Drowning Quotes - Page 2

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

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man?

I can't swim and I'm terrified of drowning, but I still love being by water - just not in it.

I don't know what I am thinking. But I am alone. I am trapped in the net of the room. In the net of humans. I think maybe I am drowning in the net of humans.

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

I'm drowning in papers.

When someone is drowning and you try to save them, they're more likely to drown you before you pull them out.

I suspect this is all gonna end in screaming and drowning

Cath felt like she was swimming in words. Drowning in them, sometimes.

I'd just stepped out of the kiddie pool and into the deep end, with no floaties. And drowning was not an option.

Here is the boy, drowning.

My heart stopped twice. They had to stab me to drain the blood from my lungs because I was drowning in my own blood.

The Western world, and the UK in particular, is drowning in a sea of its own blubber.

Kafka didn't save me. He just told me I was drowning.

What worse can happen to a man than to have been born? It's like asking a man who is drowning whether he is not afraid of getting wet.

Coroner's inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn't been to the sea-shore in ten years.

I know that look, Blake. You are a drowning woman, and the only way out is down the aisle.

It's only water," she said. "Tell that to a drowning man," Giddon said.

A drowning person doesn't rescue herself.

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.

There is a gulf as wide as an ocean between should and want, and I am drowning in it.

My experience as a young actor on network television was that I couldn't make it work. I was drowning as an actor.

You seem to be drowning twice," said Hermione. "Oh, am I?" said Ron peering down at his predictions. "I'd better change one of them to getting trampled by a rampaging Hippogriff.

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