“the poisonous world flows into my mouth like water into that of a drowning man”

“Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.”

“Time flows away like the water in the river.”

“Thare iz a grate deal ov charity in this world so koldly rendered that it fairly hurts, it iz like lifting a drowning man out ov the water bi the hair ov the hed, and then letting him drop on the ground.”

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

“Everything is valuable under the right conditions. To a man dying of thirst, water be more precious than gold. To a drowning man, water be of little worth and great trouble.”

“It is a strange paradox: Humans drown in the water, fish drown in the land.”

“always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives”

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

“Life is flowing away like water running out from a leaky vessel.”