Drowning Men Quotes
- In our modern world today, we may seem like drowning men because of the loss of much of our spiritual tradition. — Thomas Yellowtail
- A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
- 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