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Quotes About Drowning

When being in a relationship hurts you, leave. Don't stay and keep drowning because love isn't suppose to be painful.
~ Unknown
They say that when a man is going to drown, when he finally gives up the struggle - it's sort of blissful, for a moment. And then he drowns.
~ Unknown
It's only water, " she said."Tell that to a drowning man, " Giddon said.
~ Kristin Cashore, Graceling
I knew how one climbing the mountain of worldly success can slip down into the river below without being conscious of the descent till he is already drowning.
~ Diego Rivera
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
Where is Wood?" said Harry, suddenly realizing he wasn't there. "Still in the showers," said Fred. "We think he's trying to drown himself.
~ J. K. Rowling
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.
~ Josh Billings
Heroine: Girl in a book who is saved from drowning by a hero and marries him next week, but if it was to be over again ten years later it is likely she would rather have a life-belt and he would rather have her have it
~ Mark Twain
Homer say, Pretty gal go a river and see herself in water. Pretty gal drown when she go down to kiss herself.
~ Marlon James
Hooking on scuba gear and blindly diving into zombie-infested water is a wonderful way to mix the two childhood terrors of being eaten and drowning.
~ Max Brooks
There is no end to the work of salvageIn the drowning high seas of ChristmasWhen loneliness, in the name of Christ(That longing!), attacks the world.
~ May Sarton
how many of the phrases that came to mind when thinking about his own life, were somehow sea-related. Her interest had ebbed. They were both drowning in their sorrow. He had sunk lower than ever before. The vocabulary of the ocean seemed tailored to loss.
~ Meg Wolitzer
Parsons stood on the edge of the dock at Camp KooKoRomo. She'd left her fishing gear—borrowed as an excuse to check out the lake—near the tall grass. If she jumped into the water and pretended to drown, would the counselors send her home? Camp will be good for you, Kat. You're too young to be stuck on the farm with a couple of old fogies. So instead of being with her grandparents, whom she loved, or visiting
~ Unknown
Our world is drowning in communication, but starving for genuine communio—the union of true communion.
~ Unknown
There's one thing that troubles me, my friends. It isn't right for us to drown ourselves at night, after supper. People will say we did it because we were drunk. We shall go to bed now and sleep till morning, and at ten o'clock, washed and dressed properly, with proudly lifted heads, we shall walk to the river, so that everybody will see that we drowned ourselves like true philosophers.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
We feel like we are drowning and dissolving in nonsense, as if scattering in inevitability, we cease to exist. And feel the meaning. We stop breathing, choking on inevitability.
~ Unknown
As a climax to the show the octopus was inflated and came rearing out from the lake. The moment would have been improved if a number of over-enthusiastic and mind-altered fans had not stripped off and taken to the water; in scenes reminiscent of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea, these lunatics got tangled with the air pipes and threatened to spoil the performance by thoughtlessly drowning.
~ Nick Mason
And it was that self-same summer—June 5th, if precision is your watchword—that I first set eyes on a stringy southern hemisphere home-boy, a man-boy, a prankish puck by the name of La Roux (with very bad skin and even worse instincts), who sailed into the slow-beating heart of our half-arsed, high-strung, low-bred family, then casually capsized himself, but left us all drowning (now they don't teach you that at the Sea Scouts, do they?).
~ Unknown
Her smile was the kind of smile Hild had imagined on the water sprite's face as she pulled her down and drowned her.
~ Nicola Griffith
The most peaceful memory I have is of when I drown.
~ Unknown
The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative. A large amount of reminiscence is, by common consent, conceded to the drowning man; and it is not past belief that one may review an entire courtship while removing one's gloves.
~ O. Henry
Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers. EARTHSEED:
~ Octavia E. Butler
Here is the boy, drowning.
~ Patrick Ness
She was a whirlpool, she was a whirlpool, And I very nearly drowned.
~ Unknown