Drowning Quotes

346 quotes by 279 authors

All my favorite establishments were either overly crowded or pathetically empty. People either sipped fine vintages in celebration or gulped intoxicants of who cares what… — Monique Truong
So often we have a kind of vague, wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really to enter into… — William Barclay
...it was dangerous to overflow because we might end up finding ourselves occupied by our loved ones and drowning them with our love and enthusiasm. — Paulo Coelho
We walk by faith. We don't stay still, drowning in our misery. — Jentezen Franklin
And so she comes to dream herself the tree, The wind possessing her, weaving her young veins, Holding her to the sky and its quick… — Hart Crane
I love you with the passion of a drowning man for breathing air. I can't just have enough of you and having you a little… — Unknown Author
Whenever I visit a market and see the chickens crowded together in tiny cages that give them no room to move around and spread their… — Dalai Lama
The individual who no longer has a rigid mind has found freedom. Life can be so easy. Refuse to let go and you are a… — George Ohsawa
Sometimes I'd see my father, walking past my building on his way to another nowhere. I could have given him a key, offered a piece… — Nick Flynn
My son will forever travel through a moonless night with only the roar of wind for company.... A drowning man is not separated from the… — Michael Dorris
Just as drowning cannot be equated with swimming, mere existence is not the same as abundant life. We have been offered a new way to… — Jon Foreman
When youâ€™re confronted by a really difficult thing in your life, youâ€™re faced with a choice: you can runaway from it, or you can face… — Unknown Author
I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make dspair pause. For… — Joseph Conrad
Love is a game-yes? I think it is a drowning. — Amy Lowell
If you come upon a person who is drowning, would you ask if they need helpâ€”or would it be better to just jump in and… — Ronald A. Rasband
No matter how hard it gets, Iâ€™d rather be a soldier drowning in my own blood than a coward in my own piss — Chino XL
Once they arrive, affirmative action kids are generally left to sink or swim academically. Brown (University) offers plenty of counseling and tutoring to struggling students,… — Ron Suskind
If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you're drowning. — Tori Amos
Telling me that Iâ€™m obsessed with talking about racism in America is like telling me Iâ€™m obsessed with swimming when Iâ€™m drowning. — Hari Kondabolu
Our world, so we see and hear on all sides, is drowning in materialism, commercialism, consumerism. But the problem is not really there. What we… — Jacob Needleman

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