Top 100 Quotes About Drowning
#1. Shame isn't a quiet grey cloud, shame is a drowning man who claws his way on top of you, scratching and tearing your skin, pushing you under the surface.
Kirsty Eagar
#2. Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
Anais Nin
#3. Most people go to the office and sit at a desk. When firefighters go to the office, we might birth a baby in the morning, save a drowning surfer in the afternoon, and run into a fire at night. What could be more interesting than that?
Caroline Paul
#4. A week ago, the Water Rescue Society had held an evening there, as evidenced by the slogan hanging on the wall: THE CAUSE OF HELPING THE DROWNING IS IN THE HANDS OF THE DROWNING THEMSELVES.
Ilya Ilf
#5. To understand the world, one's place in it, is to be always at the risk of drowning.
Kevin Powers
#7. The lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning.
Paul Theroux
#8. He's more how Satan would look if he needed to seduce you into drowning a baby.
Eve Dangerfield
#9. If you want to learn how to swim forget the possibility of drowning
Thabiso Monkoe
#10. Nixon is the kind of guy who, if you were drowning twenty feet from shore, would throw you a fifteen-foot rope.
Eugene McCarthy
#11. 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
#12. Kafka didn't save me. He just told me I was drowning.
Mark Slouka
#13. But misery is misery, no matter what its cause and we were both drowning in it. I
Denise Grover Swank
#14. I was taught that if you see a person drowning, you must jump into the water to save them, whether you can swim or not.
Irena Sendler
#16. Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.
L. Neil Smith
#17. Pragmatism is cold comfort when millions of lives are in the balance," conceded Boucher. "It's a little like saying, 'Sorry, I can't rescue you from drowning until I finish waxing my car.'" The president chuckled
Jeremy Robinson
#18. People tell me things they shouldn't. Things they ought to be powdering over, shoveling underground, facts they ought to be stuffing into a carpetbag before dropping into the river and quietly drowning.
Lyndsay Faye
#19. Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
Gwendolyn Brooks
#20. Adrift and unmoored, she had tried again and again to throw him a rope to save him from the raging waters. And now he no longer felt like a drowning man at sea. Nora ... the siren and the goddess, the ship and the wine-dark sea. She would either save him or end him.
Tiffany Reisz
#21. Even the rats are drowning,' Alex said.
Nah,' Kevin said. 'They've been taking swimming lessons at the Y.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#22. When someone is drowning and you try to save them, they're more likely to drown you before you pull them out.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#23. Where do starfish come from?" asked Sam.
"From the sky," answered Stella. "Starfish are shooting stars that fell in love with the sea."
"Weren't the stars afraid of drowning?" asked Sam.
"No," said Stella. "They all learned how to swim.
Marie-Louise Gay
#24. 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
#26. The funny thing is,' Calvin said, 'I thought I'd been breathing underwater this whole time, but I guess I've been drowning.
Shaun David Hutchinson
#27. We need to lose the mental image of our pre-Christian state as a drowning person helplessly flailing about in the water, hoping upon hope that someone might throw us a life preserver. Outside of Christ we are, in fact, spiritual corpses rotting on the ocean floor among the silt and sludge.
Gloria Furman
#28. My heart is an ocean of sorrows slowly drowning me, and I let it." - Thia Clay
Alice Rachel
#29. She felt lost and misunderstood. She felt like she was drowning. Overwhelmed. Unaccepted. Alone.
Tina J. Richardson
#30. We're all drowning, but don't say it out loud.
Marty Rubin
#32. It is pretty clear in the Bible story that the whale swallowing Jonah wasn't meant as a punishment from God, it was God saving him from drowning. So it was actually provision to give him a second chance. The whale itself was the start of Jonah's second chance.
Phil Vischer
#33. The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for a theologians to swim in without ever touching the bottom St. Jerome
Jerome
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. If only it felt like an academic exercise when she kissed him, instead of a soul-drowning tsunami of want and need.
Alexia Adams
#37. I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make dspair pause. For in truth, we who are creatures of impulse, are creatures of despair.
Joseph Conrad
#38. 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
#39. For in tremendous extremities human souls are like drowning men; well enough they know they are in peril; well enough they know the causes of that peril;
nevertheless, the sea is the sea, and these drowning men do drown.
Herman Melville
#40. How do sheep kill a lion ? By drowning him in blood.
Pierce Brown
#41. If you are helping someone who is drowning, make they don't pull you under water.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#42. 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
#43. SINK OR SWIM ALERT
Folks with low self-esteem will push you under to save their drowning egos
Kamil Ali
Kamil Ali
#44. I believe a Christian muffler shop owner should have the same right to refuse service to a gay couple, as a gay lifeguard has to refuse service to a drowning Christian.
Quentin R. Bufogle
#45. Unfortunately, while people were drowning in data, knowledge was nowhere
Anonymous
#46. While a few pertinent points have to be marked, the general impression I desire to convey is of a side door crashing open in life's full flight, and a rush of roaring black time drowning with its whipping wind the cry of lone disaster.
Vladimir Nabokov
#47. Out of a fired ship, which by no way
But drowning could be rescued from the flame,
Some men leap'd forth, and ever as they came
Near the foes' ships, did by their shot decay;
So all were lost, which in the ship were found,
They in the sea being burnt, they in the burnt ship drown'd.
John Donne
#48. Drowning yourself won't help, she told herself sternly. Now, drowning Will, on the other hand ...
Cassandra Clare
#49. Some people give their problems swimming lessons instead of drowning them.
Mark Twain
#50. The sounds of people drowning are something that I can not describe to you, and neither can anyone else. Its the most dreadful sound and there is a terrible silence that follows it.
