The Drowning Man Quotes
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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
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
For God's sake, man," Ovid nearly shouted, "the damn globe is catching fire, and the islands are drowning. The evidence is staring them in the face.
— Barbara Kingsolver
A drowning man cannot be saved until he is utterly exhausted and ceases to make the slightest effort to save himself.
— Watchman Nee
At times he swears that he's going to go straight, but mostly he feels like a drowning man in love with the surf.
— A.S.A Harrison
Your only consolation is that you've been here before. But try telling that to a drowning man.
— Juliann Garey
Man, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there.
— Billy Bob Thornton
Moments later, I too came up from a lake of sleep, like a drowning man rising to air, and for several moments I lay in the darkness, bewildered.
— Jonathan Aycliffe
A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
— Thomas More
He kissed me desperately, like a drowning man and I was his oxygen.
— Amanda Hocking
In a shipwreck, it is every drowning man for himself.
— Philippa Gregory
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
I love you the way a drowning man loves air. And it would destroy me to have you just a little.
— Rae Carson
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
Have you killed a man, drowned a crocodile, hunted a wolf, or raped an abuser? Stop pretending you love someone.
— M.F. Moonzajer
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
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
Like a drowning man with a Styrofoam cooler.
— Paul Levine
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
This is deep. Drowning deep. And you know what they say about going in after a drowning man, right? Sematimba
— James S.A. Corey
That woman can sell water to a drowning man.
— Donna Tartt
I never had a lot of drive, but because I had family responsibilities, I had a lot of tenacity - the tenacity of a drowning man.
— Dick Van Dyke
If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.
— Henry David Thoreau
Reasoning with a drunkard is likeGoing under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man. — Thiruvalluvar
I love you with the passion of a drowning man for breathing air. I can't just have enough of you and having you a little would be disastrous.
— Sandra Thomas
It's only water," she said."Tell that to a drowning man," Giddon said. — Kristin Cashore