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Drowned Quotes (page 9)

Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the same thing. Joseph Conrad
Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go. To heal my heart and drown my woe. Rain may fall, and wind may blow. And many miles be still to go. But under a tall tree will I lie. And let the clouds go sailing by J. R. R. Tolkien
It was like letting go and falling back into water and seeing yourself grinning up through the water, your face like a mask, and seeing the bubbles coming up as if you were trying to speak from under the water. And how do you know what it's like to try to speak from under water when you're drowned? Jean Rhys
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "In a family, what isn't spoken is what you listen for. But the..."
In a family, what isn't spoken is what you listen for. But the noise of a family is to drown it out. Joyce Carol Oates
I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; I'll slay more gazers than the basalisks; I'll play the orator as well as Nestor, Decieve more slily that Ulysses could, And like a Sinon, take another Troy. I can add colors to the chameleon, Change shapes with Proteus for advantages And set the murderous Machiavel to school. Can I do this, and cannot get a crown? Tut! were it further off, I'll pluck it down. William Shakespeare
The afternoon breeze would incite to a weird and flabby activity all that crowded mass of clothing, with its vague suggestions of drowned, mutilated and flattened humanity. Trunks without heads waved at you arms without hands; legs without feet kicked fantastically with collapsible flourishes; and there were long white garments, that taking the wind fairly through their neck openings edged with lace, became for a moment violently distended as by the passage of obese and invisible bodies. On... Joseph Conrad
and in that one night's wickedness I drowned all my repentance,all my reflections upon my past conduct,and all my resolution for the future. Daniel Defoe
Leonard Cohen quote: "Coroner's inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn't been to..."
Coroner's inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn't been to the sea-shore in ten years. Leonard Cohen
Salman Rushdie quote: "Captain Ahab drowned, he reminded himself; it was the trimmer,..."
Captain Ahab drowned, he reminded himself; it was the trimmer, Ishmael, who survived. Salman Rushdie
i am like a survivorof the floodwalking through the streetsdrenched with. Godsurprised that all of the drowned victimsare still walking and talking Saul Williams
The voice fell low, sank into her breast and stretched the tight bodice over her heart as she came up close. He felt the young lips, her body sighing in relief against the arm growing stronger to hold her. There were now no more plans than if Dick had arbitrarily made some indissoluble mixture, with atoms joined and inseparable; you could throw it all out but never again could they fit back into atomic scale. As he held her and tasted her, and as she curved in further and further toward him,... F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jodi Picoult quote: "You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?"
You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you? Jodi Picoult
There was never an accident.Rebecca was not drowned at all. I killed her.I shot Rebecca in the cottage in the cove.I carried her body to the cabin, and took the boat out that night and sunk it there, where they found it today.It's Rebecca who's lying dead there on the cabin floor.Will you look into my eyes and tell me that you love me now? Daphne du Maurier
This letter is written on the skin of one of the water sprites who drowned your parents.''Ick!' I cried, and dropped the letter on the kitchen table. Charlaine Harris
Perfume was first created to mask the stench of foul and offensive odors... Spices and bold flavorings were created to mask the taste of putrid and rotting meat... What then was music created for? Was it to drown out the voices of others, or the voices within ourselves? I think I know. Emilie Autumn

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