Drowns Quotes
66 quotes by 57 authors
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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
— Francis Bacon
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law.
— Michel de Montaigne
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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
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God pisses down the back of your neck every day but only drowns you once.
— Stephen King
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I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy. To live your life is not as simple as to cross a field.
— Boris Pasternak
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Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns, But breathes, like perfect joys, Tender tones.
— Frederick Tennyson
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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
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Love is the sea where intellect drowns.
— Rumi
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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
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Nobody drowns by falling in the water...but by staying there.
— Shiv Khera
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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
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It's not the sea that drowns you-it's the puddle.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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When you let money speak for you, it drowns out anything else you meant to say.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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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
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Noise has one advantage. It drowns out words.
— Milan Kundera
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The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns.
— Gabriela Mistral
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