Top 380 Drowning Quotes & Sayings

I once saved someone from drowning.

Race is the great taboo in our society. We are afraid to talk about it. White folks fear their unspoken views will be deemed racist. People of color are filled with sorrow and rage at unrighted wrongs. Drowning in silence, we are brothers and sisters drowning each other. Once we decide to transform ourselves from fearful caterpillars into courageous butterflies, we will be able to bridge the racial gulf and move forward together towards a bright and colorful future.

If I'm walking down the riverbank, and a man is drowning, even if I don't know how to swim very well, I feel this urge that the right thing to do is to try to save that person. Evolution would tell me exactly the opposite: preserve your DNA. Who cares about the guy who's drowning?

Wherever there is water there is someone drowning.

For in tremendous extremities human souls are like drowning men; well enough they know they are in peril; well enough they know the causes of that peril;--nevertheless, the sea is the sea, and these drowning men do drown.

Drowning was bad enough. But drowning sad and sober, that's too cruel.

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.

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.

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

Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw.

I suspect this is all gonna end in screaming and drowning

When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.

You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?

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

No person ever died by drowning in their own sweat.

Since the 1970s, I have asked students if they would first try to save their drowning dog or a drowning stranger. And for 40 years I have received the same results: One third vote for their dog, one third for the stranger, and one third don't know what they would do.

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

To understand the world, one’s place in it, is to be always at the risk of drowning.

A gun is like breath to a drowning man--it has to be drawn in haste.

My son will forever travel through a moonless night with only the roar of wind for company.... A drowning man is not separated from the lust for air by a bridge of thought—he is one with it—and my son, conceived and grown in an ethanol bath, lives each day in the act of drowning. For him there is no shore.

We're all kind of weird and twisted and drowning.

The only good reason for swimming, so far as I can see, is to escape drowning.

Nobody recognizes that a bookstore or library can also be a drowning polar bear. And in this country [US], magazines, newspapers, and bookstores are drowning polar bears. And if people can't see that or don't want to talk about it, I don't understand them at all.

If you found yourself in a situation where you could either save a drowning man, or you could take a Pulitzer prize winning photograph of him drowning, what shutter speed and setting would you use?

Everybody breaks sooner or later, Bob. Anyone can drown. Sometimes you see it. Most often, you don’t because the body protects and the skin hides, so drowning doesn’t look like drowning and some people scar so nicely. Take it from an expert.

In the media, waterboarding is called 'simulated drowning,' but that's a misnomer. It does not simulate drowning, as the lungs are actually filling with water. There is no way to simulate that. The victim is drowning.

If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you're drowning.

Not Waving but Drowning Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you thought And not waving but drowning. Poor chap, he always loved larking And now he's dead It must have been too cold for him his heart gave way, They said. Oh, no no no, it was too cold always (Still the dead one lay moaning) I was much too far out all my life And not waving but drowning.

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.

We walk by faith. We don't stay still, drowning in our misery.

Awareness of insanity does not make one any less insane. Awareness of drowning does not make one any less of a drowning person--it only adds the burden of panic

I'm drowning in papers.

Rescue the drowning and tie your shoestrings.

I'm drowning in whiskey river.

Here is the boy, drowning.

There are two easy ways to die in the desert - thirst and drowning.

It was like drowning, only from the inside out.

I can fall asleep in the shower without drowning.

Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

I belong to the 8% of the world population who calm their apprehension by drowning it in numbers.

Sometimes I'd see my father, walking past my building on his way to another nowhere. I could have given him a key, offered a piece of my floor. A futon. A bed. But I never did. If I let him inside I would become him, the line between us would blur, my own slow-motion car wreck would speed up. The slogan on the side of a moving company truck read TOGETHER WE ARE GOING PLACES--modified by a vandal or a disgruntled employee to read TOGETHER WE ARE GOING DOWN. If I went to the drowning man the drowning man would pull me under. I couldn't be his life raft.

It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.

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

If his mother was drowning and I was drowning and he had to choose one of us to save, He says he'd save me.

Oil is drowning our oceans and drowning our boreal forests.

A drowning person doesn't rescue herself.

Love is a game-yes? I think it is a drowning.

I used to feel like I was drowning. So I stopped trying to swim.

Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning. I was much further out than you thought, and not waving but drowning. I was much too far out all my life, And not waving but drowning.

What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.

Charity is the drowning of justice in the craphole of mercy.

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.

We are drowning in information.

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

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

I'm drowning my brother drowning.

The world is drowning in weirdness and lies......and here we are, so used to it that we're actually bored!

When you’re confronted by a really difficult thing in your life, you’re faced with a choice: you can runaway from it, or you can face it, confront it, and work through it. But to work through it, sometimes feels like holding your own head below water when you’re already drowning. Your natural instinct when drowning is to get back up to the surface and give yourself some relief from that terrible situation…you just want to breathe again.

Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.