Top 100 To Breathe Quotes
#1. You speak to me in riddles, you speak to me in rhymes, my body aches to breathe your breath, your word keeps me alive.
Sarah McLachlan
#2. Still, we've attempted to argue when necessary; you've got to be able to let loose and even lose your temper a bit if you're finding it hard to breathe. Closeness has to be like running water; it mustn't stagnate and sour.
Oddny Eir
#3. He returned her love. He lusted after her sweet young body. He wanted her the way he wanted to breathe the spring air.
He had never loved anyone before. He had not known even what this feeling for his tiny slave was.
Now in the crisp, clear spring sunlight, he knew.
Andrew M. Greeley
#4. I believe in the healing power of laughter. I believe laughter forces us to breathe.
Brene Brown
#5. He wanted to dip his head and press featherlight kisses there.Wanted to breathe her in.
Robin Bielman
#6. You are the breath I need to breathe. I live for you, Alexis. Without you, I am nothing." - Jackson Cole
Sarah Curtis
#7. The minute you see him, your hand will throb, your heart will pound out of your chest, and you won't be able to breathe.
Jordan Deen
#9. 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
#10. It was as if you could see into the sky, through it's layers and into it's core. Layers of stars, translucent blanket upon blanket. The beauty was overwhelming. The wind blew her hair, and she willed herself to stop, to breathe, to feel.
Deborah Rodriguez
#11. Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.
Dionysius Lardner
#13. 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
#14. I felt like putting a bullet between the
eyes of every Panda that wouldn't screw to save its
species. I wanted to open the dump valves on oil tankers
and smother all the French beaches I'd never see. I wanted
to breathe smoke.
Chuck Palahniuk
#15. She sagged against the wall, finding it hard to breathe. It wasn't from fear. Gods, she hadn't been that turned on in years. If that was her punishment, she was going to be lippy a little more often
Lia Davis
#16. To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#17. I want to figure out how people can go on with their lives when mine has changed so much. I want to relearn how to breathe without carrying this big, empty cave inside me.
Edwidge Danticat
#19. I'm scared of snakebites - that's the origin of cowboy boots, protection - but my toes need to breathe.
Gavin McInnes
#20. It's just a mild disagreement, Papa. Remi has this whole need to breathe in and out, which annoys me. If he would just stop breathing, I'd be fine. (Aimee)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#21. Sometimes life takes you into a dark place where you feel it's impossible to breathe. You think you've been buried, but don't give up, because if truth be told, you've actually been planted.
Karen Gibbs
#22. He kisses me, his lips finding mine, and I don't need to breathe anymore. His mouth on mine is all I need. His hands holding me tight is all I need. Just him. He is everything.
Callie Hart
#23. High performance leaders know they have to breathe out when they are coming up for air.
Andy Hargreaves
#24. He just watched the way Finnikin's hands rested on Evanjalin's neck and he rubbed his thumb along her jaw and the way his tongue seemed to disappear inside her mouth as if he needed a part of her to breathe himself.
Melina Marchetta
#25. I had no idea how to live a day without her next to me. How to breathe without her by my side.
Tillie Cole
#26. Every night I drown and every morning I wake up struggling to breathe.
Carrie Ryan
#27. We did not dare to breathe a prayer,
Or give our anguish scope.
Something was dead within each of us,
And what was dead was Hope.
Oscar Wilde
#28. The politics of wizardry were either very simple, and resolved by someone ceasing to breathe, or as complex as one ball of yarn in a room with three bright-eyed little kittens.
Terry Pratchett
#29. She threw open the window to breathe in the spring air, heavy with the sweet perfume of roses and heather. To her right was the rolling glen beckoning her to come and walk. 'Sit here awhile and dream your thoughts on this flat rock.' How often had she done that?
Karen Ranney
#30. I grab her arms and pull her toward me. Now she has her arms wrapped around my waist and we're chest to chest. She's laughing and I almost want to laugh with her. For a second it feels real and okay. The knot in my gut loosens and I'm not scared to breathe.
Nyrae Dawn
#31. 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
#33. I need to breathe again." Each word vibrated as though torn from his very soul. They wrapped around her with their thorny edges and cut in deep. "I need to feel what it's like not to be dying inside." The tip of his nose grazed the side of her face lightly, barely even a whisper. "I need you.
Airicka Phoenix
#34. Conrad calling me again - that was enough to make me forget how to breathe.
Jenny Han
#35. Don't you want to touch me? I whispered.
More than I want to breathe.
