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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

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

If you're a sailor, best not know how to swim. Swimming only prolongs the inevitable - if the sea wants you and your time has come. — James Clavell

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

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

Do not be angry with the audacity of a desperate and drowning man for making a last effort to save himself from perdition. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

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

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

There is a tidal wave of ignorance, Mma Ramotswe. It is a great tidal wave and it will drown all of us if we are not careful. — Alexander McCall Smith

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I can't swim and I'm terrified of drowning, but I still love being by water - just not in it. — Sherri Shepherd

I'd just stepped out of the kiddie pool and into the deep end, with no floaties. And drowning was not an option. — Rachel Vincent

The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide. — Larry Elder

I'm fucking drowning in her, and I'm not even sure I want to come up for air. — K. Bromberg

If you are drowning in a sewer, your first concern might be that you are drowning, not how vile you smell. — Geraldine Brooks

Swimming is good for you, especially if you're drowning. Not only do you get a cardiovascular workout but also you don't die. — Jimmy Carr

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

And like a drowning woman who chooses the black sea instead of rescue, she did not take it. — Tess Gerritsen

How strange the way we wade into disaster, step after step, not realizing how far we've gone until we're drowning. — Matthew Salesses

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 can't swim in a sea of mediocrity and pretend I'm not drowning. — Tracy L. Darity

Swimming is not a sport. Swimming is a way to keep from drowning. That's just common sense! — George Carlin

One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Kind words and tender affections will not save me from this lake of woe and misery, but they may be enough of a buoy to prevent my drowning. — Richelle E. Goodrich

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

Promises. I was drowning in promises. — Richelle Mead

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

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

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