Quotes About Drowning Sorrows

#1. Alcohol units: 5. Drowning sorrows. Cigarettes: 23. Fumigating sorrows. Calories: 3,856. Smothering sorrows in fat duvet.

Helen Fielding

#2. I better understood the little lies that liquor told, lifting spirits and drowning sorrows while withholding the whole truth--that, in the end, it is the spirit in peril of drowning. Sorrows have gills.

Charles M. Blow

#3. Maybe I could use a little metal on the inside, I thought. If I'd kept my heart better armored, where would I be now?
Easy - I'd be at home, medicating myself into a monotone. Drowning my sorrows in video games. Working shifts at Smart Aid. Dying inside, day by day, from regret.

Ransom Riggs

#4. Stories. One of them went regularly to a market in the neighboring village and helped himself to whatever he liked. He went in full uniform, breaking the earth with his boots, and no one dared touch him. It was said that if you touched a soldier, Government

Chinua Achebe

#5. Yes, whatever happened, happened; but what happens now is up to you. You can respond from ego, ensuring pain, or you can respond from spirit, ensuring a miracle.

Marianne Williamson

#6. I read once that water is a symbol for emotions. And for a while now I've thought maybe my mother drowned in both.

Jessi Kirby

#7. Los vampiros," she whispered.
"Oh God, not the bloody vampires again," said Magnus. "No pun intended.

Cassandra Clare

#8. 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

#9. My heart is an ocean of sorrows slowly drowning me, and I let it." - Thia Clay

Alice Rachel

#10. You have to set new goals every day.

Julie Krone

#11. I yearn to love, but learn to hate.

Matthew Brown

#12. If we piled them up, they would reach God.' 'But God does not exist, Comrade Farmer.' 'Nor do the potatoes, Comrade Stalin.' " "Old one." "Jokes only get old if they're good. Otherwise, who keeps telling them?" "People like you who aren't funny?

David Benioff

#13. the toasting of joys and the drowning of sorrows are closer kin than one might imagine.

Seth Haines

#14. The whole world is there for you. Gifts will happen, but only if you are patient with life itself, the shooting process, and your own limitations.

Jay Maisel

#15. Rome is stately and impressive; Florence is all beauty and enchantment; Genoa is picturesque; Venice is a dream city; but Naples is simply
fascinating.

Lilian Whiting

#16. You're a pig," I whispered back. "You know that, right?"
"So far bein' a pig works for me, babe," he said. "Gotta go now. Check out the college. Hit the clinic and get some pills. Don't call your brother. Cook something fuckin' great for dinner and don't wear any panties. That's all I ask.

Joanna Wylde

#17. But this is something you have to figure out on your own. Nobody can help you. That's what love's all about, Kafka. You're the one having those wonderful feelings. but you have to go it alone as you wander through the dark. Your mind and body have to bear it. All by yourself.

Haruki Murakami

#18. For a time, all was still: for the yards there, like the grounds, are desperately bleak, all dirt and gravel - there is not so much as a blade of grass to be shivered by the breezes, or a worm or a beetle for a bird to swoop for.

Sarah Waters

#19. Thoughts like that are why I'm drowning my sorrows in chocolate.

Colleen Hoover

#20. [Readers] are escaping from a narrow, limiting view of the world and journeying to a place where it is possible to experience a deeper connection to our real selves and to live fully in our world.

Duncan Smith

#21. I can't give up that quick
My life is a candle and a wick
You can put it out, but you can't break it down
In the end we are waiting to be lit

Laura Marling

#22. I barely watch TV. Somehow, I make it work with just the Internet. On TV, there's always so much crap, and you have to flip around.

Chelsea Peretti

#23. Ya got cigarettes?" she asks. "Yes," I say,
"I got cigarettes." "Matches?" she asks.
"Enough to burn Rome." "Whiskey?"
"Enough whiskey for a Mississippi River
of pain." "You drunk?" "Not yet.

Charles Bukowski

#24. In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows
But my sorrows they learned to swim

Bono

#25. I love living in Los Angeles.

William Shatner

#26. Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.

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