Top 100 Quotes About Lungs
#1. His own personal siren nightmare. What else could it be when his body only sparked alive when it was her.
She made his lungs work, his heart beat.
It was a goddamn disease is what it was.
V. Theia
#2. Here's the problem. I don't know how to live if I'm not loving you. It's like asking my lungs to expand without air, my heart to beat without blood, my eyes to see without light. It's just not possible. And yet, you're so stupid ...
Jewel E. Ann
#3. What lies beneath has pushed its way to the surface once again. Time to get away while there is still air left in our lungs.
Jeyn Roberts
#4. Ester would tell her to dance faster, leap higher, to laugh out loud with all the breath in lungs. That's what the dead would tell the living, if they could - to grab hold of joy whenever it comes.
Claudia Gray
#6. There are those of us who believe that under certain conditions the cruelest thing you can do to people you love is to force them to live. There are those of us who define living not by whether the heart beats and the lungs lift but whether the spirit is there, whether the music box plays.
Anna Quindlen
#7. On fire for the Lord," the Yoes began to talk to their friends about Jesus and even went so far as to name their dog "Repent" so they could stand in the city's parks and shout the canine's name and their message at the top of their lungs.
Larry Eskridge
#8. One good punch from Rube on me would send the sky into my head and the clouds into my lungs. I just always tried to stay up.
Markus Zusak
#9. Wading sloughs of flesh these helpless wander,
Treading blood from lungs that had loved laughter.
Wilfred Owen
#10. What does it feel like? I ask myself. Like cold air in your lungs after too much warm air. Maybe this is how you feel when you find your place in the world.
Tarryn Fisher
#11. My lungs filled deep with the sweet scent that came of his skin. it was like there had never been any hole in my chest. i was perfect- not healed but as if there never had been a wound in the first place.
Stephenie Meyer
#12. Typical human lungs pack in a surface bigger than a tennis court.
James Gleick
#13. You didn't die and go to a better place; this was the better place because you weren't dead. Heaven wasn't in the clouds; it was the air in your lungs.
Dennis Lehane
#14. A horse gallops with his lungs, perseveres with his heart, and wins with his character.
Federico Tesio
#15. Air you breathe is bad for your lungs so you've got to careful and don't overdue any bad air. Too much pot, too much anything is not good. Your lung is a piece of flesh, a piece of bone. You can injure it.
Willie Nelson
#16. Everything about him causes my lungs to fail and my heart to go into overdrive
Colleen Hoover
#17. I thought it was all over. My lungs were filling with water and I began to black out. Then I saw an ancient warrior rise up out of the water. He said we'd make it, and we did. I believe we all have an angel watching us.
Patrick Swayze
#18. I don't really write for fun; it's not an enjoyable experience. For me, art, or whatever the hell it is I do, has always been a refuge from that which makes me want to tear my lungs out. That's why I play like I play; I'm not into entertainment.
Henry Rollins
#19. Snow does not freeze the hands, but like ether distends the lungs until they burst. All the ships are sinking with fire in their bowels, and there are fires hissing in the cellars of every house.
Anais Nin
#20. ...in our own hearts we trust for our salvation, in the men that
surround us, in the sights that fill our eyes, in the sounds
that fill our ears, and in the air that fill our lungs.
Joseph Conrad
#21. If this isn't important, I will rip your throat open and piss down your lungs.
James S.A. Corey
#23. The victims of injustice in our world do not need our spasms of passion; they need our long obedience in the same direction - our legs and lungs of endurance; And we need sturdy stores of joy.
Gary Haugen
#24. The answer is simple. If we lose the world's forests, we lose the fight against climate change. Rainforests are our Earth's greatest utility - our planet's lungs, thermostat and air-conditioning system.
Michael Somare
#25. The Brother's hood fell back, and his silvery hair shone out in the dim chamber like starlight. All the air rushed out of Tessa's lungs in a single instant. The Silent Brother was Jem.
Cassandra Clare
#26. In the cold, all the blood rushes to your core to protect your heart, lungs, kidneys, liver, and brain. When you leave the water, the blood rushes back to your arms and legs, absorbs that freezing cold, and brings it back to the heart.
Lewis Gordon Pugh
#27. Every single time you looked at me, through the corner of your eye and smiled. My heart pushed the ribs with all the force towards my lungs, until it got crushed and I could not breathe anymore.
