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Quotes About Breath

She breathed in and out, in and out. He breathed as fast as she did. She felt the muscles sliding over his ribs. He smelt of thyme and mead and that iron-and-salt tang that made her nostrils flare.
~ Nicola Griffith
The warm breath, the smell of tansy and lavender, the words triggered a surge of something wild she couldn't name
~ Nicola Griffith
She felt once again Angharad's breath on her cheek-Red is your colour-and that first cool kiss of the dream lake.
~ Nicola Griffith
Ghosts grew from the thin grey mist of hollow hills, the damp and drizzle of dusk, the breath of the dead.
~ Nicola Griffith
She opened her mouth and let the wind take her breath away.
~ Nicola Griffith
The air is as thick as potato soup and you have to breathe in sips.
~ Nicola Griffith
The air in her lungs evaporated in a puff she turned to a laugh, and she sat down. Breathed. Smiled.
~ Nicola Griffith
Every time she swallowed, she gleamed. Every time she lifted a hand, she glittered. Every time she breathed, she glinted. She was breathing fast; her legs trembled; the glitter and gleam and glint became an endless shimmer.
~ Nicola Griffith
Sadness creeping from the shadows will get less and less until it crushes her no more than a petal might her breath.
~ Nicola Morgan
women laugh in such ways that we can't see the fences in their breathing
~ Unknown
FOR A POET by Countee Cullen I have wrapped my dreams in a silken cloth, And laid them away in a box of gold; Where long will cling the lips of the moth, I have wrapped my dreams in a silken cloth; I hide no hate; I am not even wroth Who found earth's breath so keen and cold; I have wrapped my dreams in a silken cloth, And laid them away in a box of gold.
~ Nikki Grimes
Indeed, pity never possesses us so strongly as at the sight of beauty touched by the corrupting breath of depravity. Let ugliness make friends with it, but beauty, tender beauty … in our thoughts it is united only with chastity and purity.
~ Nikolai Gogol
In the beat of a heart, the suck of a breath, you are the universe.
~ Normandi Ellis
Herkes geçer diyor.Geçer mi olric? Herkes ne bilir ac?m?.Herkes ne bilsin ac?m?z?.Ya?ar gibi yapmaktan,özlemez gibi yapmaktan iyiymi? gibi yapmaktan..Nefes al?p onu içimde tutmaktan o nefeste bo?ulmaktan s?k?ld?m.Ki nefessizlikten de?il nefesten bo?ulmakt?r marifetimiz Olric. -Evet efendimiz -Bana kat?ld???n? bilmek güzel.Arada ses vermen güzel.?çimin sesi de olmasa ölürüm yaln?zl?ktan...
~ Unknown
Çok ya?amak için iki nefes al?yorum, bir nefes veriyorum.
~ Unknown
ALIVE! Still alive. Alive … again. Awakening was hard, as always. The ultimate disappointment. It was a struggle to take in enough air to drive off nightmare sensations of asphyxiation. Lilith Iyapo lay gasping, shaking with the force of her effort.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Lilith?" The usual, quiet, androgynous voice. She drew a deep, weary breath. "What?" she asked. But as she spoke, she realized the voice had not come from above as it always had before. She sat up quickly and looked around. In one corner she found the shadowy figure of a man, thin and long-haired.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Wealth was the power to set things and people in motion; and in America, therefore, wealth came to be frankly regarded as the breath of God, the divine spirit immanent in man. God was the supreme Boss, the universal Employer.
~ Olaf Stapledon
Truth is the breath of life to human society. It is the food of the immortal spirit. Yet a single word of it may kill a man as suddenly as a drop of prussic acid.
~ Unknown
To-day is thine to spend, but not to-morrow; Counting on morrows breedeth bankrupt sorrow: O squander not this breath that Heaven hath lent thee; Make not too sure another breath to borrow.
~ Omar Khayyam
mientras respira el tirano, la libertad se asfixia".
~ Unknown
In Takeuchi's opinion, the word "spirit" is derived from the Latin word "spiro" (to breathe).
~ Unknown
We should sit so that our energy increases of itself and brims over instead of putting physical pressure on the lower abdomen by force.
~ Unknown
When we refer to the classic text Zazen-gi regarding the method of sitting, we find the following written about the essential technique of zazen, "Once the posture has been stabilized and the breath regulated, push forth the lower abdomen; one thinks not of good or evil.
~ Unknown