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Quotes About Breath

The damp air eased between sheets tossed and loosened with dreams, kissing uncovered throats, slipping in with unguarded breaths to lie snugly in the lungs and wait for day.
~ Fiona Shaw
M?lest?bai nav nek?da sakara ar sirdi - šo atbaidošo org?nu, asi?u pumpi. M?lest?ba vispirms sa?em ciet plaušas. Vajadz?tu teikt nevis: "Man ir salauzta sirds,"bet gan:"Man ir aizsprostojuš?s plaušas.
~ Frédéric Beigbeder
I feel like I'm holding my breath all the time, never knowing when my lungs will just give up. The air we're supposed to breathe is up above – I can feel it.
~ Frances Hardinge
She inhaled a deep breath of fresh air, and blinked up at the high, heavy sunlit walls. I am lucky, she told herself. Better in here than out there. Grizehayes was strange and frightening, but it was a fortress. It could keep the darkness out. Even as she tried to convince herself, however, she was wondering why her mother had fled the house, and remembering her words. You have no idea what I saved you from! If I had stayed in Grizehayes...
~ Frances Hardinge
The moment we take our last breath on earth, we take our first in heaven.
~ Billy Graham
Franz Kafka observed that "the truth is always an abyss. One must—as in a swimming pool—dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order later to rise again—laughing and fighting for breath—to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.
~ Bonnie Tsui
We should have a way of telling people they have bad breath without hurting their feelings. "Well, I'm bored. Let's go brush our teeth." Or, "I've got to make a phone call. Hold this gum in your mouth."
~ Brad Stine
Ein paar Sekunden lang herrschte Totenstille. Es war so leise, als würden selbst die Möbel die Luft anhalten.
~ Harlan Coben
Myron headed out to his car. He took a deep breath in the parking lot and looked back behind him. The whole visit already had an unreal feeling, like one of those descriptions of alien abductions sans the anal probe. He got in the car and dialed Win's cellular. He just wanted to leave him a message on the machine. But to Myron's surprise, Win answered.
~ Harlan Coben
Fino al giorno in cui mi minacciarono di non lasciarmi più leggere, non seppi di amare la lettura: si ama, forse, il proprio respiro?
~ Harper Lee
Angel-bright, life-in-death; get off the road, don't suck my breath.
~ Harper Lee
I breathed again. It wasn't me, it was only Calpurnia they were talking about. Revived, I entered the livingroom. Atticus had retreated behind his newspaper and Aunt Alexandra was worrying her embroidery
~ Harper Lee
Unutmaktan korkana kadar okumay? hiç sevmemiÅŸtim. Kim nefes almay? sevmez ki?
~ Harper Lee
There goes the meanest man ever God blew breath into
~ Harper Lee
The heavy smell of flower petals stroked the walls of my lungs.
~ Haruki Murakami
Everything ended in silence. The beasts and spirits heaved a deep breath, broke up their encirclement, and returned to the depths of a forest that had lost its heart.
~ Haruki Murakami
The morning is not my time. Darkness is my friend. A vacuum is my breath. I must be saying goodbye soon.
~ Haruki Murakami
High school girls came bustling along, their rosy red cheeks puffing white breaths you could have written cartoon captions in.
~ Haruki Murakami
I think bad breath is... just hard to get past. Someone with just horrible breath, yeah. I'm not talking about just onion breath. I'm talking about you been brushing your teeth and using the mouthwash and it still smells like you've been tongue-kissing the toes of a gorilla - that's horrible.
~ Paul Wall
I've trained myself to find time to exercise relaxation of the body. I have these programs - I just listen to the instructions, and they're simple. Sometimes you just hold your hand tight and keep your breath - you hold it, hold it, feel all the tension, and then relax.
~ May-Britt Moser
In poetry, I have, since very young, loved poetry in translation. The Chinese, the French, the Russians, Italians, Indians and early Celts: the formality of the translator's voice, their measured breath and anxiety moves me as it lingers over the original.
~ Fanny Howe
Maranam Bindu Patanat, Jivanam Bindu Rakshanat.
~ Sivananda Saraswati
As I breathe in, I am taking on the suffering of my friend or others, and as I breathe out, I am giving him or them happiness and peace.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
Haiku [For you] love between us is speech and breath. loving you is a long river running
~ Sonia Sanchez