Expectations Quote by Robert Jordan

He tried to drown his troubles but they knew how to swim.

— Rita Mae Brown

“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

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

— Sydney Somers

“They did not even have to clean off his face to know that the dead man was a stranger. The village was made up…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“The intoxication of leaving himself, of slipping into the void, of dispersing himself in the thought of water, made him forget every discomfort. And…

— Maurice Blanchot

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

— John Millington Synge

“His reading suggested a man swimming in the sea among the wreckage of his ship, and trying to save his life by greedily clutching…

— Anton Chekhov

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

— Thomas Fuller

Moreover he saw a skull floating on the surface of the water and he said unto it: Because you drowned others they drowned you;…

— Hillel the Elder

“He’d dive deeper and deeper into the calming depths of the sea, safe from the storms on the surface. And when he found himself…

— Jasun Ether

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

— Philippa Gregory

“This time he was underwater, running, feet sinking deeper and deeper into the seabed. The surface was within reach if he raised his arms,…

— Flip by Martyn Bedford