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Quotes About Drowned

But then I'm not easily shocked. I've had several friends who drowned or got murdered or died in weird accidents. In Alaska you get used to strange stuff happening.
~ Jon Krakauer
that. Who refers only to persons; which only to things; as, The boy who was drowned, The umbrella which I lost. The relative that may refer to both persons and things; as, The man that I saw. The hat that I bought.
~ Joseph Devlin
How nice to be married with … how many children, Richard? You don't have quite this problem. You don't have any problems really, do you, sitting there in your lordship pontificating? It seems to be beyond you even to get yourself decently drowned.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
It's getting late. I must return to my ship or my men will think I've drowned and be celebrating.
~ Michael Moorcock
The elements were "seeking" each other in rage and confusion, and in the fury of the conflict boastful man was utterly humiliated, sucked down, drowned.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
i am like a survivor of the flood walking through the streets drenched with God surprised that all of the drowned victims are still walking and talking
~ Saul Williams
Mother, mother ocean, after all these years I've found My occupational hazard being my occupations just not around. I feel like I've drowned, Gonna head uptown.
~ James William "Jimmy" Buffett
Impressed. Lord. He had nearly drowned.
~ Katherine Paterson
Too often, real policy improvements get drowned out by political talking points.
~ Matt Rosendale
Truth is the first thing that present-day literature lacks. The writer has drowned himself in lies, he is too accustomed to speak prudently, with a careful look over his shoulder.
~ zamyatin yevgeny ii
His remorse was purely physical. Only his body, strained nerves, and cowering flesh were afraid of the drowned man. Conscience played no part in his terrors, and he had not the slightest regret about killing Camille; in his moments of calm, when the spectre was not present, he would have committed the murder over again had he thought his interests required it.
~ Émile Zola
the full-grown bear took a swipe at him, and he shit his pants—swear to God, it's on the police report—and jumped into his SUV and proceeded to drive the SUV into a tree, where it bounced into the lake, and our subject drowned with a look on his face like this." Daniels mimicked pure terror. "Which is probably the most solid proof that God exists that I have ever fucking
~ Amy Lane
And from then on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, infused with stars and lactescent, Devouring the green azure where, like a pale elated Piece of flotsam, a pensive drowned figure sometimes sinks; Where, suddenly dyeing the blueness, delirium And slow rhythms under the streaking of daylight, Stronger than alcohol, vaster than our lyres, The bitter redness of love ferments!
~ RIMBAUD ARTHUR
I wish it had been me. It would have been such a romantic experience to have been nearly drowned. It would be such a thrilling tale to tell.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Want to hear a sad story about the Dukakis campaign? The governor of Massachusetts, he lost his top naval advisor last week. His rubber ducky drowned in the bathtub.
~ Dan Quayle
a phantasm, a pink-palmed jinn, a ghost from one of the drowned cities.
~ Diana Abu-Jaber
So, fill me in, what's been going on here?" "All kinds of scandal," Clarissa said. "Amy almost drowned, Demetria is going to beat up a patriarch's wife, our room was trashed by conspiracy theorists, Dragon's Head broke into the tomb in Connecticut, and Jenny has a crush on Harun." "Do not!" Jenny said. "In other words," said Demetria. "The usual." Odile laughed. "Man, I love this society.
~ Diana Peterfreund
Camille's rain fell with such ferocity it was said to have filled the overhead nostrils of birds and drowned them from the trees.
~ Erik Larson
Soun Tendo: Drowned Octopus Spring? Guide from Jusenkyo: Is tragic tale of giant octopus who drown 1600 year ago...somehow.
~ Rumiko Takahashi
At first it appeared as if something with wings had fallen from above... perhaps an angel who had faltered then drowned, in tears of this poor tired world.
~ Alice Hoffman
Lie still, sleep becalmed, hide the mouth in the throat, or we shall obey, and ride with you through the drowned.
~ Dylan Thomas
Look at those flies on the ceiling. Why have you not drowned them?" "Huzoor, they return." "Like all evil things.
~ E.M. Forster
Marriage...one of the most civilized institutions in the world...But...swimming is one of the most wonderful of sports, and yet there are always some people who cannot swim who insist on going into the water and getting drowned. Many people spoil marriage in a like manner. One should be sure she knows how to be married before rushing into it.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
~ Samuel Johnson