Bernard Sumner Quotes

You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.

No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it's the worst... when you think you're drowning.

I had a nightmare about being on a cruise ship and the ship going down. It was an arduous process of the ship going down and we knew it was going down. There was everyone I know and love on the ship.

When someone is drowning and you try to save them, they're more likely to drown you before you pull them out.

When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival.

Desperation will allow you to do incredible things in the name of survival.

I limited myself to one shout a day. But I didn't like the sound of my voice. It sounded panicked, it sounded scared. And I knew from experience you can't hear more than 50 yards either way down a canyon.

People say you have to hit rock bottom, and, I can tell you, almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets.

Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.

Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

Well, listen, you know, the Czech saying is, you know, when you are drowning you are grabbing even a little twig. That's what all Czechs were doing, grabbing for... with the hope for this little twig.

When you are desperate, it's usually because of fear.

They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?

My mind shrank from the menace sweeping down on us, … vainly clinging to the fancy that great disasters only happen to other people.

Necessity, which even makes cowards brave ...

Oh my God. My God. It’s all over.

Oh! Most miserable wretch that I am! Why have I not learnt how to swim?

Panic is a natural human response to danger, but it's one that severely compounds the risk.

You are overboard in deep open water without a PFD (personal floatation device), or at least that's what your instructor is yelling. Sink or swim, plebe.

When bombing is going on, you see a lot of people screaming around you and you can't do anything if you're small. You just want to break out of that and be strong.

Desperate times make for desperate songs.

I can't swim.