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And then more quiet, silence so deep it almost drowned out the roar of the night music that pounded away in my secret self. — Jeff Lindsay

It's like a memorial to Atlantis or Lyonesse: these are the stone buoys that mark a drowned world. — Christopher Hitchens

I have been in danger of being drowned twice. — John Aubrey

My whole life changed after I drowned and died in the flood. — Kerry Alan Denney

If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each others' tragedies. — Neil Gaiman

Naturally men are drowned in a storm, but it is a perfectly straightforward affair, and the depths of the sea are only water after all. — Virginia Woolf

The hospital was drowned in the bottomless silence that fills — Dean Koontz

Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune. — Giuseppe Garibaldi

Who demonstrated to him that the Bay of Lisbon had been made on purpose for the Anabaptist to be drowned. — Voltaire

I think the sheer number of pop stars has kind of drowned out, somewhat, our interest. We're just submerged. — Kristin Scott Thomas

Compassion and brutality can coexist in the same individual and in the same moment ... — Primo Levi

The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. I — Dan Simmons

The drowned panic of not being able to ask questions or have any input into what somebody's saying is so awful it sort of dwarfs the pain. — David Foster Wallace

Jed! I got stuck in some air pocket with more exits than ... " I couldn't think of anything famous with a large number of exits "I nearly drowned! — Alex Garland

The rest is drowned out by sound breaking in through his earphones, coming in from Reality: — Neal Stephenson

Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens. — William Makepeace Thackeray

God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest. — Voltaire

Where, except in uncreated light, can the darkness be drowned? — C.S. Lewis

The city drowned in memories. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Ten minutes before I would have drowned in his come. Now I just wanted it off me. I wanted him off me. — Jettie Woodruff

A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy. — Josephine Tey

He couldn't handle so much love. And so he drowned it in the pool. It wasn't Red though. Turned out to be a sea of Blue. Blue, her color. — Anushka Bhartiya

I'm sure I look like a drowned cat."
"You look fine. The wet look works for you."
I scowled. "Now I know you're lying. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

A world that won't forget is a world drowned in its not forgetting. Do we want a world full of unedited memory? To be human is to be finite. — Tacita Dean

We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown. — Henry Miller

The River Mogami has drowned
Far and deep
Beneath its surging waves
The flaming sun of summer — Matsuo Basho

In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned. — George Herbert

My brain was so noisy and opinionated that it drowned out my heart. — Julia Day

The roar of adrenaline drowned out the self-critical voices that tend to make creative play such work for adults. — Chris Baty

No one ever drowned in sweat. — U.S. Marine Corps

Saved, rescued, fished-up, half-drowned, out of the deep, dark river, dry clothes, hair shampooed and set. Nobody would know I had ever been in it. — Jean Rhys

Fuckin' A ... hope didn't so much spring eternal as it drowned out common sense and self-preservation. — J.R. Ward

Some days I'm to sip you. Some days I'm to be drowned. — Erica Alex

All providences are doors to trial. Men may be drowned in seas of prosperity as well as in rivers of affliction. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

No one has ever drowned in sweat. — Lou Holtz

I am not only freezing to death but also drowned in pain of beloved. — Santosh Kalwar

A friend of mine drowned in a bowl of muesli. A strong currant pulled him in. — Tommy Cooper

And where does god get the nerve from
telling people how to rear their children
when he drowned his own? — A.J. Beirens

I hit him on the back of the neck. He submerged. Help. I've drowned the Beast Lord. — Ilona Andrews

Nobody ever drowned in their own sweat. — Veronica Rossi

Strangely, when I totally emerged from this slump I couldn't comprehend how I had almost drowned it it. — Jim Harrison

I thought I could have leaped from earth to heaven at one spring when I first saw my sins drowned in the Redeemer's blood. — Charles Spurgeon

I had no right to be in love. I had nothing to offer her. But reason drowned in the beat of my heart, and I asked permission to kiss her.#Ren — Colleen Houck

Null g always made him think of drowned people. — James S.A. Corey

We were all disconnected now. And I didn't know when the switchboard had gone down. What if he'd . . . drowned? — Kresley Cole

The Drowned Gods makes men," old Aaron Redhand said, "thousands of years ago." "But it's men who make crowns. — George R R Martin

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned. — William Butler Yeats

Friendly had never liked to rock boats unnecessarily. That's how people end up drowned. — George R R Martin

Drowned out by the sound of his heart throwing itself against his ribcage. — Amy Zhang

She drowned in words that could not teach her how to swim. — Marilyn French

He had drowned the boy underground with his own hands, but his twisted mind still had the nerve to feel grief over the loss. How horrifying. — Otsuichi

BETTER DROWNED THAN DUFFERS IF NOT DUFFERS WONT DROWN — Arthur Ransome

The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise. — Roger Ebert

I want to explain how exhausted I am. Even in my dreams. How I wake up tired. How I'm being drowned by some kind of black wave. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

