Suffocating Quotes

• 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

  Sea, Imagination, Submarines

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• To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

  George Steiner

  Peace, War, Men

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• Literature is air, and Im suffocating in mediocrity.

  Armand Assante

  Air, Mediocrity, Literature

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• 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

  Dirty, Character, Naughty

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• The earth is suffocating... Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive.

  Frederic Chopin

  Cutting, Tuberculosis, Alive

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• When you become a mom you just learn how to function sleep deprived and you do get used to it. I came back to work when Finley was three months old and the first few months were rough. Then somehow you learn to exist on no sleep and now when he does upon occasion sleep through the night, which is like a full six hours, you're pretty sure he's suffocating. So you don't sleep anyway.

  Holly Marie Combs

  Mom, Sleep, Night

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  World, Sometimes, Heartbeat

  Walter Kirn (1993). “She Needed Me”

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• You ask, 'How to live my life?' But with the question you are suffocating life itself, for life is spontaneity.

  Mooji

  Life Is, Spontaneity, Living My Life

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• So many people seem to spend their lives trying to appear normal, predictable and consistent to themselves and those that surround them. They just end up bored with themselves, bereft of any depth of inner resources, suffocated by the inhibitions that defend their own monolithic identities.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Life, Self, People

  "Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magick". Book by Peter J. Carroll, 1995.

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• The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything.

  Ann Voskamp

  Want, Condemnation, Remedy

  Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.149, Zondervan

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• 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

  Real, Loneliness, Communication

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• 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

  Expectations, Too Much, Stood Up

  Jeff Lindsay (2008). “Dexter in the Dark”, p.186, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Life without utopia is suffocating, for the multitude at least: threatened otherwise with petrifaction, the world must have a new madness.

  Emile M. Cioran

  World, Madness, Utopia

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• Most days I feel like the sole survivor of a shipwreck, rowing my paddleboat across a sea of people on waves made of an infinite array of hands and crests that reveal anonymous faces. On a good day, the clouds part to alight on-lo and behold-an island! I step ashore, only find that it too is made of people, mangled bodies somehow still alive. They grab at my feet, pulling me under like quicksand. The last thing I see before suffocating is the sky, a billion eyes staring down, blinking in undulating electric ripples. The cold rain I feel on my cheeks is the tears of the people.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Rain, Good Day, Eye

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• I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

  Margaret Fuller

  Inspirational, Feelings, Progress

  Margaret Fuller (1852). “Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (Complete)”, p.94, Library of Alexandria

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• So great becomes the fear of losing what we have that many of us rush back to hide under the temporary shelter of convention rather than follow the path of self-discovery wherever it might lead. Given adequate time and sufficient fear, we may hide so long that we hardly notice we're slowly suffocating.

  Arianna Huffington

  Discovery, Self, Long

  Arianna Huffington (2006). “On Becoming Fearless...in Love, Work, and Life”, p.30, Hachette UK

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• I know why people die of hopelessness. It comes on like a thick blanket, covering your thoughts, your confidence, creeping into your mind and filling the corners. I lie in the dark, suffocating under horrible dispare, wishing I were dead. I sleep, then wake, then sleep. The sleep is filled with monstrous dreams that attack, cry out, and vanish, leaving me once more awake and staring into the darkness. Help me! My mind is screaming, but there is no one to hear.

  Joan Lowery Nixon

  Dream, Lying, Sleep

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• Under your skin the moon is alive.

  Pablo Neruda

  Moon, Skins, Alive

  Pablo Neruda, “Ode To A Naked Beauty”

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• For me, what fun means is finding novelty in the suffocating familiarity of ordinary life.

  Ian Bogost

  Fun, Mean, Ordinary

  Source: app.longform.org

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• You spoke about things they couldn't see and so they laughed. Yet to row up the dark river against the current, to take the unknown road blindly, stubbornly, and to search for words rooted like the knotted olive tree- let them laugh. And to yearn for the other world to inhabit today's suffocating loneliness, this ravaged present- let them be.

  Giorgos Seferis

  Loneliness, Dark, Other Worlds

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• Every word, every image, is leased and mortgaged.

  Sherrie Levine

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• Fame is like a suffocating castle sieged by the enemy.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Enemy, Castles, Fame

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• 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

  People, Way, Kind

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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

  People, Towns, Kind

  Gillian Flynn (2012). “The Novels of Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects, Dark Places”, p.76, Broadway Books

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• Looked at sky through smoke heavy with human fat and God was not there. The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later. Born from oblivion; bear children, hell-bound as ourselves, go into oblivion. There is nothing else.

  Alan Moore

  Children, Dark, Sky

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