Drowning Quote by Jeanette Winterson

“I felt trapped in my own body, once again in a labyrinth that I didn’t know the way out of. But that labyrinth was…

— Ali Blythe

“A wood that smells of the sea.”

— Nina George

“I told the tree it was going nowhere in life. It was hurtful, but true. Now, maybe in death it will go somewhere, as…

— Jarod Kintz

“A tree once saved my life. A posse was going to hang me, but this wise old oak would not let them. As a…

— Jarod Kintz

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

— Henry David Thoreau

“The world is full of painful stories. Sometimes it seems as though there aren't any other kind and yet I found myself thinking how…

— Octavia E. Butler

“He wondered exactly how lost a person could get. Lost at sea, lost in the woods. Fatally lost.”

— Carol Shields

“I floated like driftwood in the ocean. I wasn’t worried about sharks, because my bathtub is much too shallow.”

— Jarod Kintz

“The forest wanted to beg for mercy but knew precious little about us. Pine trees roared like chainsaws, hoping this was the language of…

— T.R. Darling

“Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.”

— Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451

“Her hands clung to my neck; they would not have held me so fast in a shipwreck. And I did not understand whether she…

— Raymond Radiguet

“But Hercules himself must yield to odds; And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hews down and fells the hardest-timber'd oak.”

— 3 Henry Vi II.i.5355