I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” - because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one's own “brain voices”. The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
The sea only drowns its lovers.
It's not the sea that drowns you-it's the puddle.
I've got friends in low places, where the whiskey drowns and the beer chases my blues away.
Pity drowns in numbers.
America has become numb to violence because it just drowns in it, day in and day out.
Love is the sea where intellect drowns.
A few times in my life I've had moments of clarity where the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think.
Sight is a slick and overbearing autocrat, trumpeting its prodigal knowledge and perceptions so forcefully that it drowns out the other, subtler senses.
She closes the door completely, and I crouch there. I allow myself to fall forward and rest my head on the door frame. My breath bleeds. My heartbeat drowns my ears.
Some say love it is a river that drowns the tender reeds. Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your heart to bleed. Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower and you, its only seed.
Noise has one advantage. It drowns out words.
But I know what darkness is, it accumulates, thickens, then suddenly bursts and drowns everything.
The same rain that drowns the rat will grow the hay.
The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity; and of that it sings its monotonous song forever and ever.
To be ignorant or unconvinced of one's own needs has become the unforgivable anti-social act. The good citizen is one who imputes standardized needs to himself with such conviction that he drowns out any desire for alternatives, much less the renunciation of need.
Anyone can post messages to the net. Practically everyone does. The resulting cacophony drowns out serious discussion.
The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.
When everyone drowns and I'm the only one to escape, God is protecting me. When everyone else is saved and I'm the only one to drown, God is protecting me then too.
