Breaths Quote by Francis Quarles

How could you not want to draw breath one more day? How could your own life be such a cheap commodity? But then I…

— Jodi Picoult

Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death.

— Simone de Beauvoir

“You do not need God and Death as precursors to immortality. You need Life as a great fire, setting you and everything around you…

— Anonymous

All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.

— Hermann Hesse

“Death was more like what we went through in the park: two people walking side by side in the mist, rubbing against trees and…

— Henry Miller

All life is a breath exhaled by God. All dying is a breath inhaled by God.

— Hermann Hesse

There was neither death nor immortality then. There was not distinction of day or night. That alone breathed windless by its own power. Other…

— Rig Veda

Led by long years to my last hours, too late, O world, I know your joys for what they are. You promise a peace…

— Michelangelo

Perhaps immortality is a gift of heaven rather than the result of some human effort.

— Wang Yangming

“In this world, man is a target of death, an easy prey to calamities. Here,(in this world)every morsel and every draught is liable to…

— Imam Ali ibn Abu Talib

Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart.

— Phoebe Cary

“Our love of life is only an old liaison of which we do not know how to rid ourselves. Its strength lies in its…

— Marcel Proust