Top 100 Quotes About Suffocating
#1. The house didn't feel the same; it wasn't the same. The eeriness of that night permeated the walls and the suffocating warmth trapped in those walls. And I stood there, waiting for my feet to think, to move, knowing that they would decide to do just that. They had come this far.
C.C. Wyatt
#2. Across the sea of space lies an infinite emptiness. I can feel it, suffocating me. It is without meaning. But each life creates its own reality.
Daniel H. Wilson
#3. up to the belly. When the attack starts I will let myself fall into the water, with my face as deep in the mud as I can keep it without suffocating. I must pretend to be dead. Suddenly
Erich Maria Remarque
#4. Combined families often get bad reviews, but the family my children got when they traded away 'the suffocating four-person' nuclear one is one that has benefited all of them.
Jane Smiley
#5. She went to all the parties and kissed all the boys, shoring up fun against despair, against the suffocating terror that loomed over her.
Holly Black
#6. I was suffocating even before we left the house, but no one bothered to ask me how I felt.
Anne Frank
#7. Madonna is the true feminist. She exposes the puritanism and suffocating ideology of American feminism, which is stuck in an adolescent whining mode. Madonna has taught young women to be fully female and sexual while still exercising control over their lives.
Camille Paglia
#8. I've always thought stability was suffocating and deadly. Like, when I read that the kids I went to law school with have stayed at the same firm, I feel like I'm reading an obituary. How much money do you need? Six million, seven million? Put that in the bank and do something else. Get out!
Glenn Greenwald
#9. My job is to support businesses, that means promoting British commerce in the big emerging markets that have been neglected in the past. It means keeping Britain open to inward investors, trade and skilled workers. It means cutting red tape which is suffocating growing companies which create jobs.
Vince Cable
#10. Nodding, smiling, suffocating in his black gown and hoping that people would not notice his mother sobbing
Anonymous
#11. The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything.
Ann Voskamp
#12. Despite what you might guess, when monitoring your breathing, your body doesn't care whether you're inhaling enough oxygen. It cares only whether you're expelling enough carbon dioxide - that's the gas that sets off the panic button when you're suffocating.
Sam Kean
#13. And as I looked, it became very clear that this five-and-ten-cent ship was in some way connected with human pretensions. This suffocating interior of a dime-store ship was my own personal self; these gimcrack mobiles of tin and plastic were my personal contributions to the universe.
Aldous Huxley
#15. Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity.
Armand Assante
#16. I did a book signing when we were in New York the day before yesterday. A lady came through and she was just weeping, and said, 'I wish this would have been brought out sooner, my sister is in prison for suffocating her child.'
Marie Osmond
#17. I feel waves of hatred against the stupidity of my era suffocating me. Shit is rising into my mouth , as with a strangulated hernia
Flaubert
#18. The earth is suffocating ... Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive.
Frederic Chopin
#19. Seeking survival, hostile, hidden from sight,
Deliciously flavoured - juicy, sweet bite,
Exploding senses preparing to ignite,
Inspiring to escape from the suffocating night.
Claudia Bakker
#20. I felt like I was suffocating, like my future and all my happiness were gone. I've never felt that before, Ava. I can't let you go.
Nicole Gulla
#21. Even when the sun was shining she couldn't see it. The whole house was closing in on her and she was suffocating.
Crissi Langwell
#22. Lately I've been suffocating. Chan Young is my air, without him beside me, am I able to breathe?
Lee Bo-na
#23. I don't know when it started - this thing - bit it's growing, muffling me, suffocating me like poison ivy. I grew into it. It grew into me. We blurred at the edges, became an amorphous, seeping, crawling thing.
Tabitha Suzuma
#24. The past is more alive to her than the present, she realizes, and the thought is suffocating.
Dominic Smith
#25. Now, what's stirring in this murky sea of complexity and foolishness is an almost suffocating need to breathe fresh history.
Laurie Perez
#26. Guilt is intense. Suffocating. A brick, tied quietly around your ankles while you sleep. You never fall slowly into guilt-you wake up with little time to take your last breath before being pulled under.
Andrea Randall
#27. My pen is the key to a fantastic bordello, and once the gate is opened, it ejaculates a bloody ink. The virgin paper set to shriek evokes worlds heretofore unknown: eruptive, incorruptible, suffocating.
Rikki Ducornet
#28. I think that's just what happens when you write a big bestseller. After that you need to find out: What's the best way to go on? And the worst thing you could do would be to try to repeat the formula. That would be suffocating.
Daniel Kehlmann
#29. Sometimes emotions matter more than the right words, and if you overthink every goddamn word it's like suffocating it until all the emotion is gone.
Jewel E. Ann
#30. Even paradise can be suffocating
Jenny Han
#31. I stood up. It was all too much. I could not even meet my own expectations, and to be asked to deal with all theirs too was suffocating.
Jeff Lindsay
#32. I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
H.G.Wells
#33. Oh, Jeannie, I am so glad you woke me. I was having the worst nightmare. I felt like I was suffocating. I dreamed the Devil was trying to choke me to death.
Jeannie Walker
#34. A hundred brilliant witticisms died suffocating on the captain's heavy glove. Thus muted, I pumped my codpiece at the duke and tried to force a fart, but my bum tumpet could find no note.
Christopher Moore
#35. Car horns, shrill and prolonged, blared one after another. Flashing sirens heralded endless emergencies, and a fleet of buses rumbled past, their doors opening and closing with a powerful hiss, throughout the night. The noise was constantly distracting, at times suffocating.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#36. The only siblings I have are half-siblings. My nuclear family would have been an extra-suffocating threesome. Instead, I have an interesting brother and sister, in-laws, and darling nephews.
Jane Smiley
#37. The stench of self-satisfaction is becoming quite suffocating. If you mean to kill me, blast me to a cinder now and let's be done,
Joe Abercrombie
#38. Tell me, is there someone in your life who's been sharing your life too closely? A friend or a loved one? Is there someone who's been taking up your time and not giving any of it back?
Alexandra Kleeman
#40. Not being able to talk sucks. There's no doubt about that. There's a lot of times when I almost feel like I'm trapped inside of myself. Like if I don't talk or yell or scream or laugh I'm going to explode. A lot of the time it almost feels like I'm suffocating.
Keary Taylor
#41. Now that Hillary [Clinton] has won Pennsylvania, it will take a village to help Obama escape from the suffocating embrace of his rival. Certainly Howard Dean will be of no use steering her to the exit. It's like Micronesia telling Russia to denuke.
Maureen Dowd
#42. I turn and gaze at the
bright blue sky, squinting. It's like surfacing for air after
giving up hope, after resigning to drown, suffocating
Katie Klein
#43. Alexander was suffocating under the weight of his love.
Paullina Simons
#44. You cannot even imagine how sick I become; it is suffocating. People are so deep in tamas, unconscious; and they do not even know it.
Anonymous
#45. Real loneliness consists not in being alone, but in being with the wrong person, in the suffocating darkness of a room in which no deep communication is possible.
Sydney J. Harris
#46. Pride could be painful sometimes. And right now, hers was suffocating
Calia Read
#47. Recently, I looked back at my first manuscripts and was struck by the lack of space, of breath. That's exactly how it felt, back then ... like I was suffocating.
Patrick Modiano
#48. For a long time, I was brilliantly achieving drawings that were inert, suffocating and dark. If ever you need illustrations that are inert, suffocating and dark, I know how to do them.
Chris Raschka
#49. I called no one, and no one called me. I was suffocating with loneliness. The pain was almost physical. I felt like tearing myself apart. I wanted to escape from my own skin.
Cat Clarke
#50. Truly unconditional love was suffocating, in that it took so little notice of who you actually were.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#51. For a long time, there was grief. It pulled me down into suffocating darkness, and kept me anchored there. I went through the motions. I turned up at school. I ate food and watched TV and took algebra tests. But I didn't feel anything. It was easier that way.
Lili Wilkinson
#52. Nothing had changed the love; sometimes suffocating, sometimes debilitating, sometimes so joyous and incredible, but always overwhelming and utterly amazing. The mad,mad love remained ...
Kahlen Aymes
#53. Religion comforts us for the defeat of our will to power. It adds new worlds to ours, and thus brings us hope of new conquests and new victories. We are converted to religion out of fear of suffocating within the narrow confines of this world.
Emil Cioran
#54. The walls that might make others feel like they are suffocating have become my lungs.
Rene Denfeld
#55. A mud-stained sunlight began to splatter the sodden fields, and the hateful, nasal world of birds began to come to life. It seemed to me that I was coming out of a suffocating nightmare and that the low clouds flying before the wind were the shreds of an evil dream.
Blaise Cendrars
#56. I started my career in parent education with the idea that we needed to let our kids go. I believed that parents were suffocating for their children. There was no room for individuality and personhood.
Gordon Neufeld
#57. My soul needs him as much as my lungs need air. So much so that I feel like I'm suffocating just being away from him.
J.B. McGee
#58. As it turned out, my fears were unwarranted. Which isn't to say you haven't changed. But the biggest change of all has been a measure of peace. The peace is not total, but in the face of a suffocating anxiety, a measure of peace is no small thing.
Maggie Nelson
#59. The world is filled to suffocating. Man has placed his token on every stone. Every word, every image, is leased and mortgaged. We know that a picture is but a space in which a variety of images, none of them original, blend and clash.
Sherrie Levine
#60. People were always hungry, bullied, afraid, paranoid - so I just thought I'd show that in the novel in a kind of suffocating way.
Fred D'Aguiar
#61. 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
#62. To many men ... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.
George Steiner
#63. Sometimes I want to scream at him, Just let me go. Let me go. Let me breathe. So I can't sleep, and I'm angry. I feel as though we're having fight already, even though the fight's only in my imagination. And in my head, thoughts go round and round and round. And I feel like I'm suffocating.
Paula Hawkins
#64. Have you ever taken a breath that was so pure it made you realize you'd been suffocating?
Nicole Waggoner
#65. She stretched up on her tiptoes, tilted her head, trying to get even closer. Seth slid a hand around her waist and kissed her like she was the air, and he was suffocating. And she forgot about everything: there were no faeries, no Sight, nothing €"just them.
Melissa Marr
#66. I can't believe I've let you in, and now here I am telling you that I'm suffocating in here.
Sara Quin
#67. A town so suffocating and small, you tripped over people you hated every day. People who knew things about you. It's the kind of place that leaves a mark.
Gillian Flynn
#69. It is not so much light that falls over the world extended by your body its suffocating snow, as brightness, pouring itself out of you, as if you were burning inside. Under your skin the moon is alive.
Pablo Neruda
#70. I shook my head, trying to make sense out of what had happened. As before, no sense came. I completely lost every sense of right and wrong and good and bad. I became this black, suffocating thing, everything I feared in others. I became Javier. I became my father.
Karina Halle
#71. Life without utopia is suffocating, for the multitude at least: threatened otherwise with petrifaction, the world must have a new madness.
Emile M. Cioran
#72. Except for the lack of enormous insects, suffocating humidity, malaria victims groaning in death throes, poisonous vipers as thick as mosquitoes, and rabid jungle cats madly devouring their own feet, you would have sworn you were in the Amazon rainforest.
Dean Koontz
#73. just the suffocating constancy of my own self, that numb and desperate company. -
Emma Cline
#74. The required cheerfulness that characterizes many of our churches produces a suffocating environment of pat, religious answers to the painful, complex questions that riddle the lives of hurting people.
Tullian Tchividjian
#75. The warm humid air of New York clung to the night, unwilling to relinquish its suffocating hold. And yet to Eva, the city had an underlying hum of possibility; a constant forward motion that promised, no matter what, that change was on its way.
Kathleen Tessaro
#76. You didn't walk away, Judd. You made me see the light when I was suffocating in the dark.
Bijou Hunter
#77. It was like I was suffocating in everything that was Liam.
Jeannette Medina
#78. I'm a mother myself, and sometimes mothers get a bad rap just because they've tried to do their job. Some people have more of a knack for it than others do, but almost all of it falls to, 'My mother's suffocating me.' Whatever.
Annie Potts
#79. At least when somebody's suffocating, you can tell: you see their faces turn blue, their lips quiver, their eyes buck, and their throats jerk. But when a man is mentally packing his bags the suitcase is never out until he's already standing on the other side of the door.
Kalisha Buckhanon
#80. Besides, there is perhaps nothing so effective as the monotony of provincial town life in the Andes for suffocating ideals and creativity.
Miguel Garnett Johnson
#81. We have nothing in this life of suffocating obligation but our motherfucking impudence!
Mark Leyner
#82. When I travel officially ... and when I travel on a private basis, I have protection that is less suffocating. But I am protected everywhere.
Francois Hollande
#83. That long-ago day, sitting in this very spot on the dock, she had already begun to feel it: how hard it would be to inherit their parents' dreams. How suffocating to be so loved.
Celeste Ng
#84. Earth is a heaven but man often creates many hells within this heaven and a fascist country is one of the hottest and the most suffocating hell amongst all those hells!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#85. There is a passion and drive for cruel deeds which only the awe and fear of God can soothe; there is a suffocating selfishness in man which only holiness can ventilate.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#86. The ever-increasing weight of responsibilities that enmeshes our lives keeps us locked into the system. We become the pulse that keeps the beast alive, but the cost is our own lives. The natural world around us shrinks, crushed beneath the suffocating might of work.
Fennel Hudson
#87. Sometimes, when a person is truly lost in this world, suffocating inside her private bubble where all she can hear is her own droning heartbeat, a touch can be enough.
Walter Kirn
#88. The sea, you see, feels good for only a few days, but then it starts suffocating you. You first escape to the sea to escape yourself, but after a while that's all you find there. City is better that way. There are too many lanes and alleys. You never run into yourself there.
Bilal Tanweer
#89. My love, my love, is a flame in the dark covered in glass. So glowingly beautiful to others on the outside, while slowly suffocating inside.
Anthony Liccione
#90. Here's what my CV usually does not say: I was trained as a teacher. My first job lasted less than 60 days. I was an assistant professor at a good college at Delhi University, but I found it very political, very suffocating. At the age of 23, you're not very tolerant of those things.
Amit Bhatia
#91. The issue for my character, and the issue of the show is, how dirty do your feet have to get without suffocating yourself in the mud in order to get an inch of what you really want done?
Bradley Whitford
#92. I spent two years in Palo Alto - what an awful, suffocating place for those of us who don't care about yoga, yogurts and start-ups - and now I have moved to Cambridge, MA - which, in many respects, is like Palo Alto but a bit snarkier.
Evgeny Morozov
#93. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.
Kathryn Stockett
#94. I was on this path to becoming a computer-science guy, but I didn't like it. I got no joy from it. It was very, very scary. It was suffocating to think that I was just going to do this thing for the rest of my life.
Kumail Nanjiani
#95. You are a breath of fresh air, in a world so suffocating ...
Joy Marino
#96. Losing was the story of life and depression was the one thing in my existence that was perfect. Flawless depression, it was, that covered the days of my life in a suffocating blanket.
Kirk Gollwitzer
#97. Honestly, I thought I was going to be a kite forever, suffocating inside a little feathery prison. And he had the nerve to make fun!
Rick Riordan
#98. I am choking in the suffocating foul air of the harbor. I want to hoist my sails in the open sea, even though a tempest may be blowing. Furled sails are always dirty. Those who would deride me are so many furled sails. They can do nothing.
Osamu Dazai
#99. You ask, 'How to live my life?' But with the question you are suffocating life itself, for life is spontaneity.
Mooji
#100. I maintain that inversion is the effect of neither a prenatal choice nor an endocrinal malformation nor even the passive and determined result of complexes. It is an outlet that a child discovers when he is suffocating.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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