Breathless Quotes
128 Breathless quotes by 113 unique authors
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Where did you learn to kiss like that?†I said, a little breathless. He grinned and pulled me close again. “I said I was a…
— Diana Gabaldon
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I don't understand anything. Life is so strange. I feel like some one who's lived all his life by a duck-pond and suddenly is shown…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment.
— Salman Rushdie
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PROCTOR, his mind wild, breathless: I say--I say--God is dead!
— Arthur Miller
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Just that, is one of those uncommon moments, those times when you don't wish for something else, for even one thing to be different; when…
— Deb Caletti
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Sought we the Scrivani word-work of Surthur Long-long in ledger all hope forgotten Yet fast-found for friendship fair the book-bringer Hot comes the huntress Fela,…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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I sat down in the sand, breathless with shame and failure. God, I thought, some defender of the weak. Some freedom fighter: Joan of Arc…
— Anne Lamott
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I pu my finger to her lips. "You have to hush a minute so that I can tell you something." "What?" she says, bites my…
— Brad Barkley
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Life, for the most part, inevitably becomes routine, the random confluence of timing and fortune that configures its components all but forgotten. But every so…
— Jonathan Tropper
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Occasionally, very occasionally, say at four o’clock in the afternoon on a wet Sunday, she feels panic-stricken and almost breathless with loneliness. Once or twice…
— David Nicholls
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Don't make me regret this", I said breathless. "You haven't regretted me once.
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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But you, Achilles,/ There is not a man in the world more blest than you--/ There never has been, never will be one./ Time was,…
— Homer
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Love Is a curious thing. Sometimes it barrels into you, leaves you breathless. Other times, it comes in- to your life, a tentative beam of…
— Ellen Hopkins
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There is eloquence in the tongueless wind, and a melody in the flowing brooks and the rustling of the reeds beside them, which by their…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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He touched her as he usually touched his beloved violin, with a soft and urgent grace that left her breathless.
— Cassandra Clare
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There were days, rainy gray days, when the streets of Brooklyn were worthy of a photograph, every window the lens of a Leica, the view…
— Patti Smith
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There must be always remaining in every life, some place for the singing of angels, some place for that which in itself is breathless and…
— Howard Thurman
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When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of…
— Wislawa Szymborska
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But Clary never found out what it wasn't, because there was a cry of "Jace!" and Alec appeared, breathless from pushing his way through the…
— Cassandra Clare
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The first time we did cavalry charge I was so breathless with excitement I nearly fell off the horse. I actually saw stars in front…
— Benedict Cumberbatch
Who Wrote These Breathless Quotes
113 authors contributed a total of 128 Breathless Quotes, led by these top contributors: