Drowning Quotes
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Drowning Quotes & Sayings
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The birth of a doubt that was once your belief is drowning in the tears that you cry.
— Ozzy Osbourne
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
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
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
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
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
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
Even the rats are drowning,' Alex said.Nah,' Kevin said. 'They've been taking swimming lessons at the Y. — Susan Beth Pfeffer
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
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
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 ahuman 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
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
Have you killed a man, drowned a crocodile, hunted a wolf, or raped an abuser? Stop pretending you love someone.
— M.F. Moonzajer
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
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
Sometimes you're drowning yourself in your own words.
— Steve Maraboli
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
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
America is Drowning.September 24, 2016
Petra Hermans — Petra Hermans
I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.
— Isaac Marion
I am drowning, my dear, in seas of fire.
— Virginia Woolf
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
