Breathing Quotes

1116 Breathing quotes by 811 unique authors

But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight,… — Ernest Hemingway
It's the arrangement of events which makes the stories. It's throwing away, compressing, underlining. Hindsight can give structure to anything, but you have to be… — Carol Shields
Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of… — William Ellery Channing
Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air - moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh - felt as if… — Tom Robbins
Your true passion should feel like breathing; it’s that natural. — Oprah Winfrey
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet… — John Keats
He must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay. And just as any period… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
We slept in the same bed. There was never a right time to say it. It was always unnecessary. The books in my father's shed… — Jonathan Safran Foer
No more words. In the name of this place we drink in with our breathing, stay quiet like a flower. So the nightbirds will start… — Unknown Author
Not just beautiful, though--the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me. — Haruki Murakami
I guess I just couldn't see standing there -- alive, talking, thinking, breathing, being -- one second, and dead the next. It really bothered me.… — S E Hinton
Smoking I find the most ridiculous of all the varieties of human behavior and practically the only one that is entirely against nature. Can you… — Ian Fleming
A novel is not an allegory.... It is the sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with the… — Azar Nafisi
This morning, Tegus welcomed me again with an arm clasp and cheek touch. I wasn't startled this time, and I breathed in at his neck.… — Shannon Hale
Do you know why the nose of the bull dog is sloped backwards? So it can keep on breathing without ever letting go. — Winston Churchill
When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a special odor of… — Haruki Murakami
...a habit that had become one of those necessary things for the night... surely a body-friendly if not familiar-lying next to you. Someone whose touch… — Toni Morrison
Step out from behind the words. When you're a writer you can imagine that the words speak for you and are you, but they're not.… — Beth Kephart
Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment. — Nhat Hanh
On the morning in question, she wore white shorts and a pink T-shirt that featured a green dragon breathing a fire of orange glitter. It… — John Green
Imagine a person who comes in here tonight and argues 'no air exists' but continues to breathe air while he argues. Now intellectually, atheists continue… — Greg L. Bahnsen
No pictorial or sculptural combinations of points of human loveliness, do more than approach the living and breathing human beauty as it gladdens our daily… — Edgar Allan Poe
Once war becomes a clash of absolutes, there is no breathing room for mercy. Absolute truth is blind truth. — Deepak Chopra
Whatever art offered the men and women of previous eras, what it offers our own, it seems to me, is space - a certain breathing… — John Updike

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