Suffocating Quotes

“Better thinking out loud than suffocating from frustration. ("The upper lip must never tremble" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“The space around us is a claw half grasped, holding tight without quite crushing, and I wish, in the idle way I always wish these days, that I felt more confident in my ability to breathe.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

“Somewhere, things must be beautiful and vivid. Somewhere else, life has to be beautiful and vivid and rich. Not like this muted palette -a pale blue bedroom, washed out sunny sky, dull green yellow brown of the fields. Here, I know ever twist of every road, every blade of grass, every face in this town, and I am suffocating.”
― Lisa Ann Sandell, A Map of the Known World

“To me, socializing was like sinking to the bottom of a deep, deep ocean... Until eventually you couldn't take it anymore, and had to come up for air"

- Shimamura - Adachi to Shimamura”
― Hitoma Iruma, 電波女と青春男 1

“I can't believe I've let you in, and now here I am telling you that I'm suffocating in here.”
― Sara Quin

“A man can't fight always. If he's drowning or suffocating he's got to be smart and hold back some of his strength for the last the final the death struggle.”
― Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun

“Elle sortit subitement prendre l’air. Je pense souvent à cette expression “prendre l’air”. Cela veut dire que l’on va ailleurs, pour le trouver. Cela veut dire littéralement : où je suis, je m’asphyxie.”
― David Foenkinos, Nos séparations

“Tell me, is there someone in your life who's been sharing your life too closely? A friend or a loved one? Is there someone who's been taking up your time and not giving any of it back?”
― Alexandra Kleeman, You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine

“Earth is a heaven but man often creates many hells within this heaven and a fascist country is one of the hottest and the most suffocating hell amongst all those hells!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Truly unconditional love was suffocating, in that it took so little notice of who you actually were.”
― Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire

“I don't need you making me feel like an evil person every time I do something. I gave up smoking weed for you and that's a pretty big thing. I can't hold your hand 24 hours a day. Can't hold you 24 hours a day. Can't kiss you 24 hours a day. Can't have sex 24 hours a day.”
― Jeffrey Brown, Clumsy

“Women who live their lives according to the suffocating religious rules created by men represent one of the saddest tragedies of the whole human history!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Isn't it suffocating to keep waiting for life to get better all the time?”
― Nitya Prakash

“At the point that I’ve become apathetic about being apathetic, I have let apathy define me with such suffocating totality that I don’t even realize that I’m apathetic anymore. And it is in this darkest of places that my soul breathes it lasts long before it is dead.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The suffocating anguish retracted, collapsing into itself like a matchstick house in a windstorm.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, From Blood and Ash