Top 100 Quotes About Just Breathing
#1. And it occurred to me, standing there, just breathing with her, quiet settling around us, that those might be the three most beautiful words in the English language. We have time.
Ransom Riggs
#2. Try to spend at least 2 or 3 days every month in an ashram. Just breathing the pure air there will purify and strengthen our bodies and minds. Like recharging the batteries, even after returning home we will be able to continue our meditation and japa.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#3. At the door, Audrey called, "Are you coming?"
"No, just breathing hard, love." He glanced at her and was rewarded by an outraged glare, followed by, "Oh, my God!
Ilona Andrews
#4. I think i'm just breathing, that's all. And there's a difference between breathing and being alive.
John Boyne
#5. Life is stretching to achieve goals, and exploring new things, and struggling to overcome obstacles. Life is not just breathing in and out. I think immortality would make all these things that add up to our lives hollow and meaningless.
Kevin McDonald
#6. I work very fast and steadily, and I don't hardly ever notice that I'm working. It feels like just breathing or walking when I do films.
Werner Herzog
#7. Just breathing and smiling can make us very happy, because when we breathe consciously we recover ourselves completely and encounter life in the present moment.
Nhat Hanh
#8. You know I've put on, like, fifteen pounds of muscle since I met you? Because you get me worked up and then I can't get off on my own because if feels wrong, and I need to let it out, so I work out. You turn me on, just breathing.
Jasinda Wilder
#10. Ask yourself, Allie: Are you alive or just breathing?
Hasti Williams
#11. Caroline: 'You know Sora. I don't. It will hurt you. It won't hurt me. Nothing hurts me.'
Lake: 'Liar. Just breathing hurts you so bad, you want to beat the snot out of something.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#12. Just breathing can be such a luxury sometimes.
Walter Kirn
#13. Hold your horses. I'm coming." ...
"From where I'm standing you're just breathing laboriously."
The snow swam out of focus. "Breathing hard. Are you coming or just breathing hard. You've got to get your one-liners straight.
Ilona Andrews
#14. And most of all we smile at each other as if we can't believe how happy we feel just being together just breathing in the same space.
Alice J. Wisler
#15. It made me think of my mother, when she made her pie crusts. She'd prick little holes all over the place. So it can breath, she said. I was just breathing. I closed my eyes, anticipating each cut, feeling that wash of relief when it was done.
Jodi Picoult
#16. Doing that hunt scene was really quite demanding. I actually broke a rib during that scene. And then all the scenes after that became quite challenging, just breathing and laughing.
Guy Pearce
#17. I kissed his cheek, damp and salty. I could feel his heart beating against my ribs, and wanted nothing more than to stay there forever, not moving, not making love, just breathing the same air.
Diana Gabaldon
#18. Do You think it matters if they're tiny or deep? he asked. Well, if they're not tiny breaths and they're not deep breaths, then they're just ... breaths. Then you're just breathing for the sake of ... breathing.
... Seize them. Feel them. Love them ...
K.A. Tucker
#19. Our story opens in the mind of Luther L. (L for LeRoy) Fliegler, who is lying in his bed, not thinking of anything, but just aware of sounds, conscious of his own breathing, and sensitive to his own heartbeats. Lying beside him is his wife, lying on her right side and enjoying her sleep.
John O'Hara
#20. The arrogant man probably thought his path to heaven was already assured, and that he acted in accordance to God's will just by breathing.
Maya Banks
#21. Without thinking, I asked, "Are you afraid of temptation?"
He shook his head. "God, no. Just being with you, just seeing you. Fuck." He mostly swallowed the expletive, his hips rolling in a way that made me think the movement was instinctual, then added on a rush, "You breathing tempts me.
Penny Reid
#22. I just like being around you while you're still breathing." She glanced my way. "I'm pretty selfish like that.
