💬 SenQuotes.com

Drowning Quotes

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.
Authors on Drowning Quotes: Leonid Andreyev Robert Jordan Amanda Hocking Carsten Jensen Michael Simkins Haruki Murakami Scott Lynch Jodi Picoult Karen Hesse Rainbow Rowell Henry David Thoreau Stephen King Anais Nin Douglas Ivester Mignon McLaughlin James Badge Dale Sherrilyn Kenyon Patrick Ness Jon Foreman Hal Holbrook Thomas More Henry Miller Stevie Smith Ann Landers Cassandra Clare Milos Forman George Herbert Sherri Shepherd Elizabeth Scott Judith Viorst Ilsa J. Bick Tom Hardy Fyodor Dostoevsky
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

3.
We're all kind of weird and twisted and drowning.
Haruki Murakami

4.
We walk by faith. We don't stay still, drowning in our misery.
Jentezen Franklin

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

8.
Promises. I was drowning in promises.
Richelle Mead

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

11.
Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

25.
Drowning was bad enough. But drowning sad and sober, that's too cruel.
George R. R. Martin

26.
I'm drowning my brother drowning.
Eva Paterson

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

28.
A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
Thomas More

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

41.
Here is the boy, drowning.
Patrick Ness

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

50.
A drowning person doesn't rescue herself.
Julie Schumacher