Aviation Quote by John Millington Synge

A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day…

— Anonymous

A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into…

— Joseph Conrad

A drowning man cannot be saved until he is utterly exhausted and ceases to make the slightest effort to save himself.

— Watchman Nee

“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

He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.

— Robert Jordan

A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A really great unfortunate person is one who cannot find water even in the sea.

— Vikrant Parsai

“I think about that story a lot now. People in a boat, waiting, terrified, while implacable, unsmiling men, irresistibly strong, seize …. Maybe the…

— Tony Kushner

One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A man destined to hang can never drown

— Regina Spektor

When a man is drowning, it may be better for him to try to swim than to thrash around waiting for divine intervention.

— William Sloane Coffin

Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisonedin mortal…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson