Drowning Quotes - Page 6

• He pretended it was the only thing that kept him from it. But, far back in his mind, he wondered if he could write anything. Often the question threw itself at him when he was least expecting it. You have four hours every morning, the statement would rise like a menacing wraith. You have time to write many thousands of words. Why don't you? And the answer was always lost in a tangle of becauses and wells and endless reasons that he clung to like a drowning man at straws.

  Richard Matheson

  Morning, Writing, Men

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• A lifevest protects you from drowning and a bulletproof vest protects you from getting shot, and a sweater vest protects you from pretty girls.

  Demetri Martin

  Girl, Bulletproof Vest, Sweaters

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• No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it's the worst... when you think you're drowning.

  Dane Cook

  Thinking, Feelings, Would Be

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• There may be a point in your life in which you are drowning so fast and fighting it so furiously that you don't have the strength left to call out for help. At that point don't expect one of your friends to jump into the water, if you've spent most of your life instructing them to mind their own business.

  Perry Brass

  Life, Strength, Fighting

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• Really, one of us ought to have the courage to call the experiment off and shoulder the responsibility for the decision, but the majority reckons that that kind of courage would be a sign of cowardice, and the first step in a retreat. They think it would mean an undignified surrender for mankind as if there was any dignity in floundering and drowning in what we don't understand and never will.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Mean, Responsibility, Thinking

  "Solaris". Book by Stanisław Lem, translated by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox. Chapter 11: "The Thinkers", p. 158, 1970.

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• The irrevocable Hand
  That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut
  The portals of our earthly destinies;
  We walk through blindfold, and the noiseless doors
  Close after us, for ever.
  
  Pause, my soul,
  On these strange words - for ever - whose large sound
  Breaks flood-like, drowning all the petty noise
  Our human moans make on the shores of Time.
  O Thou that openest, and no man shuts;
  That shut'st, and no man opens - Thee we wait!

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Destiny, Men, Doors

  "Poems" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, ("April"), 1859.

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• So we go, so little knowing what we touch and what touches us as we talk! We drop out a common piece of news, "Mr. So-and-so is dead, Miss Such-a-one is married, such a ship has sailed," and lo, on our right hand or on our left, some heart has sunk under the news silently - gone down in the great ocean of Fate, without even a bubble rising to tell its drowning pang. And this - God help us! - is what we call living!

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Women, Ocean, Heart

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1859). “The Minister's Wooing”, p.66

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• A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

  Thomas More

  Hope, Men, Clutch

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• I'm drowning my brother drowning.

  Eva Paterson

  Brother, My Brother

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• For the first time in his existence, he knew he was drowning and he wasn't thinking about survival.

  Christine Feehan

  Thinking, Survival, Firsts

  Christine Feehan (2010). “Water Bound”, p.119, Penguin

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• Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.

  Douglas Adams

  Night, Numbers, Sorrow

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• The world around us is an increasingly hostile and sinful place. Occasionally that splashes onto us, and perhaps, in the case of a few of you, it may be nearly drowning you. To anyone struggling under the burden of sin, I say again with the Prophet Joseph that God has ‘a forgiving disposition’ (Lectures on Faith, 42). You can change. You can be helped. You can be made whole—whatever the problem.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Struggle, Forgiving, World

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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 Hesse

  Thinking, Rooms, Humans

  Karen Hesse (2004). “The Music of Dolphins”, p.110, Oxford University Press, USA

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

  Ilsa J. Bick

  Looks, Instinct

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• 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.

  J. K. Rowling

  Hermione, Predictions, Said

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• IN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION: WHAT SCENES ONE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE FILMED Shakespeare in the part of the King's Ghost. The beheading of Louis the Sixteenth, the drums drowning his speech on the scaffold. Herman Melville at breakfast, feeling a sardine to his cat. Poe's wedding. Lewis Carroll's picnics. The Russians leaving Alaska, delighted with the deal. Shot of a seal applauding.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Kings, Cat, Alaska

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• There are no words for how much I will miss her, but I try to kiss her so that she'll know. I try to kiss her to tell her the whole story of my love, the way I dreamed of her when she was dead, the way that every other girl seemed like a mirror that showed me her face. The way my skin ached for her. The way that kissing her made me feel like I was drowning and like I was being saved all at the same time. I hope she can taste all that, bittersweet, on my tongue.

  Holly Black

  Girl, Kissing, Mirrors

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• I still love you. And sometimes, my friend, the love that I have, and can't give to you, crushes the breath from my chest. Sometimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Crush, Stars, Laughter

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.553, Macmillan

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• Then I asked her if she wanted to to the funeral, and my God, the look on her face. You'd think I'd asked her to drown the neighbor's cat." Admittedly, drowning the neighbor's cat didn't really clue me in as much as I would've liked. "So, she was angry?" He blinked back to me and stared. Like a long time.

  Darynda Jones

  Cat, Thinking, Long

  Darynda Jones (2011). “Second Grave on the Left”, p.18, St. Martin's Press

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• Rats They fought the dogs and killed the cats, And bit the babies in the cradles, And ate the cheeses out of the vats, And licked the soup from the cook's own ladles. Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats.

  Robert Browning

  Dog, Baby, Cat

  'The Pied Piper of Hamelin' (1842) st. 2

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

  Amanda Hocking

  Men, Oxygen

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• It's funny because when Jason [Statham] was drowning I was filming with an iPhone. It may have been a bit insensitive but I just thought, "you know what, this was a magic moment". And I couldn't help him anyway because I didn't want to drown.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Iphone, Magic Moments, Jason

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• You idiot!" She spat, flattening her ears. "What are you doing in my territory?" "Drowning?" Replied Graystripe.

  Erin Hunter

  Ears, Territory, Idiot

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• It felt like everything was rising up in me, like I was drowning in this weirdly painful joy, but I couldn't say it back. I just looked at him and let him look at me until he nodded, lips pursed and turned away, placing the side of his head against the window.

  John Green

  Rising Up, Joy, Looks

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

  Elizabeth Scott

  Thinking, Like You, Mets

  Elizabeth Scott (2012). “Between Here and Forever”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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