Drowning Quotes - Page 4

• 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.

  Irena Sendler

  Water, Swim, Taught

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• at first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. what we should fear and dread, of course, is that we wont stop loving them, even after they are dead and gone. for i still love you with the whole of my heart. i still love you. and sometimes, my friend, the love that i have and cant give to you, crushed the breast from my chest. soemtimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Stars, Laughter, Love You

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.553, Macmillan

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• It was only the other night everything was fine and the next thing I know Im drowning. How many times can a man go down and still be alive? I can't breathe

  Ray Bradbury

  Night, Men, Alive

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.63, Hamilton Books

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• The intellectual is always showing off,
  the lover is always getting lost.
  The intellectual runs away.
  afraid of drowning;
  the whole business of love
  is to drown in the sea.
  Intellectuals plan their repose;
  lovers are ashamed to rest.
  The lover is always alone.
  even surrounded by people;
  like water and oil, he remains apart.
  The man who goes to the trouble
  of giving advice to a lover
  get nothing. He's mocked by passion.
  Love is like musk. It attracts attention.
  Love is a tree, and the lovers are its shade.

  Rumi

  Love, Running, Passion

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “Love's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's Journey”, p.20, Shambhala Publications

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• Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat
  Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast,
  Drowning love's lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.

  William Butler Yeats

  Lonely, Peace, Fall

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.49, Wordsworth Editions

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• 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.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Responsibility, Men, Tenacity

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• At some point, we have to stop a force that's going out and drowning people in steel cages and chopping off heads.

  Donald Trump

  People, Steel, Going Out

  "Trump Holds Town Hall in Herndon, Virginia; Trump Discusses Cyberattacks, National Security". "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. October 3, 2016.

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• The birth of a doubt that was once your belief is drowning in the tears that you cry.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Sadness, Doubt, Tears

  Song: Never, Album: The Ultimate Sin, 1986

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• The expression "following suit" is a curious one, because it has nothing to do with walking behind a matching set of clothing. If you follow suit, it means you do the same thing somebody else has just done. If all of your friends decided to jump off a bridge into the icy waters of an ocean or river, for instance, and you jumped in right after them, you would be following suit. You can see why following suit can be a dangerous thing to do, because you could end up drowning simply because somebody else thought of it first.

  Daniel Handler

  Ocean, Mean, Expression

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• Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand,
  For I am drowning in a stormier sea
  Than Simon on thy lake of Galilee

  Oscar Wilde

  Jesus, Prayer, Lakes

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Poems”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• Swimming is good for you, especially if you're drowning. Not only do you get a cardiovascular workout but also you don't die.

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Workout, Humor

  "Jimmy Carr's 40 most memorable jokes: One-liners and videos galore to mark comic's 40th birthday" by Rob Leigh, www.mirror.co.uk. September 14, 2012.

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• The world is drowning in weirdness and lies......and here we are, so used to it that we're actually bored!

  Inio Asano

  Lying, Bored, World

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• Anxiety is love's greatest killer, because it is like the stranglehold of the drowning.

  Anais Nin

  Anxiety, Killers

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• Republicans have become the party of red, white and blue rose colored glasses. By drowning out criticism with USA! USA!, they prevent this country from healing itself where it needs healing, and that is the opposite of Country First.

  Bill Maher

  Country, Party, Healing

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• The world is by no means averse to religion. In fact, it is devoted to it with a passion. It will buy any recipe for salvation as long as that formula leaves the responsibility for cooking up salvation firmly in human hands. The world is drowning in religion. But it is scared out of its wits by any mention of the grace that takes the world home gratis.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Mean, Responsibility, Passion

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• If I rescued a child from drowning, the press would no doubt headline the story: 'Benn grabs child

  Tony Benn

  Funny, Children, Humor

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• The avalanche of time sweeps everything before it. Every individual instant hurtles into oblivion, drowning out the obliteration of the instant immediately preceding it, and then it too disappears under the onslaught of the next and the next and the next. When the avalanche has shuddered past for a long enough time, the perception of the past evolves. Distant events grow beyond mere history and take on the weight of legend.

  David Gerrold

  Time, Past, Long

  David Gerrold (1993). “Under the Eye of God”, Spectra

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• I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make dspair pause. For in truth, we who are creatures of impulse, are creatures of despair.

  Joseph Conrad

  Love, Men, Despair

  "Chance". Book by Joseph Conrad, part I, ch. 6, 1913.

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• I’m attracted to the idea of drowning. Or rather the idea of jumping off and being enveloped by something, not bad or good, just enveloping.
  When I was a kid, I had a moment when I got under the water, lying on the pool floor, and felt I could breathe. I’ve been trying to recreate that feeling ever since.

  Florence Welch

  Lying, Kids, Jumping

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• Everybody breaks sooner or later, Bob. Anyone can drown. Sometimes you see it. Most often, you don’t because the body protects and the skin hides, so drowning doesn’t look like drowning and some people scar so nicely. Take it from an expert.

  Ilsa J. Bick

  People, Skins, Looks

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• When someone is drowning and you try to save them, they're more likely to drown you before you pull them out.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Trying

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “Styxx”, p.206, Macmillan

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• Maybe that's why he had started to fear suffocation. It wasn't so much drowning in the earth or sea but the feeling that he was sinking into too many expectations, literally getting in over his head. Wow...when he started having thoughts like that, he knew he'd been spending too much time with Annabeth.

  Rick Riordan

  Sea, Expectations, Feelings

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• Here is the boy, drowning.

  Patrick Ness

  Boys

  "More than this". Book by Patrick Ness, September 5, 2013.

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• Cath felt like she was swimming in words. Drowning in them, sometimes.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Swimming, Sometimes, Felt

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.74, Pan Macmillan

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• Ric Flair is out there crying, his nose is running. He's probably drowning from the size of his nose running.

  Roddy Piper

  Running, Wrestling, Noses

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