Nina Lane
#36. I when you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe then you will be successful
Eric Thomas
#37. That was when I forgot how to breathe altogether.
Robin Talley
#38. Creating is the means to breathe life into something that never was, could have been, or someday might be.
L.M. Fields
#39. Real love is sometimes painful. It isn't just the highest of the high - it's also the lowest of the low. It's being on that bottom rung, holding on with half a finger as you struggle to breathe through the pain.
Ella Fox
#40. 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
#41. To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge.
Albert Camus
#42. Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.
Stephen King
#43. If you had an equation detailing the probability of something emerging from a vacuum, you would still have to ask why that equation applies. Hawking had, in fact, noted the need for a creative factor to breathe fire into the equations.
Antony Flew
#44. It is not uncommon for someone to be a self-saboteur and compound that by also having a victim mentality. It is as though they are holding their own breath and then blaming others for their inability to breathe. If they can break free from this cycle, everything in their life changes for the better.
Steve Maraboli
#45. What counts is to be in the world, the posture is immaterial, so long as one is on earth. To breathe is all that is required.
Samuel Beckett
#46. So I ask you, can you walk a mile? Every day, rain or shine, pain or gain, because you know you have to just to stay alive, just to breathe. Can you walk that mile?
Bella Andre
#47. I've got a magic charm
That I keep up my sleeve,
I can walk the ocean floor
And never have to breathe.
Maya Angelou
#48. Crimes, sins, nightmares, hunks of hair: it was surprising how many of them has something to dispose of. The more I charged, the easier it was for them to breathe freely once more.
Tama Janowitz
#49. Will God or someone give me the power to breathe my sigh into my canvases, the sigh of prayer and sadness, the prayer of salvation, of rebirth?
Marc Chagall
#50. You don't always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens.
Mandy Hale
#51. Every now and then, if I allow my mental focus to slip, I catch myself looking at her face and forgetting how to breathe. I guess these things take time to fade completely.
Melissa Keil
#52. I love to breathe. Oxygen is sexy!
Kris Carr
#53. Look at the newborn baby. It struggles to breathe after living in the womb. And yet, growth comes as a result of struggle. Even when we talk about jihad. We need to attach consciousness to struggle. This struggle has to be both individual and collective.
H. Rap Brown
#54. When the purse strings tighten up at museums, the institutions usually cut back and cancel shows. That's exactly the wrong reaction. In fact, now is a good time for them to loosen up - a chance to breathe and experiment a little - and go for the juicy solution lurking in their own basements.
Jerry Saltz
#55. these small children, listening with eyes wide and in rapt concentration, would one day grow up to need reading, with its accompanying sense of wonder and the feeling of having a film running inside your head, as much as they needed air to breathe.
Nina George
#56. Breathing, n
You had asthma as a child, had to carry around an inhaler. But when you grew older, it went away. You could run for miles and it was fine.
Sometimes I worry that this is happening to me in reverse. The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.
David Levithan
#57. Man is homo religiosus, by 'nature' religious: as much as he needs food to eat or air to breathe, he needs a faith for living.
Will Herberg
#58. You don't live because of me. You live because you let me love you. You made the choice to breathe all on your own ... I just helped you find the strength to inhale.
Lisa De Jong
#59. Maybe T-shirts should stick to something obvious, like i'm a girl or 80% water or likely to breathe.
Shannon Hale
#60. Doubt we were very foolish, but danger seemed to be all round, and there was nobody we knew to trust in, and all was strange and uncertain. The fresh air that had come in through the open door made it easier to breathe, but the rushing sound overhead grew louder, and as I looked
Anna Sewell
#62. You go to the gym to make sure you have the stamina to breathe in the corsets.
Sondra Radvanovsky
#64. My whole body felt weak and hollow, like in one moment it might forget how to move, how to stand, how to breathe.
Aryn Kyle
#65. I just ... knew, the way you know how to breathe or to pull your hand back from a hot stove.
Lilith Saintcrow
#66. Mikki: 'I need you to do something for me.'
Crush: 'I'll do anything for you. What do you need?'
Mikki: 'I need you to teach me how to breathe when you're gone.'
Crush: 'That's a lesson I hope you never have to learn.
Cassia Leo
#67. You have to want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe!
Eric Thomas
#68. My feelings for Drew couldn't just disappear. They were ingrained within every fiber of my being, and I needed them just the same as I needed air to breathe.
Michelle Madow
#69. If you want to succeed as much as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful.
Shanalia Brown
#70. I need to feel strongly, to love and admire, just as desperately as I need to breathe.
Jean-Dominique Bauby
#71. When it comes, you'll be dreaming that you don't need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it's part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
Wislawa Szymborska
#72. You make the rest of the beautiful things in the world cry for even trying at all. You make it hard for me to breathe.
Debra Anastasia
#73. The concrete floor beneath the airbed was hard and uncompromising, digging into her back and making it difficult to breathe. The stale air reeked of disinfectant and shit. And something else that she couldn't quite place. Death, perhaps?
Mark Tilbury
#74. I never personalize anything because I think that can be dangerous. For me, the best way is - this may sound pretentious - but it's to breathe the character and get into the psychology of it.
Imogen Poots
#75. In every seed to breathe a flower, In every drop of dew To reverence a cloister star Within the distant blue; To wait the promise of the how, Despite the cloud between, Is Faith-the fervid evidence Of loneliness unseen.
John B. Tabb
#76. In the balance of love and loss, it was love that made me struggle to ... Breathe.
Rebecca Donovan
#77. Much of the secret of life consists in knowing how to laugh, and also how to breathe.
Alan W. Watts
#78. I must create the world in order to breathe in the world; I don't exist unless I create.
Mariko Mori
#79. It's a hard emotion to explain - what it feels like to fake every single moment of your life. To breathe but to not exist. To smile but to not be happy. To nod and agree but to not really care.
Jay McLean
#80. The air of England is too pure for a slave to breathe, and so everyone who breathes it becomes free. Everyone who comes to this island is entitled to the protection of English law, whatever oppression he may have suffered and whatever may be the colour of his skin.
William Murray, 1st Earl Of Mansfield
#81. Moments like this, with Colton? They make it all bearable. He doesn't fix me, doesn't heal me. He just makes life worthwhile. He helps me remember to breathe.
Jasinda Wilder
#82. There aren't enough doctors in Africa. Those who choose to become doctors here don't do it for the money or because they want to do good. They do it because they have to heal, the way most people need to breathe or eat or love.
Alexandra Fuller
#83. Then, she began to breathe, and live, and every moment took her to a place where goodbyes were hard to come by. she was in love, but not in love with someone or something, she was in love with her life. and for the first time, in a long time, everything was inspiring.
Anonymous
#84. The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their existence. For we cannot suppose that some men have a right to be in this world, and others no right.
Henry George
#85. Haven't you ever wanted something so bad that it becomes more than a want? I need to get out of this town. I need it like I need to breathe.
Alwyn Hamilton
#86. When I was seven, I'd asked my dad why he'd never remarried. He'd gotten a faraway look in his eyes and told me that once you found your reason to breathe, no one else could pass muster.
Harper Bentley
#87. don't you see how
hard speaking is for me?
how hard
breathing is?
don't you see that
I'm a negative space
cut from the
universe and
when you ask
me to breathe
i am trying to
will myself
into
being?
Darshana Suresh
#88. No one thinks much about their ability to breathe; they just do it. It's when a person can't breathe, that they suddenly realize they'd been doing something truly marvelous all along.
Susan Meissner
#89. Learning to breathe fire isn't nearly as extraordinary as learning to breathe a word of kindness.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#90. Out on the street I start to run; I need to breathe in this life, the trees, the warmth of my town. I will be able to control my own fate and I will know how to be happy. Happiness is something you lay siege to, it is a battle ...
Shan Sa
#91. It's a very old word, it means 'to breathe into.' That's how it works: An angel breathes into men and shows us what to play, what to draw. How to find the truth of who we are and why we are here.
Jon Steele
#92. There had been times when missing him had felt like someone had reached inside her and pulled out the part of her that remembered how to breathe. And times when she'd barely given the memories of him a second's worth of her time.
Megan Hart
#93. When you want this thing as bad as you want to breathe! That's when you find a way!
Eric Thomas
#94. 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
#95. Oh, aging is ruddy unbearable! The I's we were yearn to breathe the world's air again, but can they ever break out from these calcified cocoons?
David Mitchell
#96. It was the continuance of things that crushed her already broken heart. The gears of the world turning on while she lived with his absence like a black tumor in her chest, the grief so potent she could barely bring herself to breathe.
Blake Crouch
#97. You told me, once, to just remember to breathe. As long as you can do that, you're doing something good.
Emma Hooper
#99. You are the window I open when it's hard to breathe.
Minhal Mehdi
#100. 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
