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Quotes About Asphyxiation

As I fought to catch my breath after moving past three climbers, the mask actually gave the illusion of asphyxiating me, so I tore it from my face—only to discover breathing was even harder without it.
~ Jon Krakauer
You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space, that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young." "Why, what did she tell you?" "I don't know, I didn't listen.
~ Douglas Adams
You know,' said Arthur, 'it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space, that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young.' 'Why, what did she tell you?' 'I don't know, I didn't listen.' 'Oh.' Ford carried on humming.
~ Douglas Adams
Mon désir de vengeance m'a littéralement asphyxié.
~ Amelie Nothomb
Fear is an acid which is pumped into one's atmosphere. It causes mental, moral and spiritual asphyxiation, and sometimes death; death to energy and all growth.
~ Horace Fletcher
You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young." "Why, what did she tell you?" "I don't know, I didn't listen.
~ Douglas Adams
los pobres diablos sin más literatura que su propia alma, sin más libros que los de otros, que mueren asfixiados por el hecho de existir sin haber hecho aquel desconocido examen trascendente que los habilitara para vivir.
~ Fernando Pessoa
A person who is an utter selfish has an irresistible wish to get the praise always only on own face from the people and in an event of not getting such appreciation any day, s/he feels asphyxiation.
~ Anuj Somany
El hambre, el velo, el gueto ortodoxo, las asfixias que pregona el fundamentalismo patriarcal pueden frenar el despliegue del ser humano
~ George Steiner
We didn't bother to handcuff him, which surprised Agent Reynolds. Kittredge told her it was Metropolitan Police policy to avoid handcuffing suspects unless physical restraint is necessary—thus avoiding the risk of chafing, positional asphyxiation, and injury sustained by falling over your own feet and smacking your face into the pavement.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
Ouvira muitas vezes falar do fim do mundo, mas sempre imaginara que este se manifestaria por uma tempestade terrível e um abalo de terra que precipitaria as montanhas nos mares e faria transbordar a água dos lagos, inundando vales e planícies, exterminando todos os seres vivos. Nunca pensara que o fim do mundo pudesse dar-se deste modo, com o céu a cobrir, a esmagar a terra, matando as pessoas por asfixia.
~ Selma Lagerlöf
Yes, sir. I think this plan is marginally better than dying of asphyxiation or starvation out in empty space, and it has the virtue of novelty. Implacable couldn't anticipate we'd do it. Only crazy people could anticipate we'd do it.
~ Michael A. Stackpole
Cómo podría yo saber si algún día en la universidad, en Europa, en algún lugar, en cualquier lugar, la campana de cristal con sus asfixiantes distorsiones, no volvería a descender?
~ Sylvia Plath
Kendra returned her attention to the frantic parade of trees. Her parents were leaving on a seventeen-day Scandinavian cruise with all the aunts and uncles on her mother's side. They were all going for free. Not because they'd won a contest. They were going on a cruise because Kendra's grandparents had asphyxiated. Grandma
~ Brandon Mull
By putting his hand around my neck, he slowly strangled himself.
~ Minako Ohba
The city was like a fish dying on hard pavement, hopelessly gasping for air.
~ Kien Nguyen
I can't breathe.
~ Jaci Burton
Anytime you need to watch somebody die, die for real, check out how they get their orgasm at the end of a porn. Their mouth biting to get just one more inhale of air.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Enquanto houver lugares onde seja possível a asfixia social; em outras palavras, e de um ponto de vista mais amplo ainda, enquanto sobre a terra houver ignorância e miséria, livros como este não serão inúteis.
~ Victor Hugo
The swamp smell that arose was outrageous amid the genteel mansions of the automotive families and the green elevated paddle tennis courts and the graduation parties held under illuminated tents. Debutantes cried over the misfortune of coming out in a season everyone would remember for its bad smell. The O'Connors. however, came up with ingenious solution of making the theme of their daughter Alice's debutante party Asphyxiation.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
i think autoerotic asphyxiation is one of the dumbest things in the whole universe, right up there with gay republicans.
~ David Levithan
Flash fire." She turned her head as far as she could, trying to look at him. "I don't know what that means." He shifted on the branch. "First time I was on a submarine, we had a flash fire. It's a combustion explosion. A flammable mist builds up in the air, then suddenly, bam. Think super high temperatures and a rapidly moving flame front. It kills by asphyxiation. Burns up all the available oxygen. It's devastating.
~ Unknown
A single line of code in the Xi'an habitat's maintenance programming kept the cathedral from ever suddenly going oxygen-free—but that line of code had been recently expunged in a system update. For three months, then, nothing had kept human inefficiency from suddenly asphyxiating Archbishop Korbijn and hundreds of celebrants during morning services.
~ John Scalzi
Entonces sentí una tremenda opresión en el pecho, una opresión en la que no parecía estar afectado ningún órgano físico, pero que era algo asfixiante, insoportable. Ahí, en el pecho, cerca de la garganta, ahí debe estar el alma, hecha un ovillo.
~ Mario Benedetti