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#1

“I went down to the river,
I set down on the bank.
I tried to think but couldn't,
So I jumped in and sank.”
― Langston Hughes

tags: death, desperation, drowning, poetry, suicide

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#2

“He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.”
― Robert Jordan, New Spring

tags: drowning, expectations, jordan, lan, new-spring, overwhelmed, robert, wheel-of-time, wot

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#3

“Nobody wanted your dance,
Nobody wanted your strange glitter, your floundering
Drowning life and your effort to save yourself,
Treading water, dancing the dark turmoil,
Looking for something to give.”
― Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters

tags: dancing, drowning, poetry

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#4

“You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.”
― edwin louis cole

tags: adversity, drowning, survival

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#5

“She had a strange feeling in the pit of her stomach, like when you're swimming and you want to put your feet down on something solid, but the water's deeper than you think and there's nothing there”
― Julia Gregson, East of the Sun

tags: drowning, east-of-the-sun, feeling, feet, julia-gregson, panic, scared, strange, swimming

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#6

“Toxic people attach themselves like cinder blocks tied to your ankles, and then invite you for a swim in their poisoned waters.”
― John Mark Green

tags: drowning, dysfunctional-relationships, poisoned, toxic-people, toxic-relationships

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#7

“Two drowning people can't save each other. All they can do is drag each other down.”
― Carsten Jensen, We, the Drowned

tags: drowning, love

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#8

“When it comes to the crusty behavior of some people, give them the benefit of the doubt. They may be drowning right before your eyes, but you can't see it. And you would never ask someone to drown with a smile on his face.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

tags: benefit-of-the-doubt, criticism, drowning, forbearing, forgiving, gentle, patience, richelle, richelle-goodrich, understanding

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#9

“For in tremendous extremities human souls are like drowning men; well enough they know they are in peril; well enough they know the causes of that peril;--nevertheless, the sea is the sea, and these drowning men do drown.”
― Herman Melville, Pierre Or The Ambiguities

tags: drowning

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#10

“There’s an old adage: the sensation of drowning reminds you of everything you ever knew about swimming.”
― Frederick Weisel, Teller

tags: drowning, frederick-weisel, swimming, teller, weisel

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#11

“It's not the current that will drown you. It's the exhaustion from fighting it.”
― Rebekah Crane, The Upside of Falling Down

tags: current, drowning, letting-go

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#12

“How lonely it is!
To be drowning,
in a place
where everyone can swim.”
― B. Damani

tags: b-damani, depression, drowning, life, loneliness, lonely, misfit, solitude, swimming, world

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#13

“I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.”
― David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

tags: homicide, suicide

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#14

“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
― Albert Camus

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#15

“A lot of you cared, just not enough.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

tags: apathy, suicide, tragedy

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#16

“Résumé
Razors pain you,
Rivers are damp,
Acids stain you,
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful,
Nooses give,
Gas smells awful.
You might as well live.”
― Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope

tags: dark-humor, humor, suicide

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#17

“The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.”
― Nietzsche

tags: suicide

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#18

“I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.”
― Charles Bukowski

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#19

“It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

tags: suicide

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#20

“Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit!”
― Bill Maher

tags: suicide

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#21

“Some people are just not meant to be in this world. It's just too much for them.”
― Phoebe Stone, The Boy on Cinnamon Street

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#22

“I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't.”
― Susanna Kaysen

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#23

“We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.”
― George Sand, Mauprat

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#24

“Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

tags: indifference, suicide

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#25

“We men and women are all in the same boat, upon a stormy sea. We owe to each other a terrible and tragic loyalty.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 28: The Illustrated London News, 1908-1910

tags: brotherhood-of-man, interdependence, loyalty

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#26

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
― Plato

tags: attributed-no-source, compassion, kindness

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#27

“Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

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#28

“We are all different. Don’t judge, understand instead.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

tags: authentic-living, authentic-self, authenticity, compassion

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#29

“How would your life be different if…You stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day…You look for the good in everyone you meet and respect their journey.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

tags: action, assumption, change, compassion, inspirational, judging, kindness, life, respect, success

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#30

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
― Aesop

tags: compassion, inspirational, kindness

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