Lisa Kessler
#23. When you go deeply into the present, gratitude arises spontaneously, even if it's just gratitude for breathing, gratitude for the aliveness that you feel in your body. Gratitude is there when you acknowledge the aliveness of the present moment.
Eckhart Tolle
#24. 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
#25. I'm a living, breathing example of someone who does the same exact thing, but drugs and alcohol just aren't a part of who I am.
CM Punk
#26. Not only does my world revolve around her, but she is my world. She's not just my reason for breathing, she's air itself. She's the meaning behind every one of my thoughts, every thrum of my pulse, every whisper of my conscience. She's my entire everything. It's as simple and as complex as that.
Laurelin Paige
#27. America has to be not just an idea but a living, breathing thing.
Will.i.am
#28. Just because you can't see the air, doesn't mean you stop breathing. And just because you can't see God, doesn't mean you stop believing
Nicky Gumbel
#29. But then this morning I had to tell him goodbye. And he held me and kissed me so much, I thought I might die if he let go.
But I didn't die. Because he let go and here I am. Still living. Still breathing.
Just barely.
Colleen Hoover
#30. When the Earth was just a child,
He searched for his mother Venus;
And for his father Mars,
But they were not home;
They were gone elsewhere,
Out there, in the great expanse;
Beyond the breathing universe.
Stephan Attia
#31. He set me on fire just by breathing.
Ella Frank
#32. Love is a living, breathing thing. There is no need to force it to grow in a particular direction. If we start by being easy and gentle with ourselves, we will find it is just there inside of us, solid and healing.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#33. So where the fuck are you, Isaac? I can hear your breathing, I just need to see you so I can stop it.
Richard K. Morgan
#34. My preparation is always mediation and deep breathing. And the rubbing of my hands together just gets my energy going.
John Edward
#35. We've got to get these guys to Bubba's. Anyone got a clue how to do it? (Nick) They gotta be breathing? (Simi) Yes. (Nick and Caleb) Well, pooh. That just takes all the fun out of it. (Simi)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#36. Music to me is just like breathing. I have to have it. It's part of me.
Ray Charles
#37. 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
#38. I cleared my throat, searching for my voice. "There's a good chance you might be smarter than me."
That almost made her smile. "Nah, I just like being around you while you're still breathing.
Lisa Kessler
#39. We're always one breath away from something, living or dying, sometimes it just can't be helped.
Heather Gudenkauf
#40. Improper breathing is a common cause of ill health. If I had to limit my advice on healthier living to just one tip, it would be simply to learn how to breathe correctly. There is no single more powerful -or more simple- daily practice to further your health and well being than breathwork.
Andrew Weil
#41. Change of state is not the point; recognizing the Changeless is the point, recognizing primordial Emptiness is the point, and if you are breathing and vaguely awake, that state of consciousness will do just fine.
Ken Wilber
#42. I'm not scared of death, just tired. So fucking tired of being alive yet never fully breathing.
Jessica Sorensen
#43. You tell me I have to crush a field of babies to keep breathing? Sure. You say people who rely on me aren't going to live unless I turn someone's head into a bowl of gravy? I'm there. I don't feel bad about it. I don't think about it. It just is what it is. It's survival.
Robert Kirkman
#44. I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.
Paul Auster
#45. I was interested in the kicks and the punches. I felt like I could utilize that in my real life, and not just in fake land. I've always done yoga for my breathing, and hiking for my mind, but I was also exercising, at the same time.
Zoey Deutch
#47. I do a little bit of yoga-style meditation. Relaxing and breathing even just one minute a day makes a big difference.
Dolph Lundgren
#48. My legs turned to jelly as I collapsed against him, my breathing ragged as aftershocks of ecstasy spasm through me. I looked down, surprised to see the bottoms of my bathing suit were still on. I'd just assumed they'd exploded at some point within the last two minutes.
Kelley R. Martin
#49. Just like any business is a living, breathing thing, an entrepreneur has to be able to adapt over time.
