Best 120 quotes in «drowning quotes» category

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

...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 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.

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

No person ever died by drowning in their own sweat.

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

Promises. I was drowning in promises.

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

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

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 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.

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?

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

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 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.

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?

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.

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 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.

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.

«And in the end» said the witch to the drowning prince «You've been the one choosing the thornless path in spite of knowing where it could lead. The one who afraid of the pricking roses, plunged himself into an abyss without petals

And I realize, so suddenly that it hurts, just how empty a creature can be, while still filled to the brim with drowning agony.

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

At that darkest moment, while drowning in the Abyss of Emotional Bankruptcy, reflect on this universal truth: the difference between success and failure is one more time.

A wind that howled like a drowning man.

Coincidences undeniably imply meaning. I am rereading Hart Crane. I notice the date On which he stepped off that boat Was April 26. Tomorrow is April 26. The year of his suicide was 1932. I was four. I am now fifty-one. One undeniable implication in this case then Is that the year, today, Is 1979. Afterward, Crane’s mother scrubbed floors. Eventually, I may or may not Jump overboard. Are there questions?

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.