Suffocation Quotes

“Social counterpoints can be a shrieking reality. But life may nevertheless become a colorful canvas with an array of opportunities, allowing us to escape from the suffocation of our enclosure if we hold ourselves receptive to the healing power of the daily little marvels and stay aware of the vivifying unexpectedness of the ‘moment’. (‘"Côté cour…Côté jardin" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Love should not cause suffocation and death if it is truly love. Don't bundle someone into an uncomfortable cage just because you want to ensure their safety in your life. The bird knows where it belongs, and will never fly to a wrong nest.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“As uncomfortable as it might be, I refuse to let the comfort of being agreed with suffocate my opinions.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“To me, socializing was like sinking to the bottom of a deep, deep ocean... Until eventually you couldn't take it anymore, and had to come up for air"

- Shimamura - Adachi to Shimamura”
― Hitoma Iruma, 電波女と青春男 1

“You don't need an ocean to feel like you're drowning. You feel it, between your chest and your throat, the weight of it stretching you outside your self, like a dead fish on the shore.”
― Malak El Halabi

“All of us, whoever we may be, have our respirable beings. We lack air and we stifle. Then we die. To die for lack of love is horrible. Suffocation of the soul.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Life is like a story, when all the resolution is resolved, you heave a sigh of relief.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“I felt alone, my loneliness suffocated me, and I craved to scream, shout and kill me while seeing all this. However, self-hatred also occupied me.”
― Shaikh Ashraf, Friendship, Love & Sacrifice

“The next day, the cycle starts again. We’re set out like decorative plates in this cavernous architecture, and such a craggy dining hall it is. Not exactly a Claude Monet cottage, more of a Medieval bastion—a vestige of Roman conquests. It still moans with the rickety sounds of age. I can almost hear the grumblings of ancient inhabitants.”
― Michael Benzehabe

“Christ can forgive you," he whispered, though he didn't believe it. There wasn't a hint of compassion in those ice-blue eyes.
"That's grand," she said.
Her features became again those of the pleasant brown-haired nurse. She smiled, pulled the pillow from under his head, and covered his face.”
― Stephen M. Irwin, The Dead Path

“So many things seemed to come in plastic bags now that it was difficult to keep track of them. The main thing was not to throw it away carelessly, better still to put it away in a safe place, because there was a note printed on it which read 'To avoid danger of suffocation keep this wrapper away from babies and children'. They could have said from middle-aged and elderly persons too, who might well have an irresistible urge to suffocate themselves.”
― Barbara Pym, Quartet in Autumn

“It was one of those sweltering summer days in which the air itself seems to decline as a haze suffocates the outside world. It is painfully bright whether you are looking up at that ball of burning hydrogen or down at its vivid reflection on sheer pavement.”
― Moonshine Noire

“But Percy didn’t feel powerful. The more heroic stuff he did, the more he realized how limited he was. He felt like a fraud. I’m not as great as you think, he wanted to warn his friends. His failures, like tonight, seemed to prove it.
Maybe that’s why he had started to fear suffocation. It wasn’t so much drowning in the earth or the sea, but the feeling that he was sinking into too many expectations, literally getting in over his head.”
― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena

“Religion has kept all of us suffocated, I can’t raise my voice you can’t raise your voice, still they call us fundamentalists.”
― M.F. Moonzajer

“Love is the flow of wind. When it stops, you feel suffocated.”
― Himanshu Chhabra

“When the twilight of all my evenings reaches me, after a long dark day, my complicated thoughts suffocate inside all of my uncomplicated longings.

Evenings refuse to end. And the dawns that constantly swallow up my nights, always shows me an extremely long road I still need to tread, and discover.

And get hurt.”
― Khadija Rupa

“Attachment to the external always suffocates inner peace.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“When you feel like there is nothing else matter, you just feel like unable to breath because you finally realise that even the oxygen you're breathing is polluted.”
― Sara Keddar

“Oxygen deprivation and supplemental oxygen are both bio-hazards for Mauna Kea workers”
― Steven Magee

“Leaving Wychwood gave him, as it did each time, the mingled anxiety and exhilaration of a rebirth. Womb-warm and sequestered, it was at once a sanctuary and a place of internment.”
― Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Peculiar Ground

“I saw four police officers willfully failing to maintain George Floyd’s airway.”
― Steven Magee

“Rise above the deceptions,temptations and dark worlds of your mind.We do not need to bribe anyone to become spiritual. A man’s spirit is free, but his pride binds him with chains of suffocation in a prison of his own insecurities.You are spiritual, Spirit is within you.
And again we need to fight all these dark worlds created by the enlightened slave masters gore obe Ka gare ga leswiswi your entire existence, But this task of fighting the illusion should start from young age and this power lies in parent’s hands. We need to stop scaring children about non existing nonsenses like Mapipa,Kgokgo,Hell and all those words we use to scare them, some children might discover the truth wen they grow and some might not, which will make a serious Damage to that child’s generation. Sepedi Sere “Mohlare o kobjwa e sale e Nanana”
― Nkahloleng Eric Mohlala

“Whenever the emotional suffocation went inevitable, I either ran or wrote.”
― Sakshi Mishra

“I am the body,
and I am the rocks in the pockets,
and I am the water.
There is no evading myself.”
― Belle Townsend, Push and Pull

“At what point will I realize that a commitment to self-preservation is in reality an act of self-suffocation?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I read in secret, all the time. I read in the toilets. I read in the middle of the night. I read as if books could loosen the noose tightening around my throat. I read to understand that there is somewhere else. A dimension where possibilities shimmer.”
― Ananda Devi, Eve out of Her Ruins

“Is it possible that Earth is my exile, and somewhere else in this vast universe is my home? That observable universe is my cage, and beyond it is where I actually originate, eliminating any kind of memory and time?”
― Sov8840

“Is it possible that Earth is my exile, and somewhere else in this vast universe is my home? That observable universe is my cage, and beyond it is where I actually originate?”
― Sov8840

“It's perfectly safe if you can out-breathe me”
― Abyssino

“How did we end up here? I ask as well; canned like sardines on sale, so tranquil and shiny, with dead eyes and open mouths, in oil without guts. Their only purpose: to wait. Wait until someone opens the can—or the metro door—to be eaten. But they don’t care. Why care? They’re already inside. Dead.”
― George Peros, URBANIMALITY: Fragments