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The birth of a doubt that was once your belief is drowning in the tears that you cry. — Ozzy Osbourne

My God. I love you so much that I'm drowning in it. I can't defend against it. — Lisa Kleypas

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

She was whispering into it in some language that sounded like butterflies drowning in honey. — Chris Cleave

Alcohol units: 5. Drowning sorrows. Cigarettes: 23. Fumigating sorrows. Calories: 3,856. Smothering sorrows in fat duvet. — Helen Fielding

When someone is drowning and you try to save them, they're more likely to drown you before you pull them out. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

What does depression feel like? He whispered. It's like drowning; except that everyone else around you is breathing. — Unknown

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

If my competitor were drowning I'd stick a hose in his mouth and turn on the water. — Ray Kroc

Nixon is the kind of guy who, if you were drowning twenty feet from shore, would throw you a fifteen-foot rope. — Eugene McCarthy

The boy who'd saved her from drowning in more ways than one. — Stephanie Garber

If you are helping someone who is drowning, make they don't pull you under water. — Matshona Dhliwayo

It's time to feel again. Let me save you from yourself. You were drowning when I found you, but I'm not letting you go without a fight. — Ella Frank

Kafka didn't save me. He just told me I was drowning. — Mark Slouka

The difference between baptism and drowning is a few faithless breaths. — Anna-Marie McLemore

What was childhood if not a passage from light to dark, of the soul's slow drowning in an ocean of ordinary matter? During — Justin Cronin

I'd Drown For You
I opened my heart to you
A complete immersion
I offered my soul to you
A heavenly diversion — Muse

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

The lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning. — Paul Theroux

Drowning is not so pitiful as the attempt to rise. — Emily Dickinson

Dear God, grant me the violence to crush mine enemies.
Dear God, give me mechanical lungs, for when I'm drowning. — Aaron W. Rockwell

We cling to words like drowning men to straws. But still we drown, we drown. — Anna Kamienska

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

Any and all water is the color of drowning. — Emil M. Cioran

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

To understand the world, one's place in it, is to be always at the risk of drowning. — Kevin Powers

Even the rats are drowning,' Alex said.
Nah,' Kevin said. 'They've been taking swimming lessons at the Y. — Susan Beth Pfeffer

A psychotic person is drowning in the very same things that a mystic swims in. — Pema Chodron

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

If I gave you my number would it still be the same If I saved you from drowning? — Tegan Quin

If I was drowning you would part the sea
And risk your own life to rescue me ... — Jamie McGuire

My heart is flooded with love. Drowning is the way to go. — Amanda Mosher

You know what it's like having five kids? Imagine you're drowning. And someone hands you a baby. — Jim Gaffigan

In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows
But my sorrows they learned to swim — Bono

If misery were water, he thinks as he climbs into his car and turns the key, I could just drown or let it wash me away entirely. — Dennis Sharpe

I'm useless in water. I wake up at night drowning in my own saliva. — Karl Pilkington

They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241) — Ilsa J. Bick

Drowning men will drag you down if you let them. Sometimes, to survive, you have to let them sink. — John Connolly

Somewhere in the night a
human being is drowning. — Marina Tsvetaeva

She felt lost and misunderstood. She felt like she was drowning. Overwhelmed. Unaccepted. Alone. — Tina J. Richardson

I'm drowning and you're stealing every breath. — Cher Lloyd

One person standing on the Rock can throw a lifeline to others drowning in the sea. He — Francine Rivers

I raise my face to his, ready for the crush of his lips against mine, wanting to share more than these nervous breaths. — Sarah Glenn Marsh

But there is not much time to regret other people, their actions or inactions. Isn't drowning itself enough for one day? Here — Joanna Walsh

Detachment doesn't mean avoiding things and going to Himalayas. It means doing what is necessary without drowning in it. — Sumit Singh

Believe that you are someone worth saving. — Slade Combs

Swimming was the last thing I wanted to do. Drowning him? Maybe. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

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

When a man is drowning, it may be better for him to try to swim than to thrash around waiting for divine intervention. — William Sloane Coffin

