Breathless Quote by Annie Dillard

To see was terrifying, and to stop seeing tore me apart from my forehead to my throat.

— Maurice Blanchot

I saw -- with shut eyes, but acute mental vision -- I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

To anyone who took the trouble to look, I was plainly visible, but when people are expecting to see nothing, that is usually what…

— Diane Setterfield

For a moment the feeling crept over me that my work, my vision, is going to destroy me, and for a fleeting moment I…

— Werner Herzog

I felt okay for the first 45 seconds, and then my vision grew fussy. My lungs felt like deflated balloons. I would have sucked…

— Brad Alan Lewis

When I opened my eyes I saw nothing but the pool of nocturnal sky, for I was lying on my back with out-stretched arms,…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust…

— Bram Stoker

It's amazing what you can see when you just sit quietly and look.

— Jacqueline Kelly

As was once said before, a picture is worth a thousand words, but seeing that in real life, with your own eyes, is breath-less

— Superman

I was literally seeing stars, and every ragged breath I took felt like I was trying to breathe through broken glass

— Superman

The exquisite moment you realize you can't look away, and your not breathing...

— Eric Nickel

I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd.

— Anonymous