Quotes About Suffocate

#1. I want my team to be more detached from the wins and losses and be more focused on doing the little things well. When you focus on getting the win, it can suffocate you, especially during the playoffs when the pressure gets thick.

Sue Enquist

#2. Contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own waste.

Chief Seattle

#3. Love frees a soul and in the same breath can sometimes suffocate it.

Cecelia Ahern

#4. I want to write a novel so profound that it would suffocate a fly.

Gao Xingjian

#5. You can suffocate a thought by expressing it with too many words.

Frank A. Clark

#6. And so Mort came at last to the river Ankh, greatest of rivers. Even before it entered the city, it was slow and heavy with the silt of the plains, and by the time it got to The Shades even an agnostic could have walked across it. It was hard to drown in the Ankh, but easy to suffocate.

Terry Pratchett

#7. I'd suffocate. From my own cowardice.

Julia Glass

#8. I'll drop the oxygen mixture to zero and breathe pure nitrogen until I suffocate. It wouldn't feel bad. The lungs don't have the ability to sense lack of oxygen. I'd just get tired, fall asleep, then die.

Andy Weir

#9. I was born once.
The doctor was late.
I made my own way out.
The nurse slapped my insolence.
"Suffocate me!" I screamed, "I shall not recant.

Robert Skyler

#10. Continue to contaminate your own bed, and you will one night suffocate in your own waste. - Chief Seattle Suqwamish and Duwamish T

Kent Nerburn

#11. I hope you drop dead!" She screamed as Basta hauled her out of the room. "I hope you burn to death! I hope you suffocate in your own smoke!"
Basta laughed as he closed the door. "Just listen to this little wildcat!" He said. "I think I'll have to watch my step with you around!

Cornelia Funke

#12. If any guy threatened her she'd probably suffocate him with her oversized tee.

Simone Elkeles

#13. What are our lungs supposed to do?" I shouted. Shouted: "If they breathe fast they suffocate themselves from inner poisons; if they breathe slowly they suffocate from unbreathable air, from outraged things. But if they try to search for their own rhythm they perish from the mere search.

Franz Kafka

#14. I have an air mattress. It's great because if someone tries to suffocate me in bed I can just poke a hole in it and use it to stay alive.

Demetri Martin

#15. Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate. The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go of it. Let go & it will be yours forever.

Deepak Chopra

#16. Should I string her up or strangle her in bed, suffocate that venomous head? Or perhaps I'll just whip her to death. Listen, do me a favor, kill my wife.

Rod Stewart

#17. The nicest part is being able to write down all my thoughts and feeling; otherwise, I might suffocate.

Anne Frank

#18. No one ever told me how sorrow traumatizes your heart, making you think it will never beat exactly the same way again. No one ever told me how grief feels like a wet sock in my mouth. One I'm forced to breathe through, thinking that with each breath I'll come up short and suffocate.

Sarah Noffke

#19. Ever since that day you danced into my life, I've done nothing but breathed your air. I'd suffocate without you. Braxxon Breaker

Crystal Spears

#20. An aching vacuum inside her sucking the air from her lungs. She hung her head and wept fiercely, the emptiness inside her growing larger not smaller; she felt as though it would grow so large it would suffocate her just as surely as the sea would have

Alan Brennert

#21. For me, creatively, I'd suffocate if I played the same thing, over and over again. I want challenges. I want to sit down with a director and be like, "I've never done this before, but it's going to be exciting. It's scary, but really thrilling, so let's do it!"

Alexander Skarsgard

#22. America is sinking under the crushing weight of the ever-expanding regulatory state. This burden threatens to disrupt our recovery, hamper long-term growth, undermine our global competitiveness, and suffocate the entrepreneurial spirit so vital to America's success.

Tom J. Donohue

#23. The right belief is like a good cloak, I think. If it fits you well, it keeps you warm and safe. The wrong fit however, can suffocate.

Brandon Sanderson

#24. If the oxygenator breaks down, I'll suffocate. If the water reclaimer breaks down, I'll die of thirst. If the Hab breaches, I'll just kind of explode. If none of those things happen, I'll eventually run out of food and starve to death. So yeah. I'm fucked.

Andy Weir

#25. But to be liked, you must never disagree. And if you never disagree, it's like only breathing in and never breathing outl A man can suffocate on courtesy. What if God wanted to be liked instead of loved? What if the almighty delayed every decision until He was sure it would please the majority?

J. Lawrence

#26. Sins slowly suffocate the heart, and abandoning sins brings life to the heart.

Abdullah Ibn Mubarak

#27. Some so fear the future that they suffocate the present. It's like committing suicide to avoid being murdered.

Richard Paul Evans

#28. They seal the subway change-booth guy up inside this thing with bullet-proof glass, closed in on all sides, it's like some kind of Houdini torture tank of doom. How do you breathe in there? It looks like if you put your hand over the change slot, you could suffocate him in thirty seconds.

Jerry Seinfeld

#29. Smile, so your teeth won't suffocate.

