Suffocating Quotes

64 quotes by 62 authors

My job is to support businesses, that means promoting British commerce in the big emerging markets that have been neglected in the past. It means… — Vince Cable
A town so suffocating and small, you tripped over people you hated every day. People who knew things about you. It's the kind of place… — Gillian Flynn
The only siblings I have are half-siblings. My nuclear family would have been an extra-suffocating threesome. Instead, I have an interesting brother and sister, in-laws,… — Jane Smiley
Fame is like a suffocating castle sieged by the enemy. — Mehmet Murat Ildan
You ask, 'How to live my life?' But with the question you are suffocating life itself, for life is spontaneity. — Mooji
Lately I've been suffocating. Chan Young is my air, without him beside me, am I able to breathe? — Lee Bo-na
Combined families often get bad reviews, but the family my children got when they traded away 'the suffocating four-person' nuclear one is one that has… — Jane Smiley
I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea. — H.G. Wells
I spent two years in Palo Alto - what an awful, suffocating place for those of us who don't care about yoga, yogurts and start-ups… — Evgeny Morozov
For a week, almost without speaking, they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous reflection of luminous insects,… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
My hapless peers with their lofty dreams--how I envy and despise them! I'm with the others, the even more hapless, who have no-one but themselves… — Fernando Pessoa
I stood up. It was all too much. I could not even meet my own expectations, and to be asked to deal with all theirs… — Jeff Lindsay
In suffocating the voice of conscience, passion carries with itself a restlessness of the body and the senses: it is the restlessness of the "external… — Pope John Paul II
This surpassed the fear of death. Death would be a mercy if it would make the feeling stop, the uncontrollable panic mingling with the mind-scrambling… — Brandon Mull
I know why people die of hopelessness. It comes on like a thick blanket, covering your thoughts, your confidence, creeping into your mind and filling… — Joan Lowery Nixon
Honestly, I thought I was going to be a kite forever, suffocating inside a little feathery prison. And he had the nerve to make fun! — Rick Riordan
I don't know when it started - this thing - bit it's growing, muffling me, suffocating me like poison ivy. I grew into it. It… — Tabitha Suzuma
It is not so much light that falls over the world extended by your body its suffocating snow, as brightness, pouring itself out of you,… — Pablo Neruda
Somewhere, things must be beautiful and vivid. Somewhere else, life has to be beautiful and vivid and rich. Not like this muted palette -a pale… — Lisa Ann Sandell
I read my books at night, like that, under the quilt with the overheated reading lamp. Reading all those good lines while suffocating. It was… — Charles Bukowski

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