Drowning Quotes - Page 11

• The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.

  Larry Elder

  Men, Black, Causes

  "'Gun Culture' – What About the 'Fatherless Culture'?" by Larry Elder, www.wnd.com. January 16, 2013.

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• Everything is valuable under the right conditions. To a man dying of thirst, water be more precious than gold. To a drowning man, water be of little worth and great trouble.

  Terry Goodkind

  Men, Water, Dying

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Wizard's First Rule”, p.183, Head of Zeus

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• 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, Candy

  Hal Holbrook (2011). “Harold: The Boy Who Became Mark Twain”, p.64, Macmillan

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• I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can't even see it, something that's drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid, without worth. I might as well be dead.

  Margaret Atwood

  Depression, Lying, Stupid

  Margaret Atwood (1988). “Cat's eye”, Doubleday, 1989

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• For in tremendous extremities human souls are like drowning men; well enough they know they are in peril; well enough they know the causes of that peril;--nevertheless, the sea is the sea, and these drowning men do drown.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Sea, Soul

  Herman Melville (2015). “Pierre or The Ambiguities: Works of Melville”, p.295, 谷月社

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• Wherever there is water there is someone drowning.

  Robert Bly

  Water

  Robert Bly (2013). “Stealing Sugar from the Castle: Selected and New Poems, 1950-2013: Selected Poems, 1950–2011”, p.258, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Adriana loved even the rank animal smell of the man's body, her sweat-slicked breasts and belly flattened beneath him, and her arms and legs clutching him as a drowning woman might clutch another person to save her life. Don't don't don't don't leave me. DON'T LEAVE ME. As in animal copulation the frenzy is to be locked together not out of sentiment or choice but physical compulsion. As if bolts of electric current ran through both their bodies and would only release them from each other when it ceased.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Sex, Animal, Men

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• While a few pertinent points have to be marked, the general impression I desire to convey is of a side door crashing open in life's full flight, and a rush of roaring black time drowning with its whipping wind the cry of lone disaster.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Doors, Wind, Black

  Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.140, Hamilton Books

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• She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Struggle, Might, Desperate

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Even the rats are drowning,' Alex said. Nah,' Kevin said. 'They've been taking swimming lessons at the Y.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Swimming, Alex, Lessons

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2015). “The Life As We Knew It Collection”, p.400, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I belong to the 8% of the world population who calm their apprehension by drowning it in numbers.

  Muriel Barbery

  Numbers, Population, World

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• The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative. A large amount of reminiscence is, by common consent, conceded to the drowning man; and it is not past belief that one may review an entire courtship while removing one's gloves.

  O. Henry

  Past, Men, Gloves

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.1959, Delphi Classics

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• Nature is no sentimentalist, - does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and surly, and will not mind drowning a man or a woman; but swallows your ship like a grain of dust. The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple. The diseases, the elements, fortune, gravity, lightning, respect no persons.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Men, Dust

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.256, Penguin

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• It's not a cold that you can get over. There is no anti-racist certification class. It's a set of socioeconomic traps and cultural values that are fired up every time we interact with the world. It is a thing you have to keep scooping out of the boat of your life to keep from drowning in it. I know it's hard work, but it's the price you pay for owning everything.

  Scott Woods

  Hard Work, Class, Racism

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• I sat in the gradually chilling room, thinking of my whole past the way a drowning man is supposed to, and it seemed part of the present, part of the gray cold and the beggar woman without a face and the moulting birds frozen to their own filth in the Orangerie. I know now I was in the throes of some small glandular crisis, a sublimated bilious attack, a flick from the whip of melancholia, but then it was terrifying...nameless...

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Past, Men, Thinking

  M. F. K. Fisher, Joan Reardon (2004). “The Art of Eating”, p.488, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Let us not tire of preaching love; it is the force that will overcome the world. Let us not tire of preaching love. Though we see that waves of violence succeed in drowning the fire of Christian love, love must win out; it is the only thing that can.

  Oscar Romero

  Christian, Winning, Fire

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• We should not laugh at the person who becoming caught up in his prayer bends his body or moves about in strange ways. Perhaps he moves in this manner to wave off unwelcome thoughts that would interrupt the prayer. Would we find it funny if we saw a person drowning going through strange motions doing whatever was necessary to save his life?

  Baal Shem Tov

  Prayer, Moving, Laughing

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• I'll try to be careful, but I know I'm not immune, cause I just can't imagine how I'd ever come to harm with this feeling that I'm feeling as I'm drowning in your arms.

  Beth Nielsen Chapman

  Fall, Feelings, Trying

  Song: Dance With Me Slow, Album: You Hold the Key

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• I turned on the pillow with a little moan, and at this juncture Jeeves entered with the vital oolong. I clutched at it like a drowning man at a straw hat.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Men, Tea, Littles

  P. G. Wodehouse (2010). “Right Ho, Jeeves”, p.53, The Floating Press

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• Your believing or not believing in karma has no effect on its existence, nor on its consequences to you. Just as a refusal to believe in the ocean would not prevent you from drowning.

  F. Paul Wilson

  Karma, Believe, Ocean

  "The Tomb (Adversary Cycle/Repairman Jack)". Book by F. Paul Wilson, November 1984.

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• A drowning person doesn't rescue herself.

  Julie Schumacher

  Rescue, Persons

  Julie Schumacher (2008). “Black Box”, p.116, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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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

  Littles, Twigs, Wells

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• Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.

  L. Neil Smith

  Lying, Sea, Civilization

  "Empire of Lies" by L. Neil Smith, www.lneilsmith.org. June 15, 2003.

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• Knowledge is theory. We should be thankful if action of management is based on theory. Knowledge has temporal spread. Information is not knowledge. The world is drowning in information but is slow in acquisition of knowledge. There is no substitute for knowledge.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Being Thankful, Acquisition, World

  Quoted in Wash. Post, 29 May 1988

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• There are worse situations than drowning in cash and sitting, sitting, sitting. I remember when I wasn’t awash in cash — and I don’t want to go back.

  Charlie Munger

  Sitting, Investing, Cash

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