Suffocate Quotes
47 quotes by 43 authors
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In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children…
— June Jordan
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When the sovereign spirit within us is true to nature, it stands poised and ready to adjust to every change in circumstances and to seize…
— Marcus Aurelius
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We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate life itself. That…
— Maria Montessori
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A man can suffocate on courtesy.
— Henry David Thoreau
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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…
— Paulo Freire
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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…
— Mary Hoffman
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With his long sharp nails he opened a vein in his breast. When the blood began to spurt out, he took my hands in one…
— Bram Stoker
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There's a fine line between love and hate.Love frees a soul and in the same breath can sometimes suffocate it.
— Cecelia Ahern
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I did not want to live out my life in the strenuous effort to hold a ghost world together. It was plain as the stars…
— Jim Harrison
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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,…
— Brandon Sanderson
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If any guy threatened her she'd probably suffocate him with her oversized tee.
— Simone Elkeles
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Can one drown in one's element... If fish can drown in water, can human beings suffocate in air?
— Salman Rushdie
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The 'medium' is unaware of its attractiveness, that's all. Everyone loves comics. I've proven this to my own satisfaction by handing them out to acountants,…
— Grant Morrison
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On the way from the Renaissance to our days we have enriched our experience, but we have lost the concept of a Supreme Complete Entity…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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It has always seemed to me that if one falls in love with any gentleman one becomes instantly blind to his faults.But I am not…
— Georgette Heyer
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I am in the Aleph, the point at which everything is in the same place at the same time. I'm at a window, looking out…
— Paulo Coelho
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Substantiate or suffocate, Ms. Vetra. Mickey's ticking.
— Dan Brown
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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…
— Jodi Picoult
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What we don't recognize is that holding onto resentment is like holding onto your breath. You'll soon start to suffocate.
— Deepak Chopra
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The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against.
— Ang Lee
Who Wrote These Suffocate Quotes
43 authors contributed a total of 47 Suffocate Quotes, led by these top contributors: