Breath Quotes - page 4

Poetry and art are the breath of life to her. (Edith Wharton)
The whole house seemed to exhale a melancholy breath of emptiness. View quote
Michael Chabon
Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath; We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness of death. View quote
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Sweet is the breath of vernal shower, The bee's collected treasures sweet, Sweet music's melting fall, but sweeter yet The still small voice of gratitude. View quote
Thomas Gray
Can storied urn, or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of Death? View quote
Thomas Gray
I must before I die, find some way to say the essential thing that is in me, that I have never said yet – a thing that is not love or hate or pity or scorn, but the very breath of life, fierce and coming from far away, bringing into human life the vastness and fearful passionless force of non-human things... View quote
Bertrand Russell
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. View quote
Crowfoot
The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath. View quote
W. C. Fields
As a magician, I try to show things to people that seem impossible. And I think magic, whether I'm holding my breath or shuffling a deck of cards, is pretty simple. It's practice, it's training, and It's practice, it's training and experimenting, while pushing through the pain to be the best that I can be. And that's what magic is to me. View quote
David Blaine
If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath, I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base, And speed glum heroes up the line of death. View quote
Siegfried Sassoon
Direct interference in a person's life does not enter our scope of activity, nor, on the other, tralatitiously speaking, hand, is his destiny a chain of predeterminate links: some 'future' events may be linked to others, O.K., but all are chimeric, and every cause-and-effect sequence is always a hit-and-miss affair, even if the lunette has actually closed around your neck, and the cretinous crowd holds its breath. (Vladimir Nabokov)
On a trip to Germany, Lange and his entourage were climbing the tower of an ancient castle when they stopped to catch their breath. "How old is this ruin?" someone asked a guide. "Forty-two years," said Lange. View quote
David Lange
We are none of us promised anything but the last breath we take. View quote
Tad Williams
It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words. View quote
T. S. Eliot
At the age of five years to enter a spinning-cotton or other factory, and from that time forth to sit there daily, first ten, then twelve, and ultimately fourteen hours, performing the same mechanical labour, is to purchase dearly the satisfaction of drawing breath. But this is the fate of millions, and that of millions more is analogous to it. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Yeah there ain't nothing not affected When two hearts get connected. All that is, will be, or ever was. Every single choice we make, Every breath we get to take, Is all because two people fell in love. View quote
Brad Paisley
Test every work of intellect or faith, And everything that your own hands have wrought And call those works extravagance of breath That are not suited for such men as come Proud, open-eyed and laughing to the tomb. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Said Periander, "Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage." View quote
Plutarch
The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief. View quote
Steven Erikson
Love is the eternal first breath. View quote
Vanna Bonta
Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science. (William Wordsworth)
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me. View quote
Sarah Bernhardt
The essence of motherhood is not restricted to women who have given birth; it is a principle inherent in both women and men. It is an attitude of the mind. It is love - and that love is the very breath of life. No one would say, ‘I will breathe only when I am with my family and friends; I won't breathe in front of my enemies.' Similarly, for those in whom motherhood has awakened, love and compassion towards everyone is as much part of their being as breathing. View quote
Mata Amritanandamayi
I forced myself to picture the last moments. The penultimate breath. A final sigh. And yet. It was always followed by another. View quote
Nicole Krauss
When the morning breezes blow toward the town at sunrise, if they bring with them mists from marshes and, mingled with the mist, the poisonous breath of the creatures of the marshes to be wafted into the bodies of the inhabitants, they will make the site unhealthy. View quote
Vitruvius