Asphyxiation Quotes:

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

topic: Spiritual, Fear, Atmosphere, Asphyxiation

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

source: Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.80, Del Rey

topic: Mother, Men, Space, Deep Space, Hitchhiking

The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. Sex does not thrive on monotony. Without feeling, inventions, moods, no surprises in bed. Sex must be mixed with tears, laughter, words, promises, scenes, jealousy, envy, all of the spices of fear, foreign travel, new faces, novels, stories, dreams, fantasies, music, dancing, opium, wine.

- Anais Nin

topic: Dream, Sex, Laughter, Foreign Travel, Asphyxiation

The band name came about when the original vocalist died when a huge radio fell on his head. He trotted about for a while dancing with the radio on his head, before he died of asphyxiation and blood loss. *Laughs* it was hilarious

- Thom Yorke

topic: Loss, Blood, Names, Vocalist, Asphyxiation

I don't see [the jungle] so much erotic. I see it more full of obscenity. It's just - Nature here is vile and base. I wouldn't see anything erotical here. I would see fornication and asphyxiation and choking and fighting for survival and growing and just rotting away. Of course, there's a lot of misery. But it is the same misery that is all around us. The trees here are in misery, and the birds are in misery. I don't think they sing. They just screech in pain.

- Werner Herzog

topic: Pain, Fighting, Thinking, Asphyxiation

I have my own way to walk and for some reason or other Zen is right in the middle of it wherever I go. So there it is, with all its beautiful purposelessness, and it has become very familiar to me though I do not know "what it is." Or even if it is an "it." Not to be foolish and multiply words, I'll say simply that it seems to me that Zen is the very atmosphere of the Gospels, and the Gospels are bursting with it. It is the proper climate for any monk, no matter what kind of monk he may be. If I could not breathe Zen I would probably die of spiritual asphyxiation.

- Thomas Merton

source: Thomas Merton (1988). “Encounter: Thomas Merton & D.T. Suzuki”

topic: Beautiful, Spiritual, Atmosphere, Bursting, Purposelessness