Drowning Quote by Anna Kamienska Download Open image “We cling to words like drowning men to straws. But still we drown, we drown.” — Anna Kamienska ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Drowning Men Stills Straws
I am afraid we are little better than straws upon the water; we may flatter ourselves that we swim, when the current carries us… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
There must be some wisdom in the folk saying: Its the strong swimmers who drown. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man? — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“Life is full of drowning people, reading and willing to drown you, too.” — Jennifer Lynn Barnes Copy Share Image
When someone is drowning and you try to save them, they're more likely to drown you before you pull them out. — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“We suffer the threat of breathing in water; we fight the nightmares that would drown us. And just as we feel the deceptive joy… — Lynne Hugo Copy Share Image
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us... and we… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I don’t write poetry when I wish, I write when I can’t, when my larynx is flooded and my throat is shut. — Anna Kamienska Copy Share Image
This morning I suddenly catch myself: I'm not there, I'm so lost in thought, I don't know what's going on around me. Can you… — Anna Kamienska Copy Share Image
“No home anymore. Nowhere to return. My house is a ruin, a cemetery. You may yearn for the grave, but just try living there.” — Anna Kamienska Copy Share Image
“Lack of Faith" Yes, even when I don’t believe— there is a place in me inaccessible to unbelief, a patch of wild grace, a… — Anna Kamieńska Copy Share Image
My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the… — Anna Kamienska Copy Share Image
I’ve learned to value failed conversations, missed connections, confusions. What remains is what’s unsaid, what’s underneath. Understanding on another level of being. — Anna Kamienska Copy Share Image
The way a source strains toward the light, toward the air. Its laboring work, its effort, its black passageways like despair. That’s the way… — Anna Kamienska Copy Share Image
I am that which lies beyond time. Like a melody, which sounds completely only after the last note is played. — Anna Kamienska Copy Share Image
Letters of the condemned. Last words scratched on a cell’s wall. To write like that. — Anna Kamienska Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“unsignificantly off the coast there was a splash quite unnoticed this was Icarus drowning” — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
You cannot sink someone else's end of the boat and still keep your own afloat. — Charles Bower Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There are many ways to drown, only the most obvious wave their arms as they're going under. — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
I know that look, Blake. You are a drowning woman, and the only way out is down the aisle. — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
You are not drowned when u fall into the water but u are when you stay in there. — Psalmgreat Copy Share Image
