Top 84 Drowns Quotes
#1. Shipwreck in youth is sorrowful enough, but one looks for storms at the spring equinox. Yet it is the September equinox that drowns.
Helen Waddell
#2. A flower can't grow without rain. (Alexion)
Too much rain and it drowns. (Danger)
And yet the most beautiful of the lotus flowers are the ones that grow in the deepest mud. (Alexion)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#3. My favorite figure of the American author is that of a man who breeds a favorite dog, which he throws into the Mississippi River for the pleasure of making a splash. The river does not splash, but it drowns the dog.
Henry Adams
#4. before I knew it, I started writing in my head. It drowns out the whispers.
Merrie Destefano
#5. I found myself in network always trying to play catch up because once things get going there's no time to fix this and that. And also the writing, it was more inclined to be by committee in network which drowns out the purity and the voice of the show.
Dennis Quaid
#6. Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy.
Boris Pasternak
#7. The same rain that drowns the rat will grow the hay.
Amy Grant
#8. Sight is a slick and overbearing autocrat, trumpeting its prodigal knowledge and perceptions so forcefully that it drowns out the other, subtler senses.
Rosemary Mahoney
#9. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy. To live your life is not as simple as to cross a field.
Boris Pasternak
#10. I've said it's hard. Here's how hard: everybody I know who wades deep enough into memory's waters drowns a little.
Mary Karr
#11. Higher energy always wins and the light always drowns out the darkness.
Lada Ray
#12. Time drowns in the unmeasured monotony of space. Where uniformity reigns, movement from point to point is no longer movement; and where movement is no longer movement, there is no time.
Thomas Mann
#13. The Sun is never alone as the light remains with him always. Even when he goes down sinking...sinking, the light drowns with him
Munia Khan
#14. 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
#15. The books that stuck with me most as a child were 'A Wrinkle In Time', 'Dracula', 'Hatchet', 'Bunnicula', 'White Fang', and this YA/kids' book called 'Nobody's Fault' where a kid drowns one weekend as friends play around a flooded ditch.
Nate Powell
#16. Sometimes this genius goes dark and drowns in the bitter wells of his heart.
Clemens Brentano
#17. I cry as the laughter inside me drowns
and descends
into the water
with the ghosts of our union.
A.P. Sweet
#18. It is only the ego that steps from moment to moment, as a man who walks from puddle to puddle. It is only the ego who drowns in time.
Jane Roberts
#19. Stagnation floods the mind with thoughts of failure and slowly drowns the will to succeed; always move forward.
Noel DeJesus
#20. Death drowns the unsatisfied man, whose restless mind clutches for greater and greater pleasures.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#21. You are not the first man to miss a woman's more subtle communication ... They think they are waving when we see only the calm sea, and pretty soon everybody drowns.
Helen Simonson
#22. ... 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
#23. America has become numb to violence because it just drowns in it, day in and day out.
Janet Reno
#24. Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of obscurity.
Anna Komnene
#25. God pisses down the back of your neck every day, but only drowns you once.
Stephen King
#26. Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns, But breathes, like perfect joys, Tender tones.
Frederick Tennyson
#27. She understood then, too, that everyone drowns differently and that for everyone - even ghosts - there is a different kind of air. Chapter 15
Lauren Oliver
#28. We have learned not to care about the state of that other place even as it burns or drowns.
Nayomi Munaweera
#29. 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
#30. As water drowns but also cleanses, so adversity scalds but also blesses.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#31. The never-ceasing boom of the great ocean as it breaks on the beach, drowns all smaller sounds.
Alexander MacLaren
#32. Draw a breath,
a deep breath,
now hold it, my friends,
hold it long
for the world
the world drowns.
Steven Erikson
#33. The water in which the mystic swims is the same water a madman drowns in.
Joseph Campbell
#34. When something small loudly demands all our attention, its noise often drowns out the whisper of what's enormously important.
Craig Groeschel
#35. How submerged does a reference have to be before it drowns?
Julian Barnes
#36. The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns.
Gabriela Mistral
#37. Nobody drowns by falling in the water ... but by staying there.
Shiv Khera
#38. I think the trick with knowledge is to "acquire it, and forget all except the perfume" - because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one's own "brain voices". The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
Alan Kay
#40. The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity; and of that it sings its monotonous song forever and ever.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
#42. Love drowns dreary thoughts
It gives wings to our heart,
It transports us into another world
A world of blissful choice
Balroop Singh
#43. When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everthing in me that is bewildered and confused.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#44. Certain things are done intentionally opposite - like there's no sound at the end or synthesizers or all that stuff. Anything that drowns the movie, no. Anything that makes you sit up and watch it, yes. So, some are expecting a very sad theme going on.
A.R. Rahman
#45. Liesl knew then that Po had been lying. The ghost did miss the living side. She understood then, too, that everyone drowns differently; and that for everyone, even ghosts, there is a different kind of air.
Lauren Oliver
#46. Speed damages our souls because living fast consumes every ounce of our energy. Speed has a deafening roar that drowns our the whispering voices of our souls and leaves Jesus as a diminishing speck in the rearview mirror.
