Drowning Quotes
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I used to feel like I was drowning. So I stopped trying to swim.
Oliver Sykes Bring Me the Horizon -
Here is the boy, drowning.
Patrick Ness
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People today are in danger of drowning in information; but, because they have been taught that information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be. If they could handle information, they would not have to drown at all.
Idries Shah -
Drowning in the sea of love Where everyone would love to drown.
Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac -
The individual who no longer has a rigid mind has found freedom. Life can be so easy. Refuse to let go and you are a person drowning; the more you struggle, the faster you sink.
George Ohsawa -
Although sometimes I know it seems impossible, there ain't no need in drowning in your sorrow. If things are as bad as they can be, you can be sure there'll be a brighter tomorrow.
Shaggy -
I don't know what I am thinking. But I am alone. I am trapped in the net of the room. In the net of humans. I think maybe I am drowning in the net of humans.
Karen Hesse -
I’m attracted to the idea of drowning. Or rather the idea of jumping off and being enveloped by something, not bad or good, just enveloping. When I was a kid, I had a moment when I got under the water, lying on the pool floor, and felt I could breathe. I’ve been trying to recreate that feeling ever since.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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I'm drowning in papers.
Wislawa Szymborska -
Ju jitsu is very Buddhist. All that we fear we hold close to ourselves to survive. So if you're drowning and you see a corpse floating by, hang on to it because it will rescue you.
Tom Hardy -
Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand, For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on thy lake of Galilee.
Oscar Wilde -
We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man?
Tom Stoppard -
You seem to be drowning twice," said Hermione. "Oh, am I?" said Ron peering down at his predictions. "I'd better change one of them to getting trampled by a rampaging Hippogriff.
Joanne Rowling -
Imagine you're drowning, and someone hands you a baby.
Jim Gaffigan
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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
Thomas More -
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 Black Sabbath -
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.
Stevie Smith -
A man is thrown down on his back and three or four men sit on his arms and legs and hold him down and either a gun barrel or a rifle barrel or a carbine barrel or a stick as big as a belaying pin … is simply thrust into his jaws … and then water is poured onto his face, down his throat and nose … until the man gives some sign of giving in or becomes unconscious.… His suffering must be that of a man who is drowning, but who cannot drown.
Edmund Morris -
I'll try to be careful, but I know I'm not immune, cause I just can't imagine how I'd ever come to harm with this feeling that I'm feeling as I'm drowning in your arms.
Beth Nielsen Chapman -
When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.
John Lennon The Beatles
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Well, listen, you know, the Czech saying is, you know, when you are drowning you are grabbing even a little twig. That's what all Czechs were doing, grabbing for... with the hope for this little twig.
Milos Forman -
Love is a game-yes? I think it is a drowning.
Amy Lowell -
What I like best about underwater photography is giving a visual voice to the invisible. What I like least is the prospect of drowning.
David Doubilet -
I'm drowning my brother drowning.
Eva Paterson