Akshay Vasu
#28. How carelessly God hummed us whole
with such pronounced holes for lungs.
How hollow we are.
Eugenia Leigh
#29. I never argue with the tape. To be angry at the market because it unexpectedly or even illogically goes against you is like getting mad at your lungs because you have pneumonia.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#30. When we breathe it in, soot can interfere with our lungs and increase the risk of asthma attacks, lung cancer and even premature death. The smallest particles can pass into the blood stream and cause heart disease, stroke and reproductive complications.
Sheldon Whitehouse
#31. Hazel screamed at the top of her lungs, but it was a scream of delight. For the first time in her life-in her two lives-she felt absolutely unstoppable.
Rick Riordan
#32. I only know that you are the breath in my lungs, the beat of my heart, the ache in my soul, and without you, I am empty.
Rachel Gibson
#33. It is a bad sign when a new-born babe has not lungs enough to make itself heard over the whole house. It is equally a bad symptom when the new convert is born dumb, and cannot find his voice to praise God audibly.
Theodore L. Cuyler
#34. Pompeii has nothing to teach us,
we know crack of volcanic fissure,
slow flow of terrible lava,
pressure on heart, lungs, the brain
about to burst its brittle case
(what the skull can endure!)
H.D.
#35. I said - do you want to kill a fucking dragon?" More yells, and more punch behind them this time. Egar eased up out of his crouch and filled his lungs. "I can't hear you! Do you - or do you not - want to kill - a motherfucking dragon?
Richard K. Morgan
#36. It always hurt not to breathe like a normal person, incessantly reminding your lungs to be lungs, forcing yourself to accept as unsolvable the clawing scraping inside-out ache of underoxygenation.
John Green
#37. There are but a few blood purifiers and these are all in the body. We know them as the liver, kidneys, lungs, colon, and a few glands.
Herbert M. Shelton
#38. One time, when I was in a hide in a tree, waiting motionless for game to wander by, I dozed off and fell three metres to the ground, landing on my back. It was as if the impact had knocked every wisp of air from my lungs, and I lay there struggling to inhale, to exhale, to do anything. That
Suzanne Collins
#39. I love you, Tyler. I always have and always will. I can't let you go because you're the only person who can breathe oxygen into my lungs, blood to my beating heart, thoughts into my brain. I live only for you, Tyler. Can't you see that? You were always meant to be mine.
Jaimie Roberts
#40. Jeff's fingers pinched around Eddie's nostrils as he pushed deep into Eddie's throat. There was no way of getting any air into his lungs. No way of moving even.
Eddie had never felt safer in his life.
Total, utter trust.
Josephine Myles
#41. Wisdom without love is like having lungs but no air to breathe. Do not seek wisdom in order to acquire knowledge but in order to live and love more fully.
Adyashanti
#42. Are you all right? No broken bones, no hidden concussions? No fish swimming around in your lungs?"
I smiled at him tiredly. "There might be a minnow or two, but I'm sure I'll cough them up before tomorrow," I said, and he chuckled.
Julie Kagawa
#43. It was a foggy day in London, and the fog was heavy and dark. Animate London, with smarting eyes and irritated lungs, was blinking, wheezing, and choking; inanimate London was a sooty spectre, divided in purpose between being visible and invisible, and so being wholly neither.
Charles Dickens
#44. Tantrums are a noble and time-tested strategy,she said airily. Particularly if you have a good set of lungs and are facing down a crotchety old priest. I know Stewart; he always bends if you make enough noise.
Brandon Sanderson
#45. You have to rip your opponent's lungs out and then move on.
Al Gore
#46. Then it comes. Your lungs suck in air; your body decides for you.
You will live.
You're one breath away from her, then two, then three, then four, then five.
Mom, I am still breathing.
Virginia Bergin
#47. I have the overwhelming urge to pull her up out of her chair and kiss her in front of everyone, then scream my resignation at the top of my lungs.
Colleen Hoover
#49. If producing a regular column is living out loud, then keeping a daily blog is living at the top of your lungs. For a couple of months there, I was shrieking like a banshee.
Ayelet Waldman
#50. I definitely appreciated '60s music. My uncle and I used to take long road trips to visit my grandmother when I was going to NYU. We'd listen to Petula Clark and other 60's music and sing at the top of our lungs the whole time.
