To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

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.

It’s only water,” she said.”Tell that to a drowning man,” Giddon said.

I am in love, and the river is beginning to ice over. I’d better go drown myself before I freeze to death.

You’ll drown in my love story, if I ever write it using a fountain pen.

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.

I keep a fish in each pocket, and one in my left shoe, so I don’t drown in your love.

When your faith is sinking, drown your fear

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...

The worst way to drown is in mainstream.

Love is like a cloud in a lake. It’s reflective and makes it feel like you are flying, when you are really either swimming or trying not to drown.

[…]when he closed his eyes, the torrent of longing waiting inside was so thick he thought he might drown in it.

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

Don’t drown.” At least there should be. I may have just Michael Phelpsed myself, but it’s all gold.

Love is a speedy bird that looks like a fish. If you catch one in the sky, try not to drown.

In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.

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...

My love is a cloud sound, silent as an orange flamingo. Too many swimmers have drowned while trying to fly, and there should be a law against making a law against that.

One time a woman made my heart flood with love, and then fled the scene of the subsequent boating accident. Many people drowned that day, and all of them remember it fondly as they fondle...

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

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

You can’t drown out somebody just by raising the level.” But it was useless. I felt like Noah preaching to a pack of Helen Kellers.

He tried drowning himself, but he only succeeded in taking a bath. That man was my dad, and I showed him how to tie a tie—and a noose.

People are like waves of the ocean, some cover you with tides of refreshment, whilst others drown you in floods of turmoil

Risk management seemed to have completed its transformation into pure entertainment. Dudley seemed the epitome of a risk manager who would drown crossing a river that was 12 inches in depth on average.

A fish called Gilbert. But I just call him Gil to save some breath, so I can spend more time underwater petting him like I used to do to grandpa before he drowned.

Every new thought of mine is like my child. And as soon as it is conceived, I must abandon it. I might return to dote on it later, or I might try to strangle it...

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...

Why won’t you drown?” he wailed, pummeling me with his fists.”I’m Poseidon’s son,” I said.”Curse that upstart! I was here first!

That’s not a baby, that’s a log. And it’s not drowning, it’s burning.” I wonder what it did to deserve that? It was probably a heretic.

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

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...

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...

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

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.

I ain’t afraid to drown if that means I’m deep up in your ocean.

Marriage is deep. Don’t marry someone shallow, it will cause both of you to drown

A job is like a politician struggling in the water. Be sure you hold it down.

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,...

I hate going back. I’d rather live at the bottom of my river of black, dragged this way and that by the forces that be, than go back there. Those forty-eight hours took twenty years...

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...