50 Drowning Quotes To Help Banish The Fear of Drowning

By Norbert Juma

Master quote curator and editor on a mission to inspire

Published December 20, 2022

These drowning quotes will help you deal with the fear of drowning.

Many people hesitate to enter pools or water bodies due to the fear of drowning.

Drowning quotes are helpful in:

providing hope
giving motivation
acting as fun
beating fear

Before moving forward to the quotes section, let’s see some ways to prevent drowning accidents.

Ways to Prevent Drowning

You probably know prevention is better than cure, so we should focus on preventing drowning.

Following are some ways to prevent drowning accidents.

Avoid Swimming Alone

Don’t swim alone in a pool or anywhere in a water body.

An emergency can happen suddenly at any time, so there should be someone to help and rescue you.

It can even happen with skilled and trained swimmers due to tides or any other cause.

Swimming Training

To prevent and minimize drowning accidents, learn how to swim.

It is essential to take this life-saving training.

Knowing how to swim decreases the risk of drowning to a great extent.

Use Life Jackets

Life jackets are a must for everyone who enters water bodies.

They can minimize drowning accidents.

But try to use only high-quality and durable jackets so they can be helpful in an emergency.

Learn CPR and First Aid

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is essential for the victim of drowning.

CPR is not so difficult to learn.

Along with basic CPR, first aid helps treat the drowned person.

Don’t Hold your Breath

Holding your breath while swimming or underwater is not a good practice.

Studies have shown that holding a breath leads to greater chances of drowning.

So try to practice swimming and underwater without holding your breath.

If you enjoy this article, check out our collection of floating quotes that are interesting and engaging.

Top 10 Drowning Quotes

These are the best drowning quotes by popular personalities and influencers.

1. “I’m drowning in papers.” — Wislawa Szymborska

2. “We are drowning in information.” — Jon Lovett

3. “I once saved someone from drowning.” — Simon Van Booy

4. “It was like drowning, only from the inside out.” — Stephen King

5. “Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky

6. “We’re all kind of weird and twisted and drowning.” — Haruki Murakami

7. “Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.” — L. Neil Smith

8. “You don’t need water to feel like you’re drowning, do you?” — Jodi Picoult

9. “Oil is drowning our oceans and drowning our boreal forests.” — Winona LaDuke

10. “In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows but my sorrows learned to swim won’t.” — Bono

Optimistic Drowning Quotes

These drowning quotes can give a lot of optimism to people who fear drowning.

11. “In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows, But my sorrows learned to swim Won’t.” — Bono

12. “To understand the world, one’s place in it, is to be always at the risk of drowning.” — Kevin Powers

13. “Man, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there.” — Billy Bob Thornton

14. “Hope is like a piece of string when you’re drowning; it just isn’t enough to get you out by itself.” — Robert Jordan

15. “You don’t want to be one of these guys talking all the time, trying to say things all the time, because people start drowning you out.” — Julius Peppers

16. “When I started making my records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me.” — Brian Eno

17. “In reality, I was drowning in negativity. I was stuck playing a part, too afraid to change, too afraid of losing my readers if I suddenly stopped being so mean.” — Perez Hilton

18. “It would be nice to redefine ourselves – at the moment we are drowning in diversity. That’s not a bad thing, its just going to take a while before we refocus.” — Harvey Fierstein

19. “Jealousy, greed, fear. We’re all full of these things. But also love and compassion. If you saw a drowning baby, it wouldn’t matter if you were wearing a tuxedo on the way to your own wedding. You’d jump in to save him.” — John McAfee

20. “Only the wise know just where predestination ends and free will begins. Meanwhile, you must keep on doing your best, according to your own clearest understanding. you must long for freedom as the drowning man longs for air. Without sincere longing, you will never find God.” — Paramahansa Yogananda

Humorous Drowning Quotes

Following drowning quotes by authors are full of humor. These quotes will make you smile.

21. “I can fall asleep in the shower without drowning.” — Thundercat

22. “It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.” — Arthur Baer

23. “If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning.” — Simon Cowell

24. “Two drowning people can’t save each other. All they can do is drag each other down.” — Carsten Jensen

25. “Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.” — Edna Ferber

26. “You know what it’s like having five kids? Imagine you’re drowning. And someone hands you a baby.” — Jim Gaffigan

27. “My sister saved me from drowning. I shouted at her because she pulled me out of the pool and hurt my arm.” — Sarah Millican

28. “My experience as a young actor on network television was that I couldn’t make it work. I was drowning as an actor.” — James Badge Dale

29. “My sister was drowning in the ocean once, and my brother and I dove in and saved her. True story. She owes us her life. It’s great leverage; we abuse it all the time!” — Matt Barr

30. “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

Drowning Quotes About Water

Many people fear drowning in water. The below quotes give the experiences of authors related to drowning water.

31. “I used to feel like I was drowning. So I stopped trying to swim.” — Oliver Sykes

32. “The only good reason for swimming, so far as I can see, is to escape drowning.” — Helen Cresswell

33. “I can’t swim and I’m terrified of drowning, but I still love being by water – just not in it.” — Sherri Shepherd

34. “We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown.” — Henry Miller

35. “I’m just here, existing at the surface of the water, not quite drowning but not quite able to breathe.” — Jessica Sorensen

36. “A drowning man cannot be saved until he is utterly exhausted and ceases to make the slightest effort to save himself.” — Watchman Nee

37. “When I was very young, my nanny was a big Newfoundland dog… whose task was to keep me from drowning.” — Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

38. “There are too many kids who are drowning for lack of water safety. That’s something I’d like to do. Teaching kids to live an active lifestyle.” — Michael Phelps

39. “When you’re drowning, you don’t say ‘I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,’ you just scream.” — John Lennon

40. “Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning. I was much further out than you thought, and not waving but drowning. I was much too far out all my life, And not waving but drowning.” — Stevie Smith

Drowning Quotes about Life

Drowning can lead to the end of life, so it is very much connected to life.

41. “Drowning was bad enough. But drowning sad and sober, that’s too cruel.” — George R. R. Martin

42. “I never had a lot of drive, but because I had family responsibilities, I had a lot of tenacity – the tenacity of a drowning man.” — Dick Van Dyke

43. “We shouldn’t be profiting from our students who are drowning in debt while giving a great deal to the banks. That’s just wrong.” — Elizabeth Warren

44. “Emigration is no longer a solution; it’s a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they’re knocking on doors that are not open.” — Tahar Ben Jelloun

45. “No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it’s the worst… when you think you’re drowning.” — Dane Cook

46. “When I look at my daily schedule, I feel like a trout flopping about on a dock, drowning in the air. Some people are ruthless.s with their schedules. Not me. I wing it.” — Douglas Coupland

47. “When you’re scrambling to fill the void in your life and you feel like you’re drowning… we all yearn to hear that one friend’s voice, say: “You’re going to get through this.” — Nelly Furtado

48. “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.” — Anais Nin

49. “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

50. “To accept one’s past – one’s history – is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.” — James A. Baldwin