Drowning Quotes

I used to feel like I was drowning. So I stopped trying to swim.

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?

We're all kind of weird and twisted and drowning.

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

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.

I can't swim but if my girlfriend was drowning, I'd still dive in to save her.

It was like drowning, only from the inside out.

Promises. I was drowning in promises.

Two drowning people can't save each other. All they can do is drag each other down.

We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown.

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

To understand the world, one’s place in it, is to be always at the risk of drowning.

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.

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

No person ever died by drowning in their own sweat.

Wherever there is water there is someone drowning.

The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued.

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

Once again, I had that feeling of drowning when I hadn’t even known I was in the pool

hope is like a piece of string when you’re drowning; it just isn’t enough to get you out by itself.

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.

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

I'm drowning my brother drowning.

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.

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.

Drowning yourself won't help, she told herself sternly. Now, drowning Will, on the other hand.

We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man?

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.

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241)

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.

I think you’re the saddest person I’ve ever met. It’s like you’re drowning in it.

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.

It's only water," she said. "Tell that to a drowning man," Giddon said.

A drowning person doesn't rescue herself.

I know that look, Blake. You are a drowning woman, and the only way out is down the aisle.

I'm drowning in papers.

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

You ain't no Hepburn and I ain't no Fonda, but if you were drowning in Golden Ponda, mouth to mouth I'd resuscitate you.

Coroner's inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn't been to the sea-shore in ten years.

My heart stopped twice. They had to stab me to drain the blood from my lungs because I was drowning in my own blood.

I'd just stepped out of the kiddie pool and into the deep end, with no floaties. And drowning was not an option.

He kissed me desperately, like a drowning man and I was his oxygen.

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.

I suspect this is all gonna end in screaming and drowning

The Western world, and the UK in particular, is drowning in a sea of its own blubber.

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

There is a gulf as wide as an ocean between should and want, and I am drowning in it.

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

If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.