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Tag Name "Drowning" (192)

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One could say the higher the spirit goes, the more deeply the soul sinks down into the waters of melancholy and tragedy. Drowning in that water is as sweet as rising.
Robert Bly
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Why are we not tasting the bliss of Bhakti? Because we are taking shelter of stone boats. We are sinking and drowning in Maya & still we are further taking shelter of stone boats and this can go on life after life.
Radhanath Swami
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The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued.
Mignon McLaughlin
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They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.
Cormac McCarthy
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When someone is drowning in the ocean of attachments, Surrender is the life jacket they can put on and wait for the rescue team
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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I’m attracted to the idea of drowning. Or rather the idea of jumping off and being enveloped by something, not bad or good, just enveloping. When I was a kid, I had a moment when I got under the water, lying on the pool floor, and felt I could breathe. I’ve been trying to recreate that feeling ever since.
Florence Welch
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While a few pertinent points have to be marked, the general impression I desire to convey is of a side door crashing open in life's full flight, and a rush of roaring black time drowning with its whipping wind the cry of lone disaster.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Here is the boy, drowning.
Patrick Ness
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People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.
John Jay Chapman
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If I rescued a child from drowning, the press would no doubt headline the story: 'Benn grabs child
Tony Benn
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I was taught that if you see a person drowning, you must jump into the water to save them, whether you can swim or not.
Irena Sendler
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I'm very hard-nosed and cold-blooded and I can walk past a drowning man. If I have someplace else to go, well, tough s**t. I could do that. I can. Have. Sometimes, not because I was callous but had to do it.
John Edgar Wideman
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Even the rats are drowning,' Alex said. Nah,' Kevin said. 'They've been taking swimming lessons at the Y.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
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Republicans have become the party of red, white and blue rose colored glasses. By drowning out criticism with USA! USA!, they prevent this country from healing itself where it needs healing, and that is the opposite of Country First.
Bill Maher
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To understand the world, one’s place in it, is to be always at the risk of drowning.
Kevin Powers
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If a big wave came at the wrong moment, it would sweep me off into forty-eight-degree water, where I might last twenty minutes. Drowning quickly might be better.
Abby Sunderland
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God just doesn't throw a life preserver to a drowning person. He goes to the bottom of the sea, and pulls a corpse from the bottom of the sea, takes him up on the bank, breathes into him the breath of life and makes him alive.
R. C. Sproul
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There are worse situations than drowning in cash and sitting, sitting, sitting. I remember when I wasn’t awash in cash — and I don’t want to go back.
Charlie Munger
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I used to feel like I was drowning. So I stopped trying to swim.
Oliver Sykes
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Once again, I had that feeling of drowning when I hadn’t even known I was in the pool
Charlaine Harris
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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
Thomas More
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We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.
John Naisbitt
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Kafka didn't save me. He just told me I was drowning.
Mark Slouka
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You can't keep a cool head when you're drowning in love. You just trash around a lot and scream, and wear yourself out.
Margaret Atwood
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