Drowning isn’t always taken in its literal sense, so today, I have compiled some of the top quotes about drowning that will surely make you stop and ponder! 🌊
Below are some of the emotional and most notable quotes about drowning that will surely submerge, immerse, engulf, and make you look at some things deeper and beyond what the eyes can see.Â
Side note:Â If I have overlooked and missed some notable sayings and quotes about drowning, make sure to mention them in the comments section and I’ll make sure to include it in this list!
45+ Eye-Opening Quotes About Drowning
1. “People drown, quietly, before our eyes, all the time.” – Ilsa J. Bick
2. “Beautiful as they are, not all oceans are meant to be crossed.” – Ria
3. “Sometimes you’re drowning yourself in your own words.” – Steve Maraboli
4. “Thoughts like that are why I’m drowning my sorrows in chocolate.” – Colleen Hoover
5. “You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.” – Edwin Louis Cole
6. “Drowning is an art of learning to survive, be it in water or in emotions.” – Zainab Mariya
7. “Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.” – Steve Jobs
8. “When you are drowning in lies, the truth may be your only lifeline.” – Anthony T. Hincks
9. “The modern human is drowning in an invisible sea of man-made energy.” – Steven Magee
10. “It’s not the current that will drown you. It’s the exhaustion from fighting it.” – Rebekah Crane
11. “Two drowning people can’t save each other. All they can do is drag each other down.” – Carsten Jensen
12. “Cheating is like jumping into the middle of an ocean and expect not to drown.” – Gift Gugu Mona
13. “To understand the world, one’s place in it is to be always at the risk of drowning.” – Kevin Powers
14. “We are swimming in the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown.” – Henry Miller
15. “Over-analysis is a dream killer. Sometimes you can drown yourself in your own thoughts.” – Steve Maraboli
16. “Depression is a lot like drowning except that you can see everyone else around you breathing.” – Unknown
17. “Drowning men will drag you down if you let them. Sometimes, to survive, you have to let them sink.” – John Connolly
18. “For the first time in his existence, he knew he was drowning and he wasn’t thinking about survival.” – Christine Feehan
19. “Finding someone who’s willing to drown with you creates a situation where you no longer want to drown.” – Marilyn Manson
20. “While the people are drowning in debt, the capitalists are drowning in profits that they’ve expropriated from the masses.” – Proverb
21. “A drowning man cannot be saved until he is utterly exhausted and ceases to make the slightest effort to save himself.” – Watchman Nee
22. “I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.” – Frida Kahlo
23. “Toxic people attach themselves like cinder blocks tied to your ankles, and then invite you for a swim in their poisoned waters.” – John Mark Green
24. “Thoughts are like drops of water: with our thoughts, we can drown in a sea of negativity, or we can float on the ocean of life.” – Louise Hay
25. “I wish I had carried a life jacket while sailing with you. You swam away, and here I am still drowning in the infinite ocean.” – Simran Dhawale
26. “Falling in love with another man is like falling into a vast vat of yourself. For some men, this is ultimately nourishing, for others it is drowning.” – Perry Brass
27. “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 drowning in its monstrosity.” – Alysha Speer
28. “We all have great aspirations for ourselves, but if you expect yourself to change the world tomorrow, then you’re going to just drown yourself in anxiety and constant feelings of inadequacy.” – Mark Manson
29. “Know who you are and stay true to it. Have a point of view, keep your head down when noise tries to drown out your inner voice, and whatever you do, keep pushing.” – Christina Tosi
30. “At that darkest moment, while drowning in the Abyss of Emotional Bankruptcy, reflect on this universal truth: the difference between success and failure is one more time.” – Ken Poirot
31. “Research is like drowning. When drowning in the water you need to swim towards the surface. When drowning in failures you need to swim towards discovery.” – Steven Magee
32. “You can’t walk away from someone you love, leave them drowning in your desertion. If love has no more meaning than that, you can keep it. I don’t want it now or ever again. Don’t want to hear the word or wear its scars.” – Ellen Hopkins
33. “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.” – Alan Watts
34. “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
35. “Love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.” – Proverb
36. “There is nothing more painful than the untimely death of someone young and dear to the heart. The harrowing grief surges from a bottomless well of sorrow, drowning the mourner in a torrent of agonizing pain; an exquisite pain that continues to afflict the mourner with heartache and loneliness long after the deceased is buried and gone.” – Jocelyn Murray
37. “A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.” – Florence Nightingale
38. “The time when there is nothing at all in your soul except a cry for help maybe just that time when God can’t give it: you are like the drowning man who can’t be helped because he clutches and grabs. Perhaps your own reiterated cries deafen you to the voice you hoped to hear.” – C. S. Lewis
39. “Guard your roving thoughts with jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
40. “I’m lost and all alone, drowning in the darkness of my thoughts. I’m so scared & trying hard to come out of it, but my body is tired of carrying the load of my soul & I can’t come out of it anymore.” – Deepasha Naik
41. “Such is the power of truth that even the slightest whisper of it can handily drown out the most boisterous of lies, which may explain why in many instances God only needs to whisper.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough
42. “And so she comes to dream herself the tree, The wind possessing her, weaving her young veins, Holding her to the sky and its quick blue, Drowning the fever of her hands in sunlight. She has no memory, nor fear, nor hope Beyond the grass and shadows at her feet.” – Hart Crane
43. “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
44. “Maybe your past isn’t perfect. Maybe it was brutal. Maybe you were brutal. Maybe you’ve got more scars than you thought one skin could hold. You can’t linger on those thoughts. You will drown in them. After all, it’s only an interesting backstory if you can get past it.” – Jessica Hagy
45. “Intuition is a wonderful gift but it can be both a blessing and a curse. If you can easily tune in to the grief of another, it is very easy to lose your way if you have not yet resolved your own present or past trauma and grief. If you have not healed from your own grief and you turn around and give all you have to give, you will find yourself drowning. Soon there will be nothing left of you.” – Kate McGahan