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Quotes About Breath

Place one hand on your abdomen; see if you can feel it move outward as you breathe in. This moves the diaphragm in a way that provides the most space for your breath. As you breathe out, tighten your belly muscles, pushing as much breath as possible upward and outward. Repeat for a few cycles, and remember to do this several times during the day, especially whenever you feel particularly tense.
~ Gerald M. Lemole
I recognized the tokens of the time, because I had lived through just such another uneasy season, when every day was tainted by the foul breath of a fear that could not be faced forthrightly, yet could not be ignored.
~ Geraldine Brooks
English I remember, I remember, The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn; He never came a wink too soon, Nor brought too long a day, But now, I often wish the night Had borne my breath away!
~ Thomas Hood
A little space of time before time expires; a little way of breath.
~ Algernon Swinburne
He is limp and damp and milder than the breath of a cow.
~ Virginia Woolf
Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care; Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare. Youth is full sport, age's breath is short; Youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, age is tame. Age, I do abhor thee; youth, I do adore thee.
~ William Shakespeare
Every soldier in the course of time exists only in the breath of written word.
~ Ivan Doig
Every minute with you, Darling Eve, is a minute to treasure. She slid a glance toward him as she uncoded the seal. You really do want sex. I'm still breathing, so that would be yes.
~ J.D. Robb
Into the night, in the dark, he lay beside her, listening to her breathe. He knew the varied and sundry reasons a man would kill. But none were more fierce, none were more vital than to hold safe what he loved.
~ J.D. Robb
Breath is life. You are not the pebble washed to shore by the wave, but the fish that swims in the wave. Breathe in to fill, to draw in the light. Slow," he told her, "with awareness. Breathe out to empty. And pause, hold in that space between. Now in to fill.
~ J.D. Robb
Breath is life. You are not the pebble washed to shore by the wave, but the fish that swims in the wave. Breathe in to fill, to draw in the light.
~ J.D. Robb
I said, you're the beat of my heart, the breath in my body, the light in my soul.
~ J.D. Robb
But she wanted Stern's reaction. "I believe Arthur relocated—Hawaii. We're not in touch." He drew a breath through his nose. "You don't think Arthur killed Leanore. No, no." A firm shake of the head. "I know he
~ J.D. Robb
The blood of life is leaving his body and despair is taking its place, despair that is like a gas, odourless, tasteless, without nourishment. You breathe it in, your limbs relax, you cease to care, even at the moment when the steel touches your throat.
~ J.M. Coetzee
She got her phone again and went into the received-calls log and fired up Rehvenge's number. She took a deep breath and a long pull on the latte. And hit send. Destiny had a 518 area code. Who knew.
~ J.R. Ward
Z had no love to give anyone. But the hatred he had he would channel for Bella until the last breath left his lungs.
~ J.R. Ward
Her breath was painfully short, and each impotent draw of her rib cage convinced her as nothing else could that life was about suffering more than it was about joy. There had been too many of these moments, too many times the pain and fear took over, too many dark shadows that didn't just lurk, but sucked out all the illumination from the night in which she existed.
~ J.R. Ward
Apesar de respirar, estava morto até me encontrares. Apesar de ver, estava cego. Depois, vieste… e despertaste-me.
~ J.R. Ward
It's hard to blow an ugly bubble.
~ Tom Noddy
I have to have an emotional connection to what I am ultimately selling because it is emotion, whether you are selling religion, politics, even a breath mint.
~ Gene Simmons
Most people are completely unaware of their breath. They violate your space, they have no idea that they have halitosis.
~ Larry David
Death is buried there into death Hunger strikes on its own last breathNo spine to shiver, no heart talks At life's craving poverty mocksFrom the poem 'Exhumation
~ Munia Khan, To Evince the Blue
Every drop of sweat and every breath we take in life, if not taken for the sake of Allah, will lead to regret and sorrow on the Day of Judgment
~ Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
Wisdom without love is like having lungs but no air to breathe. Do not seek wisdom in order to acquire knowledge but in order to live and love more fully.
~ Adyashanti