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Quotes About Breathing

My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery.
~ Allen Toussaint
Music to me is just like breathing. I have to have it. It's part of me.
~ Ray Charles
All nature ... is a respiration Of the Spirit of God, who, in breathing hereafter Will inhale it into his bosom again, So that nothing but God alone will remain.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Your birth is existence breathing out. Your life is the conversation with a message. Your death is existence breathing in.
~ Franklin Gillette
from the prose poem "The Universe Thrums on regardless" in my book SPAN.We are almost nothing in the night. Reduced to warm blobs and the sound of breathing. There is comfort in that.
~ Jay Woodman, SPAN
The machines are too dull when weare lion-poems that move & breathe.
~ Michael McClure, Ghost Tantras
I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
~ Isaac Asimov
If you are still breathing, you are not a looser as you still have opportunity to bring change.
~ Rishi Bakshi
When the POWER OF GOD is present, healing and deliverance are just like BREATHING!
~ T. B. Joshua
Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking.
~ William E. Simon
One thing has led to the next in my life, but like lines of a poem. I suppose I've thrown in my lot with love, and don't know any other way to go on breathing.
~ David Guterson
In love's God-like breathing, there's the innermost aspect of the universe.
~ Alexander Scriabin
Empires rise and fall like the abdomen of God. It's just the universe breathing.
~ Wes Nisker
Pardon me for breathing, which I never do any way so I don't know why I bother to say it, oh God, I'm so depressed.
~ Douglas Adams
I and you-We are infinate, rich, large, contradictory, living, breathing miracles-free human beings, children of God and the everlasting universe. That's what we do.
~ Robert Fulghum
Ah, good conversation - there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
~ Edith Wharton
As we free our breath through diaphragmatic breathing, we relax our emotions and let go our body tensions.
~ Gay Hendricks
I almost think that hope is for the soul what breathing is for the living organism. Where hope is lacking the soul dries up and withers.
~ Gabriel Marcel
As long as a person is breathing, there is hope for them.
~ Anthony Kiedis
I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.
~ Steve Martin
As llamas have never heard of oxygen, they do not miss it.
~ Will Cuppy
...the only thing that could justify your continuing existence on the planet would be if you started breathing carbon dioxide and exhaling oxygen.
~ Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of sleep.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Your true passion should feel like breathing; it's that natural.
~ Oprah Winfrey