Best 120 quotes in «drowning quotes» category

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

...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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

No person ever died by drowning in their own sweat.

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

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

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.

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?

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.

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

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

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?

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

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 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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

Because one look into his eyes, and she was drowning in what existed there and didn’t want to surface.

Believe that you are someone worth saving.

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.

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