Erica Schroeder
#51. There's no rush of having survived, only emptiness, and lungs that need air, and wet hair sticking to my face.
Jennifer Niven
#52. Today I saw my inner planet: a cracked rib, air in the lungs, fatty liver and an open heart.
Jaime Garcia
#53. No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony, and logic. Until the day of my death, I shall proclaim this principle with all the force of my lungs (which alas! is all too inadequate).
Frederic Bastiat
#54. This is a mighty wonder: in the discharge from the lungs alone, which is not particularly dangerous, the patients do not despair of themselves, even although near the last. Concerning Tuberculosis.
Aretaeus Of Cappadocia
#55. Emotions rage inside me, something like a world war twisting inside my stomach and poking holes in my lungs. I can't pick apart reality from fantasy - does that mean insanity isn't far from my reach?
K. Weikel
#56. I would give my lungs to the fish so
that they may rise out of the water
and feel the wind.
A.P. Sweet
#57. We met among tall pines, separate blood, divided by arms and hands and hearts and lungs that all held the same wounds - mine
Anne Valente
#58. That voice didn't have logic on its side, but it didn't need to. It had good lungs and just outscreamed logic.
Stephen King
#59. We felt so small with the city lights stretching forever below us, and we yelled at the top of our lungs because we were just these small humans but we felt more longing than could ever fit inside us.
Nina LaCour
#60. She almost wished she smoked, so she could lie on the car's hood, flick a lighter, and make up names for the constellations while nicotine burned her lungs.
Brigid Kemmerer
#61. It is not only by the pores of the skin that this aqueous emaciation takes place. A considerable quantity of humidity is also exhaled by the lungs at each expiration.
Antoine Lavoisier
#62. Air punched out of my lungs. I held her tight, and I knew right then I would burn down the whole universe for her if I had to. I would do anything to keep her safe. Kill. Heal. Die. Anything. Because she was my everything.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#63. He laughed in exultation as he came upon the house, the rush of his full power better than any human drug, the joy of its unfettered release expanding his heart with every beat, gorging his lungs with every breath.
D.B. Reynolds
#64. You can play the part for so long, wear the mask, say what people expect you to say. Fight for as long as there is air in your lungs. Fly if you have wings. But you can never be free from someone who won't let you go.
Debbie Howells
#65. You can run but you can't hide ... but I can try. I feel air catch in my lungs and I get a cramp in my side and this pain, this wonderful physical pain that I can place, reminds me that after all I am still alive.
Jodi Picoult
#66. Just as it is necessary to breathe out regularly in order to receive fresh air into the lungs, so it is necessary to give regularly if we wish to receive regularly.
Catherine Ponder
#67. I can't truly have stopped breathing while he talked, but broken ceiling fans push air with more purpose than my lungs did.
Heather Cocks
#68. Without purpose and meaning in our lives, we banish ourselves to wander this plane of existence with self-destructive tendencies until the bell tolls and our breath capsizes in our lungs, snatching our chance to redeem ourselves forever.
A.J. Darkholme
#69. Never slouch as doing so compresses the lungs, overcrowds other vital organs, rounds the back, and throws you off balance.
Joseph Pilates
#70. I feel like I'm way down this deep, deep hole and I'm looking up and all there is is this little dot of light and I have to shout at the top of my lungs for anyone to hear me and even when I do, I say the wrong thing or they don't really listen or they're just humouring me.
Patrick Ness
#71. To sing you must first open your mouth. You must have a pair of lungs, and a little knowledge of music. It is not necessary to have an accordion, or a guitar. The essential thing is to want to sing. This then is a song. I am singing.
Henry Miller
#72. When the mind is tired, or the soul is disquieted, let us go to the woods and fill our lungs with the rain-washed and the sun-cleansed air, and our hearts with the beauty of tree, flower, crystal, and gem." The
Elizabeth Gilbert
#73. And his hair was free, no ponytail, no braid, the long thickness of it waved and curled down his back, over his shoulders and next to his face. I felt my lungs start burning. Holy freaking moly ... my husband was hot!
Kristen Ashley
#74. I don't know how to talk about technology in a positive or negative way because it's just the way the world is to me. It seems like talking about the advantages of breathing through holes in our face instead of holes that lead more directly to the lungs.
