“If we want to give oxygen and content to our life, let us bypass the flamboyant bells and whistles of shallow pursuits and take delight in the appeasement of the emotional windfalls that crop up when we encounter the ‘others’ and engage in new mental adventures. ("Transcendental journey" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“I was caged within a four dimensional cube that eclipsed the world around me in an icy mist. I screamed; begging someone, anyone to hear my pleas, but my voice had been extinguished and left me with a slight wheeze from what little oxygen I had. I could glimpse the field of energy as it shrank through the safety of my circle to envelop me in a blazing grip. I was alone; unbearably separated from my haven.”
― J.D. Stroube, Caged in Darkness

“Oxygen flooded into the atmosphere as a pollutant, even a poison, until natural selection shaped living things to thrive on the stuff and, indeed, suffocate without it.”
― Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

“I seem to be allergic to whatever that terrible smell is," said Gateman when the urge to sneeze had finally subsided.
"What terrible smell?"
"The air," said Gateman. "It smells...different."
"That's called oxygen," said Professor Boxley. "Freh air. No cars, no buses, no factories; just pure, clean oxygen.”
― Cuthbert Soup, Another Whole Nother Story

“Ed felt faint. Milk shake, as it turned out, was much less handy in your veins then, say, oxygen.”
― Francine Pascal, Sam

“The last summer of his life he sat hours together on the old chintz-covered swing-bed in front of the willow tree, chain-smoking Woodbines and watching the shadows flood the lawn until they swallowed him and only the tip of his ciggarette still showed, a faint red pulse. How she had longed to bring him in, to rescue him as he had rescued his sergeant. Her mother wasn't up to it, sitting all day in the kitchen listening to Alma Cogan and Ronnie Hilton on the wireless, biting her nails until they bled. So, it was she who had gone, crossing the lawn at dusk to stand in front of him, waiting for the right words to come into her head, for a dove that would bring her the gift of speech. But nothing came, and he had gazed at her through the smoke of his ciggarette as though from the far side of a pane of glass. He felt sorry for her perhaps, knowing why she had come out, knowing the impossibility of it. But instead of saying, sit down beside me Alice, sit down, daughter, and we will try to understand together the unbearable truth that love is not always enough, that people cannot always be brought back in, he had said, very conservatively, as though in reference to a discussion he had been having with her in his head for weeks, 'They used flame-throwers, you know'. And she had nodded, yes, Daddy, and left him, and gone to her room, and pushed her face into the pillow and bawled. Because she should have done it, should have, and she had failed.”
― Andrew Miller

“We need four things to survive life: bread, water, oxygen, and dreams!”
― Avijeet Das, Why the Silhouette?

“Sea level adapted humans are meant to live near sea level for optimum health.”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“Questions shaped like slow elevators deserve jazz oxygen. You know, music designed to suffocate a small space.”
― Jarod Kintz, Eggs, they’re not just for breakfast

“Iron deficiency anemia is a global pandemic!”
― Steven Magee, Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

“Magical things are happening in the world of hypoxia.”
― Steven Magee

“Is hypoxic damage reversible? Perhaps.”
― Steven Magee

“Oxygen administration should be done using a pulse oximeter and never administered above 96% SpO2 and not started for saturation above 90% to 93% SpO2. Medical oxygen administration is patient dependent and is a prescription ‘RX-Only’ treatment in the USA.”
― Steven Magee, Summit Brain

“Had I known the risks associated with oxygen administration, I would have refused to work atop the biologically hazardous Mauna Kea summit.”
― Steven Magee, Summit Brain

“I routinely observed health symptoms in high altitude staff that matched oxygen enrichment and oxygen depletion while working in professional astronomy.”
― Steven Magee, Summit Brain

“The summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii is in operation as an oxygen bar with many workers using it.”
― Steven Magee

“Altitude Sickness in humans has different classifications.”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“Systemic inflammation is a component of altitude sickness.”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“The professional astronomy management team advised us to take drugs and oxygen to treat our acute mountain sickness, not supplements.”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“It was common to have hallucinations atop the very high altitude mountain of Mauna Kea in Hawaii. Oxygen starvation causes it, it is known to start above 12,000 feet and we were at 13,800 feet. When I see people chatting to themselves, I have sympathy for them. They really do believe someone is with them!”
― Steven Magee

“Sustainability is about the quality and quantity of oxygen and water to be gifted to future generations.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, SuaaS : Sustainability as-a-Service

“GPLC treats hypoxic altitude sickness.”
― Steven Magee, Long COVID Supplements

“Air is oxygen that empowers humans to circle and breathe around the earthy planet; spoiling it means destroying yourself.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“The definition of ‘Summit Brain’ is a malfunctioning brain that is at high altitude and/or is hypoxic and/or is radiation exposed and/or has been exposed to Faraday cages and/or has viruses and/or has used medical oxygen and/or has used over the counter drugs and/or has been exposed to industrial pollutants and/or has been exposed to partial vacuum and/or has malnutrition and/or has long term damage from the various exposures.”
― Steven Magee

“Тому що насправді ніхто не помирає від нестачі кисню, помирають саме від нестачі любові або нестачі бабок.”
― Serhiy Zhadan, Hymne der Demokratischen Jugend

“Dreams be as important as oxygen; be that dedicated.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Rep By Rep

“The last thing you want during an airplane explosive decompression is for your oxygen mask not to work!”
― Steven Magee

“I started to see a serious decline in health in high altitude professional astronomy. Most noticeable was the onset of constant fatigue, memory issues and confusion. The condition progressed during my time in the commercial and utility solar industry where I started falling asleep at work and developed hot skin. The doctors tested me and said I had shift work disorder in 2008 and vitamin D and Vitamin B12 deficiencies in 2011. In 2015 I had a COVID-19 like sickness that made everyone in the family really sick. I never recovered and this started regular visits to the doctors. They diagnosed severe sleep apnea and mental illness and prescribed a CPAP machine. Under the care of the doctors I became much sicker on their prescription drugs and treatments. I eventually got smart and figured out I was not going to recover under their care and they may actually kill me! In 2021, moving to Hawaii island revealed that I had ‘Altitude Hypersensitivity’ and a high altitude commuting disease called ‘Magee’s Disease’. By the end of 2023 I had developed the treatments for these conditions and made a reasonable recovery. There is no cure for either condition. They are life-long illnesses. I now have to live well below 1,000 feet near sea level and take the treatments for the rest of my life. I documented the conditions in the books ‘Toxic Altitude’ and ‘Magee’s Disease’. The treatments for the hypoxic high altitude damage appeared transferable into COVID-19 and Long COVID and these are documented in the books “COVID Supplements” and ‘Long COVID Supplements’.”
― Steven Magee

“If you want to know what biological incompetence looks like, just take a look at high altitude professional astronomy.”
― Steven Magee

“Admiration is oxygen for one's literary or professional works.”
― Ehsan Sehgal