Drowns Quotes

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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. — Francis Bacon
The devil is not only a liar, but also a murderer, he constantly seeks our life, and wreaks his anger whenever he can afflict our… — Martin Luther
When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me… — Rainer Maria Rilke
The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
TV, and the culture it anchors, masks and drowns out the subtle and vital information contact with the real world once provided. There are lessons,… — Bill McKibben
The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law. — Michel de Montaigne
A few times in my life I've had moments of clarity where the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think. — Tom Ford
God pisses down the back of your neck every day but only drowns you once. — Stephen King
I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy. To live your life is not as simple as to cross a field. — Boris Pasternak
Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns, But breathes, like perfect joys, Tender tones. — Frederick Tennyson
The most tragic consequence of our criticism of a man is to block his way to humiliation and grace, precisely to drive him into the… — Paul Tournier
Love is the sea where intellect drowns. — Rumi
Here life goes on, even and monotonous on the surface, full of lightning, of summits and of despair, in its depths. We have now arrived… — May Sarton
Nobody drowns by falling in the water...but by staying there. — Shiv Khera
No one was ever born without that light or flame of life. Some event, some person stifles or drowns it altogether. I was always tempted… — Anais Nin
It's not the sea that drowns you-it's the puddle. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
When you let money speak for you, it drowns out anything else you meant to say. — Mignon McLaughlin
The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity; and of that it sings its monotonous… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
Noise has one advantage. It drowns out words. — Milan Kundera
The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns. — Gabriela Mistral

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