a safe haven?

Carsten Jensen

#59. The boy who'd saved her from drowning in more ways than one.

Stephanie Garber

#60. He who despises simplicity will shout for a simple lifebuoy when drowning in the ocean of complexity!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#61. When I look at my daily schedule, I feel like a trout flopping about on a dock, drowning in the air. Some people are ruthless with their schedules. Not me. I wing it.

Douglas Coupland

#62. Pain flashed through his eyes. "Dammit, Evie." Steam huffed against my mouth. "I'm fucking drowning in my desire to be near you, to touch you" - he dropped his brow on mine and inhaled - "to be inside you." ~ Jesse Beckett

Pam Godwin

#63. Cath felt like she was swimming in words. Drowning in them, sometimes.

Rainbow Rowell

#64. Fear is as a result of drowning in discouragement; joy comes by wading in encouragement. EL

Evinda Lepins

#65. He is the biggest asshole on the planet," Jarod says. "And in a planet that's currently drowning in assholes, that's saying a lot.

Siobhan Davis

#66. Yet instead of drowning in the darkness that had threatened to suck her under, Brenna had said "fuck you" to the monster who'd hurt her, and she'd chosen to live. She'd not only wrenched back control of her own life, she'd taken on an Arrow and claimed him as her mate.

Nalini Singh

#67. The schizophrenic is drowning in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. Edgar Cayce made the same observation in his readings

Joseph Campbell

#68. Sometimes when we are drowning in our own loss we lash out
anger is momentarily easier to cope with.

Anne Perry

#69. We spend our lives drowning in the sea of things we never wished to experience.

Robert A. Giacalone

#70. When someone is drowning in the ocean of attachments, Surrender is the life jacket they can put on and wait for the rescue team

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#71. He stared into the golden pools of her heavy-lidded eyes, and her emotions easy to read. "Have you bewitched me after all?" he asked softly, drowning in honey.

Lecia Cornwall

#72. She brooded and bit her rich lips: my soul began its first sink into her, deep, heady, lost; like drowning in a witches' brew, Keltic, sorcerous, starlike.

Jack Kerouac

#73. I think you're the saddest person I've ever met. It's like you're drowning in it.

Elizabeth Scott

#74. That was my first impression of you, Aubrey. A wick drowning in melted wax, your flame in danger. Just one more gust of wind and you'd be lost. You'd become that lost girl, sad through and through.

Mimi Strong

#75. I'm not just falling in love with you, Nell. I'm falling into you. You're an ocean, and I'm falling in, drowning in the depths of who you are. Like you said, it's scary in a way, but it's also the most amazing thing I've ever experienced. You are the most amazing thing I've ever experienced.

Jasinda Wilder

#76. You can't keep a cool head when you're drowning in love. You just thrash around a lot and scream, and wear yourself out.

Margaret Atwood

#77. The uncertainty of my own experience is crushing. I am drowning in an infinite sea. Sinking slowly, the weight of the lightless depths forcing me down, forcing the air from my lungs, squeezing the blood from my heart.

Rick Yancey

#78. Our world is drowning in communication, but starving for genuine communio - the union of true communion.

Michael D. O'Brien

#79. The fortnight at Venice passed quickly and sweetly
perhaps too sweetly; I was drowning in honey, stingless.

Evelyn Waugh

#80. I was drowning in the humid air, and everything felt more laborious, including holding grudges.

Nina G. Jones

#81. I didn't really want to come back here and again have to feel like my lungs were drowning in this perverse nostalgia.

John Green

#82. Politics is beginning to gather itself into an election season in which the price of a candidate's haircuts will be as important for a time as his position on war. The country is entertained, but not engaged. It is drowning in information and thirsty for knowledge.

Charles P. Pierce

#83. I realised I really didn't know what I was doing and I felt her trace drowning in the middle of the cars and the people, in the middle of the streets and far away, in the secrets she so jealously kept.
I felt it. We were ever so close, ever so far.

Emiliano Campuzano

#84. The lessons in measurement of cloacal forces. Time as a flow of sewage. The excrement of space, scatology of creation. The voiding of the self. The whole filthy integration of things and the nocturnal product . . . drowning in the pools of night.

Thomas Ligotti

#85. Virtually drowning in himself, he could not for the life of him smell himself.

Patrick Suskind

#86. A big book is a hard thing to manage - I find the computer makes it easier to keep it in order, and to keep the old drafts (which I sometimes go back to) without drowning in paper.

Kate Grenville

#87. When mankind is drowning in a multitude of problems, swimming is not the solution. The solution is reaching higher ground which is the ultimate salvation.

Debasish Mridha

#88. He sighed and then focused his eyes right on me. It was like drowning, drowning in seas of green. There was nothing in the world except for those eyes.
"I want to kiss you, Rose," he said softly. "And I want you to want me too.

Richelle Mead

#89. It was another one of his enigmatic brainteasers that he never elaborated on. I should have pressed for more, but I was too busy being swallowed up by him. I was distracted from everything, blinded by lust and drowning in his intensity. He completely consumed me.

Jodi Ellen Malpas

#90. Tiny and I are talking again ... but there's nothing inside our words. Honestly, talking to him is worse than not. Talking to him makes me feel like I'm drowning in lukewarm water.

John Green

#91. Unlike information, it cannot be dispensed via blogs and Internet chatter. Since we are drowning in an ocean of information, the most precious commodity in modern society is wisdom. Without wisdom and insight, we are left to drift aimlessly and without purpose

Anonymous

#92. I have no desire to spend every night of the next few months at balls and soirees or drowning in tea with morning callers.

Sarah M. Eden

#93. Witches knew that mysterious omens were around all the time. The world was always very nearly drowning in mysterious omens. You just had to pick the one that was convenient.

Terry Pratchett

#94. He strokes my hair and tells me stories and tucks me close like he's afraid I'll disappear. He paints pictures of people and places until I'm drowning in a drug of dreams to escape a world with no refuge, no relief, no release but his reassurances in my ear.

Tahereh Mafi

#95. I'll try to be careful, but I know I'm not immune, cause I just can't imagine how I'd ever come to harm with this feeling that I'm feeling as I'm drowning in your arms.

Beth Nielsen Chapman

#96. You ain't no Hepburn and I ain't no Fonda, but if you were drowning in Golden Ponda, mouth to mouth I'd resuscitate you.

Alice Cooper

#97. Knowledge is theory. We should be thankful if action of management is based on theory. Knowledge has temporal spread. Information is not knowledge. The world is drowning in information but is slow in acquisition of knowledge. There is no substitute for knowledge.

W. Edwards Deming

#98. In a time when society is drowning in tsunamis of misinformation, it is possible to change the world for the better if we repeat the truth often and loud enough.

Alberto Cairo

#99. My God. I love you so much that I'm drowning in it. I can't defend against it.

Lisa Kleypas

#100. If you're not going to immerse yourself in your work as a writer then don't write. But beware, if you're a writer who does not write, you stand a good chance of drowning in the world that surrounds you.

Jason E. Hodges