Chokes Quotes

#1. People think that food cheers you up, that a doughnut cures all ills, but this only works for trivial complaints. When real disaster strikes, food chokes you.

Helena Dela

#2. Poetry is the inner life of a culture, its nervous system, its deepest way of imagining the world. A culture that ignores its poets, chokes off its nervous system and becomes mortally ill.

Erica Jong

#3. Father's silence is not merely the absence of sound. It's a creature with a life of its own. It chokes you. It pinches you small as a grain of rice. It twists in your gut like a worm.
Silence clawed at my throat. It left a taste of burnt matches.

Franny Billingsley

#4. You
" she chokes on a sob and draws back. "You're scared? What a thing to say. You had me thinking you were dead.

Lauren DeStefano

#5. Suppressed pain chokes us; in our breasts
It surges, adding ever to its strength.

Ovid

#6. Each narrow cell in which we dwell
Is a foul and dark latrine,
And the fetid breath of living Death
Chokes up each grated screen,
And all, but Lust, is turned to dust
In Humanity's machine.

Oscar Wilde

#7. For this beauty,
beauty without strength,
chokes out life.

Hilda Doolittle

#8. I cherish the fantasy, even the hope, of adventures in other realms to come. But how can we choke out that most precious of all gifts, life, with the rope of religion around our necks? It chokes out freedom with dogma. It pinions us to the stake of superstition.

Gerry Spence

#9. Everyone and everything oppresses me, chokes and maddens me; I am troubled by a crushing physical sense of other people's lack of comprehension.

Pessoa, Fernando

#10. We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat.

John Perry Barlow

#11. I don't want her in my car." says Jenna.
I don't want her in my life." says Michael.
I hope she chokes on her fucking Frappuccino." says Akello.

Deb Caletti

#12. My mind blazed with ravishing lies. I thought, I cannot accept this gift of myself, myself as a gift, of my person, of having this mind that does not stop burning, that deceives itself and consumes itself and immolates itself and believes its own lies and chokes on plain fact.

Paul Harding

#13. When truth is buried, it grows. It chokes. It gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it.

Emile Zola

#14. It is war that wastes a nations wealth, chokes its industries, kills its flower, narrows its sympathies, condemns it to be governed by adventurers, and leaves the puny, deformed, and unmanly to breed the next generation.

George Santayana

#15. And that better be the only wiener you put in your mouth. We do not give blow jobs so that boys will like us! Claire roars, and Connor nearly chokes on his beer

Jessica Spotswood

#16. It [death] chokes you, gags you, but you have to pretend that you're doing just fine, not trembling with this fear because the end is close.

Ellen Hopkins

#17. We offer a stark contrast to the bland escapism that chokes the charts,

Tom Morello

#18. Language communicates in terms of what is already know; it chokes up when asked to deal with entirely unprecedented.

Vivek Shanbhag

#19. A family who smokes together, chokes together.

James Moody

#20. Fleet Foxes will never, ever, under no circumstances, from now until the world chokes on gas fumes, sign to a major label. This includes all subsidiaries or permutations thereunder. Till we die.

Robin Pecknold

#21. She chokes on her drink with her laugh. "Chunk? You call your little sister Chunk?" "We all call her Chunk. She was a fat baby." She laughs. "You have nicknames for everyone," she says. "You call Sky Cheese Tits. You call Holder Hopeless. What do you call me when I'm not around?

Colleen Hoover

#22. The hatred I feel for him, for the phantom girl, for everything, is so real and immediate it chokes me. Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable. Why did it take him being whipped within an inch of his life to see it?

Suzanne Collins

#23. Kind pity chokes my spleen.

John Donne

#24. Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.

Trent Lott

#25. Habit, a particularly insidious thug who chokes passion and smothers love. Habit puts us on autopilot.

Diane Ackerman

#26. Dude deserves to be castrated, if you ask me.'
Ry chokes a bit, a strangled laugh. Remind me never to piss you off.

Kiersten White

#27. I want to shove the question down his throat until he chokes on it.

Courtney Summers

#28. You'll make a sucky father someday," I tell him with a smile. "I feel sorry for the kid that doesn't get to burst into light to get out of your house."
He chokes out a laugh. "Is it my sarcasm?"
"Definitely. And that obnoxious accent.

Suzanne Young

#29. Busyness chokes deep thinking.

Todd Stocker

#30. Imagine if we could glow to attract a mate instead of spraying on cologne that chokes everyone in a fifty-foot radius,

Adam Silvera

#31. I'm going to peel his skin from his sorry body and feed it to him until he chokes to death. And I'm going to make sure he feels every second of excruciating pain. Nobody

K. Webster

#32. But I was not good enough. You should understand this about me - I am not a hero; not one to tap unknown reserves of courage; not one to rise to circumstance. I am the understudy who chokes on his lines when he is forced onto the stage. I am never, ever good enough.

Dexter Palmer

#33. What's memory but the ash That chokes our fires that have begun to sink?

William Butler Yeats

#34. They say it grows so cold up here in winter that a man's laughter freezes in his throat and chokes him to death," Ned said evenly. "Perhaps that is why the Starks have so little humor.

George R R Martin

#35. He who eats alone chokes alone.

H.L. Mencken

#36. The real self and the public self are intertwined, like a tumor around an organ, and you can't cut the tumor or you'll kill the organ, so they live together, until the tumor chokes the organ off (but which self is the tumor?). Or it's like something out of Star Trek. The Borg.

Jonathan Ames

#37. somebody chokes, it's always on a hunk of steak.

Laura Wiess

#38. If we must put our head into the lion's mouth, let us make certain that he chokes upon our flesh!

Brandon Sanderson

#39. Spirituality is like a bird: If you hold it too closely, it chokes, And if you hold it too loosely, it escapes.

Yisroel Salanter

#40. Gift bread chokes in a man's throat and poisons his blood, and sits like lead upon the heart.

Anthony Trollope

#41. The writer knows more or less what he wants to say, but an accumulation of stale phrases chokes him like tea-leaves blocking a sink.

George Orwell