quotes about Drowning
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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 -
He kissed me desperately, like a drowning man and I was his oxygen.
-- Amanda Hocking -
We cling to words like drowning men to straws. But still we drown, we drown.
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Two drowning people can't save each other. All they can do is drag each other down.
-- Carsten Jensen -
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Drowning yourself won't help, she told herself sternly. Now, drowning Will, on the other hand...
-- Cassandra Clare -
Once again, I had that feeling of drowning when I hadn’t even known I was in the pool
-- Charlaine Harris -
I think you’re the saddest person I’ve ever met. It’s like you’re drowning in it.
-- Elizabeth Scott -
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 -
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Drowning was bad enough. But drowning sad and sober, that's too cruel.
-- George R. R. Martin -
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 HolbrookSource : Hal Holbrook (2011). “Harold: The Boy Who Became Mark Twain”, p.64, Macmillan
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We're all kind of weird and twisted and drowning.
-- Haruki Murakami -
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They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241)
-- Ilsa J. Bick -
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 -
We walk by faith. We don't stay still, drowning in our misery.
-- Jentezen FranklinSource : Jentezen Franklin (2011). “Fasting”, p.125, Charisma Media
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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 -
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A drowning person doesn't rescue herself.
-- Julie SchumacherSource : Julie Schumacher (2008). “Black Box”, p.116, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
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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 HesseSource : Karen Hesse (2004). “The Music of Dolphins”, p.110, Oxford University Press, USA
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To understand the world, one’s place in it, is to be always at the risk of drowning.
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It's only water," she said. "Tell that to a drowning man," Giddon said.
-- Kristin Cashore -
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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 -
Kafka didn't save me. He just told me I was drowning.
-- Mark SloukaSource : Mark Slouka (2013). “Brewster”, p.41, Portobello Books
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The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued.
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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 -
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I used to feel like I was drowning. So I stopped trying to swim.
-- Oliver Sykes -
Wherever there is water there is someone drowning.
-- Robert Bly -
hope is like a piece of string when you’re drowning; it just isn’t enough to get you out by itself.
-- Robert Jordan -
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I suspect this is all gonna end in screaming and drowning
-- Scott LynchSource : Scott Lynch (2007). “Red Seas Under Red Skies”, p.209, Del Rey
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I can't swim and I'm terrified of drowning, but I still love being by water - just not in it.
-- Sherri Shepherd -
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 SmithSource : 'Not Waving but Drowning' (1957)
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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 HardySource : "Tom Hardy: 'It's a normal human impulse to watch two people kick the hell out of each other'". Interview With Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2011.
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I can't swim but if my girlfriend was drowning, I'd still dive in to save her.
-- Zayn Malik -
The Western world, and the UK in particular, is drowning in a sea of its own blubber.
-- Michael Simkins -
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What do you do when your competitor is drowning? Get a live hose - and stick it in his mouth.
-- Douglas IvesterSource : "That’s the Spirit" by Milton Moskowitz, www.motherjones.com. July/August 1997.