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Quotes About Breath

Ik adem, en ik beweeg, dus ik leef. Is dat duidelijk? Welke beproevingen ook komen, ik leef.' Hij zoog de borst vol adem en stapte in bed. 'Het is gezien,' mompelde hij, 'het is niet onopgemerkt gebleven.' Hij strekte zich uit en viel in een diepe slaap.
~ Gerard Reve
Rabbit, I am alive. I breathe, and I move, so I am alive. Is that clear? Whatever ordeals are yet to come, I am alive.
~ Gerard Reve
Ik leef, fluisterde hij, ik adem. En ik beweeg. Ik adem, ik beweeg, dus ik leef. Wat kan er nog gebeuren? Er kunnen rampen komen, pijnen, verschrikkingen. Maar ik leef. Ik kan opgesloten zijn, of door gruwelijke ziekten worden bezocht. Maar steeds adem ik, en beweeg ik. En ik leef.
~ Gerard Reve
Come. For the sun has crept down in its cave; its warm red breath has blown away.
~ Gertrud Kolmar
His breath was the only sound, and in that darkness it seemed too loud. Was he the only one breathing? He stood and listened hard. For days he had felt as if something was pacing along just behind him, some shy creature following his scent.
~ Gil Adamson
Breathing is the greatest pleasure in life.
~ Giovanni Papini
Pays de muets, pays de la belle endormie, merveilleux mais sans vie parce qu'y manque le souffle de la liberté. Aujourd'hui comme hier.
~ Giuliano da Empoli
Your hands bring a breath of inviolable distances as elusive as ideas. And the ambiguous sway of the moon, of the gentlest, if you rest your eyes on me, touches the spirit. You're the woman who passes by like a leaf. And bequeaths an autumn flame to the trees.
~ Giuseppe Ungaretti
The breathing forth of the unseen into the seen is called 'crystallization'. Man was created by God as a sort of superconscious lung by which this process can be continued indefinitely.
~ Glenn Clark
It came to me that I was crying, a steady runoff, a bodily function like anything else the body does on its own, a beating heart, a breath[...]
~ Goldberry Long
To pray is also to breathe, and possibility is for the self what oxygen is for breathing.
~ Gordon Daniel Marino
You will find that it is not a one-shot deal, this letting go. You must do it again and again and again. It's kind of like breathing. You can't breathe just once. Try it: Breathe just once. You'll pass out.
~ Gordon MacKenzie
Ever felt an angel's breath in the gentle breeze? A teardrop in the falling rain? Hear a whisper amongst the rustle of leaves? Or been kissed by a lone snowflake? Nature is an angel's favorite hiding place.
~ Terri Guillemets
The edge of autumn frosts with winter's chilled breath.
~ Terri Guillemets
Better to have bad breath than no breath at all.
~ American Proverb
When you own your breath, nobody can steal your peace.
~ Author Unknown
What we call 'I' is just a swinging door, which moves when we inhale and when we exhale.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
A healthy mind has an easy breath.
~ Author Unknown
For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth.
~ Sanskrit Proverb
Breathe and you know that you are alive.
~ Annabel Laity
Breathe and you dwell in the here and now.
~ Annabel Laity
Happiness breathes when you do.
~ Terri Guillemets
Breath is Spirit. The act of breathing is Living.
~ Author Unknown
Learn how to exhale... Learn how to release the abdominal muscles in a wave-like motion and the inhale will take care of itself.
~ Carla Melucci Ardito