Chelsea Martin
#75. I didn't really want to come back here and again have to feel like my lungs were drowning in this perverse nostalgia.
John Green
#76. One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.
Maya Angelou
#77. A fire had begun to spread in me. It was burning now in my stomach and my lungs were dry as old leaves, my heart had a herded pressure which gave promise to explode.
Norman Mailer
#78. Peer over the edge
Can you see me?
Rivulets flow from your eyes
Paint runs from your mouth
Like a waterfall
And your lungs crystalize
Owl City
#79. What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#80. And I'm looking through the glass Where the light bends at the cracks And I'm screaming at the top of my lungs Pretending the echoes belong to someone - Someone I used to know.
James K.A. Smith
#81. When the river takes me I don't try to swim or stay afloat. I open my eyes and my mouth and let the water fill me up. I feel my lungs spasm but there's no pain, and I stop being afraid. The current carries me along. I'm flotsam, and I understand that flotsam is all I've ever been.
Hillary Jordan
#82. I let go of the tenuous control I had and scream into the void. Without lungs you can scream forever, and I do.
Tade Thompson
#83. Between the three of us, we have five legs, four eyes & two & a half working pairs of lungs.
John Green
#84. Air goes in and out
of my nose, throat, lungs, blood, heart
brain - and so I am
Matthew Quick
#85. The uncertainty of my own experience is crushing. I am drowning in an infinite sea. Sinking slowly, the weight of the lightless depths forcing me down, forcing the air from my lungs, squeezing the blood from my heart.
Rick Yancey
#86. I should curl up in a ball and cry. Instead i think about everything in the whole entire world that makes me angry - There is a lot, oh, there is a lot - and I start singing Justin Bieber at the top of my lungs.
Kiersten White
#87. She gets that fabulous edge that girls get to their voices, the edge that spells oncoming Tantrum From the Bowels of Hell, that says, 'I'll scratch the heavens down around you and suck the fucken air from your lungs and spit you to fucken hell and you know it.
D.B.C. Pierre
#88. Julian made another effort to breathe. Air. It was all around him, yet he couldn't seem to drag enough into his lungs. He took her hand in his and carried it to the warmth of his mouth.
'We will need to find a safe subject, cara mia, or I will not make it through these next few minutes.
Christine Feehan
#89. Her lungs stung. "I came here to marry a prince," she said nonsensically.
"My dear, in all things but title you already have.
Katharine Ashe
#90. TB is like living with a bomb in your lungs. You just lie around very quietly hoping it won't go off
Sylvia Plath
#91. She's the blood in my veins." He speaks clearly and softly. "She's the air in my lungs." There's a slight pause, and I'm sure I hear William inhale a shocked breath. "She's the bright, hopeful light in my tortured darkness. I'm warning you, Anderson. Don't try to take her away from me.
Jodi Ellen Malpas
#92. Being able to scream at the top of my lungs in front of people is very therapeutic. It is a great gift for me to be able to do that.
Dave Matthews
#93. She screams at the top of her lungs, a sound that turns my blood into fire.
Veronica Roth
#94. Air was filtering out of my two collapsing lungs. Water rose, bubbling to enter, and I would have died of instantaneous pneumonia - something I have never heard of - if my hand had not got hold of a glass ashtray and, entirely apart from my personal decision, flung it.
Grace Paley
#95. Look at his hair. He looks like his father. (Cassandra)
He has your lungs. (Wulf)
Oh, please! (Cassandra)
Trust me. Every Apollite here knows that my parents were unmarried at my birth, and that if you survive the night, you plan on making me a eunuch. (Wulf)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#96. He whispers a benediction and breathes it into the air, spreading his hope for you with a contraction of the lungs.
Mohsin Hamid
#97. You were supposed to be keeping an eye on the place," Donegan said.
"I was," Gracious yawned.
"You were asleep."
"I was resting my eyes."
"You were snoring."
"I was exercising my lungs.
Derek Landy
#98. You were the missing piece of my soul, the breath in my lungs, and the blood in my veins.
J.A. Redmerski
#99. This my personal death? -
That my lungs be failing
To inhale the breath
Others are exhaling?
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#100. I wouldn't just kiss you. I would hold your cheeks and worship your mouth. I would devour your lips and make drunken love to your tongue. I would fucking inhale you, so you would live forever in my lungs ...
Pepper Winters
