You don't drown by falling in water; you only drown if you stay there.

For in tremendous extremities human souls are like drowning men; well enough they know they are in peril; well enough they know the causes of that peril; — nevertheless, the sea is the sea, and these drowning men do drown.

It isn't falling in that causes you to drown, it's staying in.

You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?

A man can suffocate on courtesy.

I began choking and kicking, fighting for air. My spirit helper spoke precisely: ‘If you fight water, you drown

It was like drowning, only from the inside out.

If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?

Drown thyself? Drown cats and blind puppies.

She drank like a drowning man helplessly swallowing sea water, in accordance with some law of nature. To ask for nothing means that one has lost one’s freedom to choose or reject. Once having decided that, one has no choice but to drink anything — even sea water….

Afterwards, however, Etsuko felt none of the nausea of a drowning person. Until the moment of her death, it seemed, no one would know she was drowning. She did not call out — she was a woman bound and gagged by her own hand.

If I could drown in sleep as I drown in fear I would be no longer alive.

Being in a ship is like being in jail, with the chance of being drowned.

Just don't let go or you may drown.

I am drowning, my dear, in seas of fire.