Suffocated Quotes
31 quotes by 29 authors
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Let historians not record that when America was the most powerful nation in the world we passed on the other side of the road and…
— Richard M. Nixon
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In other words, all of my books are lies. They are simply maps of a territory, shadows of a reality, gray symbols dragging their bellies…
— Ken Wilber
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It was only later that I suffocated under the weight of his arguments, and his darker thoughts articulated. It was only later that our tongues…
— Hannah Kent
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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…
— Peter J. Carroll
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There did he sit shrivelled in his chimney corner, fretting on account of his weak legs, world weary, will weary, and one day he suffocated…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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My hair and I had a really bad argument. She was being sprayed with alcohol and burnt with irons. She was being over processed and…
— Chrisette Michele
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I’m not very creative†doesn’t work. There’s no such thing as creative people and non-creative people. There are only people who use their creativity and…
— Brené Brown
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I suffocated for hours, until I turned on...music.
— Lisa M
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Men do not know the natural infirmity of their mind: it does nothing but ferret and quest, and keeps incessantly whirling around, building up and…
— Michel de Montaigne
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We are suffocated by writers who want to enlighten us with their truths. For me, the theatre is beautiful because it is a secret, and…
— Howard Barker
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I was starting to feel really suffocated, using the sequencer.
— Squarepusher
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Fellini, Kurosawa, and Bunuel move in the same field as Tarkovsky. Antonioni was on his way, but expired, suffocated by his own tediousness.
— Ingmar Bergman
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Sometimes I'd like to stuff all Jews (myself included) into the drawer of a laundry basket. then open it to see if they've suffocated
— Franz Kafka
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I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.
— Margaret Fuller
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Watching the Commons tribute to Margaret Thatcher was like being suffocated inside a gigantic sticky toffee pudding, but one with nasty bogeys planted inside. There…
— Simon Hoggart
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Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Arab children, Corn ears of the future, You will break our chains, Kill the opium in our heads, Kill the illusions. Arab children, Don't read…
— Nizar Qabbani
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You are being suffocated by tradition... Why don't you say, 'I am going to build a life for myself, for my time, and make it…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Swathed in silk, I feel like a caterpillar in a cocoon awaiting metamorphosis. I always supposed that to be a peaceful condition. At first it…
— Suzanne Collins
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What is wrong with you?' I shake my head. 'Pull it together.' And that's what it feels like: pulling the different parts of me up…
— Veronica Roth
Who Wrote These Suffocated Quotes
29 authors contributed a total of 31 Suffocated Quotes, led by these top contributors: