Haruki Murakami
Writer
"We're all kind of weird and twisted and drowning."
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Drowning
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Jentezen Franklin
Pastor, Author
"We walk by faith. We don't stay still, drowning in our misery."
Stephen King
Author
"It was like drowning, only from the inside out."
Henry Miller
Novelist, Essayist
"We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Novelist, Philosopher
"Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw."
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"hope is like a piece of string when you’re drowning; it just isn’t enough to get you out by itself."
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"Oh, no no no, it was too cold always (Still the dead one lay moaning) I was much too far out all my life And not waving but drowning."
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"Drowning was bad enough. But drowning sad and sober, that's too cruel."
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"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."
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"I think you’re the saddest person I’ve ever met. It’s like you’re drowning in it."
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"Anxiety is love's greatest killer, because it is like the stranglehold of the drowning."
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"I'd just stepped out of the kiddie pool and into the deep end, with no floaties. And drowning was not an option."
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"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."
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"When a dog is drowning, everyone offers him a drink."
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"Coroner's inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn't been to the sea-shore in ten years."
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"If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself."
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