Best 120 quotes in «drowning quotes» category

Coroner's inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn't been to the sea-shore in ten years.

Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw.

Cath felt like she was swimming in words. Drowning in them, sometimes.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I suspect this is all gonna end in screaming and drowning

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

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.

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

...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.

No person ever died by drowning in their own sweat.

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

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.

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

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

Promises. I was drowning in promises.

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

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.

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?

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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