Robert Herjavec
#50. If your heart is racing, slow your breathing. Don't ignore your body just because your mind is scared. Your mind is a tool that can bring your body peace.
Hannah Hart
#51. But I am clinically depressed and have an anxiety disorder, which interferes with things like studying and learning and breathing and living. He thinks it's something I can just turn off and on with willpower.
Leslie Stella
#52. I've been smoking nearly 50 years now. I just don't feel safe breathing anything I can't see!
Dave Beard
#53. He saw at least a dozen people still in their seats. Their clothes were torn or blown or burned from their bodies, completely naked in front, missing limbs, missing faces, some breathing, some moaning, and others just deader than a door nail.
Laurence Gonzales
#54. It is not just that animals make the world more scenic or picturesque. The lives of animals are woven into our very being - closer than our own breathing - and our soul will suffer when they are gone.
Gary A. Kowalski
#55. For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.
Adam Duritz
#56. Just for tonight, she wanted to be someone's requirement to go on breathing.
Anonymous
#57. Just because I'm breathing, doesn't mean I'm alive; vice versa.
Rea Lidde
#58. I want to hold my breath for as long as it takes.
I want to stop breathing just long enough to know what it would be like to be totally sitll.
Like being a cough away from death.
Not really there- not really here.
Jaye Murray
#59. It's a process, it doesn't happen overnight, when you depersonalize another person and view them as just an object. An object for pleasure and not a living breathing human being. It seems to make it easier to do things you shouldn't do.
Jeffrey Dahmer
#60. He was living, breathing poetry. Not love poetry, but the poetry which tears out your heart, rips it to shreds, pushes it back into your chest, and makes you question what the hell just obliterated your soul.
Tillie Cole
#61. Perhaps he was afraid as I was that we'd be caught. Or perhaps he was breathing me in just as I was letting him come into my lungs, my eyes, my heart.
Lisa See
#62. Finally, on the fourth of November, when those he loved had left the room just for a moment - to grab coffee in the kitchen, the first time none of them were with him since the coma began - Morrie stopped breathing.
Mitch Albom
#63. It's cute when you meet young boys and they're bright red and breathing like they've run up the stairs, but they're just sitting outside the door. I've had phone calls in the middle of the night when I stay at hotels.
Cameron Diaz
#64. Glenn! Most people want to die when they get the stomach flu. You threw up everything but your spleen and you just kept going." My eyes well up and my breathing gets shallow. "For Danny." "Nah. For you! You're a tough motherfucker, Glenn.
Glenn Rockowitz
#65. Behind every wall and every mirror and every vent, I hear sounds: breathing, rustling, footsteps, and murmurs. I try to tell myself it's just mice making their nests behind the barriers, but since when do rodents whisper?
A.G. Howard
#66. 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
#67. You mock those who blindly follow the majority ... turn your attention now to those who are so dedicated to deviating from the norm that they would gladly cease breathing if it were suggested to them that inhalation was a form of conformity; for they deserve just as much scrutiny and ridicule.
Demetri Martin
#68. I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.
Chuck Palahniuk
#69. When people around me are getting rattled, I may just close my eyes and do a breathing exercise.
Carla Hall
#70. It's a lifestyle, it's something you do the rest of your life," LaLanne said. "How long are you going to keep breathing? How long do you keep eating? You just do it.
Jack LaLanne
#71. I love you with the passion of a drowning man for breathing air. I can't just have enough of you and having you a little would be disastrous.
Sandra Thomas
#72. As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.
Criss Jami
#73. Listen
are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?
Mary Oliver
#74. And then my editor really likes that because he's left alone to do what ... to create those things instead of me breathing over his shoulder and I like it because I don't have to sit in the editing room all day. I get to watch just dailies.
Nicholas Stoller
#75. But the way of practice is just to be concentrated on your breathing with the right posture and with great, pure effort.
Shunryu Suzuki
#76. This world is dark and it's so hard to breathe ... but in this instant, when I laughed along with you, I felt that breathing just got a little easier.
