A drowning man groping for a twig.

“Shame isn't a quiet grey cloud, shame is a drowning man who claws his way on top of you, scratching and tearing your skin,…

— Kirsty Eagar

A gun is like breath to a drowning man--it has to be drawn in haste.

— James M. Cain

I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make dspair pause.…

— Joseph Conrad

He kissed me desperately, like a drowning man and I was his oxygen.

— Amanda Hocking

I never had a lot of drive, but because I had family responsibilities, I had a lot of tenacity - the tenacity of a…

— Dick Van Dyke

“If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Sometimes I'd see my father, walking past my building on his way to another nowhere. I could have given him a key, offered a…

— Nick Flynn

“Never put your have out to a drowning man. I saw that on an HV special once. If you do, they grab onto you…

— May Kauffman

It's only water," she said. "Tell that to a drowning man," Giddon said.

— Kristin Cashore

“There is a major difference between a scuba diver and a drowning man. One is in control of his experiences, the other is in…

— Laren Grey Umphlett

“You must cry out if you want help. It is no use whatsoever to suffer in silence. Who will succour the drowning man if…

— Kamala Markandaya

“Groping in the blackness seems an appropriate metaphor for the creative life. You are compelled to do this work but cannot know the end…

— Elizabeth Ross

Today, the L.A. Times accused Arnold Schwarzenegger of groping six women. I'm telling ya, this guy is presidential material.

— Anonymous

“We are still groping perhaps, but we grope intelligently, like a gynecologist feeling a tumor.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past.

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine