Drowning Quotes - Page 13

• Ah, love is a voyage with water and a star, in drowning air and squalls of precipitate bran; love is a war of lights in the lightning flashes, two bodies blasted in a single burst of honey.

  Pablo Neruda

  Love, Stars, War

  Pablo Neruda (1974). “Pablo Neruda: Five Decades, a Selection (poems, 1925-1970)”, p.209, Grove Press

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• You can die from someone else's misery — emotional states are as infectious as diseases. You may feel you are helping the drowning man but you are precipitating your own disaster. The unfortunate sometimes draw misfortune on themselves; they will also draw it on you. Associate with the happy and fortunate instead.

  Robert Greene

  Men, Emotional, May

  Robert Greene (2010). “The 48 Laws Of Power”, p.10, Profile Books

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• When a dog is drowning, everyone offers him a drink.

  George Herbert

  Dog, Drink, Offers

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• Man, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Sad, Sadness, Men

  "Quick on the drawl" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2002.

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• In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.

  Don DeLillo

  Editing, Self, Voice

  1982 Owen Brademas. The Names, ch.5.

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• Imagine you're drowning, and someone hands you a baby.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Baby, Hands, Imagine

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

  Zayn Malik

  Girlfriend, Swim, Stills

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• In our modern world today, we may seem like drowning men because of the loss of much of our spiritual tradition.

  Thomas Yellowtail

  Spiritual, Loss, Men

  Thomas Yellowtail, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (1994). “Yellowtail, Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief: An Autobiography”, p.121, University of Oklahoma Press

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• Comics play a trite but lusty tune on the C natural keys of human nature. They rouse the most primitive, but also the most powerful, reverberations in the noisy cranial sound-box of consciousness, drowning out more subtle symphonies. Comics scorn finesse, thereby incurring the wrath of linguistic adepts. They defy the limits of accepted fact and convention, thus amortizing to apoplexy the ossified arteries of routine thought.

  William Moulton Marston

  Powerful, Book, Keys

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• If you can learn to endure pain, you can survive anything. Some people learn to embrace it- to love it. Some endure it through drowning it in sorrow, or by making themselves forget. Others turn it into anger.

  Sarah J. Maas

  Pain, People, Sorrow

  Sarah J. Maas (2014). “The Assassin's Blade”, p.222, A&C Black

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• Scatter money in a crowd, how they scramble for it; offer bread to the starving, how greedily they seize it; throw a rope to the drowning, how he eagerly grasps it! With like eagerness and earnestness may the Spirit of God help you to lay hold on Christ.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Rope, Crowds, May

  Thomas Guthrie (1863). “The Way to Life: Sermons”, p.23

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• Reasoning with a drunkard is like
  Going under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Men, Water, Torches

  "Tirukkural". Book by Thiruvalluvar, 1840.

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• To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.

  Don DeLillo

  Editing, Self, Voice

  1982 Owen Brademas. The Names, ch.5.

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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

  Men, Asking, Born

  Leonid Andreyev (1917). “Savva [and]: The life of man; two plays”

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• We are drowning in a sea of Myspace, blather, and too much information. Music is everywhere and nowhere. The independent record store is the solution, a place staffed by friendly (or not) people who are actually paid to weed through this crap and help you find the good stuff.

  Dean Wareham

  Weed, Independent, Sea

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• When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me.

  Brian Eno

  Ideas, Records, Singers

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• The schizophrenic is drowning in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. Edgar Cayce made the same observation in his readings

  Joseph Campbell

  Reading, Water, Swim

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

  Cassandra Clare

  Hands, Helping

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.295, Simon and Schuster

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• The lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning.

  Paul Theroux

  Photography, Eye, Lust

  Paul Theroux (2014). “Picture Palace: A Novel”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• …You see, my dear friend, I am made up of contradictions, and I have reached a very mature age without resting upon anything positive, without having calmed my restless spirit either by religion or philosophy. Undoubtedly I should have gone mad but for music. Music is indeed the most beautiful of all Heaven's gifts to humanity wandering in the darkness. Alone it calms, enlightens, and stills our souls. It is not the straw to which the drowning man clings; but a true friend, refuge, and comforter, for whose sake life is worth living

  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  Beautiful, True Friend, Philosophy

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• It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.

  Mark Twain

  Mistake, People, Baths

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.19, Courier Corporation

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• He sighed and then focused his eyes right on me. It was like drowning, drowning in seas of green. There was nothing in the world except for those eyes. "I want to kiss you, Rose," he said softly. "And I want you to want me too.

  Richelle Mead

  Eye, Kissing, Sea

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.506, Penguin

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• I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.

  Isaac Marion

  Exclamation Marks, Punctuation Marks, Long

  Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• Hooking on scuba gear and blindly diving into zombie-infested water is a wonderful way to mix the two childhood terrors of being eaten and drowning.

  Max Brooks

  Two, Water, Childhood

  Max Brooks (2003). “The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead”, p.145, Broadway Books

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• He'd discovered that his memories of that summer were like bad movie montages - young lovers tossing a Frisbee in the park, sharing a melting ice-cream cone, bicycling along the river, laughing, talking, kissing, a sappy score drowning out the dialogue because the screenwriter had no idea what these two people might say to each other.

  Richard Russo

  Summer, Memories, Kissing

  FaceBook post by Richard Russo from Jul 31, 2016

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