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Quotes About Drown

It was raining so hard now that the whole city looked underwater. I wished to Christ it was, that the rain would drown the people and wash the place the fuck away.
~ David Peace
What is more like love than the ocean? You can play in it, drown in it...it can be clear and bright enough to hurt your eyes, or covered in fog, hidden behind a curve of roads and then suddenly there in full glory. It's waves come like breaths, in and out, body stretched to forever in it's possibilities, and yet it's heart lies deep, not fully knowable, inconceivably majestic.
~ Deb Caletti
Because what is more like love than the ocean? You can play in it, drown in it. It can be clear and bright enough to hurt your eyes, or covered in fog; hidden behind a curve of road, and then suddenly there in full glory. Its waves come like breaths, in and out, in and out, body stretched to forever in its possibilities, and yet its heart lies deep, not fully knowable, inconceivably majestic.
~ Deb Caletti
Maybe I can drown him in the lily pond.
~ Jeanne Birdsall
Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything.
~ Terrence Malick
The suffering, the despair in this place, is like a wave. It rolls out of every bed, smashes against the moldy walls and swoop back toward you. You can drown in it
~ Khaled Hosseini
Let me fly with the wings of love or let me drown and die in the love.
~ Debasish Mridha, M.D.
and tried to learn to surf, which was really just buying a really small boat and practicing to drown.
~ Rick Bragg
Some in his community were suspicious, too—how convenient that people always managed to almost drown themselves whenever young Reagan was around, and how annoying that he never seemed to shut up about it.
~ Rick Perlstein
Since she's discovered men would rather drown than nibble, she does just fine.
~ Rita Dove
I am a pragmatist. We are given what we have here in terms of government, so as an anarchist, okay, I'll lean to the Republican side of getting the government small enough to drown in a bathtub or whatever.
~ Vermin Supreme
Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?
~ W. C. Fields
When the oceans drown the world, women will take time for jealousy.
~ Robert E. Howard
And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?
~ Robert G. Ingersoll
I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
~ Jimmy Carter
Can one drown in one's element... If fish can drown in water, can human beings suffocate in air?
~ Salman Rushdie
I would have drowned without you to watch over me...I now understand there are a thousand ways to drown, and a thousand ways to rescue someone.
~ Alice Hoffman
And time cast forth my mortal creature To drift or drown upon the seas Acquainted with the salt adventure Of tides that never touch the shores. I who was rich was made the richer By sipping at the vine of days.
~ Dylan Thomas
Reflect in terror the scorching sun: dive at your mirror and drown within.
~ Edward Butscher
If I could drown in sleep as I drown in fear, I would be no longer alive.
~ Franz Kafka
Sind diese Geschöpfe Eure Kinder? Sie scheinen fürwahr ein Höllengesindel. Geht, ertränkt sie, das wäre das beste, damit sich die Brut nicht über die Erde verbreite! Wenn es die meinigen wären, ich erdrosselte sie.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is the calm and silent waters that drown you.
~ Edwidge Danticat
There may be deep thought, but deep people don't exist. Our bodies must float on the surface, otherwise we drown.
~ Anthony Marais
Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche