Drowning quotes

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.
-- Alice Cooper

#Mouths #Golden #Drowning

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

#Men #Oxygen #Drowning

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

#Men #Drowning #Stills

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

#Two #People #Drowning

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

#Hands #Helping #Drowning

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

#Feelings #Pool #Drowning

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

#Thinking #Like You #Drowning

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

#Territory #Idiot #Drowning

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

#Brother #My Brother #Drowning

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

#Sober #Enough #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.
-- Hal Holbrook

#Fun #Laughing #Drowning

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

#Kind #Twisted #Drowning

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

#Looks #Instinct #Drowning

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

#Actors #Television #Drowning

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

#Fasting #Misery #Drowning

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

#True Love #Mother #Drowning

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

#Drowning #Rescue #Persons

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

#Thinking #Rooms #Drowning

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

#Risk #World #Drowning

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

#Men #Water #Drowning

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

#Men #Asking #Drowning

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

#Drowning #Save Me

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

#Anxiety #Half #Drowning

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

#Littles #Drowning #Twigs

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

#Swim #Trying #Drowning

Here is the boy, drowning.
-- Patrick Ness

#Boys #Drowning

Wherever there is water there is someone drowning.
-- Robert Bly

#Water #Drowning

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

#Pieces #Enough #Drowning

I suspect this is all gonna end in screaming and drowning
-- Scott Lynch

#Drowning #Ends

I can't swim and I'm terrified of drowning, but I still love being by water - just not in it.
-- Sherri Shepherd

#Water #Swim #Drowning

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

#Cold #Drowning #Moaning

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

#Hope #Men #Drowning

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

#Buddhist #Floating #Drowning

I'm drowning in papers.
-- Wislawa Szymborska

#Paper #Drowning #Papers

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

#Girlfriend #Swim #Drowning

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

#Sea #World #Drowning

What do you do when your competitor is drowning? Get a live hose - and stick it in his mouth.
-- Douglas Ivester

#Sticks #Mouths #Drowning