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1 " Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic. "
― Anaïs Nin
2 " Please just admit it," said Valkyrie. " You're going to miss me, aren't you?" " Obviously," said Skulduggery. " Thank you." " Like a drowning man misses the land." " A w w w..." " Like a hesitant man misses the chance." " Yeah..." " Like an oblivious man misses the point." " I have a feeling you're mocking me somehow, but I can't put my finger on how. "
3 " Please just admit it," said Valkyrie. " You're going to miss me, aren't you?" " Obviously," said Skulduggery. " Thank you." " like a drowning man misses the land." " Aw w w..." " Like a hesitant man misses the chance." " Yeah..." " Like an oblivious man misses the point." " I have a feeling you're mocking me somehow, but I can't put my finger on how. "
4 " I sat in the gradually chilling room, thinking of my whole past the way a drowning man is supposed to, and it seemed part of the present, part of the gray cold and the beggar woman without a face and the moulting birds frozen to their own filth in the Orangerie. I know now I was in the throes of some small glandular crisis, a sublimated bilious attack, a flick from the whip of melancholia, but then it was terrifying...nameless.... "
― M.F.K. Fisher , The Art of Eating
5 " It is very difficult to appreciate from the outside what a person in severe anxiety is experiencing. Brown rightly remarked about his friends 'imploring a drowning man [me] to swim when they don't know that under the water his hands and feet are tied. "
― Rollo May , The Meaning of Anxiety
6 " Here and there, plumes of dark smoke reach into the sky like the fingers of a drowning man reaching up for the last time. "
― Susan Ee , Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days, #1)
7 " Or perhaps it is because it is so NECESSARY for you to win. It is like a drowning man catching at a straw. You yourself will agree that, unless he were drowning he would not mistake a straw for the trunk of a tree. "
― Fyodor Dostoevsky , The Gambler
8 " Shame isn't a quiet grey cloud, shame is a drowning man who claws his way on top of you, scratching and tearing your skin, pushing you under the surface. "
9 " People who won't help others in trouble " because they got into trouble through their own fault" would probably not throw a lifeline to a drowning man until they learned whether he fell in through his own fault or not. "
