Behinds Quote by Glenda Millard

The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay…

— Burl Ives

I glance at the exit across the room. I want out. The bird in my chest is crashing up against its cage. I can…

— Han Nolan

And I ran after that voice through the streets so as not to lose sight of the splendid wreath of bodies gliding over the…

— Milan Kundera

The sound of wind had become, for me, silence. When it went away, I was left with the squeak of the blood in my…

— David Foster Wallace

... I looked through the car's rear window for a final wave, and it felt like someone had invaded my chest and squeezed all…

— Karen Tayleur

I clung to nothing, in a way I was calm. But it was a horrible calm—because of my body; my body, I saw with…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I always felt caged, closed in, like I was punching at things that weren't there. I always had too much energy for the room…

— Angelina Jolie

I felt like I was some kind of primitive spring-loaded machine, placed under far more tension than it had ever been built to sustain,…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

You've probably had somebody punch you in the stomach and it knocks the wind of you and you can't breathe. That's how I felt.

— Steve Jobs

My heart was beating out of my chest.

— Swoosie Kurtz

Outside, you don't hear a single bird, and a deathly, oppressive silence hangs over the house and clings to me as if it were…

— Anne Frank

I, who had had my heart full for hours, took advantage of an early moment of solitude, to cry in it very bitterly. Suddenly…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning