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Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist 1944Related quotes
Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) Mexican painter
Variant: I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows. But now the damned things have learned to swim, and now decency and good behavior weary me.
Roberto Durán (1951) Panamanian boxer
Ray Arcel, Duran's trainer http://coxscorner.tripod.com/duran.html <br class="br">About Durán
“The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.”
Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer
Source: Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research
“What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.”
Richard Paul Evans (1962) American writer
Source: A Step of Faith
“In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows
But my sorrows they learned to swim”
Bono (1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2
“I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.”
Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) Mexican painter
Quote in a letter to Ella Wolfe, "Wednesday 13," 1938, as cited in Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera (1983) ISBN 0-06-091127-1 , p. 197. In a footnote (p.467), Herrera writes that Kahlo had heard this joke from her friend, the poet José Frías.
1925 - 1945
Variant: I tried to drown my sorrows but the bastards learned how to swim.