Drowning Quotes

“How lonely it is!
To be drowning,
in a place
where everyone can swim.”
― B. Damani

“I wish I hadn't cried so much!" said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. "I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears! That will be a queer thing, to be sure! However, everything is queer today.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

“You don't drown because you can't breathe. You drown because you try to breathe what is not breathable.”
― Katherine Catmull, The Radiant Road

“«And in the end» said the witch to the drowning prince «You've been the one choosing the thornless path in spite of knowing where it could lead. The one who afraid of the pricking roses, plunged himself into an abyss without petals”
― Nur Bedeir

“He danced across my heart like a pirate,
Constantly discovering my secrets,
Turning over every hidden treasure,
Drowning me in his fantasy.”
― Tannaz Sayadi, Write like no one is reading 2

“Believe that you are someone worth saving.”
― Slade Combs, The Choice: Death Is Just The Beginning

“I'd Drown For You

I opened my heart to you
A complete immersion
I offered my soul to you
A heavenly diversion”
― muse, Enigmatic Evolution

“Drowning men will drag you down if you let them. Sometimes, to survive, you have to let them sink.”
― John Connolly, The Burning Soul

“we met one strange summer

in a regular tangle of sticky webs

you had the air of angels sweet but I--

drowned with the damned spirits

in lava oceans fearing your--

foreign static frequency

and grey-green eyes

(I swear they are even if you--

think otherwise): storms

calm ones, calmer than my--

raging coals, empty and dead

you speak of souls like you believe

always an optimist in pessimistic

skin of ivory and titanium mesh...”
― Moonshine Noire

“Even the laziest person will fight for oxygen when drowning.”
― J.R. Rim

“Underwater madness slipping into a haze, drowning and choking in repugnant nostalgic thoughts.”
― Karen Quan, Write like no one is reading

“Or perhaps it is because it is so NECESSARY for you to win. It is like a drowning man catching at a straw. You yourself will agree that, unless he were drowning he would not mistake a straw for the trunk of a tree.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gambler

“You're back where you swore yourself you wouldn't be
The familiar shackles you can't tell from your own skin
Your head's under water when you learned to swim
On a road to hell, congratulations, you're free...”
― Sanhita Baruah

“And I realize, so suddenly that it hurts, just how empty a creature can be, while still filled to the brim with drowning agony.”
― D.R. Hedge, The Geri Rogue

“Because one look into his eyes, and she was drowning in what existed there and didn’t want to surface.”
― Katherine McIntyre, Scrying for Summer

“And that was my homecoming. It was fine, I guess. Getting back feels like your first breath after nearly drowning. Even if it hurts, it's good.”
― Phil Klay

“At that darkest moment, while drowning in the Abyss of Emotional Bankruptcy, reflect on this universal truth: the difference between success and failure is one more time.”
― Ken Poirot

“If misery were water, he thinks as he climbs into his car and turns the key, I could just drown or let it wash me away entirely.”
― Dennis Sharpe, Distant Thunder

“Few people paid much attention to the importance of eyes when it came to seduction, he thought. It took a Bene Gesserit upbringing to make that point. Big breasts in a woman and hard loins in a man (that tightly muscular look to the buttocks) – these were naturally important in sexual matchings. But without the eyes, the rest of it could go for nothing. Eyes were essential. You could drown in the right kind of eyes, he had learned, sink right into them and be unaware of what was being done to you [...].”
― Frank Herbert

“His eyesight was possessed by the colours of trauma, cracking and bubbling like an old Super Eight film to remind him of his near-death drowning some two months ago in that very moment when he needed to act.”
― Luke Taylor, Shatterpoint Alpha

“And that someone would pay. Revenge is a cold bedfellow, Diana had said, but Emma didn't believe that. Revenge would let her think about her parents without a cold knot forming in her stomach. She would be able to dream without seeing their drowned faces and hearing their voices cry out for her help.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

“The universal odour of bookshop, closed all night on the mildews of its ranked treasures, brought a past life before him - as is said to happen in drowning. But how, he wondered, entering and taking up a book, and even breathing it in to sustain remembrance, could one ever verify or explode the myth, except by drowning.”
― Shirley Hazzard

“She imagined herself drowning along the tides of Sumendu Lake, down own into the depths of solemn solitude, splashing into the serenity of forever silence.”
― Ashmita Acharya, The Beginning: The Tears of My Heart

“What was his place? he wondered. Where was his world? He had sometimes stood on the riverbank and told himself: Deep down in the cold water is your world; a rock lashed to your feet is your clothing for that world. To enter it you need only to climb to the place above the rapids, where the pool is, where it is always calm, so it must be deep, and there bury yourself and leave a world that is not your own and find a garden, long fields already cleared and cribs already filled, a new place in which a weakness in a man is a matter for a word or chide, not a break through which the terrors of the world flow in.”
― John Ehle, The Land Breakers

“They clung to her like leeches, draining her spirit & dragging her down a dark world”
― Amanda Brooke, The Goodbye Gift

“That poem you like, how does it end?”
He knows how it ends. He’s looked it up by now, that’s why he asks.
But I answer him anyway.
“‘We have lingered in the chambers of the sea, by sea-girls wreathed
with seaweed red and brown, till human voices wake us, and we drown.’”
Eliot shakes his head. “It does not need the last three words. The last
three words are wrong.”
I laugh at his correcting a Nobel prize-winning poet, but I agree. I
know what drowning feels like. It doesn’t need water. And human voices,
if they say the right things, can save you.
“Eliot, do you have a pen I can borrow?”
I can feel him smiling in the dark, and we watch the sea caress the
sand.
“That man in the poem, Mr. Prufrock, he was a coward, wasn’t he?”
Eliot says.
My answer to his question is the same as his answer to mine.”
― Ray Cluley, Probably Monsters

“There is a tidal wave of ignorance, Mma Ramotswe. It is a great tidal wave and it will drown all of us if we are not careful.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine

“The experience of drowning, through the lens of faith, is what Christians call" baptism. "But no matter what you call it, the sensation of going under is entirely the same.”
― Jonathan Martin, How to Survive a Shipwreck: Help Is on the Way and Love Is Already Here

“Saa kan hver Fornuftig vel dømme ved sig,
Naar Mennisker friske maa legges i Liig;
Hvad Ynk da maa være paa færde!
En Broder ey anden at frelse formaar,
Den stercke, den svage, har ligedan Kaar,
Dem hielper ey Læg eller Lærde.”
― Petter Dass, The Trumpet of Nordland

“The people's need to share has turned into a massive disease. It has taken them to the most private meaningless part of their lives. In such circumstance, values become redefined and what has been worthless in the past, has become the core value of the new age.
The disaster starts where the essence of the discourse changes. The modern age, with all its technological advances, has taken human to the fast fall. We are going down faster than being trapped into a mire. The transition of the discourse has also given us a great gift, senselessness. Therefore, we have transitioned into piles of senseless machines, drained of human essentiality and drowning into a giant mire. The sad part is, due to the lack of true sense, we don't even feel it. Our only safety guard, which is entirely absurd and phantasmagoric, comes from following the majority of the world's population. As long as we feel belonged to preponderancy, our nonsense will absolutely make sense.”
― Kambiz Shabankare