Hurt Quote by Amanda Grace

“He is doing it because he feels alive. [...] It is the ultimate buoy against drowning. It is the ever-saving grace.”

— David Levithan

“You flounder through life, struggling desperately so you won't drown, even though you would float if you'd just relax.”

— Natsuki Takaya

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

— Henry David Thoreau

“Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.”

— Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451

“He knew he shouldn’t want to spend time with her – she would drown him. But somehow, staying afloat didn’t matter any more.”

— Isha Inamdar

“There was an anchor, tied around both of his ankles, and it was taking him deep, into black fathomless depths, drowning him slowly but…

— R.K. Lilley

“If I was drowning you would part the sea And risk your own life to rescue me . . .”

— Jamie McGuire

“In a shipwreck, it is every drowning man for himself.”

— Philippa Gregory

“And, here’s what I know: I’m not drowning anymore. I can’t see my island; he’s gone forever from me now, but I’m standing on…

— Katherine Owen

“You are so in over your head that even a life raft can't keep you afloat.”

— Holly Stephens

“His head was barely above water, and he’d never welcomed drowning so much in his whole damn life.”

— Sydney Somers

“Life is full of drowning people, reading and willing to drown you, too.”

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes