Breathe Quote by William Shakespeare

“Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world; now could I drink…

— William Shakespeare

“Behold now, let the Dead and Living meet! Across the gulf of Time they still are one. Time hath no power against Identity, though…

— H. Rider Haggard

Look, the world's comforter, with weary gait, His day's hot task hath ended in the west: The owl, night's herald, shrieks-'tis very late; The…

— William Shakespeare

Tomorrow I will curse the dawn, but there will be other, earlier nights, and the dawns will be no longer hell laid out in…

— Sylvia Plath

Man preys on man; and you mourn for the idle tapestry that decorated a gothic pillar, and the dronish bell that summoned the fat…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Night is the time to weep,To wet with unseen tearsThose graves of memory where sleepThe joys of other years.

— James Montgomery

“All the suffering and torment wrought at places of execution, in torture chambers, madhouses, operating theatres, under the arches of bridges in late autumn—all…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every…

— Roald Dahl

“Scarcely has night arrived to undeceive, unfurling her wings of crepe (wings drained even of the glimmer just now dying in the tree-tops); scarcely…

— Charles Nodier

The night ... it is filled with bestial watchmen, trammeling the extremities and the interstices of the timeless city, portents fallen, constellated deities plummeting…

— Samuel R. Delany

How dreadful it is, to emerge from the oblivion of slumber, and to receive as a good morrow the mute wailing of one's own…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The story of Christian reformation, revival, and renaissance underscores that the darkest hour is often just before the dawn, so we should always be…

— Os Guinness