Top 100 Like Breathing Quotes
#1. The more we're connected to our chosen someone, the more we can pick up what they're feeling. It's instinctive, like breathing."
"You can't hold your breath?
Julie Kagawa
#2. Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.
Ray Bradbury
#3. It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like having a conversation with someone who isn't there. Because it has to be addressed to somebody - not a particular person, or very rarely.
Norman MacCaig
#4. Your true passion should feel like breathing; it's that natural.
Oprah Winfrey
#5. Music to me is just like breathing. I have to have it. It's part of me.
Ray Charles
#6. Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.
Julia Cameron
#7. Asking me if I life Reading is like asking me if I like Breathing.
Unknown
#8. Reading has always been like breathing for me, necessary for existing and thinking. But recently, I find, as I try to make it through the pages, my mind keeps wandering to my phone. What's happening there? What am I missing?
Nancy Jo Sales
#9. Something terrible happens to people who don't create, something poisonous. Creating is a necessity for all humans, like breathing. If you don't do it, you suffer.
K.A. Laity
#10. Writing is like breathing. Each written word is like exhaling and each pause is like inhaling as the next thought speedily arrives.
Lynn M. Dixon
#11. But now Nature starts doing things. The hormones start rolling and those old testicles start producing and all the rest of it
like breathing. You don't go around asking for it. It happens. It happened to me when I was twelve.
(Sean)
Paul Zindel
#12. Crying is easy, like breathing- the more you hold it in, the more you let out.
Tablo
#13. Needing was so easy: it came naturally, like breathing. Being needed by someone else, though, that was the hard part. But as with giving help and accepting it, we had to do both to be made complete-like links overlapping to form a chain, or a lock finding the right key.
Sarah Dessen
#14. Reading is like breathing. If you take it away, first I become antsy, then violent.
Robert Jordan
#16. But writing is like breathing--I do it because I have to. Actually, writing might be more like reading--I do it because I can't imagine stopping.
Heather Frost
#17. For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.
Adam Duritz
#18. Working safely is like breathing - if you don't, you die.
Jerry Smith
#19. Tengo did not know for certain whether he wanted to be a professional novelist, nor was he sure he had the talent to write fiction. What he did know was that he could not help spending a large part of every day writing fiction. To him, writing was like breathing.
Haruki Murakami
#20. It's amazing how much you're missing in a depressive state until you start to come out on the other side. It's like breathing again after being underwater for far too long
Jenny Lawson
#21. Responsibility is something you take as a matter of fact, like breathing air; living without it is impossible, but do not think about it too much.
Jacob Gelt Dekker
#22. Art isn't a means for income when it comes to Hex. He would do it if he was trapped on an island by himself or the richest man in the world. For him, art is like breathing. He just has to do it.
Kenya Wright
#23. Reading is like breathing in and writing is like breathing out, and storytelling is what links both: it is the soul of literacy. The most powerful tool that we have to strengthen literacy is often the most underused and overlooked, and that is a child's own stories.
Pam Allyn
#24. All writers have periods when they stop writing, when they cannot write, and this is always painful and terrible because writing is like breathing ...
Audre Lorde
#25. The quest for truth must be carried out by each person individually. It is like breathing, something which no one else can do for us.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
#26. Odd how somehow she'd once thought she hated had become such an integral part of her daily life. Like breathing.
Kimberly Derting
#27. Love is your song - you can sing it any time. It is like breathing. Nobody is going to take it away from you; nobody can take it away from you.
Rajneesh
#28. Travelling's not something you're good at. It's something you do. Like breathing. You can't work too much at it, or it feels like work. You have to surrender yourself to the chaos. To the accidents.
Gayle Forman
#29. The point is to get a good rhythm, to make it mindless, almost as a daydream. To walk like breathing. To make it what the body wants, what the air wants, what time wants.
Susan Sontag
#30. Doubt always hovers nearby, but I take photographs the way a musician hums. Looking is like breathing. So when luck turns my way and offers me a good picture, joy is surely nigh.
Marc Riboud
#31. Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.
Yoko Ono
#32. I think something that's very important for us to communicate is usually very simple. Like breathing: Breathing is very simple. You don't do a dissonant 9th harmony or something in breathing. You just breathe, you know. I think that's how it is with very important messages.
Yoko Ono
#34. Traveling is not something you are good at. It is something you do. Like breathing.
Gayle Forman
#35. When Filch wasn't guarding the scene of the crime, he was skulking red-eyed through the corridors, lunging out at unsuspecting students and trying to put them in detention for things like "breathing loudly" and "looking happy.
J.K. Rowling
#36. I still cry on waking. I'm not sure why. I feel nothing. Nothing I can name, anyway. It's like breathing - something that happens over which I have no control. (6)
Mary E. Pearson
#37. Life shouldn't be about good-byes, but I felt like mine was. I was a revolving door. There was no way to enter my existence without exiting. In and out. Like breathing. Only it was the kind of breathing that hurt. ~Hawthorne
R.K. Ryals
#38. Love is bright. It's like a star in the night sky. You can't help but see it. It's like the very sun; you can't help but feel it. It's like breathing; you can't help but breathe it.
Rachel Van Dyken
#39. And what does really matter? That is easy: thinking and doing, doing and thinking
and these are the sum of all wisdom ... Both must move ever onward in life, to and fro, like breathing in and breathing out.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#40. True writers know that writing is not something they feel required to do,
or to make a living they must do, it is quite frankly like breathing. Some
can breathe often and fluently, some short breaths, some a long exhale
and for many of us it is the patient steady breathing surrounding life.
Milissa R. Bailey
#41. It's not "jalan-jalan" nor "liburan". It's just something we do naturally. Like breathing and eating. It's basically living.
Riana Ambarsari
#43. It's so easy to be with her, my lusty fairy, my beautiful wife. Wanting her is like breathing. Needing her is in my blood. And loving her will always be the beat of my heart.
Nina Lane
#44. I had always loved Noah. It was something I did naturally, without thinking, like breathing
Alison G. Bailey
#45. Traveling's not something your good at. its something you do like breathing
Gayle Forman
#46. Writing is like breathing for my soul.
A.D. Posey
#47. And so I have to live. Because we live for more than just ourselves, Most of the time we live for others, keep putting one foot before the other, left and right, left and right, so that walking becomes a habit, just like breathing. Ina n out, left and right.
Thrity Umrigar
#48. Dancing is like breathing-missing a day doing either is very bad.
Vera-Ellen
#49. Writing is what I do. It's like breathing to me at a certain point, but if I couldn't write, I do like cooking.
Nora Ephron
#50. I know I need to exercise. For some people, exercise is like breathing; for others, like me, it takes effort. Exercising is what I need for my metabolism and for a better sense of well-being.
Al Roker
#51. You don't learn how to be in love. It's not like learning how to walk or talk. It's innate, like breathing. I think love is something we do to survive. To live your life to the fullest, you gotta love every bit of the journey. Remember that.
Steph Nuss
#52. If you ask someone if they like music, they look at you strangely. It seems to be a universal given. Like asking someone if they like breathing. It is like breathing. Or air, rather. Flowing without and within. A matrix within which our lives are set. The setting for the tableware of our beings.
Jane Siberry
#53. Being near you, Brooklyn ... it's like breathing. I don't have a choice about it; I just have to do it or I know I won't survive very long.
Julie Johnson
#54. Reading is like breathing in, writing is like breathing out.
Pam Allyn
#55. Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
Margaret Mead
#56. Art for me is like breathing. When I stop breathing, what happens?
Yoko Ono
#57. I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature, but I couldn't distinguish it from reading, and reading was already my default activity, almost like breathing.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#58. I wanted to tell her that I loved her, and not in the complicated way I loved our parents, but in a simple way I never had to think about. I loved her like breathing.
Brenna Yovanoff
#59. Art for me is like breathing.
Yoko Ono
#60. Hierarchy was like breathing: the only time you thought about it was when something went wrong.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#61. Joey told me nothing ever goes back exactly the way it was, that things expand and contract- like breathing, but you could never fill your lungs up with the same air twice.
Andrew Smith
#62. I don't mind losing. Losing is like breathing to me.
Lisa Lutz
#63. A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.
Bob Dylan
#64. I goddamn near lost my nose. And I like it. I like breathing through it.
Jack Nicholson
#65. If reading is like breathing then writing is like the beat of a heart.
Laura Holford-Green
#66. A shared characteristic in each of these translations is that ea is an active state of being. Like breathing, ea cannot be achieved or possessed; it requires constant action day after day, generation after generation. Unlike
Noelani Goodyear-Ka'opua
#67. For me writing is like breathing. I could not live without breathing and I could not live without writing.
Pablo Neruda
#68. Now ... Just run.' [said the Doctor.]
One of the things you learn very quickly around the Doctor is never to question him when he says that word. You just run. It's almost like breathing.
James Goss
#69. Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
Wally Lamb
#70. Like breathing and swallowing, crying comes automatically to most kids, too.
R.J. Palacio
#71. So much was so easy. Glamour was second nature. It was just making folk see what they wanted to see. Fooling folk was as simple as singing. Tricking folk and telling lies, it was like breathing.
But this? Convincing someone of the truth that they were too twisted to see? How could you even begin?
Patrick Rothfuss
#72. In Hollywood, lying is something that people do like breathing.
