Best 120 quotes in «drowning quotes» category

When you push someone's head under water for 5 minutes, they will drown. It doesn't matter if the person is a sinner or a saint. It's just a natural process. If their head is under water, the lack of oxygen will make them drown. That rule applies to everyone, good or bad, equally. It doesn't matter if the drowning person has strong moral fiber. And it doesn't matter if you're a good or a bad person, once you become addicted to drugs. What happens next is inevitable. It's a natural process that happens in everyone's brain, once the drugs take over. So don't ever fool yourself into thinking that only weak or bad people get addicted.

Why d’you think she did it?” I told him I had no idea. He seemed disappointed that I shouldn’t know. “A broken heart,” I suggested. “Do people suffer so much?” “For love? Oh, I imagine so.” “To drown herself?” “Why does that astonish you? Dido threw herself on the flames.” “In legend.” “And real life’s different?” I asked.

A drowning person doesn't rescue herself.

You don't need an ocean to feel like you're drowning. You feel it, between your chest and your throat, the weight of it stretching you outside your self, like a dead fish on the shore.

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

You're back where you swore yourself you wouldn't be The familiar shackles you can't tell from your own skin Your head's under water when you learned to swim On a road to hell, congratulations, you're free...

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

A gun is like breath to a drowning man--it has to be drawn in haste.

Anxiety is love's greatest killer, because it is like the stranglehold of the drowning.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I suspect this is all gonna end in screaming and drowning

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Promises. I was drowning in promises.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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?

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