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Quotes tagged ‘Drowning’
Sometimes the most common indication that someone is drowning is that they don’t look like they’re drowning.
The sun drowns the house.
Once, I saw a bee drown in honey, and I understood.
We understood each other in a way, me and my mom and my dad. As screwed up as we all were, we did understand each other. My mother, she knew what it's like to feel your entire life like you're drowning with the exception of these moments, these very rare, brief instances, in which you suddenly remem…
— Raphael Bob-Waksberg, BoJack Horseman (voice), Will Arnett, imdb.com
Ana Spanikopita: After I almost drowned, I decided I would never again be weaker than water, so I became a lifeguard. On my first day of training, my instructor told me that there are going to be times when you'll see someone in trouble. You're going to want to rush in there and do whatever you can…
— Elijah Aron, Jordan Young, Ana Spanikopita (voice) / BoJack Horseman (voice), Angela Bassett / Will Arnett, imdb.com
Jude Ellis: Leah, how did you get in the water? [seeing she's scared] It's all right. You don't have to be afraid. Leah: We were running away. Jude Ellis: You were running away. From what? Leah: The war.
— Dan Dworkin, Jay Beattie, Jude Ellis, Steve Zahn, imdb.com
Tommy aka White Knife: I'm in a bit of a bind, boys. I rode all the way out here to pan for gold and my horse up and died on me. Rifleman: How'd he die? Tommy aka White Knife: Suicide. Drowned himself. Put his head in the stream and just kept it there. Saddest thing you ever seen.
They say the ocean’s blue but it’s black right now, in the dark, on the sand, looking out at my crowd. Depression and drowning singing now, the full parts of lightning reveals where the ocean stops and the sky starts. I’ve been told by the sky that the ocean I shall win, but it’s hard for me to see…
Drown me, you make my heart beat like the rain.
Ruth Rempley: We were drowning. Swinging saved us! Edith: I think I would rather have drowned.
— Michael Ross, Lee Kalcheim, Edith Bunker, Jean Stapleton, imdb.com
I put him in the water until he stopped breathing. I don’t know how many minutes it was or anything.
When he came up out of the water and said something, but I didn’t know what it was. It was like ‘I’m sor—,’ and I didn’t hear the rest. I don’t know if he was saying, ‘I’m sorry,’ or what.
Well, they came, and I opened the door, and I told them I killed my children, and I led them down the hall to where they were.
The drownings. They, um, I drew up the water, and Rusty had already left for work that day, and I went in the bathroom, and I set Mary on the floor. And while I was filling the tub, Paul came in, and he sat on the tub and he said, he said “Mommy are we gonna take a bath today?” And then he asked aga…
It must be possible to swim in the ocean of the one you love without drowning. It must be possible to swim without becoming water yourself. I keep finding stones tied to my feet.
How do you drown a blonde? Put a scratch and sniff sticker at the bottom of the pool.
You are not broken. You can love and be loved, despite what may feel like the eternally brutal nature of the world. Even when you're drowning and so far under, there is always time to reach for someone who will teach you how to breathe again.
He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.
You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.