Quotes About Breath

Sweet steel! Come forth from out of your sheath, And glist'ning, speak your powers; Rip up the organs of my breath, And draw my blood in showers! I strike! It quivers in that heart Which drives me to this end; I draw and kiss the bloody dart, My last—my only friend!

I can hear the sizzle of newborn stars, and know anything of meaning, of the fierce magic emerging here. I am witness to flexible eternity, the evolving past, and I know we will live forever, as dust or breath in the face of stars, in the shifting pattern of winds.

I am out listening for the words, for the breath of my ancestors

Quizá tenemos miedo a lo que viene después porque, en el fondo, una brizna de nuestro ser recuerda algo terrible. Algo que olvidamos cuando llenamos por primera vez de aire nuestros pulmones, y lloramos. Y si nada nos libra de la muerte, al menos que el amor nos salve de la vida.

Cada suspiro es como un sorbo de vida del que uno se deshace.

opened the door to Daniel's office, he'd hardly been able to breathe. Daniel had been sitting at his desk with a manuscript

The guys from Camp Evergreen are coming back on Saturday," Ryan said, "for the dance." My stomach did a flip-flop. "Uh, I was just wondering if…" he paused and I held my breath, "…if maybe you'd dance with me then." "Sure." I tried to sound cool, even though I felt like doing cartwheels.

Samantha and I screamed. So did Ashley—and she hardly ever screams. We couldn't help it. Having the scary-looking scarecrow turn up like that was just plain freaky! The three of us ran in different directions. We all ended up in the backyard, out of breath.

It's quite simple," she says, while Rosentreter wonders, not without anxiety, whether she can read his thoughts. "You draw air into your lungs, you raise your soft palate, air passes over your vocal cords, and you move your lips and tongue. Or, to put it another way, you speak.

Los hombres nos olvidamos de que somos una mota de su aliento y tendemos a creernos que no lo necesitamos, pero otras veces le reprocharemos que no esté para ayudarnos cuando lo necesitamos.

Heartache, Daphne eventually learned, never really went away; it just dulled. The sharp, stabbing pain that one felt with each breath eventually gave way to a blunter, lower ache—the kind that one could almost—but never quite—ignore.

It was something in the way she moved. Something in the way she breathed. Something in the way she merely 'was' . And he didn't think he was ever going to get over it.

The very air in which you live is an inspiration.

And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.

Just the fact that you get to live and breathe and interact with the world - that's pretty marvelous.

Relax, Lilenta. Let's just breathe each other in.

And when it's unavoidable, for business reasons, that the northern sister make a trip to the grisly south, she holds her breath until she once more flies over the narrow escape of water that is the San Francisco Airport.

I did not live in the forests. I lived in the concrete city where I could not see the sky or sunset or stars. I moved at the pace of engines and it was faster than my own breath. I became a stranger to myself and to the rhythms of the Earth.

Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be carried in one's breath.

And I am homesick After mine own kind that know, and feel And have some breath for beauty and the arts.

After a time, old pain became like a living being, with breath and self-determination.

Say my name and his in the same breath. I dare you to say they taste the same.

No nos salvan las solitarias en los vidrios, ni los herbolarios donde el metafísico encuentra las otras vertientes del cielo. Son mentira las formas. Sólo existe el círculo de bocas del oxígeno.

With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.