Drowned Quotes

233 Drowned quotes by 194 unique authors

It was like letting go and falling back into water and seeing yourself grinning up through the water, your face like a mask, and seeing… — Jean Rhys
The old order, it is good for the old. A farmer wants his son to be afraid of beautiful women, so that he will not… — Catherynne M. Valente
Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother Jove? Surely all this… — Herman Melville
It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of Philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has… — Karl Marx
We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown. — Henry Miller
I wish I hadn't cried so much!” said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. I shall be punished for it… — Lewis Carroll
He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that. — Robert Jordan
Women were like rivers, their banks were unreachable, the night often rang with the cries of the drowned. — Thomas Bernhard
My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they’d nearly drowned out everything else. — Arthur Golden
And then, when he’s been underwater so long I feel certain he’s drowned, his head pops up right next to me and I start. “Don’t… — Suzanne Collins
Royce cast a harsh and anxious look at the prince. “What?” Alric asked. “I thought we discussed the importance of keeping a low profile.” “Oh,… — Michael J. Sullivan
She’d survived the Drowned Cities because she wasn’t anything like Mouse. When the bullets started flying and warlords started making examples of peacekeeper collaborators, Mahlia… — Paolo Bacigalupi
Yes, but you are still only human.” I laughed, the sound of it drowned out by the crunch of rocks as the mountain continued to… — Jeaniene Frost
I loved him even now, as he took a knife to my throat, as I drowned in blood, as I whispered "Cousin, you were wrong.… — Alice Hoffman
And you're not going to tell me she didn't make a move on you. At least test the waters." "The waters," he said, "were not… — Nora Roberts
Walking down Belmotte was the oddest sensation-- every step took us deeper into the mist until at last it closed over our heads. It was… — Dodie Smith
And from that time on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk, Devouring the green azures; where, entranced in… — Arthur Rimbaud
If you are ever drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations. — Edgar Allan Poe
I hate you!” I screamed at Fang. Tucking my wings in, I aimed downward, diving toward the ground at more than two hundred miles an… — James Patterson
Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic. — Aberjhani
Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering… — Bill Bryson
I want to explain how exhausted I am. Even in my dreams. How I wake up tired. How I’m being drowned by some kind of… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
People dread silence because it is transparent; like clear water, which reveals every obstacle—the used, the dead, the drowned, silence reveals the cast-off words and… — Janet Frame
I am not jealous of what came before me. Come with a man on your shoulders, come with a hundred men in your hair, come… — Pablo Neruda
So when or you or I are made A fable, song, or fleeting shade; All love, all liking, all delight Lies drowned with us in… — Robert Herrick

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194 authors contributed a total of 233 Drowned Quotes, led by these top contributors: