Breathless Quote by William Butler Yeats

A Word that Breathes Distinctly Has not the Power to Die

— Emily Dickinson

Whatever lives is granted breath But by the grace and sufferance of Death.

— Countee Cullen

A creature without a voice. A voice without a name. As immortal as my life. Come here at long last to summon the wind.

— Anonymous

Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.

— Sappho

Alive without breath, As cold as death; Never thirsty, ever drinking, All in mail never clinking.

— Anonymous

Death swallows death.

— Dejan Stojanovic

How short is human life! the very breath Which frames my words accelerates my death.

— Hannah More

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

— George Carlin

Gasping for breath, the body still battling for life.

— Truman Capote

The power of life & death is in your tounge.

— Anonymous

Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Hermann Hesse