Quotes About Suffocating

Dead flowers stood rotting in the massive Chinese vases and a shut-up heaviness overweighed the room: the air almost too stale to breathe, the exact, suffocating feel of our apartment when Mrs. Barbour took me back to Sutton Place to get some things I needed. It was a stillness I knew; this was a house closed in on itself when someone died.

Perpetually needy people suck the life out of you, because no matter what you do for them, it's never enough.

We have nothing in this life of suffocating obligation but our motherfucking impudence!

Fame is like a suffocating castle sieged by the enemy.

My life felt so cluttered and obstructed that I could hardly breathe. I inhabited a closed, concentrated world, airless and without exits.

The air is as thick as potato soup and you have to breathe in sips.