Breathless Quotes

What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal... and then die.

— Jean-Luc Godard

The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration.

— William Wordsworth

“Breathless and Wretched, the new fragrance by Calvin Klein.”

— Penny Reid

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Words are dead, until action brings them life.”

— Anthony Liccione

Every time you touch me, and say you love me. I get a little bit breathless.

— Rayy

“His warm smile squeezes me breathless.”

— Emily R. King

“He’d misspoken. She wasn’t a blow. She was a hydrogen bomb directly aimed at his solar plexus.”

— Kelly Moran

“I get so breathless, when you call my name, I've often wondered, do you feel the same? There's a chemistry, energy, a…

— Corinne Bailey Rae

“Seeing my breathless reaction causes him to break out with a smug grin. “That was our first official kiss as a couple.”

— Colleen Hoover

There must be always remaining in every life, some place for the singing of angels, some place for that which in itself…

— Howard Thurman

“You do not command me. The silence went on and on, painful and breathless, like a singer overreaching to finish a phrase.…

— Madeline Miller

Don't make me regret this", I said breathless. "You haven't regretted me once.

— Becca Fitzpatrick

“It becomes a game, whispered and breathless. "I hide who I am." "I fight with the dead." "I lie to the living."…

— Victoria Schwab

“What question?" I ask, breathless. "Whether you're as beautiful in the morning as you are during the rest of the day.”

— Sophie Jordan

A fearful instance of the ill consequences attending upon irascibility - alive, with the qualifications of the dead - dead, with the…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Is it a fact-or have I dreamt it-that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The scars of your love remind me of us they keep me thinking that we almost had it all the scars of…

— Adele

New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of…

— Hamilton Wright Mabie

As he was pummeled into one tight spot after another, emerging each time breathless and in amazed chagrin, Bryan flushed, with spots…

— E. Haldeman-Julius

Driving a hot car is a lot like sex to me, or a lot like I keep thinking sex should be: A…

— Karen Marie Moning

By the next one [albom],Occupation: Foole, I was right back into the trip again. I'm more frantic, more breathless. You can hear…

— George Carlin

When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and…

— Anonymous

Just that, is one of those uncommon moments, those times when you don't wish for something else, for even one thing to…

— Deb Caletti

The body's habituation to walking as normal stems from the good olddays. It was the bourgeois form of locomotion: physicaldemythologization, free of…

— Theodor Adorno

I'm going to enjoy every second, and I'm going to know I'm enjoying it while I'm enjoying it. Most people don't live;…

— Jean Webster

The poems in Helena Mesa’s virtuosic first book, Horse Dance Underwater, run with such speed, verve, and alacrity they leave you breathless,…

— Michael Collier

And then we were kissing. My hand let go of the oxygen cart and I reached up for his neck, and he…

— John Green

Naturally, we are inclined to be so mathematical and calculating that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing...Certainty is the mark…

— Oswald Chambers

the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and…

— Natalie Babbitt

“Man's conscious state is an awareness of body and breath. His subconscious state, active in sleep, is associated with his mental, and…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

“FROM A WILD NIGHT'S BRIDE by Victoria Vane: His gaze glued to the bed, Ned made a mechanical backward retreat to the…

— Emery Lee

“Some instantaneous connection had occurred between them. The very air in the room seemed to crackle with the awareness of it. A…

— Jane Cousins

“She averted her eyes from his naked chest and reached up to close her window. He lifted his arms, curling his hands…

— Laura Lee Guhrke

“Ellysetta was sitting at the secretary in Rain's suite, penning a note to her parents, when Bel burst through the doors. The…

— C.L. Wilson

“Gabriel?” I said. “Yeah?” His voice was breathless. “Kiss me.”

— Kim Harrington

“The things he does that leave me breathless…”

— Bella Forrest

“I am veritably breathless with anticipation”

— Maggie Harcourt

“If she could breathe then it could be heard, but she was breathless.”

— Elizabeth Scott