Drowning Quotes

346 quotes by 279 authors

You can't have intentions without consequences. The question is, who pays for the consequences? Saving fish from drowning. Same thing. Whoâ€™s saved? Whoâ€™s not? — Amy Tan
Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth. — Robert A. Heinlein
I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever… — Margaret Atwood
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
Adriana loved even the rank animal smell of the man's body, her sweat-slicked breasts and belly flattened beneath him, and her arms and legs clutching… — Joyce Carol Oates
The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative. A large amount of reminiscence is, by common consent, conceded to the… — O. Henry
While a few pertinent points have to be marked, the general impression I desire to convey is of a side door crashing open in life's… — Vladimir Nabokov
I suspect this is all gonna end in screaming and drowning — Scott Lynch
She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life. — Jonathan Safran Foer
Even the rats are drowning,' Alex said. Nah,' Kevin said. 'They've been taking swimming lessons at the Y. — Susan Beth Pfeffer
Our behavior is different. How often have you seen a headline like this?--TWO DIE ATTEMPTING RESCUE OF DROWNING CHILD. If a man gets lost in… — Robert A. Heinlein
I belong to the 8% of the world population who calm their apprehension by drowning it in numbers. — Muriel Barbery
Wherever there is water there is someone drowning. — Robert Bly
He sighed and then focused his eyes right on me. It was like drowning, drowning in seas of green. There was nothing in the world… — Richelle Mead
at first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. what we should fear and dread,… — Gregory David Roberts
It was only the other night everything was fine and the next thing I know Im drowning. How many times can a man go down… — Ray Bradbury
Coroner's inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn't been to the sea-shore in ten years. — Leonard Cohen
Silverstream: You idiot!!! What are you doing in my territory??? Graystripe:...Drowning? Silverstream: Can't you do that in your own territory? Graystripe: Ah, but who would… — Erin Hunter
He'd discovered that his memories of that summer were like bad movie montages - young lovers tossing a Frisbee in the park, sharing a melting… — Richard Russo
Nothing that had ever happened to him, not the shooting of Oyster, or the piteous muttering expiration of John Wesley Shannenhouse, or the death of… — Michael Chabon

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