Drowning Quotes - Page 4

• 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

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  50 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  21 Copy quote

• 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.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  12 Copy quote

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

  Anais Nin

  Anxiety, Killers

  4 Copy quote

• Whenever I visit a market and see the chickens crowded together in tiny cages that give them no room to move around and spread their wings and the fish slowly drowning in the air, my heart goes out to them. People have to learn to think about animals in a different way, as sentient beings who love life and fear death. I urge everyone who can to adopt a compassionate vegetarian diet.

  Dalai Lama

  Moving, Heart, Love Life

  7 Copy quote

• Sometimes I'd see my father, walking past my building on his way to another nowhere. I could have given him a key, offered a piece of my floor. A futon. A bed. But I never did. If I let him inside I would become him, the line between us would blur, my own slow-motion car wreck would speed up. The slogan on the side of a moving company truck read TOGETHER WE ARE GOING PLACES--modified by a vandal or a disgruntled employee to read TOGETHER WE ARE GOING DOWN. If I went to the drowning man the drowning man would pull me under. I couldn't be his life raft.

  Nick Flynn

  Father, Moving, Men

  7 Copy quote

• 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.

  Neil Postman

  Information, Entertainment, Commodity

  25 Copy quote

• If it was true that lower taxes for the rich and more wealth to the wealthy leat to job creation, today we would be drowning in jobs.

  Nick Hanauer

  Jobs, Would Be, Today

  17 Copy quote

• 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

  68 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  25 Copy quote

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

  Arthur Baer

  Men, Rope, Helpful

  8 Copy quote

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

  Mark Slouka

  Save Me

  Mark Slouka (2013). “Brewster”, p.41, Portobello Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• All my favorite establishments were either overly crowded or pathetically empty. People either sipped fine vintages in celebration or gulped intoxicants of who cares what kind, drowning themselves in a lack of moderation, raising a glass to lower inhibitions, imbibing spirits to raise their own.

  Monique Truong

  Glasses, Vintage, People

  Monique Truong (2004). “The Book of Salt: A Novel”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• ...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.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Might, Enthusiasm

  7 Copy quote