Drowning Quote by Idries Shah Download Open image ““To drown in treacle is just as unpleasant as to drown in mud.”” — Idries Shah ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Drowning
“If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“It is in vain to drown a fish, no matter how deep you submerge it.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“Drowning is bad enough, he reflected sourly, but drowning sad and sober, that's too cruel.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“You flounder through life, struggling desperately so you won't drown, even though you would float if you'd just relax.” — Natsuki Takaya Copy Share Image
“If you ever see a man trying to drown his sorrows, kindly remind him that his sorrows can swim.” — Pittacus Lore Copy Share Image
“If one is to drown, one may as well do it in the largest possible pond.” — Cathryn Louis Copy Share Image
“I have left behind what tethered me to the lake. The sadness. The self-pity. The dark tentacles of the murky sea monster only I… — Wendy Wunder Copy Share Image
“The water is deep and dark. It shines like treacle in the lights from the boat. You'd go down, down, down.” — Julia Green Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Sadness can run a mermaid aground on the mudflats of despair. But her tears make the ocean deeper.” — Margot Datz Copy Share Image
“To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions; and not to try to avoid what is your lot.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Do not tell your secrets to everyone in this headquarters, Earth. We have surveyed it well. There was nobody to whom to entrust secrets.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Yes, the world is an illusion. But Truth is always being shown there.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Our world is drowning in a sea of self-centeredness. You can make yourself quite unique right away by leaving this ocean of selfishness and… — John Bytheway Copy Share Image
The world around us is an increasingly hostile and sinful place. Occasionally that splashes onto us, and perhaps, in the case of a few of you, it may be nearly drowning you. To anyone struggling under the burden of sin, I say again with the Prophet Joseph that God has ‘a forgiving disposition’ (Lectures on Faith, 42). You can change.… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share
Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love's lonely hour… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Why all these signs around us that make me doubt language and submerge me in meanings, drowning reality instead of extracting it from the… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
I know that look, Blake. You are a drowning woman, and the only way out is down the aisle. — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you're drowning, and it's… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
The individual who no longer has a rigid mind has found freedom. Life can be so easy. Refuse to let go and you are… — George Ohsawa Copy Share Image
“You're back where you swore yourself you wouldn't be The familiar shackles you can't tell from your own skin Your head's under water when… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
Man, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one or two of our lads (per annum) to get drowned in the Mississippi or in Bear Creek, but I was pulled out in a 2/3 drowned condition 9 times before I learned to swim, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share
