Top 100 Breathe Life Quotes
#1. The historian must be a poet; not to find, but to find again; not to breathe life into beings, into imaginary deeds, but in order to re-animate and revive that which has been; to represent what time and space have placed at a distance from us.
Philibert Joseph Roux
#2. Prove to the world that you are alive, let your words breathe life into the nostrils of the universe.
Michael Bassey
#3. Any good production team is going to allow an actor to breathe life into the characters - that's why they hired that woman, that man, whatever the case.
John DiMaggio
#4. You grab at any sign of hope. You grab it with both hands and breathe life into it, day after day. You do anything to keep it alive.
Melina Marchetta
#5. Believe in the reader and they can connect the dots, if you succeed breathe life into the story
Esther Freud
#6. A beautiful thing happens when we start paying attention to each other. It is by participating more in your relationship that you breathe life into it.
Steve Maraboli
#7. Inspire (from the Latin inspirare) means to breathe life into another.
Stephen Covey
#8. There's a magical part of it (writing obituaries), too, which is you're trying to breathe life back into someone who has just died. You're trying to conjure them up.
Marilyn Johnson
#9. Measurements are never enough. The artist's eye and desire to breathe life into the subject must be the deciding factors.
David McCullough
#10. Death, one way or another, would breathe life into a new order of balance today.
Soroosh Shahrivar
#11. Some people say that poetry is a dying art but how can something that is dying breathe life into other art forms and make it new and vibrant.
Sandra Proto
#12. But if you don't understand that story is character and not just idea, you will not be able to breathe life into even the most intriguing flash of inspiration.
Elizabeth George
#13. Self-pity needed her full attention, and only in solitude could she breathe life into the lacerating details, but at the instant of her assent - how the tilt of a skull could change a life! - Lola had picked up the bundle of Briony's manuscript from
Ian McEwan
#14. Trust your reader. Not everything needs to be explained. If you really know something, and breathe life into it, they'll know it too.
Esther Freud
#15. wishing that her love alone could breathe life back into the fading form before her.
Jason Cantrell
#16. Thoughts that breathe life into us, not suck life from us.
Lysa TerKeurst
#17. Readers are often fans of Authors, but I, myself, am a fan of readers. They are the ones who breathe life into the pages that we give birth to, after all.
Janae Mitchell
#18. It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.
Daniel Day-Lewis
#19. Life needs a room so hermetically sealed to breathe life
Munia Khan
#20. Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them.
Patty Duke
#21. So I wonder what it is this need to tell.
To animate somehow the deathly stillness of the profoundest beauty. Breathe life in the telling.
Peter Heller
#22. Be a man and breathe life back into the woman in me.
H.A. Kotys
#23. I dance - to ease the madness, to subdue the longing, to breathe life into my dreams.
Cheri Bauer
#24. The conductor must breathe life into the score. It is you and you alone who must expose it to the understanding, reveal the hidden jewel to the sun at the most flattering angles.
Charles Munch
#25. Breathe life into the weapon, don't take life away from it.
Keep walking, because walking is life.
Masaaki Hatsumi
#26. I would harness the truths that had been trapped in me like a fire shut up in my bones. I would give my life over to my passions, my writing, and my children, and they would breathe life back into me.
Charles M. Blow
#27. Creating is the means to breathe life into something that never was, could have been, or someday might be.
L.M. Fields
#29. I almost said, you're not broken, you're just going through something. But i couldn't. She knew. There was something terribly wrong with her, all the way inside. She was like a big diamond with a dead spot in the middle. I was supposed to breathe life into that dead spot, but it hadn't worked ...
Janet Fitch
#30. When you don't feel healthy, stop the excuses and do something. Just go outside, walk, breathe. Life's too short to fall into a rut. You are in charge of you - treat yourself well, and it'll show.
Jessica Stroup
#31. Myths are made for the imagination to breathe life into them.
Albert Camus
#32. Make the strategy a living thing, which can breathe life into people and the culture.
Pearl Zhu
#34. I'm frequently surprised, sometimes bugged off, and sometimes happy, depending on the actor. It's a fact of life that just as often as not an actor can breathe life into a line as he can destroy it by misinterpretation, and I've been blessed frequently by having good actors.
Rod Serling
#35. Become the leader of your life. Lead yourself to where you want to be. Breathe life back into your ambitions, your desires, your goals, your relationships.
Steve Maraboli
#36. Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. I think for many years I was aware of the need, in dance and in life, to breathe deeply and to take in more air than we usually take in.
