1.
I used to feel like I was drowning. So I stopped trying to swim.
Oliver Sykes
I used to feel overwhelmed and helpless. So I decided to give up the struggle.
2.
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?
Erin Hunter
5.
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.
Tom Hardy
6.
It was like drowning, only from the inside out.
Stephen King
7.
I can't swim but if my girlfriend was drowning, I'd still dive in to save her.
Zayn Malik
9.
Two drowning people can't save each other. All they can do is drag each other down.
Carsten Jensen
10.
We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown.
Henry Miller
12.
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.
Hal Holbrook
13.
To understand the world, one’s place in it, is to be always at the risk of drowning.
Kevin Powers
14.
No person ever died by drowning in their own sweat.
Ann Landers
15.
If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you're drowning.
Tori Amos
16.
The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued.
Mignon McLaughlin
17.
Wherever there is water there is someone drowning.
Robert Bly
18.
hope is like a piece of string when you’re drowning; it just isn’t enough to get you out by itself.
Robert Jordan
19.
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
20.
We cling to words like drowning men to straws. But still we drown, we drown.
Anna Kamienska
21.
Once again, I had that feeling of drowning when I hadn’t even known I was in the pool
Charlaine Harris
22.
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.
Jon Foreman
23.
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.
Milos Forman
24.
Drowning yourself won't help, she told herself sternly. Now, drowning Will, on the other hand.
Cassandra Clare
27.
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.
Karen Hesse
29.
We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man?
Tom Stoppard
30.
He kissed me desperately, like a drowning man and I was his oxygen.
Amanda Hocking
31.
What worse can happen to a man than to have been born? It's like asking a man who is drowning whether he is not afraid of getting wet.
Leonid Andreyev
32.
I suspect this is all gonna end in screaming and drowning
Scott Lynch
33.
The Western world, and the UK in particular, is drowning in a sea of its own blubber.
Michael Simkins
34.
Cath felt like she was swimming in words. Drowning in them, sometimes.
Rainbow Rowell
35.
There is a gulf as wide as an ocean between should and want, and I am drowning in it.
Jodi Picoult
36.
Anxiety is love's greatest killer, because it is like the stranglehold of the drowning.
Anais Nin
37.
If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.
Henry David Thoreau
38.
What do you do when your competitor is drowning? Get a live hose - and stick it in his mouth.
Douglas Ivester
39.
When someone is drowning and you try to save them, they're more likely to drown you before you pull them out.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
40.
My experience as a young actor on network television was that I couldn't make it work. I was drowning as an actor.
James Badge Dale
42.
When a dog is drowning, everyone offers him a drink.
George Herbert
43.
I can't swim and I'm terrified of drowning, but I still love being by water - just not in it.
Sherri Shepherd
44.
They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241)
Ilsa J. Bick
45.
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.
Judith Viorst
46.
I think you’re the saddest person I’ve ever met. It’s like you’re drowning in it.
Elizabeth Scott
47.
You seem to be drowning twice," said Hermione. "Oh, am I?" said Ron peering down at his predictions. "I'd better change one of them to getting trampled by a rampaging Hippogriff.
J. K. Rowling
48.
It's only water," she said. "Tell that to a drowning man," Giddon said.
Kristin Cashore
49.
I know that look, Blake. You are a drowning woman, and the only way out is down the aisle.
Laurell K. Hamilton