Breathless Quotes
128 quotes by 115 authors
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Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.
— Rupert Brooke
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"It's so beautiful!" she said, a little breathless with her speed. "You never saw anything so beautiful! It has come! I thought it had come…
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
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I have three messages," said the breathless Nyad."One is we should never ever give up. Two is you are never too old to chase your…
— Diana Nyad
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What continues to astonish me about a garden is that you can walk past it in a hurry, see something wrong, stop to set it…
— Dorothy Gilman
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New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created…
— Hamilton Wright Mabie
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Is it a fact-or have I dreamt it-that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers…
— Anthony Trollope
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One night when my longing for her was like a fire burning out of control in my heart and my head, I wrote her a…
— Stephen King
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I live my life, breathless... A life of constant motion and excitement. A life that many will envy and most would avoid!
— Eric Burdon
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Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will be in breathless…
— Robert Breault
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The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding places.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape. I pursue it. Breathless I catch up with it. It flies again, it disappears, it…
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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I shall dance all my life. . . . I would like to die, breathless, spent, at the end of a dance.
— Josephine Baker
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Pritkin kissed like he did everything else, straightforward, accepting no prisoners and with an intensity that left me breathless. It was hot and hard and…
— Karen Chance
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Long Gone is the type of book that should come with a warning. It’s a compulsively readable, highly addictive story. The ending will leave you…
— Karin Slaughter
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Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the game when once caught, which he may have pursued with the most intense and breathless…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The body's habituation to walking as normal stems from the good olddays. It was the bourgeois form of locomotion: physicaldemythologization, free of the spell of…
— Theodor Adorno
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We are seeing, then, that our experience is altogether momentary. From one point of view, each moment is so elusive and so brief that we…
— Alan Watts
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The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration.
— William Wordsworth
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Time is like a wheel. Turning and turning - never stopping. And the woods are the center; the hub of the wheel. It began the…
— Natalie Babbitt
Who Wrote These Breathless Quotes
115 authors contributed a total of 128 Breathless Quotes, led by these top contributors: