Suffocating Quotes
64 quotes by 62 authors
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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
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The earth is suffocating... Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive.
— Frederic Chopin
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To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.
— George Steiner
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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
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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
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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
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Literature is air, and Im suffocating in mediocrity.
— Armand Assante
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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
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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
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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
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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
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[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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Prayer infuses the air of a time yet to be into the suffocating atmosphere of the present.
— Walter Wink
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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
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In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.'s ‘I Have a Dream' speech is one citizen's soul-searing plea with his countrymen––Whites and Blacks––to recognize that racial…
— Aberjhani
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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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