Sharon Olds
#38. The point of simple living, for me has got to be:
A soft place to land
A wide margin of error
Room to breathe
Lots of places to find baseline happiness in each and every day
Leo Babauta
#39. I'm so busy trying to breathe through the pain that I'm breathing through the pain of being with people, and that is no way to spend a life. Eventually, they'll just go away, because you will make them sad. That's something I've proven quite adept at doing over the years.
Adam Duritz
#40. I've been doing this sort of thing my entire life. It's my love, it's my passion, it's what I do day in and day out. I eat, sleep, and breathe music and singing.
Diana DeGarmo
#41. The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
Anais Nin
#42. Seattle gives you your breath back. Fills your lungs. I take it in and feel like I can breathe for the first time in my life.
Tarryn Fisher
#44. Sage: "Conner's held you down for so long, you've forgotten what it's like to breathe free air."
Imogen: "And you've given your life to his control forever. You'll never breathe free air again.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#45. Lord, catch me off guard today. Surprise me with some moment of beauty or pain so that at least for the moment, I may be startled into seeing that you are here in all your splendor, always and everywhere, barely hidden, beneath, beyond, within this life I breathe.
Frederick Buechner
#46. Is it not folly, Spider-like to spin
The Thread of present Life away to win-
What? for ourselves, who know not if we shall
Breathe out the very Breath we now breathe in!
Omar Khayyam
#48. To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#49. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#50. In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon.
Albert Camus
#51. So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
William Shakespeare
#52. Encouragement is awesome. Think about it. It has the capacity to lift a man's or a woman's shoulders. To breathe fresh air into the fading embers of a smoldering dream. To actually change the course of another human being's day, week, or life.
Charles R. Swindoll
#53. There were other things we noticed only at first, before we accepted them as a part of daily life. Then they got harder to describe, the way it's hard to describe what it feels like to breathe air.
Elisabeth Eaves
#54. The demon coughed nervously. Demons do not breathe; however, every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life. And this was one of them as far as the demon was concerned.
Terry Pratchett
#55. The wonders of life ... you and I are the light! Seek within ... there is no one to fight ... love is all ... we are one ... concentrate on bringing forth your sight ... breathe deep ... the universe is waiting for you divine ones.
Sereda Aleta Dailey
#56. If you allow yourself to breathe into the depth, wonder, beauty, craziness, and strife everything that represents the fullness of your life you can live fearlessly. Because you come to realize that if you just keep breathing, you cannot be conquered
Oprah Winfrey
#57. You might as well try to hear without ears or breathe without lungs, as to try to live a Christian life without the Spirit of God in your heart.
Dwight L. Moody
#58. You don't need coffee, you don't need cocaine, you need to breathe into YOUR FUCKING BALLS !
Elliott Hulse
#59. Remy watched the sea breathe in and out. Then she said, "It would have been better for her not to have such a heart." Yes, but worse for the rest of us.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#60. I write for the joy of writing. It is the air I breathe and the joy of my life.
Charlene Iverson
#61. I thought I was Superman until I experienced that life-changing anaphylactic shock. I was eating lunch and gobbled down a couple of bowls of gumbo. Then, 15 minutes later, I'm in my dorm room resting up. My eyes started itching and my throat was swelling up. I could barely breathe.
Adrian Peterson
#62. The air we breathe is still free, but for how much time. I believe someone is busy patenting it to start selling it for profit
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#63. Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that? ... And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?
Andre Gide
#64. I realise people exist who don't read. But it's like I knew there were people who didn't breathe or eat: I can't imagine a life like that.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#65. Life is but a moment to moment heartbeat intertwined with the feelings of existence in a physical body. With each breathe we take we renew our commitment to stay in life. With each thought we think ... ... ... we decide what kind of life we will live.
L.G. Space
#66. We depend on this planet to eat, drink, breathe, and live. Figuring out how to keep our life support system running needs to be our number-one priority. Nothing is more important than finding a way to live together - justly, respectfully, sustainably, joyfully - on the only planet we can call home.
Annie Leonard
#67. No more; unless the next word that thou speak'st
Have some malignant power upon my life:
If so, I pray thee breathe it in mine ear,
As ending anthem of my endless dolour.
William Shakespeare
#68. Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.
Guy De Maupassant
#69. You can grow softly, lovely and delicately amidst the hard surfaces. Not all who passed tougher times in life have a hard heart, kindness and tenderness do breathe despite of worse times.
Angelica Hopes
#70. Here and now ... breathe and relax ... in battle and in life
Dan Millman
#71. Having good health, being able to breathe and be happy, that's one of the most beautiful gifts. On top of that, I have the gift to play music and make people happy through that. I'm just telling you from my heart, I'm so in love with life.
Roy Ayers
#72. They say time heals all, But time is our only enemy; breathe deep and find strength to smile tonight, for the morning may never come
Michael Biondi
#73. All living beings are spiritual beings because all of life breathes. Breath is an indication that spirit is present.
Sharon Gannon
#74. I am just a refugee from the long slow toothache of English life. It is terrible to love life so much you can hardly breathe!
Lawrence Durrell
#75. Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life needs its pauses, its chapter breaks, if the soul is to have space to breathe.
Jonathan Sacks
#76. At first parenthood was as I had expected, exhausting, sometimes heinous, and occasionally divine. I held my children close enough to feel them breathe, laugh, swallow.
Kelly Corrigan
#77. [Dad] once told Cooper that the trick to a happy life was to find the person you can't breathe without and marry her.
Molly Harper
#78. Sometimes you'll laugh
Sometimes you'll cry
Life never tells us, the when's or why's
When you've got friends, to wish you well
You'll find your point when
You will exhale
Whitney Houston
#79. Breathe, rabbit. I'll only hurt you if you do something stupid."
I cleared my throat "Define stupid".
When his lips pulled back, I flinched, only to realize that I'd amused him.
"Have you been locked in a tower your whole life?
Kat Falls
#80. No matter what the day brings and no matter how hard life hits you, if you can breathe, smile and keep moving on! Once you have life, know that God is alive!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#81. We breathe our deepest during sleep.
When we are in the state of full rest.
We are able to be.
J.R. Rim
#82. It would be ridiculous to hold your breath and blame others for your inability to breathe. In the same sense, it is ridiculous to live an unaligned life and blame God for your misfortune.
Steve Maraboli
#83. I feel something like hands around my throat, threatening to squeeze the life from me. Each word tightens the grip, as if ink alone can strangle me. For a second, I fear I might not breathe again.
Victoria Aveyard
#84. The moment you breathe your first breath, you won.
J.R. Rim
#85. Life is a constant back-and-forth. We take a breath in and then we breathe out. The same is true for the culture as a whole.
Marianne Williamson
#86. Breathe. It's only a bad day, not a bad life
Ashley Purdy
#87. Living in the moment means letting go of the past and not waiting for the future. It means living your life consciously, aware that each moment you breathe is a gift.
Oprah Winfrey
#88. He didn't say much at our first meeting - nor at any of our meetings since, come to think of it - but left him into a room, and everyone in it seems to breathe a sigh of relief. I have never in my life had that effect on anyone; I can't imagine why not.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#89. When asked why I write, I say it is why I breathe. How I make my heart beat with life. It must be done so I can exist." The Man With the Green Suitcase
Dee Doanes
#90. Terry Farish seems to breathe the reader into the emotional spaces of war, exile, and refugee life. The Good Braider is a delicate stunning exploration of its young protagonist's life and heart.
Uma Krishnaswami
#91. Perhaps when we shrink down to almost nothing, we will at last find one another. Life is, after all, very difficult. Most of us die here simply because we forget to breathe.
Paul Auster
#93. Five is for five heartbeats, the length of time it takes to breathe in or out. For that is how quickly a life may change, for better or for ill. The time it takes to make up, or change, your mind.
Cameron Dokey
#94. In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the beauty, the poetry, of life.
Jonas Mekas
#95. In my dreams the world would come alive, becoming so captivatingly majestic, free and ethereal, that afterwards it would be oppressive to breathe the dust of this painted life.
Vladimir Nabokov
#96. Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe.
May Sarton
#97. In the dark room where I began My mother's life made me a man. Through all the months of human birth Her beauty fed my common earth. I cannot see, nor breathe, nor stir, But through the death of some of her.
John Masefield
#98. Let me arise and open the gate,
to breathe the wild warm air of the heath,
And to let in Love, and to let out Hate,
And anger at living and scorn of Fate,
To let in Life, and to let out Death.
Violet Fane
#99. Every ordinary thing in your life is a word of God's love: your home, your work, the clothes you wear, the air you breathe, the food you eat ... the flowers under your feet are the courtesy of God's heart flung down on You! All these things say one thing only: "See how I love you."
Caryll Houselander
#100. Taking a deep breathe, I made one of the hardest decisions of my life.
I walked away.
Richelle Mead
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