Drowning Quotes

346 quotes by 279 authors

Nobody wanted your dance, Nobody wanted your strange glitter, your floundering Drowning life and your effort to save yourself, Treading water, dancing the dark turmoil,… — Ted Hughes
Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers. — Octavia Butler
Like any normal fifth grader, I preferred my villains to be evil and stay that way, to act like Dracula rather than Frankenstein's monster, who… — David Sedaris
Hooking on scuba gear and blindly diving into zombie-infested water is a wonderful way to mix the two childhood terrors of being eaten and drowning. — Max Brooks
Is there a phone I can use? (Talon) In the kitchen. (Sunshine) Could you please bring it to me? (Talon) Itâ€™s not cordless. I always… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Life was a small negative space cut out of the eternal solidity, and for the first time, it felt precious - not like all of… — Jonathan Safran Foer
I know that look, Blake. You are a drowning woman, and the only way out is down the aisle. — Laurell K. Hamilton
Have you ever had one of those moments when time just freezes? You know, when the world suddenly goes deathly still, and you could hear… — Karen Marie Moning
You came back fighting and furious at me. You told me you'd been looking for mermaids, and I interrupted you. [...] I said that next… — Jodi Picoult
Drowning yourself won't help, she told herself sternly. Now, drowning Will, on the other hand... — Cassandra Clare
In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim — Unknown Author
The man in ecstasy and the man drowning - both throw up their arms. The first to signify harmony, the second to signify strife with… — Franz Kafka
If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train. — Markus Zusak
There was no time for kissing but she wanted him to know that in the future there would be. A kiss in so much loneliness… — Ann Patchett
And sweet and far as from a star, replied a voice which shall not cease, till drowning all the noise of war, it sings the… — John Greenleaf Whittier
There is a gulf as wide as an ocean between should and want, and I am drowning in it. — Jodi Picoult
L.A. burns, and so many other cities smolder, waiting for the hose that will flood gasoline over the coals, and we listen to politicians who… — Dennis Lehane
Promises. I was drowning in promises. — Richelle Mead
Once again, I had that feeling of drowning when I hadnâ€™t even known I was in the pool — Charlaine Harris
It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help. — Mark Twain

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