All hands drowned, except the Red Hound of Mykenos, who bit the sea until it spit him back. Old — Catherynne M Valente

Whoever pushes America's sex button must be prepared for sirens and alarms. Whatever else we do in our lives will be drowned out by them. — Erica Jong

I could have drowned ... and my brother didn't even care. — Erica Sehyun Song

In her mind, every last Queen lies at the bottom of the sea, drowned by the Goddess the moment she was done with them. — Kendare Blake

One of life's joys was to have friends who gave you reality checks ... who would call you on your crap before it rose so high you drowned in it. — David Brin

A ship must be floated and launched before it can be drowned and sunk. — John Zande

Every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned. — George Monbiot

Camille's rain fell with such ferocity it was said to have filled the overhead nostrils of birds and drowned them from the trees. — Erik Larson

We made sure nobody died on the show. We made sure nobody ever drowned on 'Baywatch.' — David Hasselhoff

When I lost you, it was as if all the solid ground dissolved from under my feet. Look at me; I'm a half-drowned man now, hanging onto a wreck. — Henrik Ibsen

Soun Tendo: Drowned Octopus Spring?
Guide from Jusenkyo: Is tragic tale of giant octopus who drown 1600 year ago ... somehow. — Rumiko Takahashi

They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned. — Jack Kerouac

The Drowned God did not answer. He seldom did. That was the trouble with gods. — George R R Martin

She looked pale, mysterious, like a lily, drowned under water, he thought. — Virginia Woolf

The town does not exist
except where one black-haired tree slips
up like a drowned woman into the hot sky. — Anne Sexton

Though drowned was just as dead as any other way of dying. — Mercedes Lackey

For one drop calls another down, till we are drowned in seas of grief. — Isaac Watts

Such fire was not by water to be drowned, nor he his nature changed by changing ground. — Ludovico Ariosto

Whoever takes just plain ginger ale soon gets drowned out of the conversation. — Kin Hubbard

Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors. — Juvenal

The problem is that many times people suspend their common sense because they get drowned in business models and Harvard business school teachings. — Mo Ibrahim

Can you lay your hand on your hearts and tell me I'm really alive? Are you sure I wasn't drowned and we're not all ghosts together? — C.S. Lewis

His eyes locked with mine, and I drowned in them. That was odd. I always thought you could only drown in water, never humans. — Seth King

Life is short
And pleasures few
And holed the ship
And drowned the crew
But o! But o!
How very blue
the sea is. — Clive Barker

Innocence is drowned in anarchy. The best lack conviction given time to think, and the worst are full of passion without mercy. — Joni Mitchell

On the way I thought about how millions of people drowned so that the first person could learn to swim. The amazing thing is that people still drown. — Shahrnush Parsipur

Wine has drowned more than the sea. — Publilius Syrus

Being in a ship is like being in jail, with the chance of being drowned. — Samuel Johnson

I loved him even now, as he took a knife to my throat, as I drowned in blood, as I whispered Cousin, you were wrong. We were born to live. — Alice Hoffman

The quirky flavourings of the idiosyncratic ideologue ultimately drowned in the ketchup of redheaded twins and nipples that go spung. — Hal Duncan

Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collectso some writers are lost in their collected learning. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

She flooded my thoughts. I drowned in peace. — Faraaz Kazi

A girl that's born for hangin' ain't likely to be drowned. — L.A. Meyer

Impressed. Lord. He had nearly drowned. — Katherine Paterson

Drowned in a vat of whiskey ... Oh Death, where is thy sting? — W.C. Fields

Have you killed a man, drowned a crocodile, hunted a wolf, or raped an abuser? Stop pretending you love someone. — M.F. Moonzajer

Every story is true and a lie. The true part of this one is: Love and the memory of love can't be drowned. The lie part is that this is a good thing. — Leigh Allison Wilson

Imagine Columbus landed in 1492 and some tribe or another drowned him in the ocean. Would Lester FallsApart still be shoplifting in the 7-11? — Sherman Alexie

At tea time, all the noise, greed and aggressiveness of the '80s can be drowned out. For 45 minutes, anyway. — Letitia Baldrige

You aim for the palace and get drowned in the sewer. — Mark Twain

Just the opposite for me, all is drowned in poetic impression; I am ready for all concessions. Suddenly — Jean-Paul Sartre

Orange Notes promptly drowned them out with Palmetto's song. The — Nora Sakavic

Good swimmers at length are drowned. — George Herbert

Women's words are as light as the doomed leaves whirling in autumn, Easily swept by the wind, easily drowned by the wave. — Ovid

Statistics always remind me of fellow who drowned in a river where the average depth was only three feet. — Woody Hayes

He drowned his sorrows, though like other drowned things they had a habit of floating to the surface when least expected. — Margaret Atwood