Top 276 Drowned Quotes & Sayings

Aphrodite makes us understand why women have drowned their babies.

I tried water polo and my horse drowned... that was a nightmare.

I have been in danger of being drowned twice.

We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown.

Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune.

A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy.

...Though drowned was just as dead as any other way of dying.

Good swimmers at length are drowned.

At tea time, all the noise, greed and aggressiveness of the '80s can be drowned out. For 45 minutes, anyway.

Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens.

Strangely, when I totally emerged from this slump I couldn't comprehend how I had almost drowned it it.

One by one I drowned all the people I’d been.

It's getting late. I must return to my ship or my men will think I've drowned and be celebrating.

Life is short And pleasures few And holed the ship And drowned the crew But o! But o! How very blue the sea is.

Whoever takes just plain ginger ale soon gets drowned out of the conversation.

My logic's been drowned in a sea of emotion.

He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.

The Duke of Clarence . . . a prisoner in the Tower, was secretly put to death and drowned in a barrel of Malmesey wine.

We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my brain to gruel.

Where, except in uncreated light, can the darkness be drowned?

Those who break down the dikes will themselves be drowned in the inundation.

I ran for Congress to give Kansans a real voice in Washington, D.C. - not to let our priorities be drowned out by special interests.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

The disease concept of homosexuality as with the disease concept of all so-called mental illnesses, such as alcoholism, drug addiction, or suicide conceals the fact that homosexuals are a group of medically stigmatized and socially persecuted individuals. ... Their anguished cries of protest are drowned out by the rhetoric of therapy just as the rhetoric of salvation drowned out the [cries] of heretics.

The old order, it is good for the old. A farmer wants his son to be afraid of beautiful women, so that he will not leave home too soon, so he tells a story about how one drowned his brother’s cousin’s friend in a lake, not because he was a pig who deserved to be drowned, but because beautiful women are bad, and also witches. And it doesn’t matter that she didn’t ask to be beautiful, or to be born in a lake, or to live forever, or to not know how men breathe until they stop doing it.

If I am going to be drowned – if I am going to be drowned – if I am going to be drowned, why in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate land and trees?

Captain Ahab drowned, he reminded himself; it was the trimmer, Ishmael, who survived.

A girl what's born for hangin' ain't likely to be drowned.

Impressed. Lord. He had nearly drowned.

The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned.

God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.

[on the voice of the intelligence] It is drowned out by the roar of fear.

Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collectso some writers are lost in their collected learning.

Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts.

If you are ever drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations.

Such fire was not by water to be drowned, nor he his nature changed by changing ground.

Too often, real policy improvements get drowned out by political talking points.

When skies are hanged and oceans drowned, the single secret will still be man

I thought I could have leaped from earth to heaven at one spring when I first saw my sins drowned in the Redeemer's blood.

I think the sheer number of pop stars has kind of drowned out, somewhat, our interest. We're just submerged.

I read once that water is a symbol for emotions. And for a while now I've thought maybe my mother drowned in both.

Either you are drowned in the past or you are drowned in the future. That's why you are not. That's why you yourself have become a falsehood. You are too concerned with the false, and that concern makes you pseudo. Withdraw yourself from the past and the future. Love is always an emperor.

The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one or two of our lads (per annum) to get drowned in the Mississippi or in Bear Creek, but I was pulled out in a 2/3 drowned condition 9 times before I learned to swim, and was considered to be a cat in disguise.

Botha swimmer and a drowned man are in the water; the latter is borne by the water and controlled by it, while the swimmer is borne along by his own power and of his own volition. Every movement made by the drowned man - indeed, every act and word that issue from him - comes from the water, not from him... The saints are like this. They have died before death.

She drowned in words that could not teach her how to swim.

Nothing is more annoying than a great singer getting drowned out by a loud guitar.

Statistics always remind me of fellow who drowned in a river where the average depth was only three feet.

Wine has drowned more than the sea.

My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they’d nearly drowned out everything else.

A friend of mine drowned in a bowl of muesli. A strong currant pulled him in.

For one drop calls another down, till we are drowned in seas of grief.

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.

Moreover he saw a skull floating on the surface of the water and he said unto it: Because you drowned others they drowned you; and those that drowned you will eventually be drowned.

You aim for the palace and get drowned in the sewer.

If you see a river running smoothly, it's because someone has drowned in it, and if it's raging, it means that it's still got bloodlust.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

I literally believe in the possibility of a Sudhanva smiling away whilst he was being drowned in boiling oil.