Can Hardly Breathe Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.

Truman Capote

#3. So once you're dead there's just nothing?
Mari: Basically ...
Korogi: I get so scared when I start thinking about this stuff. I can hardly breathe, and my whole body wants to shrink into a corner. It's so much easier to just believe in reincarnation.

Haruki Murakami

#4. Sometimes I wake up with such an immense sense of disappointment that I can hardly breathe.

Scarlett Thomas

#5. It's so ridiculous, I can barely stop. I can hardly breathe, you make me wanna scream. You're so fabulous, you're so good to me baby, baby.

Avril Lavigne

#6. When I think of you my heart beats fast, the blood burns in my veins and I can hardly breathe.

Alexandre Dumas

#7. Though I probably didn't have much of a heart left to break, you broke mine, and now I can hardly breathe. I need you.

Alysha Speer

#8. I do love you. I love you so much I can hardly breathe, and I don't know how we'll work everything out, but I want to. I've never wanted anything more.

Cindi Madsen

#9. The thing is, I am so lonely I can hardly breathe.

Talitha Stevenson

#10. When you're dreaming with a broken heart, the waking up is the hardest part. You roll outta bed and down on your knees and for a moment you can hardly breathe.

John Mayer

#11. He could hardly breathe at the though of his son and Quintana in Sorel with no one to protect them.

Melina Marchetta

#12. It was his reaction when I mention I was from Hailsham. He'd just come through his third donation, it hadn't gone well, and he must have known he wan't going to make it. He could hardly breathe, but he looked towards me and said: "Hailsham. I bet that was a beautiful place.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#13. We're going to die, aren't we?" I asked bitterly.
He held me so tight I could hardly breathe. But I wanted tighter still. "Not here. I swear it.

Megan Shepherd

#14. What do I have in common with Jews? I hardly have anything in common with myself, and really ought to go stand myself perfectly still in a corner, grateful to be able to breathe.

Franz Kafka

#15. Real life oppressed me with its novelty so much that I could hardly breathe.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#16. The cramped atmosphere of neglect oppressed Phatik so much that he felt that he could hardly breathe.

Rabindranath Tagore

#17. In September dawns I hardly breathe - I am an image in a ball of glass. The world is suspended there, and I in it.

Nan Shepherd

#18. And then she left, and it broke my heart so completely I could hardly breathe.

Lauren Oliver

#19. Jessica's hand flew to her mouth. If she had any doubt, the next entry settled it.
She read on, cool beads of sweat trickling down the back of her neck, hardly daring to breathe as the black heart of Ormsby Island came closer and closer into focus.

Hunter Shea

#20. I could hardly breathe, watching her, and didn't even notice it was beginning to rain. I was just mesmerized by her. All eleven trillion cells of her.

Matt Haig

#21. I held myself still, hardly daring to breathe. What was happening to me? Now that I was dressed as a woman, was I beginning to feel like one too? Perhaps I'd acted the part of a man for so long that I'd forgotten what it was like to even be a woman.

Jody Hedlund

#22. Becoming a vegan gave me another opportunity to live a healthy life. I was so congested from all the drugs and bad cocaine, I could hardly breathe, [I had] high blood pressure, [was] almost dying [and had] arthritis. And once I became a vegan all that stuff diminished,

Mike Tyson

#23. Those hot pants of hers were so damned tight, I could hardly breathe.

Benny Hill

#24. Love hits you when you least expect it, grabs you, sucks you in whole, and twists you around until you could hardly breathe. Love hurts like a sucker punch, that's both glorious and beautiful. Falling for Summer was like that for me, every time.

Kailin Gow

#25. I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.

Franz Kafka

#26. The longer I sat there, barely able to breathe, the more I recognized that just because society said something was one way hardly meant it was right

Megan Shepherd

#27. Before he bent his head, I knew what he was going to do. Touch his lips to mine. Oh, and I wanted him to ... I stilled, hardly daring to breathe. The old refrain of cant and shouldn't sank beneath the weight of new worlds like please and yes.

Ann Aguirre

#28. My life felt so cluttered and obstructed that I could hardly breathe. I inhabited a closed, concentrated world, airless and without exits.

Nell Casey

#29. Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe.

May Sarton

#30. Right there, in front of everyone, I threw my arms arond his neck and mashed my mouth against his. He was startled for a second, then his strong arms wraped around me so tightly I could hardly breathe.
"ZOMG," I heard Nudge whisper.

James Patterson

#31. Last week, when I went early into my garden, a rose-breasted grosbeak was sitting on the fence. Oh, he was beautiful as a flower. I hardly dared to breathe, I did not stir, and we gazed at each other fully five minutes before he concluded to move.

Celia Thaxter

#32. God breathes through us so completely ... So gently we hardly feel it ... yet it is our everything.

John Coltrane

#33. Milkman could hardly breathe. Hagar's voice scooped up what little pieces of heart he had left to call his own.

Toni Morrison