-Kanda Yuu
Katsura Hoshino
#77. He was, like everyone of a strongly erotic disposition, twice as good, twice as much himself when he knew that women liked him, just as many actors find their most ardent vein when they sense that they have cast their spell over the audience, the breathing mass of spectators before them.
Stefan Zweig
#78. It's a morbid observation, but if every one on earth just stopped breathing for an hour, the greenhouse effect would no longer be a problem.
Jerry Adler
#79. I wish to stay drenched
forever
in those rain-blue eyes
in those...soul-reaching crystals
not moving a muscle
nor breathing
just
savoring
this turquoise ache
against my heart.
Sanober Khan
#80. Roaming is the easiest part, just wandering around, looking the places, imagining how people lived there at that time, breathing deeply the open air around there and feeling the best.
Shaikh Ashraf
#81. And she was terribly aware that she was alive. Not just living and breathing, but ... alive.
Mary Balogh
#82. His mouth was soft and unhurried. Teasing, even. His tongue just brushed hers and making her tremble. She kissed back, tasting him, breathing him in. Julie was dizzy and shaky and inundated with his heat.
Jessica Park
#83. 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
#84. As we see more and more people online, it can get difficult to remember that behind every text message, OkCupid profile, and Tinder picture there's an actual living, breathing, complex person, just like you.
Aziz Ansari
#85. When I write I am not just creating a story, but I am breathing life into each character.
S.R. Mitchell
#86. If I had learned anything by hanging out with her and her friends, it was that once you got up close to people, you realized that everyone - no matter how popular he or she might be - was just a living, breathing human being ...
Robin Palmer
#87. A company is an organic, living, breathing thing, not just an income sheet and balance sheet. You have to lead it with that in mind.
Carly Fiorina
#88. I have just awoken, having dreamed of music. The final chord fades away within me while I try to focus on individuals amid the living, breathing mass packed into this vast waiting room, in this mixture of sleep and weariness.
Andrei Makine
#89. Not just beautiful, though
the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me.
Haruki Murakami
#90. To stay alive, we just need to move on. Even breathing is one step to move on.
Cindy Pricilla
#91. It's not getting from A to B. It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between ... This train is alive with things that should be seen and heard. It's a living, breathing something
you just have to want to learn its rhythm.
David Baldacci
#92. My greatest fear? I'll just stop breathing one day. My next greatest fear? That I no longer care.
Katherine Owen
#93. What Alex and I shared was preternaturally right. I couldn't give him up no more than I could give up breathing. Did that mean that I loved Charlie any less? No. It just meant I couldn't be with him.
Tammy Blackwell
#94. I'm so sorry to disappoint you," she said, breathing hard. "But it would take far more than that to scare me."
A quick flex of his arms, and their bodies collided. And he whispered, just as his mouth fell on hers, "God, I was hoping you'd say that.
Tessa Dare
#95. This place is crazy, B. You'll develop testicles just by breathing the air here.
L.J. Shen
#96. Sometimes you can lock the doors and close the blinds, but the monsters are still there inside your house, sleeping and breathing and just waiting to wake up and terrorize you all over again.
Travis Thrasher
#97. Remember yourself. Deep inside, you have an observer, a constant neutral witness to your posture, gesture, facial expression, breathing, taste, impressions of light and sound. Don't leap to interpret. Just be there and observe.
Jonathan Price
#98. The deep breathe you just took to show that your problems are bigger than you, is the final breathe someone had taken right now in his life! As long as your breathe is not the final one, you still have a hope!
Israelmore Ayivor
#99. Life's not just a matter of breathing, it's a matter of being.
Pierce Brown
#100. Mac: "Mmm-hmmm." She shoved away the sheets tangled between their bodies and moved to straddle his lap. "Maybe it's time I drove YOU crazy."
Will: "Baby, you drive me crazy just by breathing.
Elle Kennedy
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