Quotes About Drowning

It was like letting go and falling back into water and seeing yourself grinning up through the water, your face like a mask, and seeing the bubbles coming up as if you were trying to speak from under the water. And how do you know what it's like to try to speak from under water when you're drowned?

I was in danger of drowning, and nobody lost at sea worries about whether the spar they cling to is made of elm or oak.

She was drowning—in friendliness, in community—and she was starting to think she didn't want to get pulled out.

They're going to drown me in milk--what a waste of good baby-food!

I have great comfort from this fellow. Methinks he hath no drowning mark upon him. His complexion is perfect gallows.

Sebastian says modestly that though his twin resembled him very much , she was reputed to be beautiful. But more importantly, she had a mind that was just and beautiful. she drowned in salt water, leaving sebastian to drown her memories in the salt water of his tears.

if it weren't for this hyena, the sailors wouldn't have thrown me into the lifeboat and I would have stayed on the ship and I surely would have drowned; and if I had to share quarters with a wild animal, better the upfront ferocity of a dog than the power and stealth of a cat.

Is there anything courageous or brave about making the only possible choice that will save your life? When you're drowning, you grab any hand that's offered. To me, bravery is a spontaneous decision to save somebody else's life when your own is in danger.

I wonder about death, I who may never know it. It looks much like ecstacy, the way they open their mouths as they drown, the way their fingers dig into your skin. Their eyes are wide and startled and they trash in your hands as though with an excess of passion.

I have a date this afternoon. Oh, Lord. Jake closed his eyes. Who are you going to destroy now? I beg your pardon? The hotel would appreciate it if you'd just throw back the men you don't like without maiming them. I haven't maimed anyone. You almost drowned Lance, you scared Peter into heart palpitations, you stabbed Donald with a fork, and you hit Brad over the head with a bottle. Jake shook his head. And they still ask you out.

Anyone who says they are not interested in politics is like a drowning man who insists he is not interested in water.

Religion is as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of a rope

Like any normal fifth grader, I preferred my villains to be evil and stay that way, to act like Dracula rather than Frankenstein's monster, who ruined everything by handing that peasant girl a flower. He sort of made up for it by drowning her a few minutes later, but, still, you couldn't look at him the same way again.

yes, with the mothers she had to make a little more effort, drowning them in language until they understood how out of their depth they were and the thin stream of their objections was completely subsumed by the quick-running currents of my mother's talk.

Only a fool gives lectures on drowning during a drought.

A mermaid found a swimming lad, Picked him up for her own, Pressed her body to his body, Laughed; and plunging down Forgot in cruel happiness That even lovers drown.

Rescue operation, " he says, breathless. "Saved Barbie from drowning.

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.

Was Agent XOX to die a drowning death? You let go of her! came Eddie's voice, and suddenly Eddie had one arm, Beth the other, and they were pulling her the other way. Back and forth, back and forth. Secret Agent XOX was going to die a stretching death instead. Torn limb from limb.

and the desire to spare him that grief rose in her like dark well water until she woke, drowning—

His senses are sodden with lust, so he cannot think, and this sensory overload, this incogitant drowning in sensation

The cause of death was drowning.

People drown, quietly, before our eyes, all the time.

At the moment developing a nice little inoffensive cancer somewhere on dry land seemed infinitely preferable to what she was grimly convinced was soon to be her death by drowning way too far out at sea.