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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
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 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 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
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
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
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
If you are drowning in a sewer, your first concern might be that you are drowning, not how vile you smell.
— Geraldine Brooks
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
I'm just here,existing at the surface of the water,not quite drowning but not quite able to breathe.
— Jessica Sorensen
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
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
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
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
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
I'm gonna leave you drowning until you reach for my hand.
— Marina And The Diamonds