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• Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Life, Marriage

  Diary, Feb. 1947

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• 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.

  Stevie Smith

  Cold, Moaning, Stills

  'Not Waving but Drowning' (1957)

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• If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning.

  Simon Cowell

  Sight, People, Singing

  "Reality Check: 'Bikini Girl' Brings Out the Fight in New 'Idol' Judge Kara DioGuardi" by Diane Macedo, www.foxnews.com. January 14, 2009.

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• So often we have a kind of vague, wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really to enter into them is to believe them with the clutching intensity of a drowning man.

  William Barclay

  Jesus, Believe, Men

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• One could say the higher the spirit goes, the more deeply the soul sinks down into the waters of melancholy and tragedy. Drowning in that water is as sweet as rising.

  Robert Bly

  Sweet, Water, Soul

  Source: www.utne.com

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• I love you with the passion of a drowning man for breathing air. I can't just have enough of you and having you a little would be disastrous.

  Sandra Thomas

  Love, Girlfriend, Passion

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• We live in the age of Noah (a.s.) in the sense that a flood of distraction accosts us. It is a slow and subtle drowning. For those who notice it, they engage in the remembrance of God. The rites of worship and devotion to God's remembrance (dhikr) are planks of the ark. When Noah (a.s.) started to build his ark, his people mocked him and considered him a fool. But he kept building. He knew what was coming. And we know too.

  Hamza Yusuf

  Religious, Islamic, Dhikr

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• What, concretely, is Enlightenment ?" "Seeing Reality as it is," said the Master. "Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?" "Oh, no! Most people see it as they think it is." "What's the difference?" "The difference between thinking you are drowning in a stormy sea and knowing you cannot drown because there isn't any water in sight for miles around.

  Anthony de Mello

  Reality, Thinking, Sight

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• The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one or two of our lads (per annum) to get drowned in the Mississippi or in Bear Creek, but I was pulled out in a 2/3 drowned condition 9 times before I learned to swim, and was considered to be a cat in disguise.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humorous, Cat

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.706, Jazzybee Verlag

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• SakeThe jewel which brightly shines at nightIs precious, but cannot measure up To the delights of drinking sake,Drowning one's troubles in the cup. Otomo no Tabito

  Reiko Chiba

  Drinking, Jewels, Shining

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

  Tori Amos

  Mermaid, Ifs

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• One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Water, Risk

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• Although sometimes I know it seems impossible, there ain't no need in drowning in your sorrow. If things are as bad as they can be, you can be sure there'll be a brighter tomorrow.

  Shaggy

  Sorrow, Needs, Impossible

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• I sense that his drowning but I don't have any idea of how to start to put my hand into the water and save him.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Hands, Ideas, Water

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• If you found yourself in a situation where you could either save a drowning man, or you could take a Pulitzer prize winning photograph of him drowning, what shutter speed and setting would you use?

  Paul Harvey

  Funny, Humor, Winning

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

  Anna Kamienska

  Men, Stills, Straws

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• Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.

  Octavia Butler

  Fighting, People, Sometimes

  Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Parable of the Sower”, p.69, Open Road Media

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• Did it ever strike you on such a morning as this that drowning would be happiness and peace?

  Charles Dickens

  Happiness, Peace, Morning

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Dickens Ultimate Christmas Collection: The Greatest Stories & Novels for Christmas Time: A Christmas Carol, Doctor Marigold, Oliver Twist, Tom Tiddler's Ground, The Holly-Tree and more (Illustrated): The Best Loved Christmas Classics in One Volume”, p.3654, e-artnow

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• He frames my face with his hands as he says, "Tess. Only you could be brave enough to die with me. But I want you to live for me." We kiss, as desperate as though we were drowning. When our lips part, Alec says, "Forgive me.

  Claudia Gray

  Kissing, Hands, Forgive Me

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• God just doesn't throw a life preserver to a drowning person. He goes to the bottom of the sea, and pulls a corpse from the bottom of the sea, takes him up on the bank, breathes into him the breath of life and makes him alive.

  R. C. Sproul

  Sea, Alive, Breathe

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• People just don't know how to write down a simple easy line. It's difficult for them; it's like trying to keep a hard-on while drowning - not many can do it.

  Charles Bukowski

  Writing, Simple, People

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

  D.T. Suzuki

  Life Lesson, People, Rise Above

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• Nation states are not a solution for democratic governance. This is same for Kurdish people. To see it as a solution is same as trying to drink water while drowning. The real necessity is oxygen not water. The solution is to get out of water and take a deep breath, decrease nation state and increase social democracy. Therefore our requests of a state are no further than a social and deeply rooted democracy.

  Selahattin Demirtas

  Real, People, Water

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• And so she comes to dream herself the tree, The wind possessing her, weaving her young veins, Holding her to the sky and its quick blue, Drowning the fever of her hands in sunlight. She has no memory, nor fear, nor hope Beyond the grass and shadows at her feet.

  Hart Crane

  Dream, Memories, Blue

  Hart Crane (1966). “The complete poems and selected letters and prose of Hart Crane”, Anchor

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• The time when there is nothing at all in your soul except a cry for help may be just that time when God can't give it: you are like the drowning man who can't be helped because he clutches and grabs. Perhaps your own reiterated cries deafen you to the voice you hoped to hear.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Voice, Giving

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