Best 120 quotes in «drowning quotes» category

He kissed me desperately, like a drowning man and I was his oxygen.

I can't swim but if my girlfriend was drowning, I'd still dive in to save her.

I can't swim and I'm terrified of drowning, but I still love being by water - just not in it.

hope is like a piece of string when you’re drowning; it just isn’t enough to get you out by itself.

I'd just stepped out of the kiddie pool and into the deep end, with no floaties. And drowning was not an option.

I don't know what I am thinking. But I am alone. I am trapped in the net of the room. In the net of humans. I think maybe I am drowning in the net of humans.

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

If his mother was drowning and I was drowning and he had to choose one of us to save, He says he'd save me.

If my competitor were drowning I'd stick a hose in his mouth and turn on the water.

I never had a lot of drive, but because I had family responsibilities, I had a lot of tenacity - the tenacity of a drowning man.

If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you're drowning.

In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim

Information is now a commodity that can be bought and sold, or used as a form of entertainment, or worn like a garment to enhance one's status. It comes indiscriminately, directed at no one in particular, disconnected from usefulness; we are glutted with information, drowning in information, have no control over it, don't know what to do with it.

...it was dangerous to overflow because we might end up finding ourselves occupied by our loved ones and drowning them with our love and enthusiasm.

I suspect this is all gonna end in screaming and drowning

I think you’re the saddest person I’ve ever met. It’s like you’re drowning in it.

Just as drowning cannot be equated with swimming, mere existence is not the same as abundant life. We have been offered a new way to live – a new way to be human.

I was taught that if you see a person drowning, you must jump into the water to save them, whether you can swim or not.

Ju jitsu is very Buddhist. All that we fear we hold close to ourselves to survive. So if you're drowning and you see a corpse floating by, hang on to it because it will rescue you.

My experience as a young actor on network television was that I couldn't make it work. I was drowning as an actor.

It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.

Kafka didn't save me. He just told me I was drowning.

Once again, I had that feeling of drowning when I hadn’t even known I was in the pool

Silverstream: You idiot!!! What are you doing in my territory??? Graystripe:...Drowning? Silverstream: Can't you do that in your own territory? Graystripe: Ah, but who would rescue me there?

No person ever died by drowning in their own sweat.

Promises. I was drowning in promises.

Oh, no no no, it was too cold always (Still the dead one lay moaning) I was much too far out all my life And not waving but drowning.

The lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning.

The only good reason for swimming, so far as I can see, is to escape drowning.

The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued.

There was so much to learn and it was all fun. But the best part was getting a laugh from an audience. That was like drowning in candy.

We cling to words like drowning men to straws. But still we drown, we drown.

The Western world, and the UK in particular, is drowning in a sea of its own blubber.

We walk by faith. We don't stay still, drowning in our misery.

There is a gulf as wide as an ocean between should and want, and I am drowning in it.

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

Well, listen, you know, the Czech saying is, you know, when you are drowning you are grabbing even a little twig. That's what all Czechs were doing, grabbing for... with the hope for this little twig.

When a dog is drowning, everyone offers him a drink.

When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me.

You ain't no Hepburn and I ain't no Fonda, but if you were drowning in Golden Ponda, mouth to mouth I'd resuscitate you.

You can't have intentions without consequences. The question is, who pays for the consequences? Saving fish from drowning. Same thing. Who’s saved? Who’s not?

Why all these signs around us that make me doubt language and submerge me in meanings, drowning reality instead of extracting it from the imaginary?

You can't keep a cool head when you're drowning in love. You just trash around a lot and scream, and wear yourself out.

You ought to know how to rise above the trivialities of life, in which most people are found drowning themselves.

You idiot!" She spat, flattening her ears. "What are you doing in my territory?" "Drowning?" Replied Graystripe.

And that someone would pay. Revenge is a cold bedfellow, Diana had said, but Emma didn't believe that. Revenge would let her think about her parents without a cold knot forming in her stomach. She would be able to dream without seeing their drowned faces and hearing their voices cry out for her help.

And we loved so blindly that we jumped in to save them and ended up drowning ourselves.

You can’t walk away from someone you love, leave them drowning in your desertion. If love has no more meaning than that, you can keep it. I don’t want it now or ever again. Don’t want to hear the word or wear its scars.

Your believing or not believing in karma has no effect on its existence, nor on its consequences to you. Just as a refusal to believe in the ocean would not prevent you from drowning.

As they expect to see you drowning, keep on floating.