Eva Hart
#51. For God's sake, man," Ovid nearly shouted, "the damn globe is catching fire, and the islands are drowning. The evidence is staring them in the face.
Barbara Kingsolver
#52. [H]as it really been so long since religions persecuted people, burning them as heretics, drowning them as witches, that you can't recognize religious persecution when you see it?
[1,000 Days 'Trapped Inside a Metaphor' (Columbia University / The New York Times, December 12, 1991)]
Salman Rushdie
#53. When I was drowning, she became my air. In the cold, she became my warmth. In the dark, she became my light.
A Meredith Walters
#54. I feel like I am drowning in memories. Everything is too bright.
Ava Dellaira
#55. 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
#56. Everything is valuable under the right conditions. To a man dying of thirst, water be more precious than gold. To a drowning man, water be of little worth and great trouble.
Terry Goodkind
#57. What worse can happen to a man than to have been born? It's like asking a man who is drowning whether he is not afraid of getting wet.
Leonid Andreyev
#58. The drowning man who climbs on your shoulders to save himself is understandable - except when you see it happen in the drawing room.
Frank Herbert
#59. 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
#60. The world swarms with people, each one drowning, but each swimming a different stroke to the far shore.
Ray Bradbury
#61. Three years later and drowning in lies, we're suddenly prepared to lose everything for the chance at something real.
Krista Ritchie
#62. 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
#63. I was adrift in a sea of questions and if answers were lifeboats, I was in imminent danger of drowning.
Karen Marie Moning
#64. 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
#65. We are all hurting and missing people. Everyone is scared, so you can't talk about your worries because worries are everywhere. When everyone you know is on the verge of drowning, you don't stop to tell the person next to you that you don't like swimming.
You just don't.
Veronica Rossi
#66. I can't swim but if my girlfriend was drowning, I'd still dive in to save her.
Zayn Malik
#67. I can't swim and I'm terrified of drowning, but I still love being by water - just not in it.
Sherri Shepherd
#68. I'm fucking drowning in her, and I'm not even sure I want to come up for air.
K. Bromberg
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. The man in ecstasy and the man drowning - both throw up their arms.
Franz Kafka
#72. Suddenly, everything I'd ever read made sense. All of the cliches about electricity and drowning and falling and other sinister metaphors for a kiss all swept over me. It was nuclear fusion. It was the door to Narnia.
Lily Anderson
#73. There is a gulf as wide as an ocean between should and want, and I am drowning in it.
Jodi Picoult
#74. 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
#75. The boy who'd saved her from drowning in more ways than one.
Stephanie Garber
#76. The first blush of love, when the self has lost its mooring, and, half-drowning, succumbs to a fearful tide.
Eleanor Catton
#77. Victor, if you read this stuff, you can save people in the past from drowning. It's like time is a river, and it's nighttime, and you can hear people calling, Help, we're disappearing! So you stop and listen. That's how you save them.
Peter Gould
#78. First he sees her only in his dreams. Skin as white as moonlight. Eyes like water drowning you. Hair like spider webs. Fairy.
Cornelia Funke
#79. 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
#80. Wherever there is water there is someone drowning.
Robert Bly
#81. She is the ocean crashing into me, tossing me, drowning me.
Heidi Acosta
#82. SakeThe jewel which brightly shines at nightIs precious, but cannot measure up To the delights of drinking sake,Drowning one's troubles in the cup. Otomo no Tabito
Reiko Chiba
#83. 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
#84. And I realize, so suddenly that it hurts, just how empty a creature can be, while still filled to the brim with drowning agony.
D.R. Hedge
#85. If you're drowning for real, and nobody believes you, then you sure as hell better figure out how to swim.
Susan Wiggs
#86. I think you're the saddest person I've ever met. It's like you're drowning in it.
Elizabeth Scott
#87. Sometimes you're drowning yourself in your own words.
Steve Maraboli
#88. I was drowning that times, but when I saw those eyes of yours, my body learned how to swim.
Kent Ian N. Cny
#89. The king greeted the document (the Collectanea) not so much as a drowning man greets a straw but as he might a rescue party from outer space.
Eric Ives
#90. 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
#91. I like being in control," was all Keely said, looking at him. She could have said, "I hate for anyone to know I don't know everything, that I sometimes feel so out of my depth that three lifesavers wouldn't keep me from drowning," but she didn't "What's so wrong with that?
Kasey Michaels
#93. 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
#94. He is not drowning His sheep when He washeth them, nor killing them when He is shearing them. But by this He showeth that they are His own: and the new-shorn sheep do most visibly bear His name or mark; when it is almost worn out and scarce discernible on them that have the longest fleece.
Richard Baxter
#95. Sometimes I felt as if we were all wading around in grief, reluctant to admit to others how far we were waving or drowning.
Jojo Moyes
#96. In slow drowning waves the knowledge washed over Cressida, her professor did not think that she was so special after all. He didn't know her father Zeno. Was that it?
Joyce Carol Oates
#97. When I opened up the bottle of wine, Thebes said whoa, you yanked that cork out of there like you were saving it from drowning. She got out her markers and drew a screaming face on the cork.
Miriam Toews
#98. She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#99. Falling in love with another man is like falling into a vast vat of yourself. For some men this is ultimately nourishing, for others ... it is drowning.
Perry Brass
#100. of the scorpion and the frog? The frog carried the scorpion on its back as they crossed the river. The scorpion stung the frog, and as they both were drowning, the frog asked the scorpion why he'd done it." "Because I'm a scorpion,
Skye Warren
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