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Quotes About Suffocation

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." His arousal pounded. Oh, shit, he needed to teach her that disobedience carried a price, and what a session that would be. She'd fight him tooth and nail before she submitted. If she submitted at all. Vishous
~ J.R. Ward
You make it hard for me to breathe.
~ Jaci Burton
I can't breathe.
~ Jaci Burton
In the U.K., my mother had been the breadwinner. I'd seen my parents side by side. In Saudi Arabia, my mother was basically rendered disabled. She was unable to drive, dependent on my dad for everything. The religious zealotry was so suffocating.
~ Mona Eltahawy
His head was barely above water, and he'd never welcomed drowning so much in his whole damn life.
~ Sydney Somers
I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.
~ Tahereh
He married a woman to stop her getting away Now she's there all day.
~ Philip Larkin
On a sub, you know, there's no place for things to drain to. The survivors claimed that the blood was knee-deep all through the submarine.
~ Neal Stephenson
least 40 million people died as a result of the epidemic, the majority of them suffocated by a lethal accumulation of blood and other fluid in the lungs. Ironically, unlike most flu epidemics, but like the war that preceded and spread it, the influenza of 1918 disproportionately killed young adults. One in every hundred American males between the ages of 25 and 34 fell victim to the 'Spanish Lady'. Strikingly, the global peak of mortality was in October and November 1918.
~ Niall Ferguson
least 40 million people died as a result of the epidemic, the majority of them suffocated by a lethal accumulation of blood and other fluid in the lungs. Ironically, unlike most flu epidemics, but like the war that preceded and spread it, the influenza of 1918 disproportionately killed young adults. One in every hundred American males between the ages of 25 and 34 fell victim to the 'Spanish Lady'.
~ Niall Ferguson
Because I thought it was good enough. And I hoped I could change. That over time, maybe I would come to feel the same way about him as I did about you. But I didn't, and as the years went on, I think he came to see that, too. And it hurt him, and I knew it hurt him, but the harder he tried to show me how important I was to him, the more suffocated I felt. And I resented that. I resented him...
~ Nicholas Sparks
For the first time in his existence, he knew he was drowning and he wasn't thinking about survival.
~ Christine Feehan
Wassertorstrasse one week was much like another. Our leaky stuffy little attic smelt of cooking and bad drains. When the living-room stove was alight, we could hardly breathe; when
~ Christopher Isherwood
It is obvious that when a nation turns its whole substance into war materials, as Germany is doing now, the time will come when that nation has to go to war—it can do nothing else because it is equipped for nothing else; and it must use its armaments or else be suffocated under their weight.
~ Upton Sinclair
Among a million Russian huts you will never find even two that are exactly the same. Everything that lives is unique. It is unimaginable that two people, or two briar-roses, should be identical . . . If you attempt to erase the peculiarities and individuality of life by violence, then life itself must suffocate.
~ Vasily Grossman
All of us, whoever we may be, have our respirable beings. We lack air and we stifle. Then we die. To die for lack of love is horrible. Suffocation of the soul.
~ Victor Hugo
Todos sin excepción tenemos nuestros seres respirables. Si nos faltan, nos falta el aire y nos ahogamos.
~ Victor Hugo
The visit took place. It was a formidable campaign; a nocturnal battle against pestilence and suffocation.
~ Victor Hugo
be asphyxiated.
~ Kristin Hannah
The fact that we believe we are such narrow limited energy already begins to suffocate us. We are suffocating because we have a suffocating attitude.
~ Lama Yeshe
sextons grunted with effort as they sank graves up to twenty feet deep in six foot-by-two foot shafts, without shoring, in imminent danger of suffocation;
~ Catharine Arnold
That his inability to express what he was feeling had formed such a tight and inescapable box around his being that he could barely breathe.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Right," Raymond said, realizing he was in prison. That his inability to express what he was feeling had formed such a tight and inescapable box around his being that he could barely breathe.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
...the heart is full — another throb would split it...
~ Emily Dickinson, 1881