#drowning

I'm drowning in papers. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#i #papers

I think back to the last thing Dave said to me and try to imagine what escaping oxygen would look like. It looks a lot like drowning. ↗

— A.S. King

#imagination

He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that. ↗

— Robert Jordan

#expectations #jordan #lan #new-spring #overwhelmed

It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope. ↗

— Arthur Baer

#drowning #ends #helpful #man #rope

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

#catching #chocolate #cold #drowning #dry