Mike Yaconelli
#47. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns.
Joseph Conrad
#48. The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
Joseph Campbell
#49. When everyone drowns and I'm the only one to escape, God is protecting me. When everyone else is saved and I'm the only one to drown, God is protecting me then too.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#50. To love you is to love water that either parches the throat by its absence or drowns me with its anger!
Aleksandr Voinov
#51. The inscrutable outpourings bend and intermix, each one a tributary unto the others, until the whole expands ineluctably into a spiraling morass that drowns the mouths from which it has come and subsumes the space almost entirely in black Finn (p112).
Jon Clinch
#52. What is a sophisticate? He is a man who thinks he can swim better than he can and sometimes he drowns.
Oscar Hammerstein II
#53. We've been rehearsing a classic from antiquity, Green Eggs and Hamlet, the story of a young prince of Denmark who goes mad, drowns his girlfriend, and in his remorse, forces spoiled breakfast on all whom he meets.
Christopher Moore
#54. I've got friends in low places, where the whiskey drowns and the beer chases my blues away.
Garth Brooks
#55. When a man drowns himself in work, it's because he's trying to escape from something. You ought to have a hobby.
Ayn Rand
#57. Love is the sea where intellect drowns.
Rumi
#58. sing so loud that the music
drowns out the sounds of
the naysayers.
one day they'll be singing
your song.
JaTawny Muckelvene Chatmon
#59. If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?
Steven Wright
#61. She closes the door completely, and I crouch there. I allow myself to fall forward and rest my head on the door frame. My breath bleeds. My heartbeat drowns my ears.
Markus Zusak
#62. But the question drowns in it's futility
And even I have got to laugh at me
Emily Saliers
#63. She felt like someone who drowns remembering what it was like to still be on the boat, so calm and at ease, so carelessly safe
Stephen King
#64. Love is a tidal wave--not because it sweeps you off your feet, but because it pulls you down and drowns you.
Samantha Van Leer
#65. Pretty as she drowns and ruined when she resurfaces.
Emily Snow
#66. That's why we call this a dark age. It's a dark age in the sense that there are so many people on the earth who are un-attuned that they create such a level of white noise, in a sense, that it drowns out things that we'd like to see.
Frederick Lenz
#67. Thou slanting rain! Thou Hebe of the Skies, That pours out drink to Earth; thou faithful wife That with moist tears embraces her prone lord. Thou mist intensified; thou double dew That drowns the drought, that heals the parched and burnt
Thou resurrection rain.
William Batchelder Greene
#68. To be ignorant or unconvinced of one's own needs has become the unforgivable anti-social act. The good citizen is one who imputes standardized needs to himself with such conviction that he drowns out any desire for alternatives, much less the renunciation of need.
Ivan Illich
#69. I taste the honey from a flower named Blue
Way down in California
And New York drowns as we held hands
Jimi Hendrix
#71. You are my heart as it beats within my chest, my soul as it moves through my mind. The breath in my body that so fascinates you is your essence pouring in and out of me in a wave that drowns me over and over again until I cannot breathe for wanting you. Needing you.
Jacquelyn Frank
#73. Grief is an ocean, and guilt the undertow that pulls me beneath the waves and drowns me.
Shaun David Hutchinson
#74. I thought of us lying down on some grassy patch of SeaWorld together, me on my back and she on her side with her arm draped against me, her head on my shoulder, facing me. Not doing anything - just lying there together beneath the sky, the night here so well lit that it drowns out the stars.
John Green
#75. The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only - a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human, but the sea is of the company of the archangels.
L.M. Montgomery
#76. When you let money speak for you, it drowns out anything else you meant to say.
Mignon McLaughlin
#77. I know it is very hard to rise above the influences of party prejudice. Often, it almost drowns the sentiment of patriotism. Party rancor and party hatred are the last serpents which the genius of patriotism can crush.
Joseph P. Bradley
#78. Fold within fold, the beloved
drowns in its own being. This world
is drenched with that drowning.
Coleman Barks
#79. The most tragic consequence of our criticism of a man is to block his way to humiliation and grace, precisely to drive him into the mechanisms of self justification and into his faults instead of freeing him from them. For him, our voice drowns the voice of God.
Paul Tournier
#80. But I know what darkness is, it accumulates, thickens, then suddenly bursts and drowns everything.
Samuel Beckett
#81. In every long-term relationship are a few pockets of deep and dangerous water into which one can step unaware if not careful. Eventually, somebody drowns or the interested parties post warning signs around these pockets.
Poppy Z. Brite
#82. Khusrau darya prem ka, ulti wa ki dhaar,
Jo utra so doob gaya, jo dooba so paar.
English Translation.
Oh Khusrau, the river of love
Runs in strange directions.
One who jumps into it drowns,
And one who drowns, gets across.
Amir Khusrau
#83. Certainly fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swoln, and drowns things weighty and solid.
Francis Bacon
#84. Here lies the basic flaw of all doubt. It can never really be satisfied. No evidence is ever fully, finally enough. Doubt wants always to consume, never to consummate. It clamors endlessly for an answer and so drowns out any answer that might be given it.
Mark Buchanan
