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Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go To heal my heart and drown my woe Rain may fall, and wind may blow And many… — J.R.R. Tolkien
It is funny how you do not miss affection until it is given, but once it is, it can never be enough; you would drown… — Libba Bray
I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim. — Frida Kahlo
Drown thyself? Drown cats and blind puppies. — William Shakespeare
There are many ways to drown, only the most obvious wave their arms as they're going under. — Nick Flynn
And that's why, when they want to get rid of anyone, they usually bring him down here (like they were doing with me) and say… — C.S. Lewis
There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning. A fish that is in the… — James Dean
Starlight and comet tails burned the tips of endless grass below into hammered silver. Like thousands of tapers in the chapel, just blown out but… — Gregory Maguire
Most men will not swim before they are able to.” Is that not witty? Naturally, they won't swim! They are born for the solid earth,… — Hermann Hesse
A mermaid found a swimming lad, Picked him up for her own, Pressed her body to his body, Laughed; and plunging down Forgot in cruel… — William Butler Yeats
I suppose like others I have come through fire and sword, love gone wrong, head-on crashes, drunk at sea, and I have listened to the… — Charles Bukowski
Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the… — Joseph Conrad
Love is like the rain. It comes in a drizzle sometimes. Then it starts pouring and if you're not careful it will drown you. — Edwidge Danticat
For in tremendous extremities human souls are like drowning men; well enough they know they are in peril; well enough they know the causes of… — Herman Melville
We were green: we ripened and grew golden. The Sea terrified us: we learned how to drown. Squat and earthbound, we unfolded huge wings. We… — Rumi
Why is it that some secrets can drown you while some pull you close to others in a way you never want to lose? — Libba Bray
And so it was when anyone tried to speak: their minds would become tangled in remembrance. Words became floods of thought with no beginning or… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental… — Charles Baudelaire
I won't put in a load of laundry, because the machine is too loud and would drown out other, more significant noises - namely, the… — David Sedaris
Dive deep. Drown willingly — Ted Dekker
The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Make the upcoming hour overflow with joy, and let pleasure drown the brim. — William Shakespeare
Those you love will not drown or burn. They will fly away.' ...'Now we both have people we love who are like birds. They have… — Alice Hoffman
It was what accidental deaths did to people, made everybody's sea floor irregular and uneven, causing tidal currents to collide, surge upward, thereby resulting in… — Marisha Pessl

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