Neil Gaiman
#73. When the POWER OF GOD is present, healing and deliverance are just like BREATHING!
T. B. Joshua
#74. It is a law of the spiritual life that every act of trust makes the next act less difficult. Trusting becomes like breathing, the natural unconciousness of the redeemed soul.
Hannah Whitall Smith
#75. What we seek to do in Tantric Buddhism is to liquefy ourselves. Life will automatically bring us to the next stage. You don't really have to know where you're going - It's like breathing.
Frederick Lenz
#76. In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and we have to become sensitive to it.
Henry Louis Gates
#77. Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking.
William E. Simon
#78. Writing is like breathing...it's something that I must do or perish.
M.G. Lambert
#79. You have to leave your heart to get on with it. It's rather like breathing. We don't have to remind ourselves to breathe.
Alexander McCall Smith
#80. I would bow slightly with my hands in my pockets, toward the birds and the evidence of life in their nests
because of their fecundity, unexpected in this remote region, and because the serene arctic light that came down over the land like breath, like breathing.
Barry Lopez
#81. Birth and Death are words we chose to describe the doorways in and out of a cycle. This cycle is connected to a larger cycle which awaits our return. It is all just like breathing. Remove the fear and judgement to recognize the same pattern as a principle everywhere.
Franklin Gillette
#82. Music to me is like breathing. I don't get tired of breathing, I don't get tired of music.
Ray Charles
#83. I had once remarked to Feely that, because of the oxygen, breathing fresh air was like breathing God, but she had slapped my face and told me I was being blasphemous.
Alan Bradley
#84. Writing is like breathing underwater. It's really hard to do unless you can imagine yourself a nice set of gills.
Alane Adams
#85. Soccer presented no challenge to me. Playing felt like breathing: I always had a magical connection to the ball. But it didn't feel like an adventure. Music was more of a challenge and, in the end, felt more interesting.
Pete Wentz
#86. It's been so long since anything really went my way that I can't really remember what "easy" feels like anymore - maybe like breathing without inhaling the ash of the world burning around you
Alexandra Bracken
#87. Painting is like breathing to me. It's what I do all the time. Every day I make art, whether it is painting, writing or making a movie.
Julian Schnabel
#88. When I first met you, I thought you were unlike anyone else I had ever known. You made me laugh. No one but Jem has made me laugh in, good God, five years. And you did it like it was nothing, like breathing.
Cassandra Clare
#89. A feeling erupted in my stomach, like nothing would ever be the same again. Like good karma was catching up with me. Like someone had opened up the lid to my lobster tank and I was finally breathing in the shockingly fresh air.
Francesca Zappia
#90. So your stance on beards is?" His gaze so strong I feel it in my toes. My breathing picks up. "Don't particularly like them.
Kristen Callihan
#91. People don't realize that doing a horror movie is hard work. You're out there all day screaming your lungs out, breathing in toxic make-up fumes, rolling around in the dirt, getting your eyebrows burned off - it's not like doing a sitcom.
Clint Howard
#92. Vianne knew Rachel wasn't asking how to hide in the barn; she was asking how to live after a loss like this, how to pick up one child and let the other go, how to keep breathing after you whisper "good-bye." "I can't leave her.
Kristin Hannah
#93. I just like being around you while you're still breathing." She glanced my way. "I'm pretty selfish like that.
Lisa Kessler
#94. I can absolutely assure you that birth is nothing like holding an ice cube in your hand for a minute and breathing through the "pain.
Cassi Clark
#95. Breathing in Shepelevo was like hitting the right note on the piano. There was only one note. When I was young, Shepelevo was the smell of nettles, of salted smoked fish, of fresh water from the Gulf of Finland, and of burning firewood, all wrapped up in one Shepelevo.
Paullina Simons
#96. I kept my head down and my breathing steady. No idea why. I totally felt like a sniper in the marines. Only I was pregnant. Other than that, and the fact that I couldn't snipe if they'd paid me to, I embodied all that a sniper should be. Stealth. Grace. The patience of a panther on the prowl.
Darynda Jones
#97. You ... you got rid of that dress fast," I pointed out between heavy breaths. "I thought you liked it."
"I do like it," he said. His breathing was as heavy as mine. "I love it."
And then he took me to the bed.
Richelle Mead
#98. I walked into her arms and we hugged like hugging was breathing and we'd been holding our breath for a long, long time.
April Genevieve Tucholke
#99. I'm going to miss him like hell when he's gone," she eventually continued. "It's going to rip half my soul out. If you weren't here for me, I would fucking give up and die the minute he quit breathing.
Tymber Dalton
#100. What keeps me interested is that I have to do it. It's like people wake up and they have to breathe; I have to write songs; I have to make music. That's like eating or breathing to me. It's that simple.
Diane Warren
