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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.
And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?
Sometimes the most negative voices in the room are the loudest and it's easy for them to drown out the rest.
We all understand situations where it's swim or drown. Sometimes we surprise ourselves when we start swimming and see how well we can do it.
A mother's love is like a fortress, And we seek protection there, When the waves of tribulation, Seem to drown us in despair.
Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.
If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.
Only those sadnesses are dangerous and bad which one carries about among people in order to drown them out.
Starvation is incredibly frightening when it finally sets in with a vengeance. And when it does,you are surprised. You hadn't meant this. You say: Wait, not this. And then it sucks you under and you drown.
Eh, brother, but nature has to be corrected and guided, otherwise we'd all drown in prejudices. Without that there wouldn't be even a single great man.
It would be better to drown these prisoners in the Dead Sea if possible, since that's the lowest point in the world.
I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.
My parents always wanted me to know why eating healthfully was important to overall performance, probably to drown out my whining for junk food.
She shuddered. “What is it with slobbery kissers? Are they trying to drown us in spit? I mean, Jesus, swallow every now and then.
Katsa and Po were trying to drown each other and, judging from their hoots of laughter, enjoying it immensely.
Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown.
For that was the terrible power of the dementors: to force their victims to relive the worst memories of their lives, and drown, powerless, in theirown despair. . . .
I am not lucky. I am the type who would go to Lourdes and drown in the waters.
The sea of pleasures may drown its owner and the swimmer fears to open his eyes under the water.
The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise.
Spit on your own and you can't do anything, but if you all spit together you can drown the bastards
Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down.
On this hapless earth There 's small sincerity of mirth, And laughter oft is but an art To drown the outcry of the heart.
It was a beautiful bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it.
We should take mothers in high seas and drown them there, they are as poisonous as lead in the air.
If the guardian or the mother
Tell the woes of willful waste,
Scorn their counsel and their pother,
You can hang or drown at last.
Man is not to drown himself in the well of the Shastras, but he is to dive in their broad ocean and bring out pearls.
Oh, I can't play soccer, and I'm not a great swimmer. I won't drown, but you won't see me doing laps in a pool.
Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown.
We're all in the game. We all drive cars, and we're all hooked on oil. The question is how we can get unhooked before we drown in the stuff.
It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws too dearly.
The mysteries of the female sex! We men can never hope to fathom your depths, but only try not to drown in them.
When you prepare for something, it's like jumping into cold water, but you're prepared. You jump in. And you start swimming, or if you don't swim, you drown.
There's not a woman in the book, the plot hinges on unkindness to animals, and the black characters mostly drown by Chapter 29.
I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.
Why won't you drown?" he wailed, pummeling me with his fists. "I'm Poseidon's son," I said. "Curse that upstart! I was here first!
If the victories we create in our heads were let loose on reality, the world we know would drown in blazing happiness.
He is a Patron who looks down, / With careless eyes on men who drown; / But if they chance to reach the land, / Encumbers them with helping hand
Why does life carry some people on the crest of the wave while others drown beneath the water?
I'd drown in a sea of tears if I lived my life ruminating on the past. I would undoubtedly revise memories to be more joyful that they were, or ever have been.
Don’t let the voice of other people’s opinion drown your inner voice.
I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.
Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.
What though the sea be calm? trust to the shore, Ships have been drown'd, where late they danc'd before.
Set boundaries and keep them. People will drown you with their need, and demonize you for not filling their emptiness.
It is funny how you do not miss affection until it is given, but once it is, it can never be enough; you would drown in it if possible.
I'm not a very good swimmer, and every time I'm in the water, I'm constantly reminded of that because I feel like I'm going to drown!
Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
I would rather drown myself in the waters of the Sabarmati than harbour hate or animosity in my heart.
Having the responsibilities of family life forced me to drown out office politics and focus on delivering my best at home and work.
You're more likely to drown in the sea of sameness than get eaten by a shark while navigating new waters.
Boredom is the thing that regularly arrives between excitements and episodes of meaning: it is as natural as the tides, and in it an artist can drown.
Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the same thing.
I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies tragedy suffocate him.
The cat that Prim got hates me, I think partly because I tried to drown it.
Love is like the rain. It comes in a drizzle sometimes. Then it starts pouring and if you're not careful it will drown you.
And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find that my first northern winter had set.
When you're indiscriminate in allowing people to post, the loudest and emptiest voices invariably drown out everyone else.
I'll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth, and deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book!