Katherine Evans

#30. When you would suffocate or ignore dissent, remember how many times you dissented.

Fausto Cercignani

#31. I'm afraid I might suffocate in my own cleavage.

Cora Carmack

#32. But say you do find the right people - how do you love them without smothering them? ... How do you not suffocate them with all the love you've built up in their absence?

Simon Van Booy

#33. In every novel, I write about something - a place, an experience, an emotion - with which I'm intimately familiar, but it's also crucial to me that I take on challenges. If write only inside my comfort zone, I'll suffocate.

Julia Glass

#34. Sometimes we have to avoid thinking about the problems life presents. Otherwise we'd suffocate. - Hiroshima Mon Amour, Marguerite Duras

Marguerite Duras

#35. Affliction is more apt to suffocate the imagination than to stimulate it.

Denise Levertov

#36. If you don't leave home you suffocate, if you go too far you lose oxygen.

Vivian Gornick

#37. I might suffocate you tonight with a pillow, Kingsley said

Tiffany Reisz

#38. I remember the days of my youth when everything was new and bright; when the mind was always questing, searching, absorbing; when the pain of love was so acute it could suffocate. And the days when joy was delirious.

Jennifer Worth

#39. I wanted to die, then. I wanted to destroy the body I was trapped in, become what she was, no matter what it took. No matter how much mutilation or pain. But he looked away, at me. He pulled my face down and pressed my lips against his like he was almost trying to suffocate us both.

Francesca Lia Block

#40. The oppressors do not perceive their monopoly on having more as a privilege which dehumanizes others and themselves. They cannot see that, in the egoistic pursuit of having as a possessing class, they suffocate in their own possessions and no longer are; they merely have.

Paulo Freire

#41. A community that finds it natural to suffocate with the care of home and children so many women's intellectual energies is its own enemy and doesn't realize it. I

Elena Ferrante

#42. People have to tell their stories, Elsa. Or they suffocate.

Fredrik Backman

#43. Substantiate or suffocate, Ms. Vetra. Mickey's ticking.

Dan Brown

#44. As uncomfortable as it might be, I refuse to let the comfort of being agreed with suffocate my opinions.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#45. I was betrayed, one more day, of my short life.
You were carried away, had no shame, to suffocate my being.

I was me, but you weren't you.
You were sticking to me like a scab.
So, I peeled you away...
Bled for days...
And stepped out of myself.

Pantera

#46. Pedagogy, like language itself, can either liberate or imprison ideas, inspire of suffocate constructive thinking.

Hyman Bass

#47. Hurt shouldn't pile up like this inside of someone. No one should suffocate beneath pain on top of pain. You should have time to breathe, time to scream it out until it doesn't exist anymore.

Sharde Richardson

#48. The whites, too, shall pass - perhaps sooner than other tribes. Continue to contaminate your own bed, and you might suffocate in your own waste.

Chief Seattle

#49. Suffocate the flames of envy with a blanket of gratitude.

Craig Groeschel

#50. You hold on tight from now on, so tight it hurts. Got it? Don't let go of me, not ever. Don't worry about hurting me, don't worry about suffocating me, don't worry about holding on too tight. You hold on and you never let go. You'll only hurt me, I'll only suffocate, if you let go. Promise.

Lindy Zart

#51. I would like to suffocate with grief but instead I give birth to a rock.

Henry Miller

#52. Now, where do I bring this thing down?" I asked. There was a hesitation, then, "You don't. We didn't design it to return. It was a redundancy we had no need for. Too costly, in terms of resources." "So what do I do? I just saved the Earth. And now I suffocate out here?

Neil Gaiman

#53. Cursed is our love, as we long for each other like wounded doves with these feelings we suffocate ...

Heena Jadav Sunil

#54. You put your own joy in prison if you work hard to make other people's happiness suffocate.

Israelmore Ayivor

#55. There's no stopping the soul that radiates out and around us, any more than one can stop the sweet perfume of a rose. You could, of course, hold your nose. But the rose will continue to exude its rich fragrance, even while you suffocate.

Thomas Dale Cowan

#56. Whatever the questions that trouble you just get up and ask, don't let them suffocate you. Because questions not asked will stay questions unanswered.

Mansi Soni

#57. I hardly think a girl is much of a threat. I presume you searched her for weapons? But if she attempts to suffocate me with her straw mattress, I promise to call out for help.

Mary Hoffman

#58. Be absolutely assured that we will die long before our own deaths if we ever allow the fear of adulthood to kill the wonder of childhood.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#59. Words know how to suffocate lies to exhale the truth.

Munia Khan

#60. What we don't recognize is that holding onto resentment is like holding onto your breath. You'll soon start to suffocate.

Deepak Chopra

#61. If you're not operating on an instinctive level, you're not an artist ... Reason over emotion is bullshit, absolute bullshit ... We suffocate ourselves in rules. I find fantasy liberating.

Guillermo Del Toro

#62. Punctilious abyss, the yawn of space
Come once a day to suffocate the sight.

Allen Tate

#63. We suffocate with uncoordinated facts; our minds are overwhelmed with science breeding and multiplying into specialistic chaos for want of synthetic thought and a unifying philosophy. We are all mere fragments of what a man might be.

Will Durant

#64. Girls, don't suffocate your father. He's had a long trip." "Don't listen to your mother, just this once. You can suffocate me all you like.

Marissa Meyer

#65. The waste of intelligence. A community that finds it natural to suffocate with the care of home and children so many women's intellectual energies is its own enemy and doesn't realize it. I waited in silence

Elena Ferrante

#66. I just wanna have fun and breathe, but I can't do either one of them when I suffocate myself with depression.

Lisa M. Cronkhite

#67. Never worry that rote exercises aimed at developing skills will suffocate creativity. At the same time, it's important to recognize that demonstrating great technique is not the same as being creative.

Twyla Tharp

#68. Love must not suffocate but breathe on its own.

Soraya Naomi

#69. We recklessly attempt to disguise our 'greed' by dressing it in the garb of other nobler ideals such as 'rights' and 'privileges.' Yet, if we dare dress 'greed' in an authentic sense of thankfulness, greed will suffocate within the folds of that very clothing.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#70. A man can suffocate on courtesy.

Henry David Thoreau

#71. It sounds kind of farfetched, yet I can't tell you how many people have had this syndrome ... the 'Old Hag Syndrome.' Apparently, there's this little old lady who comes into your room at night, sits on your chest and tries to suffocate you. You can Google her - she'll pop up. She's out there.

George Noory

#72. Always be your husband's best friend, make him laugh and give him a little bit of freedom - you can't suffocate him.

Roselyn Sanchez

#73. The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against.

Ang Lee

#74. Injustice coupled with racism is a highly explosive mixture, in which the world, threatens to suffocate.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#75. I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies tragedy suffocate him.

Nelson Mandela

#76. Love takes no prisoners, it knows no mercy; it will suffocate you with its truth.

S.L. Naeole

#77. He leaned over and inhaled the pillow Gray had been on. Sick freak. She ought to suffocate him with it the moment he fell asleep. But Nolan lay there with his eyes open, staring at the ceiling. Murder's

Nikki Jefford

#78. If the kid is in a bubble, what happens if they can't get fresh
oxygen, won't they suffocate?

Alanea Alder

#79. Acceptance doesn't mean predictability. Sex isn't always for 11 at night - - it's also 'meet at a hotel room at noon'. What you feel during dating can exist at home, if you don't suffocate it.

Esther Perel

#80. she must provide a blanket of stability, which warms but does not suffocate, and she must tell her children the truth about the power of white power without suggesting that it cannot be challenged.

Maya Angelou

#81. Can one drown in one's element ... If fish can drown in water, can human beings suffocate in air?

Salman Rushdie

#82. Don't suffocate your spirit for the lessons that were only passing through spring.

Nikki Rowe

#83. Was my sacrifice worth it? I felt hollow and bereft, yet the grief in my heart had palpable weight, bearing me down to the ground. I could not breathe. I carried the burden of my love for my family, and it threatened to suffocate me.

S. Jae-Jones

#84. What would I do without you to give me clarity?"
"I imagine you'd suffocate yourself by shoving your head too far up your own backside.

Kady Cross

#85. I am here not to let you fall alone, suffocate alone, quit life easy. I'll fight the fate for you and with you.

Parul Wadhwa

#86. I closed my eyes and curled my fists around the things I knew for sure:
That a scallop has thirty-five eyes, all blue.
That a tuna will suffocate if it ever stops swimming.
That I was loved.
That this time, it was not me who broke

Jodi Picoult

#87. Some memories aren't meant to go down smoothly; they're meant to choke you until you suffocate.

Tali Alexander

#88. You steal the very breath from my body. I suffocate with the feelings, it's true.

Anne Zoelle

#89. He takes the coffee from her, needing fresh air because if he doesn't get out of this room, he'll suffocate from memories. He's felt like that for more than a month now. There's no particular reason for it, but sometimes he feels like he can't breathe, like his body is shutting down.

Melina Marchetta

#90. She fully expected to see a maniacal killer raising his arms with a plastic bag in his hands to suffocate her

Elle Klass

#91. Stagnancy will suffocate a business ... Leadership must be dynamic and evolving to ensure successful growth, enhancement, and longevity.

Steve Maraboli

#92. You don't have the right to make that call, not after all this time. I can barely breathe when you're near me, but I'll surely suffocate if I have to lose you. How can you ask me to do that?" She turned her face away. "I'm stronger than you think." She looked back at him. "And I'll do my own fixing.

Madison Thorne Grey

#93. Oxygen flooded into the atmosphere as a pollutant, even a poison, until natural selection shaped living things to thrive on the stuff and, indeed, suffocate without it.

Richard Dawkins

#94. He chanced a look at her and saw the flare of something in her eyes. A salve to the emptiness that sometimes threatened to suffocate him.

Melina Marchetta

#95. As you get older, the child within you begins to suffocate in the shadow of the man you are destined to become.

Charles Lee