“Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world.”

“In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows
But my sorrows they learned to swim”

“If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim.”

“Families will not be broken. Curse and expel them, send their children wandering, drown them in floods and fires, and old women will make songs of all these sorrows and sit on the porch and sing them on mild evenings.”

“Funerals in México are also about drowning sorrow with liquor. The coffee is spiked with tequila”

“Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.”

“I lived my grief; I slept mourning and ate sorrow and drank tears. I ignored all else.”

“Don't let the tide of your sorrow
Drown your nights and flood your days”

“The world is a sea in which we all must surely drown.”

“Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.”