Breathing Quotes
1116 Breathing quotes by 811 unique authors
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Quiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing makes more space around you. Let this darkness be a bell tower and you…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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You would quit the Order for her? Niko asked, the youngest only behind Dante, and a warrior who relished his duty perhaps even more than…
— Tina St. John
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Many a housewife staring at the back of her husband's newspaper, or listening to his breathing in bed is lonelier than any spinster in a…
— Germaine Greer
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A kiss, when all is told, what is it? An oath taken a little closer, a promise more exact. A wish that longs to be…
— Edmond Rostand
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When you see runners in town is easy to distinguish beginners from veterans. The ones panting are beginners; the ones with quiet, measured breathing are…
— Haruki Murakami
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So, how come Jacob Black gets to give you a gift and I don't? Because I have nothing to give back to you. Bella, you…
— Stephenie Meyer
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I realized Michael was right. I mean, I am always writing in this journal. And I do compose a lot of poetry, and write a…
— Meg Cabot
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So it is always preferable to discuss the matter of veganism in a non-judgemental way. Remember that to most people, eating flesh or dairy and…
— Gary L. Francione
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You're scaring me," Jack's voice finally cut through, and I opened my eyes, barely able to see him. "okay, good, yes, breathe. Breathing helps one…
— Kiersten White
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it is hard to believe when I’m with you that there can be anything as still as solemn as unpleasantly definitive as statuary when right…
— Frank O'Hara
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Breathing involves a continual oscillation between exhaling and inhaling, offering ourselves to the world at one moment and drawing the world into ourselves at the…
— David Abram
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From barren brown stems to glistening leaf-buds; from the leaf-buds to snowy virginity of bloom…It was like a flute song forgotten in another existence and…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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You leave the phone on beside you as you fall asleep. I sit in my bed and listen to your breathing, until I know you…
— David Levithan
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At the door, Audrey called, "Are you coming?" "No, just breathing hard, love." He glanced at her and was rewarded by an outraged glare, followed…
— Ilona Andrews
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…I noticed you don’t have any self-defense training…” “…I can handle myself just fine.” She stared at me for a long, uncomfortable moment. Finally, “In…
— Devon Monk
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Everything was coming together by coming apart . . . It is the most difficult Zen practice to leave people to their destiny, even though…
— Anne Lamott
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We must kill the false woman who is preventing the live one from breathing.
— Helene Cixous
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Your problem is that you have been too honest for too long. Once you start doing it, lying is simpler than breathing.
— Jodi Picoult
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I look up, and stop breathing. Eyes glitter in the darkness. Dark shapes sit in the car, more numerous than we are. The factionless.
— Veronica Roth
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And it only hurts when I'm breathing My heart only breaks when it's beating My dreams only die when I'm dreaming So, I hold my…
— Shania Twain
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I think he came to die with me," I say. I clamp my hand over my mouth to stifle a sob. If I can keep…
— Veronica Roth
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Our problems started in Dallas, when the fire-breathing sheep destroyed the King Tut exhibit.
— Rick Riordan
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Reading is like breathing. If you take it away, first I become antsy, then violent.
— Robert Jordan
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She wanted an Angel of Music . . . an angel who would make her believe in herself at last. I'd been the Angel of…
— Susan Kay
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Play me something that makes me feel; This soul inside me is made of steel. Brain is breathing, but heart’s not beating And, babe, I…
— Melina Marchetta
Who Wrote These Breathing Quotes
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