I'm just here,existing at the surface of the water,not quite drowning but not quite able to breathe. — Jessica Sorensen

Virtually drowning in himself, he could not for the life of him smell himself. — Patrick Suskind

If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you're drowning. — Tori Amos

The power of a woman is in the tears she sheds, and the power of a man is wiping those tears while shedding his own. — Michael Jones

There is a major difference between a scuba diver and a drowning man. One is in control of his experiences, the other is in over his head. — Laren Grey Umphlett

I have yet to be completely submerged in reality, for drowning in the sky. — Kellie Elmore

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

I feel like I am drowning in memories. Everything is too bright. — Ava Dellaira

Noah's ark is on the tombstone of drowning desire and I am walking furiously on water. — Malak El Halabi

For the first time in his existence, he knew he was drowning and he wasn't thinking about survival. — Christine Feehan

I'm gonna leave you drowning until you reach for my hand. — Marina And The Diamonds

There is a gulf as wide as an ocean between should and want, and I am drowning in it. — Jodi Picoult

Wherever there is water there is someone drowning. — Robert Bly

They say we're 98% water. We're that close to drowning. I like to live on the edge. — Steven Wright

When a dog is drowning, everyone offers him a drink. — George Herbert

We're all kind of weird and twisted and drowning. — Haruki Murakami

A surge of emotion washed over him, took him under. He was helpless against it, flailing, gasping for air. Drowning in her. — Hanna Martine

I love you the way a drowning man loves air. And it would destroy me to have you just a little. — Rae Carson

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

Sometimes you're drowning yourself in your own words. — Steve Maraboli

Cath felt like she was swimming in words. Drowning in them, sometimes. — Rainbow Rowell

It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help. — Mark Twain

He knew he should be focusing on her, on comforting her, but he was drowning in her instead. — Airicka Phoenix

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

You're in deep with me, aren't you, baby?"
I whispered my question just to confirm.
"Drowning." he whispered back. — Kristen Ashley

There's an old adage: the sensation of drowning reminds you of everything you ever knew about swimming. — Frederick Weisel

To drown in treacle is just as unpleasant as to drown in mud. — Idries Shah

It's only water," she said.
"Tell that to a drowning man," Giddon said. — Kristin Cashore

There's no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it. — James Baldwin

I know that look, Blake. You are a drowning woman, and the only way out is down the aisle. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Life is drowning in the ocean sometimes you get killed by the onething you relied on to keep you alive — Kwanele Dee Nyembe

It was like drowning, only from the inside out. — Stephen King

You don't drown because you can't breathe. You drown because you try to breathe what is not breathable. — Katherine Catmull

Drowning people often believe that if they grab hold of someone else they can be saved, but that just makes you both sink faster. — Clementine Von Radics

Promises. I was drowning in promises. — Richelle Mead

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I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses. — Isaac Marion

He feels himself buried in those two infinities, the ocean and the sky, at one and the same time: the one is a tomb; the other is a shroud. — Victor Hugo

I am drowning, my dear, in seas of fire. — Virginia Woolf

The entire time they're talking, I can't tear my eyes away from Porter. What I'm feeling for him now is like drowning and floating at the same time. — Jenn Bennett

My heart stopped twice. They had to stab me to drain the blood from my lungs because I was drowning in my own blood. — Ozzy Osbourne

A clamor of rooks exploded through the trees, nearly drowning out the woman's scream. — Keith W. Willis

Insanity is something like drowning,' said Sparrow. 'You go under; you flounder without direction; — Frank Herbert

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

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

Oh God, I was head over heels, drowning underwater, in love with Ren- with Renald Owens. I was in love with a dude whose real name was Renald. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

I love you like I love the sea. And I'm ok with drowning. — Pleasefindthis

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

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

And sweet and far as from a star, replied a voice which shall not cease, till drowning all the noise of war, it sings the blessed song of peace — John Greenleaf Whittier

She liked to think of drowning, of sinking down into cool green water, and feeling herself slowly pressed into nothingness ... — J.K. Rowling