Quotes About Suffocation

Worsely: You know what you were saying about a plastic bag. Suppose I put a plastic bag around my head and tied it tightly round the neck. What could possibly go wrong? Clegg: Some of them nowadays has safety holes. Worsely: Not all. I would have a look

Love frees a soul and in the same breath can sometimes suffocate it.

But Lord Blatherard Osmo was able at last to devote all of his time to Novi Pazar. Early in 1939, he was discovered mysteriously suffocated in a bathtub full of tapioca pudding, at the home of a Certain Viscountess. Some have seen in this the hand of the Firm.

Early in 1939, he was discovered mysteriously suffocated in a bathtub full of tapioca pudding, at the home of a Certain Viscountess.

Cultura demais mata o corpo da gente, cara, filmes demais, livros demais, palavras demais,... tinha biblioteca de Alexandria separando nossos corpos.

En toch. 'Opgroeien in deze hemel op aarde was als leven in een plastic zak,' schreef hij. 'Er heerste een verstikkend gevoel van opsluiting, alsof je voortdurend je eigen lucht inademde. Door te veel orde en te weinig risico's werd het leven benauwd en triviaal – en dat terwijl dit een wereld van vrijheid en ongekende kansen heette te zijn.

There are special nightmares for the daytime sleeper: little nervous dreams tossed into some brief restless moments of unconsciousness and breaking through the surface of the mind to become confused at once with the horror of some waking vision. Such are these awakenings, like an awakening in the grave, when one opens one's eyes, stretched out rigid with clenched hands, waiting for some misery to declare itself; but for a long time it lies to suffocation upon the chest and utters no word.

A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.

There is not room to swing a cat.

By putting his hand around my neck, he slowly strangled himself.

Unhealthy families discourage individual expression. Everyone must conform to the thoughts and actions of the toxic parents. They promote fusion, a blurring of personal boundaries, a welding together of family members. On an unconscious level, it is hard for family members to know where one ends and another begins. In their efforts to be close, they often suffocate one another's individuality.

Ghetto living is more than just a feeling of confinement; it is a sense of suffocation too.

It's not wondering what I breathe in, but who, that threatens to choke me.

It was poisonous, stale and evil inside the house - Billy was the carbon dioxide to her oxygen, and she didn't want to be anywhere near him

It's just so nice when your pet isn't all needy. I need a lot of space, so dogs suffocate me.

The headmaster's tie turns into a noose again, preventing blood from getting to his face

Sinceramente, horrorizava-me a vida, aquilo que um tipo tinha de fazer só para poder comer, dormir e andar vestido. De maneira que fiquei na cama a beber. Quando bebemos, o mundo continua lá fora, mas por instantes deixa de nos sufocar.

By now he had stared at the window through a late summer so hot and wet that the air both day and night felt like breathing through a dishrag, so damp it caused fresh sheets to sour under him and tiny black mushrooms to grow overnight from the limp pages of the book on his bedside table. Inman suspected that after such long examination, the grey window had finally said all it had to say.

not only is religion divisive and oppressive, it is also a denial of all that is divine in people; it is a suffocation of the soul.

For if Porter did not turn his head and lean toward the door to open it for her, Corinthians believed she would surely die. She banged her knuckles until they ached to get the attention of the living flesh behind the glass, and would have smashed her fist through the window just to touch him, feel his heat, the only thing that could protect her from a smothering death of dry roses.

the way he'd slowly starved his relationship of oxygen.

She remembered how it had felt and tasted, that slowly descending depression, like a thick glass jar that closed around you, sucking away the air you needed to breathe, creating a barrier between you and the world. The hell of it was that she'd been able to see all that she was missing, but when she'd reached out, all she'd touched was cold, hard glass.

I've got to get out of this place," he said as he eased back. "That's God's shining truth. I can only breathe in cop for so long without choking." "Hey." He tapped his finger on her chin. "Excepting one.

V settled back against the pillows and measured the hard line of her chin. Take off your coat. Excuse me? Take it off. No. I want it off. Then I suggest you hold your breath. Won't affect me in the slightest, but at least the suffocation will help pass the time for you.