Suffocating Quotes

64 quotes by 62 authors

The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating… — William O. Douglas
The earth is suffocating... Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive. — Frederic Chopin
To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war. — George Steiner
I became entirely given over to extreme dread. The fear was so powerful that it seemed to make my personality completely evaporate... 'Whitley' ceased to… — Whitley Strieber
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… — Holly Marie Combs
We, the workers and inhabitants of St Petersburg, of various estates, our wives, our children, and our aged, helpless parents, come to THEE, O SIRE… — Orlando Figes
Literature is air, and Im suffocating in mediocrity. — Armand Assante
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… — Giorgos Seferis
A mud-stained sunlight began to splatter the sodden fields, and the hateful, nasal world of birds began to come to life. It seemed to me… — Blaise Cendrars
One day I realized I was living in a country where I was afraid to be black. It was only a country for white people.… — Josephine Baker
The US is the most wretchedly villainous state of all times. Anyone aware of global issues can easily imagine how vast the hatred for the… — Pentti Linkola
[A dramatic increase in regulation under the Obama administration is] threatening to short-circuit our recovery and undermine our long-term growth....More importantly , it is suffocating… — Tom J. Donohue
The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to… — Elizabeth Gilbert
At least when somebody's suffocating, you can tell: you see their faces turn blue, their lips quiver, their eyes buck, and their throats jerk. But… — Kalisha Buckhanon
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… — Bradley Whitford
I make soup and I back bread and I know my supreme need is joy in God and I know I can't experience deep joy… — Ann Voskamp
Prayer infuses the air of a time yet to be into the suffocating atmosphere of the present. — Walter Wink
These unwritten amenities have been in part responsible for giving our people the feeling of independence and self-confidence, the feeling of creativity. These amenities have… — William O. Douglas
In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.'s â€˜I Have a Dream' speech is one citizen's soul-searing plea with his countrymenâ€“â€“Whites and Blacksâ€“â€“to recognize that racial… — Aberjhani
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… — Sydney J. Harris

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