Drowned Quotes

233 Drowned quotes by 194 unique authors

Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drenched our teeples, drowned the cocks! You sulphurour and… — William Shakespeare
Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other. — Anatole Broyard
She drowned in words that could not teach her how to swim. — Marilyn French
And then more quiet, silence so deep it almost drowned out the roar of the night music that pounded away in my secret self. — Jeff Lindsay
A venturesome minority will always be eager to set off on their own, and no obstacles should be placed in their path; let them take… — Edward Abbey
Be still: There is no longer any need of comment. It was a lucky wind That blew away his halo with his cares, A lucky… — Thomas Merton
If I am going to be drowned – if I am going to be drowned – if I am going to be drowned, why in… — Stephen Crane
Blue as the evening sky, blue as cranesbill flowers, blue as the lips of drowned men and the heart of a blaze burning with too… — Cornelia Funke
Strangely, when I totally emerged from this slump I couldn't comprehend how I had almost drowned it it. — Jim Harrison
Everyone in the life before was cranky, I think, because they just wanted to know. --After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I… — Dave Eggers
Henry's universe was modeled on the highball. It was a mixture in which half a pint of the fizziest philosophical and scientific ideas all but… — Aldous Huxley
You’re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own reflection in the water. You’re alone, so… — Alfred de Musset
I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned river… — Arthur Koestler
Life is short And pleasures few And holed the ship And drowned the crew But o! But o! How very blue the sea is. — Clive Barker
i am like a survivor of the flood walking through the streets drenched with God surprised that all of the drowned victims are still walking… — Saul Williams
Fools!" said the man, stamping his foot with rage. "That is the sort of talk that brought me here, and I'd better have been drowned… — C.S. Lewis
She had learned, in her life, that time lived inside you. You are time, you breathe time. When she'd been young, she'd had an insatiable… — David Wroblewski
There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no… — Toni Morrison
She couldn't tell where his pupils ended and the irises began; looking into those eyes was like looking into a well where children had drowned. — MaryJanice Davidson
Olivia: What's a drunken man like, fool? Feste: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool;… — William Shakespeare
Captain Ahab drowned, he reminded himself; it was the trimmer, Ishmael, who survived. — Salman Rushdie
He had said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god. It… — John Steinbeck
He hadn’t been her first lover or the first boy to give her an orgasm. He hadn’t even been the first she’d loved. He’d been… — Megan Hart
How did you die?" "We er....drowned in a bathtub." "All three of you?" "It was a big bathtub. — Rick Riordan

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