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Quotes About Breath

Lords of spirit, Lords of breath, Lords of fireflies, stars, and light, Who will keep the world from death?Who will stop the coming night?Blue eyes, blue eyes, have the sight.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
It's a breath you took too late.It's a death that's worse than fate.
~ Elvis Costello
and to die with the Warrior's Prayer on his lips. For, 'Yes', he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life. Acceptance.
~ Robin Hobb, Fool's Fate
Biology includes the study of the human death which began when you took your first breath
~ Stanley Victor Paskavich
One life, One love, One breath, One people, One chance to make a difference. If we are not one in LIFE we surely will be one on DEATH.
~ Tonny K. Brown
It was all written. When life is going to be breathed into you, and when it's going to be taken away. Each person's mission on earth is pre-planned.
~ Unknown
The heart never stops even if you stop your breath, Life goes on even if you go through death
~ Unknown
Last breath is rare, therefore expensive. However, we prefer to stay poor ... (Dernier soupir est rare, donc cher. - Pourtant, on préfère rester pauvre...)
~ Charles de Leusse
Space is the breath of art.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
Having a favorite color is like having a favorite lung.
~ Sara Genn
All the arts serving human desires and needs are derived from the breath that Godsent into the human body.
~ Hildegard of Bingen
Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
I am a bed of sparks you breathe upon and kindle
~ John Geddes
Time is the water in which we live, and we breathe it like fish. ... Time pours into us and then pours out again. In between the two pourings we live our destiny.
~ Louise Erdrich
Nothing comes easy, but as long as you're breathing, you're always one breath away from making your dreams a reality. Make every breath count.
~ Kai Greene
I'm getting a figure now, by the way. If I breathe in, I almost have a waist. How about you?" "Sort of," said Polly. As Granny remarked when Polly introduced her to Fiona, both their figures were a pinch of faith, a spoonful of charity, and the rest entirely hope. But she admired Fiona's red hair and told them both not to wish their lives away. (p. 259-260)
~ Diana Wynne Jones
There is a furnace in our cells, and when we breathe we pass the world through our bodies, brew it lightly, and turn it loose again, gently altered for having known us.
~ Diane Ackerman
a single lupine exhalation could reduce it to rubble.
~ Diane Setterfield
vomiting, shortness of breath, like they said before." "What does it cause?" "Heart palpitations and a sense of déjà vu." "Déjà vu?" "It affects the false part of the human memory or whatever. That's not all. They're not calling it the black billowing cloud anymore." "What are they calling it?" He looked at me carefully. "The airborne toxic event.
~ Don DeLillo
It doesn't cause nausea, vomiting, shortness of breath, like they said before." "What does it cause?" "Heart palpitations and a sense of déjà vu." "Déjà vu?" "It affects the false part of the human memory or whatever. That's not all. They're not calling it the black billowing cloud anymore." "What are they calling it?" He looked at me carefully. "The airborne toxic event.
~ Don DeLillo
When she went back to the telephone Hely's breath, on the other end, was ragged and secretive.
~ Donna Tartt
My heart - which, thrilled at my daring, had held its breath for a moment or two - began suddenly to beat quite wildly
~ Donna Tartt
said that fear is "excitement without breath.")
~ Jack Canfield
It has been proven that dogs can detect lung cancer by smelling a patient's breath, and can even smell early signs of cancer before medical experts can detect them.
~ Jack Goldstein