Suffocating Quotes - Page 3

• When I saw that scene [in ocean from the Aquarius] for the first time, it blew me away. It caused me to reflect on my age, my history and all that I've been through in Brazil. Having been away from Brazil for so long, while not speaking in my own tongue, when I saw that image, I felt like I was taking my first deep breath after nearly suffocating to death. It was like the plastic had been removed from my head. Even if this breath turned out to be my last, at least I got to have this one moment of release. At least I got this one chance.

  Sonia Braga

  Ocean, Aquarius, Long

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• I was on this path to becoming a computer-science guy, but I didn't like it. I got no joy from it. It was very, very scary. It was suffocating to think that I was just going to do this thing for the rest of my life.

  Kumail Nanjiani

  Thinking, Guy, Joy

  Interview with Jane Marie, believermag.com. January 1, 2015.

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• 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 benefited all of them.

  Jane Smiley

  Children, Nuclear, Four

  "Divorce! It’s Good for the Children!" by Jane Smiley, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2010.

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• I think that's just what happens when you write a big bestseller. After that you need to find out: What's the best way to go on? And the worst thing you could do would be to try to repeat the formula. That would be suffocating.

  Daniel Kehlmann

  Writing, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In the first manifesto that we launched on the 8th of March, 1910, from the stage of the Chiarella Theater in Turin,1 we expressed our deep-rooted disgust with, our proud contempt for, and our happy rebellion against vulgarity, mediocrity, the fanatical and snobbish worship of all that is old, attitudes which are suffocating Art in our Country.

  Umberto Boccioni

  Country, Art, Attitude

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• When I was a boy, I choked on a piece of candy outside the kitchen window for a few minutes while watching my parents making dinner. I thought I was going to die, but I didn't want to scare them. Our existence was so separate, a dying and a doing well, an outside and an inside. Trey Moody's poems hover in that cold, wet, refrigerator-lit place between the dying and the doing well, the outside and the inside. His poems are the thoughts of the person you love who is always standing behind you, slowly and silently suffocating. But they're not afraid to say hello, and please, and I'm scared.

  Zachary Schomburg

  Boys, Parent, Kitchen

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• 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 certainty of something sinister approaching, something with no need to hurry, something that would not be so kind as to let him die. The fear was palpable, suffocating, irresistible.

  Brandon Mull

  Feelings, Mind, Would Be

  Brandon Mull (2008). “Rise of the Evening Star”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

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• 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, and darling nephews.

  Jane Smiley

  Brother, Sibling, Sister In Law

  "Divorce! It’s Good for the Children!" by Jane Smiley, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2010.

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• Fast food workers are all the governor has power to enact. Your state legislature is held hostage by the same nitwits that hold hostage the federal [government]. People who have confused suffocating collectivism, which is bad, for a necessity to solve collective action problems, which is what all human endeavor is based on.

  Nick Hanauer

  Confused, Government, People

  "'Shit's Gonna Hit the Fan': Talking to a Billionaire About Class War". Interview with Hamilton Nolan, gawker.com. June 16, 2015.

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• Now that Hillary [Clinton] has won Pennsylvania, it will take a village to help Obama escape from the suffocating embrace of his rival. Certainly Howard Dean will be of no use steering her to the exit. It’s like Micronesia telling Russia to denuke.

  Maureen Dowd

  Russia, Pennsylvania, Use

  "Wilting Over Waffles" by Maureen Dowd, archive.nytimes.com. April 25, 2008.

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• Prayer infuses the air of a time yet to be into the suffocating atmosphere of the present.

  Walter Wink

  Prayer, Air, Atmosphere

  Walter Wink (2010). “The Powers That Be: Theology for a New Millennium”, p.185, Harmony

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• I hate you for all the years I 'll have to live without you. How can a heart hurt this much and still go on beating? How can I feel this bad without dying from it? I 've bruised my knees with praying to have you back. None of my prayers have been answered. I tried to send them up to heaven but they 're trapped here on earth, like bobwhites beneath the snow. I try to sleep and it's like I 'm suffocating. Where have you gone? Once you said that if I wasn't with you, it wouldn't be heaven. I can't let go of you. Come back and haunt me. Come back.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Letting Go, Hurt, Prayer

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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. Not black. So I left. I had been suffocating in the United States... A lot of us left, not because we wanted to leave, but because we couldn't stand it anymore... I felt liberated in Paris.

  Josephine Baker

  Country, Paris, White

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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 that I was coming out of a suffocating nightmare and that the low clouds flying before the wind were the shreds of an evil dream.

  Blaise Cendrars

  Dream, Clouds, Wind

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• 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, as if you were burning inside. Under your skin the moon is alive.

  Pablo Neruda

  Fall, Moon, Light

  Pablo Neruda, “Ode To A Naked Beauty”

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• Not all men are the same, you know. With someone such as Gavriel, I would suggest appearing aloof, not chasing too much. He might see that as suffocating rather than charming." Her words are sharp, but her voice is sweet, like honey on the edge of a blade, and meant to be cutting. I comfort myself with the knowledge that if Duval ever feels smothered by me, it will be because I am holding a pillow over his face and commending his soul to Mortain.

  R.L. LaFevers

  Sweet, Cutting, Men

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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 United States - a corrupted, swollen, paralysing and suffocating political entity - must be across the Third World - and among the thinking minority of the West too.

  Pentti Linkola

  Thinking, Issues, Hatred

  Pentti Linkola (2011). “Can Life Prevail?”, p.159, Arktos

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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 the entrepreneurial spirit so vital to America's success.

  Tom J. Donohue

  Recovery, America, Long

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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 when a man is mentally packing his bags the suitcase is never out until he's already standing on the other side of the door.

  Kalisha Buckhanon

  Eye, Men, Blue

  Kalisha Buckhanon (2008). “Conception: A Novel”, p.13, Macmillan

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• 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 grew into me. We blurred at the edges, became an amorphous, seeping, crawling thing.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Ivy, Poison, Growing

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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 in God until I deep trust in God. I shine sinks and polish through to the realization that trusting God is my most urgent need. If I deep trusted God in all the facets of my life, wouldn't that deep heal my anxiety, my self-condemnation, my soul holes? The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything. If fear keeps our lives small, does a life that receives all of God in this moment grow large too?

  Ann Voskamp

  Self, Joy, Anxiety

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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 dignified the right of dissent and have honored the right to be nonconformists and the right to defy submissiveness. They have encouraged lives of high spirits rather than hushed, suffocating silence.

  William O. Douglas

  Creativity, Self Confidence, Government

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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 disparities fueled by unwarranted bigotry were crippling America's ability to shine as a true beacon of democracy in a world filled with people groping their way through suffocating shadows of political turmoil, economic oppression, military mayhem, starvation, and disease.

  Aberjhani

  Dream, Kings, Military

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• And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Lines, Towns, Sometimes

  "The Help". Book by Kathryn Stockett, February 10, 2009.

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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 define our experience and those words bring attendant emotions that jerk us around like dogs on a leash. We get seduced by our own mantras (I'm a failure I'm lonely I'm a failure I'm lonely) and we become monuments to them. To stop talking for a while, then, is to attempt to strip away the power of words, to stop choking ourselves with words, to liberate ourselves from our suffocating mantras.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Dog, Lonely, Pain

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.304, A&C Black

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