Best 120 quotes in «drowning quotes» category

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

A drowning person doesn't rescue herself.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 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 suspect this is all gonna end in screaming and 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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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?