Drowning Quotes

The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft.

Two drowning people can't save each other. All they can do is drag each other down.

The world is drowning in weirdness and lies......and here we are, so used to it that we're actually bored!

you must cry out if you want help. It is no use whatsoever to suffer in silence. Who will succour the drowning man if he does not clamour for his life?

Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth.

Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw.

There are two easy ways to die in the desert - thirst and drowning.

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

To understand the world, one’s place in it, is to be always at the risk of drowning.

The schizophrenic is drowning in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. Edgar Cayce made the same observation in his readings

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

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

Ah, love is a voyage with water and a star, in drowning air and squalls of precipitate bran; love is a war of lights in the lightning flashes, two bodies blasted in a single burst of honey.

There are worse situations than drowning in cash and sitting, sitting, sitting. I remember when I wasn’t awash in cash — and I don’t want to go back.

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

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

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

I do sing about drinking, but it's in a party way. I don't sing about drinking in a drowning-my-sorrows way, like in George Jones's "If Drinking Don't Kill Me (Her Memory Will)."

Reasoning with a drunkard is like Going under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.

You idiot!" She spat, flattening her ears. "What are you doing in my territory?" "Drowning?" Replied Graystripe.

No person ever died by drowning in their own sweat.

Wherever there is water there is someone drowning.

You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?

The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued.

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

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

The man in ecstasy and the man drowning - both throw up their arms. The first to signify harmony, the second to signify strife with the elements.

I turned on the pillow with a little moan, and at this juncture Jeeves entered with the vital oolong. I clutched at it like a drowning man at a straw hat.

Love is a game-yes? I think it is a drowning.

Oh, no no no, it was too cold always (Still the dead one lay moaning) I was much too far out all my life And not waving but drowning.

Falling in love with another man is like falling into a vast vat of yourself. For some men this is ultimately nourishing, for others . . . it is drowning.

If I rescued a child from drowning, the press would no doubt headline the story: 'Benn grabs child

A gun is like breath to a drowning man--it has to be drawn in haste.

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

She brooded and bit her rich lips: my soul began its first sink into her, deep, heady, lost; like drowning in a witches' brew, Keltic, sorcerous, starlike.

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.

hope is like a piece of string when you’re drowning; it just isn’t enough to get you out by itself.

Your believing or not believing in karma has no effect on its existence, nor on its consequences to you. Just as a refusal to believe in the ocean would not prevent you from drowning.

Soft drinks: The gooey, bubbly sea drowning our American children.

It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.

... sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.

Once again, I had that feeling of drowning when I hadn’t even known I was in the pool

One could say the higher the spirit goes, the more deeply the soul sinks down into the waters of melancholy and tragedy. Drowning in that water is as sweet as rising.

Drowning was bad enough. But drowning sad and sober, that's too cruel.

Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy and a child, or else there will be no profit in boarding a Newfoundland.

Every day, TV, newspapers, and the Internet bombard us with a message that we're destroying the earth. Ice caps are melting, rivers are dying, polar bears are drowning, and trees are doing something.

When someone is drowning in the ocean of attachments, Surrender is the life jacket they can put on and wait for the rescue team

I was adrift in a sea of questions and if answers were lifeboats, I was in imminent danger of drowning.

It would be nice to redefine ourselves - at the moment we are drowning in diversity. That's not a bad thing, its just going to take a while before we refocus.

...it was dangerous to overflow because we might end up finding ourselves occupied by our loved ones and drowning them with our love and enthusiasm.