Accidents Quote by John Cheever

Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.

— Octavia Butler

“Tragedy is the common lot of man. 'So many people have lost children' I remind myself. pp 178-179 This tragedy is such an inextricable…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Naturally men are drowned in a storm, but it is a perfectly straightforward affair, and the depths of the sea are only water after…

— Virginia Woolf

“life is drowning in the ocean sometimes you get killed by the onething you relied on to keep you alive”

— kwanele dee nyembe

Drowned in the sea of responsiblities, a man is compelled to forget everything but his childhood.Mak_786

— Mak_786

“Most people don't die young, at least not here in America. Tragedy is unavoidable, but in this country, it doesn't usually come in the…

— Chuck Wendig

[During the 20th century] ... 170 million men, women, and children have been shot, beaten, tortured, knifed, burned, starved, frozen, crushed, or worked to…

— Rudolph Rummel

“Across a world where all men grieve And grieving strive the more, The great days range like tides and leave Our dead on every…

— Rudyard Kipling

People killing, people dying, people lying, people blind.

— WillIAm

There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have lain aloof…

— George Eliot

We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown.

— Henry Miller

If my work has a theme, I suspect it is a simple one: that most human beings are inescapably alone, and therein lies their…

— Richard Yates