
“I was drowning in broad daylight and no one could tell.”
Dreamland (2000)
Source: Atonement
“I was drowning in broad daylight and no one could tell.”
Dreamland (2000)
“If I could drown in sleep as I drown in fear I would be no longer alive.”
Source: Letters to Milena
“If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?”
“I heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world.”
Song lyrics, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall
“He is dangerous, he is beautiful, I could drown in his understanding.”
Source: Speaker for the Dead
“It was a mite that held itself most dear,
So small I could have drowned it with a tear.”
"Interludes" III, in From Darkness To Light : A Confession of Faith in the form of an Anthology (1956) edited by Victor Gollancz
Context: Then in my heart a fear
Cried out, "A life — why, beautiful, why dead!" It was a mite that held itself most dear,
So small I could have drowned it with a tear.