22 Best Swimming Quotes For Happy Swimming

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Are you looking for some swimming quotes? Stay motivated with the help of the below swimming quotes.

Best Quotes About Swimming

1. “I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.” ― Frida Kahlo

2. “Let them think what they liked, but I didn’t mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank — but that’s not the same thing.” ― Joseph Conrad

3. “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” ― William Faulkner

4. “The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.” ― Woodrow Wilson

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5. “He wondered what kind of life it would be, having to keep swimming all the time to stay exactly in the same place. Pretty similar to his own, he decided.” ― Terry Pratchett

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

7. “To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.” ― Alan Wilson Watts

8. “Swimming was the last thing I wanted to do. Drowning him? Maybe.” ― Jennifer L. Armentrout

9. “Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.” ― Henry Miller

10. “I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.” ― Mary Oliver

11. “If you ever know a man who tries to drown his sorrows, kindly inform him his sorrows know how to swim.” ― Pittacus Lore

12. “All good writing is like swimming underwater and holding your breath.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald

13. “Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.” ― Frank Herbert

14. “If you don’t want to sink, you better figure out how to swim” ― Jeannette Walls

15. “Some people dream of having a big swimming pool. With me, it’s closets” ― Audrey Hepburn

16. “You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet.” ― Norton Juster

17. “Everybody loves duck-soup-flavored ice cream. 10,000 hours of swimming go into each scoop!” ― Jarod Kintz

18. “I would dive off the ten meter diving board at the swimming pool and it really hurts when you hit the water from that height!” ― Steven Magee

19. “Life is like an Ocean! You either swim to stay on the top, or do nothing and sink to the bottom!” ― Alex Haditaghi

20. “I hate swimming. Swimming Is horrible. It is the only activity that I can think of that is exhausting, boring, and life-threatening all at the same time.” ― Michael Ian Black

21. “Swimming feels wonderful—almost as good as flying through the air,” Tsukuru explained to Sara one time. “Have you ever flown through the air?” she asked. “Not yet,” Tsukuru said.” ― Haruki Murakami

22. “A good swimmer is one who knows how to swim through the river of life without drowning.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson

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