Asphyxiation Quotes

Strangling is the most intimate way to kill someone.

I say if you love something, set it in a small cage and pester and smother it with love until it either loves you back or dies.

Waterboarding is slow-motion suffocation with enough time to contemplate the inevitability of blackout and expiration. Usually, the person goes into hysterics on the board. For the uninitiated, it is horrifying to watch. If it goes wrong, it can lead straight to terminal hypoxia - meaning, the loss of all oxygen to the cells.

Death by hanging. That, at least, I thought I would be spared.

If you can't breathe, you can't do nothing.

I've been choking to death for years. By now this should be easy.

There was no air; only the dead, still night fired by the dog days of August. Not a breath. I had to suck in the same air I exhaled, cupping it in my hands before it escaped. I felt it, in and out, less each time…until it was so thin it slipped through my fingers forever. I mean, forever.

Everyone knows the phenomenon of trying to hold your breath underwater - how at first it's alright and you can handle it, and then as it gets closer and closer to the time when you must breathe, how urgent the need becomes, the lust and the hunger to breathe. And then the panic sets in when you begin to think that you won't be able to breathe - and finally, when you take in air and the anxiety subsides...that's what it's like to be a vampire and need blood.

...Though drowned was just as dead as any other way of dying.

I was given several types of torture… I was given what they called the ‘water cure’…I felt…like I was drowning, just gasping between life and death.

It was like drowning, only from the inside out.

The substance of grief is not imaginary. It's as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill.

I think I asphyxiated my children.

I'm suffering from oxygen deprivation. It's overwhelming watching your career go by.

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.

I hope you lay down in your sleep and you choke on every lie you told

You must squeeze every atom of impure air from lungs until they are almost as free of air as a vacuum.

Her library filled her bookshelves and then overflowed into waist-high stacks of books everywhere, piled haphazardly against the walls. If just one of them moved... the domino effect could engulf the three of us in an asphyxiating mass of literature.

Just out of curiosity, can an immortal choke to death on a bagel? (Francesca)

Don't think she can breathe over there, chief." drawled Shaun. "Pretty sure she hasn't kicked the oxygen habit yet.

Free-diving is all about dealing with anxiety. I've blacked out a few times. I've had big black-outs.

I think there was a time when I was too strict and controlling. I think I asphyxiated my children.

There seems to be no air in the air she breaths.