Drowning Quotes

• You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Edwin Louis Cole (1998). “Profiles in Courageous Manhood”, Albury Pub

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• I'm just here,existing at the surface of the water,not quite drowning but not quite able to breathe.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Water, Able, Breathe

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• It was like drowning, only from the inside out.

  Stephen King

  Stephen King (1999). “The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon: A Novel”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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• When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.

  John Lennon

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Jann Wenner, John Lennon (2001). “Lennon Remembers”, p.83, Verso

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

  Watchman Nee

  Men, Effort, Exhausted

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Normal Christian Life”, p.131, CLC Publications

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

  Henry Miller

  Swimming, Faces

  Henry Miller, John Calder (1985). “A Henry Miller reader”, Riverrun Pr

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• When you're scrambling to fill the void in your life and you feel like you're drowning... we all yearn to hear that one friend's voice, say: "You're going to get through this."

  Nelly Furtado

  Voice, Void, Like You

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• We're all kind of weird and twisted and drowning.

  Haruki Murakami

  Kind, Twisted, All Kinds

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• You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?

  Jodi Picoult

  Water, Needs, Like You

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.505, Simon and Schuster

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• We are drowning in information
  but starved for knowledge.

  John Naisbitt

  Reading, Book, Knowledge

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• Two drowning people can't save each other. All they can do is drag each other down.

  Carsten Jensen

  Two, People, Drag

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• A little criticism makes me angry, and a little rejection makes me depressed. A little praise raises my spirits, and a little success excites me. It takes very little to raise me up or thrust me down. Often I am like a small boat on the ocean, completely at the mercy of its waves. All the time and energy I spend in keeping some kind of balance and preventing myself from being tipped over and drowning shows my life is mostly a struggle for survival: not a holy struggle, but an anxious struggle resulting from the mistaken idea that it is the world that defines me.

  Henri Nouwen

  Ocean, Struggle, Self

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming”, p.42, Image

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

  Robert Jordan

  Pieces, Enough, Strings

  Robert Jordan (2000). “The Eye of the World: Book One of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.315, Macmillan

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

  Bono

  Dream, Swim, Sorrow

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  Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

  Steve Jobs

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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

  Helen Cresswell

  Sports, Swimming, Reason

  Helen Cresswell (2017). “The Bagthorpe Saga: Ordinary Jack (Collins Modern Classics)”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

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• I used to feel like I was drowning. So I stopped trying to swim.

  Oliver Sykes

  Swim, Trying, Used

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• Drowning was bad enough. But drowning sad and sober, that's too cruel.

  George R. R. Martin

  Sober, Enough, Tyrion

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• To accept one’s past – one’s history – is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.

  James A. Baldwin

  Past, Clay, Cracks

  "Letter from a Region in My Mind" by James A. Baldwin, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 1962.

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• I remember a story I once heard about drowning: that when you fall into cold water it's not that you drown right away but that the cold disorients you and makes you think that down is up and up is down, so you may be swimming, swimming, swimming for your life in the wrong direction, all the way toward the bottom until you sink. That's how I feel, as though everything has been turned around.

  Lauren Oliver

  Fall, Swimming, Thinking

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• People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

  Ann Landers

  Drinking, Swimming, Beer

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

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Wisps, Said

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• This is a setback. You get back up, you dust yourself off, and you get back in the game. We had a great singer named Ray Charles who wrote a song called 'Drowning in My Tears.' You can't afford to drown in your tears. You gotta go back, rededicate yourself, redouble your efforts, and persevere.

  Don King

  Song, Dust, Games

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• To understand the world, one’s place in it, is to be always at the risk of drowning.

  Kevin Powers

  Risk, World

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• 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.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Someone You Love, Want, Scar

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