Drowning Quotes

346 quotes by 279 authors

Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open. — Tahar Ben Jelloun
Every day, TV, newspapers, and the Internet bombard us with a message that we're destroying the earth. Ice caps are melting, rivers are dying, polar… — Penn Jillette
When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help… — John Lennon
Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him,… — Anais Nin
I can't swim and I'm terrified of drowning, but I still love being by water - just not in it. — Sherri Shepherd
I'm drowning in papers. — Wislawa Szymborska
I maintain, despite the moment's evidence against the claim, that we are born and grow up with a fondness for each other, and we have… — Lewis Thomas
My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a… — Florence Welch
We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information… — E. O. Wilson
Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into… — Anais Nin
They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea. — Cormac McCarthy
Not Waving but Drowning Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you thought And not… — Stevie Smith
In this republican country, amid the fluctuating waves of our social life, somebody is always at the drowning-point. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of… — Nancy Mitford
To accept oneâ€™s past â€“ oneâ€™s history â€“ is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An… — James A. Baldwin
If his mother was drowning and I was drowning and he had to choose one of us to save, He says he'd save me. — Judith Viorst
You don't care what people think. You don't see your beloved's faults, the slight stinginess, the bit of carelessness, the occasional streak of meanness. You… — Amy Tan
You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you? — Jodi Picoult
It was like drowning, only from the inside out. — Stephen King

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