Quote by George R.R. Martin

“Drowning is not so pitiful as the attempt to rise.”

— Emily Dickinson

Drowning was bad enough. But drowning sad and sober, that's too cruel.

— Anonymous

“If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Life is full of drowning people, reading and willing to drown you, too.”

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

“I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows. But now the damned things have learned to swim ,and now decency and good behavior…

— Frida Kahlo

“His head was barely above water, and he’d never welcomed drowning so much in his whole damn life.”

— Sydney Somers

“Drink never drown anyone's sorrows," he went on. "It only teaches them how to swim.”

— Marian Keyes

“I was like a whirlpool of tragedy, and anybody who dared to get too close to me could get sucked in and drown. Like…

— Victoria Laurie

“Drowning, Drowning on the land, Drowning, It doesn't end.”

— C.G. Visser

“I tried to drown my sorrows but the bastards learned how to swim.”

— Frida Kahlo

“In a shipwreck, it is every drowning man for himself.”

— Philippa Gregory

“They say that when a man is going to drown, when he finally gives up the struggle - it's sort of blissful, for a…

— John Hodge