It's a sink or swim world

Our world is drowning in a sea of self-centeredness. You can make yourself quite unique right away by leaving this ocean of selfishness and…

— John Bytheway

The world around us is an increasingly hostile and sinful place. Occasionally that splashes onto us, and perhaps, in the case of a few…

— Jeffrey R. Holland

Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love's lonely hour…

— William Butler Yeats

“unsignificantly off the coast there was a splash quite unnoticed this was Icarus drowning”

— William Carlos Williams

Here is the boy, drowning.

— Patrick Ness

You cannot sink someone else's end of the boat and still keep your own afloat.

— Charles Bower

You can swim in life and seawater, but both are hard to swallow.

— Austin O'Malley

Why all these signs around us that make me doubt language and submerge me in meanings, drowning reality instead of extracting it from the…

— Jean-Luc Godard

There are many ways to drown, only the most obvious wave their arms as they're going under.

— Nick Flynn

I know that look, Blake. You are a drowning woman, and the only way out is down the aisle.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

“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

You are not drowned when u fall into the water but u are when you stay in there.

— Psalmgreat

“Sure, I wouldn’t be in range to do more than dial 911 if she slipped and hit her head and fell into the water…

— Max Monroe

I'm always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you're drowning, and it's…

— Tom Waits

I got to a point where I had no self-esteem and I just felt like I was drowning, and I had no way out.

— Megan Anderson