I belong to the 8% of the world population who calm their apprehension by drowning it in numbers. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“The first blush of love, when the self has lost its mooring, and, half-drowning, succumbs to a fearful tide.” — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“If one is to drown, one may as well do it in the largest possible pond.” — Cathryn Louis Copy Share Image
What's it like? a voice whispered.. It's like drowning but everyone around you is breathing.. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We cling to words like drowning men to straws. But still we drown, we drown. — Anna Kamienska Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, Nathaniel, friends can be like nice boots on a drowning man.” — Gori Suture Copy Share Image
The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide. — Larry Elder Copy Share Image
Every day, TV, newspapers, and the Internet bombard us with a message that we're destroying the earth. Ice caps are melting, rivers… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Oh, no no no, it was too cold always (Still the dead one lay moaning) I was much too far out all… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You know what your problem is, you're forgetting to let go you keep holding on to bad things, the things that weigh… — Sb Copy Share Image
Although sometimes I know it seems impossible, there ain't no need in drowning in your sorrow. If things are as bad as… — Shaggy Copy Share Image
I was afraid of marriage. I had the impression married life would take up all my time. I saw myself drowning in… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
“If Gladstone fell in the Thames, that would be a misfortune. But if someone fished him out again, that would be a… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Our behavior is different. How often have you seen a headline like this?--TWO DIE ATTEMPTING RESCUE OF DROWNING CHILD. If a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“In the vocabulary of certain radical theorists contradictions are given the status of some deadly disease to which their opponents alone can… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Really, one of us ought to have the courage to call the experiment off and shoulder the responsibility for the decision, but… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
Even his hair was bigger—a massive globe of blue-black frizz so thick that his lobster-claw horns appeared to be drowning as they… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Then there was organ music, a sort of feverish dirge, and then I was stepping out of my shorts and into the… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Let us not tire of preaching love; it is the force that will overcome the world. Let us not tire of preaching… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
I was drowning. Sinking in quicksand and he was filling up my lungs and I was dead. He looked up at me,… — Sarah Wilkins Copy Share Image
“Coincidences undeniably imply meaning. I am rereading Hart Crane. I notice the date On which he stepped off that boat Was April… — David Markson Copy Share Image
“There was a slight rapping at my bathroom door. "Are you alright in there?" "No." I responded. "I'm drowning.” — Khalia Hades Copy Share Image
hope is like a piece of string when you’re drowning; it just isn’t enough to get you out by itself. — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
No matter how hard it gets, I’d rather be a soldier drowning in my own blood than a coward in my own… — Chino XL Copy Share Image
Just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean you're not still underwater. — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
“His head was barely above water, and he’d never welcomed drowning so much in his whole damn life.” — Sydney Somers Copy Share Image
We held each other and our pasts ran down our cheeks, until we were drowning ourselves in a sea of lies. — 698D Copy Share Image
Saved from drowning when I'll see you on the edge! Hurricanesare very fast you can get across? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the deep sea dive to achieve the Pearl drowning in the same way as love are true love — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
If my competitor were drowning I'd stick a hose in his mouth and turn on the water. — Ray Kroc Copy Share Image
In this republican country, amid the fluctuating waves of our social life, somebody is always at the drowning-point. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
No drowning man can know which drop of water his last breath did stop;... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm here drowning in my own fucking mind and I'll be damned if you're the death of me. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When a plunge is to be made into the water, it's of no use lingering on the bank.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
