Drown Quotes

“You never really know what's coming. A small wave, or maybe a big one. All you can really do is hope that when it comes, you can surf over it, instead of drown in its monstrosity.”
― Alysha Speer

“Seven little crazy kids chopping up sticks;
One burnt her daddy up and then there were six.
Six little crazy kids playing with a hive;
One tattooed himself to death and then there were five.
Five little crazy kids on a cellar door;
One went all schizo and then there were four.
Four little crazy kids going out to sea;
One wouldn't say a word and then there were three.
Three little crazy kids walking to the zoo;
One jerked himself too much and then there were two.
Two little crazy kids sitting in the sun;
One a took a bunch of pills and then there was one.
One little crazy kid left all alone;
He went and slit his wrists, and then there were none.”
― Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes

“There's always a siren, singing you to shipwreck. Some of us may be more susceptible than others are, but there's always a siren. It may be with us all our lives, or it may be many years or decades before we find it or it finds us. But when it does find us, if we're lucky we're Odysseus tied up to the ship's mast, hearing the song with perfect clarity, but ferried to safety by a crew whose ears have been plugged with beeswax. If we're not at all lucky, we're another sort of sailor stepping off the deck to drown in the sea.”
― Caitlín R. Kiernan, The Drowning Girl

“It's only water," she said.
"Tell that to a drowning man," Giddon said.”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

“Oceans are vast and almost bottomless. You dance in the rain Elizabeth. You drown in the sea.”
― Jennifer Rush, Reborn

“I wanted to drown inside a woman in the feeling and drooling of the love I could give her. I wanted her pulse to crush me with its intensity. That's what I wanted. That's what I wanted myself to be.”
― Markus Zusak, Getting the Girl

“the woman is rain,
and when she falls,
she is a monsoon.
to love her is to drown.”
― AVA., you are safe here.

“I ain’t afraid to drown if that means I’m deep up in your ocean.”
― Chris Brown

“She was a wild ocean. And he had always seen people giving up while trying to swim in her and swim back to the shore before they could drown. He always hesitated about that adventure. He was scared of failing to swim, and drowning to death. But he was never able to stop thinking about how the adventure could end up. He finally made his mind up and started swimming. And eventually, he gave up against the waves and the storms she created and he began to drown. But the moment he stopped fighting to survive, she slowly embraced him inside her arms. And he began to realise that everything was very different than what he had always imagined. He could feel every breath he took there, better than any place he had ever lived. She was splendid and he never felt like swimming away from her arms ever.”
― Akshay Vasu, The Abandoned Paradise: Unraveling the beauty of untouched thoughts and dreams

“I s'pose, I can't have it all my own way, can I? You can't drown in a person unless they let you.”
― Markus Zusak, Getting the Girl

“Virtually drowning in himself, he could not for the life of him smell himself.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“Please don´t drown into his fears, his concrete fists don´t let him again, break the bridge of your nose with his cruel born hits. Then disappear into that mask of misery.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Risk management seemed to have completed its transformation into pure entertainment. Dudley seemed the epitome of a risk manager who would drown crossing a river that was 12 inches in depth on average.”
― Satyajit Das, Traders, Guns & Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives

“Come with me beneath the waves,' she calls to him. 'Drown with me in delight.'

He laughs a little shakily. 'A compelling offer, but I must see my quest to its conclusion.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“I make music for people who dance like squids. Each song is fluid, and if you heard one you’d probably drown.”
― Jarod Kintz, Powdered Saxophone Music

“Ducks are born to swim. Fears are born to drown. Sometimes, you just need to help them remember.”
― Jarod Kintz, Powdered Saxophone Music

“Come to Florida...and lose everything!”
― Steven Magee

“Bodies that drown in warm and shallow water usually surface within a few days.”
― Steven Magee

“Bodies that drown in deep water may never surface.”
― Steven Magee

“Everyone wants to drink water until they start drowning in it.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“The horses, reluctant and excited from the first, become furious and wild. At the next shoal-personal nastiness being past consideration-we dismount, at knee-deep, to give them a moment's rest, shifting the mule's saddle to the trembling long-legged mare, and turning Mr. Brown loose, to follow as he could. After a breathing-spell we resume our splashed seats and the line of wade. Experience has taught us something, and we are more shrewd in choice of footing, the slopes around large trees being attractively high ground, until, by a stumble on a covered root, a knee is nearly crushed against a cypress trunk. Gullies now commence, cut by the rapid course of waters flowing off before north winds, in which it is good luck to escape instant drowning. Then quag again; the pony bogs; the mare, quivering and unmanageable, jumps sidelong among loose corduroy; and here are two riders standing waist-deep in mud and water between two frantic, plunging-horses, fortunately not beneath them. Nack soon extricates himself, and joins the mule, looking on terrified from behind. Fanny, delirious, believes all her legs broken and strewn about her, and falls, with a whining snort, upon her side. With incessant struggles she makes herself a mud bath, in which, with blood-shot eyes, she furiously rotates, striking, now and then, some stump, against which she rises only to fall upon the other side, or upon her back, until her powers are exhausted, and her head sinks beneath the surface. Mingled with our uppermost sympathy are thoughts of the soaked note-books, and other contents of the saddle-bags, and of the.hundred dollars that drown with her. What of dense soil there was beneath her is now stirred to porridge, and it is a dangerous exploit to approach. But, with joint hands, we length succeed in grappling her bridle, and then in hauling her nostrils above water. She revives only for a new tumult of dizzy pawing, before which we hastily retreat. At a second pause her lariat is secured, and the saddle cut adrift. For a half-hour the alternate resuscitation continues, until we are able to drag the head of the poor beast, half strangled by the rope, as well as the mud and water, toward firmer ground, where she recovers slowly her senses and her footing. Any further attempts at crossing the somewhat "wet" Neches bottoms are, of course, abandoned, and even the return to the ferry is a serious sort of joke. However, we congratulate ourselves that we are leaving, not entering the State.”
― Frederick Law Olmsted, A Journey through Texas: Or a Saddle-Trip on the Southwestern Frontier

“We are drowning in garbage. That's how we come to the fore.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“And the truth is I am not strong enough to tread water in the salty abyss as I watch the ship sail away. I am weak-hearted. I can't hold my breath for long. I don't know how to stay afloat while searching for shallower waters. I only know how to hope that my drowning will be quick.”
― Anne Marie Wells, Survived By: A Memoir in Verse + Other Poems

“The man swallows the water, and the water swallows the man.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“And he said...

...a smile will never drown in a sea of faces.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“You call this love?
This allowing me to drown
while I struggle to keep you
above water.”
― L.E. Bowman

“In the sea of problems, even great swimmers can drown.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Your HIghness,' Tiernan hisses at Oak. HIs sword is drawn and his jaw set. 'Get below.'

'And how will that help, exactly?' Oak demands. 'Will waiting to drown make the experience better?”
― Holly Black, The Prisoner’s Throne

“Drink too deep from the well of hatred and you will surely drown.”
― C.A.A. Savastano

“If you let silence do the talking, the fool will drown in the words that they’re certain to fill it with.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough