Quotes About Suffocation

The door closed, and the room swelled around me like a bruise. When she was here, I could pretend it felt small because of her, but when she left the four wood walls seemed to press towards me, like lungs that had breathed in.

Loving you is like drowning in a tub full of honey. It's suffocatingly sweet.

The door closed, and the room swelled around me like a bruise. When she was here, I could pretend it felt small because of her, but when she left the four wood walls seemed to press towards me, like lungs that had breathed in. The window did not help, for it was too high to see from the bed and too small to take in much air.

A child who has been breathing since birth without ever noticing it does not know how essential the unheeded air that gently swells his chest is to his life. Does he happen to be suffocating in a convulsion, a bout of fever? Desperately straining his entire being, he struggles almost for his life, for his lost tranquillity, which he will regain only with the air from which he did not realize his tranquillity was inseparable.

I could be held back just by being needed. Please try not to need me. That's the worst bait of all to a lonely man.

there must be a saturation point and the progress may be a progression toward strangulation.

How far my desire for Venice had now abated! Just as the desire to meet Mme de Guermantes in Combray in days gone by had abated, at those moments when I held but one thing dear, to have Mama in my bedroom. And it was in fact all the worries that I had felt since I was a child that had been solicited by this new source of anxiety and had rushed to reinforce it, amalgamating themselves with it into one homogeneous mass which suffocated me.

Perhaps it was freedom itself that choked her.

Sometimes life is like living in a chamber of Liquid Oxygen. Liquid don't allow you to live and Oxygen don't let you die.

A mans spirit is free, but his pride binds him with chains of suffocation in a prison of his own insecurities

You say you desire me, you say you want to be with me, you say you love me, I look into your eyes and all I see is love for me, its scary sometimes, sometimes I feel like I'm suffocating when I'm in your eye site, your gaze burns through me, but I don't know what I'd do if you weren't there... I hope you can feel my love for you the way I feel your love for me.

Elle voulait s'enfuir, mais il lui semblait que la prison était dans l'air lui-même.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

Desperate pieces of string that hold us up but at the same time keep us from being anything other than what we have always been.

The hands of his sadness close around my throat and I can't breathe. I have run out of the enormous love he needs to be all right.

Love was trapping me here.

There is equal weakness in blaming ourselves alone and in believing only in external causes. In one way or another we will always miss the mark if we do. Evil is not created by us or by others; it is born in this web that we have spun about us—and that is suffocating us. What sufficiently tough new men will be patient enough to really reweave it?

You must have faith in the duke, and in true love." She groaned. "Easy for you to say! You are not in a wedding dress laced so tightly as to make it impossible to breathe, uncertain if your groom will arrive before suffocating to death. Though perhaps that would be preferable to life after being jilted at the altar.

Filip ima potrebu da oslijepi da ogluši da se pretvori sav u gluhonijemu zrakopraznu tminu a ovdje je tako mra?no tako zagušljivo tako sitno kao u kakvoj kutiji sve je zalijepljeno tim kretenskim slikama tim hengelampama tako nisko da bi ?ovjek mogao glavom da probije krov tu nema zraka tu se ne može disati tu samo ?ovjeku srce bije u laktovima pa to je sve nesnosno hermeti?ki zalijepljeno

I wake up choking, and my wife "rolls me over on my left side; "then I'm asleep in the dream I always see: "the tunnel choked "the dark wall coughing dust.

The whole world is pressing in on me, like a weight on my chest, slowly pushing me down and down. And there's nothing between me and this weight but my flimsy skin. It's not enough. It won't protect me. It doesn't keep anything out. The outside will keep pressing in until my ribs are crushed, and then my organs, my heart and liver and stomach....

its more a trance, jonah said. the whole world is pressing in on me, like a weight on my chest, slowly pushing me down ans down. and there's nothing between me and this weight but my flimsy skin. Its not enough. It won't protect me. It doesn't keep anything out. The outside will keep pressing until my ribs are crushed.

History choked me History took hold of my throat

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