I was left on the shore with the waves washing over me…

“But just like always, I didn’t slip away. I was left on the shore with the waves washing over me, unable to drown.”

— John Green

I told myself – as I’ve told myself before – that the body shuts down when the pain gets too bad, that consciousness is…

— John Green

A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.

— Anton Chekhov

And time cast forth my mortal creature To drift or drown upon the seas Acquainted with the salt adventure Of tides that never touch…

— Dylan Thomas

“I was left on the shore with the waves washing over me, unable to drown. Dad drove, talking on the phone with the hospital,…

— John Green

“You're back where you swore yourself you wouldn't be The familiar shackles you can't tell from your own skin Your head's under water when…

— Sanhita Baruah

Once you get into this great stream of history you can't get out. You can drown. Or you can be pulled ashore by the…

— Richard M. Nixon

You don't get there the easy way. If you feel sorry for yourself, and you let yourself go down, you will drown.

— Debbie Reynolds

Drink today, and drown all sorrow; you shall perhaps not do tomorrow.

— John Fletcher

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

— Nick Flynn

“It's not just like that. I can't just swim away." "Why not?" "I'm afraid I'll drown." He looks up and gives the world's smallest…

— Hannah Moskowitz

“Families – can’t live with them – can’t take them down to the river and drown them all in sacks.”

— Simon R. Green

As all of us are only too aware, the loud and frantic voices of the outer world easily drown out the small, still loving…

— Marianne Williamson

“Let me love you, girl who came from the sea. Let us swim to the bottom of the ocean where we can be anything…

— Carolee Dean

He tried to drown his troubles but they knew how to swim.

— Rita Mae Brown