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

The Sun is never alone as the light remains with him always. Even when he goes down sinking...sinking, the light drowns with him

~ Munia Khan

And the moment she held that diary in her hands, she summoned all her demons at once. The moment she opened it a hand from every page held her and pulled her inside. And in a moment even before she could realize what was happening to her she was drowning in the sea, fighting to breathe and fighting to swim back to the surface. But the hands kept pulling her down deep into the darkness until her voice died slowly.

~ Akshay Vasu

There are some people whose turbulent waves of behaviors will drown you no matter how well you think you can swim.

~ Steve Maraboli

The child psychologist's clinic: where imaginary friends go to die, where dreams go to burn, where creativity goes to drown.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

You're back where you swore yourself you wouldn't beThe familiar shackles you can't tell from your own skinYour head's under water when you learned to swimOn a road to hell, congratulations, you're free...

~ Sanhita Baruah

The greatest thinkers have attempted to find who we are where we come from and why we are here but the greatest enigmas to me are how your hair is a lasso that captures the stars how your eyes are lakes that drown my doubts and how your skin is the sun bursting all at once. If I knew these answers I’d know everything for you alone contain the entire universe.

~ Kamand Kojouri

She walks in beauty.I am trampled by it.She swims in beauty.I drown in it.

~ Khang Kijarro Nguyen

Because at nightwhen others are sleeping, I drown myself in poetry.

~ Kamand Kojouri

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

I took him to the river and said “let’s watch something drown,” So he took a stoneand I took my necklaceand we threw it all together,the way I always think I will get better in July. Things will change and sounds won’t acheand I gave my heart to uncertainty so many times, and so I took him to the river,threw the necklace in the river to slowly watch it drown, or burn, or fade awaylike I’ve done so many times.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

I think that we all drown, in one way or another.

~ Moïra Fowley-Doyle

I think the we all drown, in one way or another.

~ Moïra Fowley-Doyle

He couldn't remember the last time human hands had willingly touched him. Not true. Miranda had. She had touched him as if he were just a man. He had lived on those moments ever since, pulled them to the fore when loneliness threatened to suck him down and drown him

~ Kristen Callihan

If there is one thing I refuse to do, it is to drown.

~ Hannah Ashworth

You pushed me down to the depths of my sorrow until I thought I wouldn’t see the light of day again. You expected me to drown, didn’t you? To be left there for an eternity, waiting for your hand to pull me out? What you didn’t stop to realize is that I live in the shadows, thrive even. When I pull myself from the darkness, I’ll be stronger for it and you’ll regret leaving me for dead.

~ Kayla Krantz

Literature is a vast ocean, in which one has to drown themselves to be able to conquer it. Those on shore can see a side of it or have tasted a part of it. And I choose to drown myself in it than just to see it.

~ Nikita Dudani

There’s always been sadness hidden at the core of Hitch, but it’s never been big enough to taste. Occasionally, I’d get a whiff of it, salty on the wind, but it never pressed in between us like it does now, threatening to drown us both.

~ Stacey Jay

You don't get drown by falling into a river. You get drown by remaining there. Falling accidentally and rising immediately was what distinguished Thomas Edison and Abraham Lincoln from the rest.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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

In all the flames of fire fume’s left the traceInto the bluest sea the sky is drownedThe miracles of life can you embraceFrom the poem 'Can You Embrace?

~ Munia Khan

If she were drowning, I'd hold her head under

~ Jandy Nelson

I could wade into this river, let my sins drown to the bottom, let the waters carry me someplace far. Someplace with no ghosts, no memories, and no sins.

~ Khaled Hosseini

Darker and darker, he said; farther and farther yet. Death takes the good, the beautiful, and the young - and spares me. The Pestilence that wastes, the Arrow that strikes, the Sea that drowns, the Grave the closes over Love and Hope, are steps of my journey, and take me nearer and nearer to the End.

~ Wilkie Collins

Such is the power of truth that even the slightest whisper of it can handily drown out the most boisterous of lies, which may explain why in many instances God only needs to whisper.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The world is drowned in silence, who will tell your story ? Who tells doesn't know you and who knows, cannot say it.

~ Syed Azeem Bukhari

Abortion is not allowedbecause apparently it is against the law of god.Yes, that butter-wouldn't-melt deitywho ordered babies to be slaughtered,killed all the first-born in EgyptAnd caused an entire human race to drown.From: Gesels van een imaginaire god(Scourges of an imaginary god)

~ A.j. Beirens

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

The only depth where I can breathe, and don't need to fight for air, is in your love.

~ Anthony Liccione

Chin up, and we'll drown a little slower.

~ Leanne Mechelle

Even the laziest person will fight for oxygen when drowning.

~ J.r. Rim

I can't fathom my love for you, but I know that it makes me want to drown inside of you.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

She never answered. She couldn’t. All she could do was stare, reaching toward him with her gaze alone, pulling him to drown in the sorrow of those depthless black pools.

~ Kelly Creagh

Maybe I should drown myself before I freeze to death?

~ Mark A. Cooper

The worst way to drown is in mainstream.

~ J.r. Rim

Side by side we'll fight the tide,That sweeps in to take us down.Hand in hand we'll both withstand,Even as we drown.

~ Kelly Creagh

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

May you have all the pleasure you've always craved. Nay, may you drown in it!

~ Ahmed Mostafa

I cry as the laughter inside me drowns and descends into the water with the ghosts of our union.

~ A.p. Sweet

Oceans are vast and almost bottomless. You dance in the rain Elizabeth. You drown in the sea.

~ Jennifer Rush