For me, what fun means is finding novelty in the suffocating familiarity of ordinary life. — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
The earth is suffocating... Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive. — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“The walls that might make others feel like they are suffocating have become my lungs.” — Rene Denfeld Copy Share Image
“Have you ever imagined loving and hating someone so much, exactly at the same time? It is suffocating.” — Ama H. Vanniarachchy Copy Share Image
“Living with such corruption becomes a suffocating way of life that saps confi dence and initiative” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Prayer infuses the air of a time yet to be into the suffocating atmosphere of the present. — Walter Wink Copy Share Image
“Truly unconditional love was suffocating, in that it took so little notice of who you actually were.” — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
People were always hungry, bullied, afraid, paranoid - so I just thought I'd show that in the novel in a kind of… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
I started my career in parent education with the idea that we needed to let our kids go. I believed that parents… — Gordon Neufeld Copy Share Image
I was on this path to becoming a computer-science guy, but I didn't like it. I got no joy from it. It… — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share Image
“I felt like I was suffocating, like my future and all my happiness were gone. I've never felt that before, Ava. I… — Nicole Gulla Copy Share Image
“I turn and gaze at the bright blue sky, squinting. It’s like surfacing for air after giving up hope, after resigning to… — Katie Klein Copy Share Image
I read my books at night, like that, under the quilt with the overheated reading lamp. Reading all those good lines while… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Now that Hillary [Clinton] has won Pennsylvania, it will take a village to help Obama escape from the suffocating embrace of his… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
“wasn’t a comfortable headspace. Suffocating, actually, but you were alive and still the endgame. I’d go back in time for those problems.… — Adam Silvera Copy Share Image
You spoke about things they couldn't see and so they laughed. Yet to row up the dark river against the current, to… — Giorgos Seferis Copy Share Image
I know why people die of hopelessness. It comes on like a thick blanket, covering your thoughts, your confidence, creeping into your… — Joan Lowery Nixon Copy Share Image
Here's what my CV usually does not say: I was trained as a teacher. My first job lasted less than 60 days.… — Amit Bhatia Copy Share Image
“Louis can't catch his breath. Neither can Harry. Why isn't there more air? Harry must have taken it with him. "Not with… — Velvetoscar Copy Share Image
So many people seem to spend their lives trying to appear normal, predictable and consistent to themselves and those that surround them.… — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
I became entirely given over to extreme dread. The fear was so powerful that it seemed to make my personality completely evaporate...… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
These unwritten amenities have been in part responsible for giving our people the feeling of independence and self-confidence, the feeling of creativity.… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Trump is the living embodiment of the main character in the film American Psycho, a symbol of corporate domination on steroids, an… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“Struggling transforms her captor into a Chinese finger trap. She’s suffocating. Sucking in air without relief. Her lungs expand. Contract. Expand. They… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
I make soup and I back bread and I know my supreme need is joy in God and I know I can't… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
When I was a boy, I choked on a piece of candy outside the kitchen window for a few minutes while watching… — Zachary Schomburg Copy Share Image
“The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“It sounded twisted and wrong in this suffocating space, but Neil couldn't stop.” — Nora Sakavic Copy Share Image
Life without utopia is suffocating, for the multitude at least: threatened otherwise with petrifaction, the world must have a new madness. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I think that's just what happens when you write a big bestseller. After that you need to find out: What's the best… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image