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And my loneliness, always my loneliness - that airless bubble of despair that is slowing stifling me.
— Tabitha Suzuma
You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal - it just feels stifling.
— Jessica Valenti
Be able to sneeze without sounding ridiculous. That means neither stifling yourself or spraying your immediate vicinity.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Resignation, perhaps the most stifling word in the language.
— Caitlin Thomas
I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.
— Burt Lancaster
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
— John Stuart Mill
The habit of stifling an impulse is your conditioned thinking, bent by society's stamp, doing its best to maintain its dominance.
— Garry Fitchett
Frailty begot frailty. Nothing caused lightheadedness so surely as day after day of stifling confinement.
— Kate Morton
Emotional self-controldelaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort — Daniel Goleman
Without work all life goes rotten.
— Albert Camus
The polite conversation that carried over from cocktails into dinner was so stifling that it carried a certain ruthlessness,
— Bret Easton Ellis
Nashville's like any other hometown - after a while, it's stifling.
— Justin Townes Earle
No hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me; no stifling dogma shall encramp my pen!
— Anton Szandor LaVey
Jealousy is an unjust and stifling thing.
— Zane Grey
We live in a crowded and stifling world, my dear sir; just to be able to walk, we have to push and shove others willy nilly!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.
— Thomas Carlyle
In my experience, self-hatred is the dominant malaise crippling Christians and stifling their growth in the Holy Spirit.
— Brennan Manning
But he and his friends have no children, and in their absence, the world sprawls before them, almost stifling in its possibilities.
— Hanya Yanagihara
The less bravely we live the more stifling becomes our fear of death.
— Glenn Haybittle
Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.
— Billy Strayhorn
One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
— Henry Miller
He guides me and the bird. In His good time!
— Robert Browning
The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.
— Ivor Novello
Williamsburg was stifling, narcotized by the heat.
— Chaim Potok