Breath Quotes

• I did not die, and yet I lost life’s breath.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Lost
  • Die
  • Breath

• Truly to sing, that is a different breath.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Different
  • Sing
  • Breath

• How does one practice mindfulness? Sit in meditation. Be aware of only your breath.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Meditation
  • Breath
  • Mindfulness

• Gently, I ran my hand across his chest, exploring it. My breath felt tight in my throat. He was so beautiful. His muscles were toned, defined, his skin warm and smooth. Stroking my palm up over the line of his collarbone, I felt the firmness of his shoulder, the strength of his bicep. I traced my fingers over the black AK, following the lines of the letters. Alex hardly moved as I touched him, his eyes never leaving me. Finally I sighed and dropped my hand. I tried to smile. "I've sort of been wanting to do that ever since that first night in the motel room," I admitted.

  

  L.A. Weatherly
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • Night

• I will fight to the last breath, even though my family cowers in terror in the palace.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Family
  • Fight
  • Breath

• I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • Will
  • Last
  • Breath

• Come o'er the eastern hills, and let our winds Kiss thy perfumed garments; let us taste Thy morn and evening breath; scatter thy pearls Upon our love-sick land that mourns for thee.

  

  William Blake
  • Kiss
  • Hills
  • Pearls

• I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • America
  • Spiritual
  • Influence

• The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Mind
  • Planets
  • Flesh

• I say to my breath once again, little breath come from in front of me, go away behind me, row me quietly now, as far as you can, for I am an abyss that I am trying to cross.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Trying
  • Away
  • Again

• There's a ghost in this house! An unquiet spirit!" Unquiet spirit?" Shane said under his breath. "Is that politically correct for pissed off? You know, like Undead American or something?

  

  Rachel Caine
  • American
  • House
  • Spirit

• I look forward to the full cooperation of Syria in form as well as substance, ... but I have to say after what I've heard I'm not holding my breath.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Breath
  • Substance
  • Syria

• Prayer is to the Christian what breath is to life, yet no duty of the Christian is so neglected.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Life
  • Christian
  • Prayer

• As long I still have a breath left in me I will dedicate myself fully to China's reform.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • Reform
  • Dedicate
  • Fully

• I can hold my breath for 7 minutes and 5 seconds.

  

  Tanc Sade
  • I Can
  • Breath
  • Hold

• Fear is excitement without the breath.

  

  Fritz Perls
  • Fear
  • Breath
  • Excitement

• I live and breathe and do four times as much four times as fast as anyone else.

  

  David Lee Roth Van Halen
  • Breath
  • Four times

• North Korea is the errant teenage child, aren't they? Or toddler - they're holding their breath until they get their way.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Way
  • Child
  • Breath

• The guitar's still around me. I slip it off and put it down. I want to feel him. To feel his breath on my neck. The warmth of his skin. To feel something other than sadness. Hold me, I tell him silently. Hold me here. To this place. This life. Make me want you. Want this. Want something. Please

  

  Jennifer Donnelly
  • Skin
  • Guitars
  • Neck

• The universe began as an enormous breath being held. I am glad that it did... until this great exhalation is finished, my thoughts live on.

  

  Ted Chiang
  • Live
  • Universe
  • Thoughts

• I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't move and you can't take a deep breath. You start to hit the ball about a yard wide, instead of inches.

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • Deep
  • Matches
  • Yard

• It's not the end that I fear with each breath- It's life that scares me to death.

  

  Tim McIlrath Rise Against
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Breath

• Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian; not the thing that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Christian
  • Prayer
  • Breath

• The word spirit comes from the Latin word for "breath" - spiritu - and the origin of the word spirituality has to do with breath and life force, the mysteries of the ancients and all this. The word is very suspect in much of the art world - the Western art world. Certainly, spirituality has become divorced from religious.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Life
  • World
  • Art

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