Breathing Space Quotes

• To understand one's world, one must sometimes turn away from it! To serve better, one must briefly hold it at a distance. Where can the necessary solitude be found, the long breathing space in which mind gathers its strength and takes stock of its courage.

  Albert Camus

  Distance, Long, Solitude

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• What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

  John Updike

  Teacher, Appreciation, Art

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• We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect.

  Sissela Bok

  Giving, Childhood, Experts

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• Words become meaningless, the mind cuts itself off from reality for a little while, a necessary breathing space until one is ready to cope.

  Jack Higgins

  Cutting, Reality, Mind

  Jack Higgins (2016). “The Liam Devlin Novels: The Eagle Has Landed, Touch the Devil, and Confessional”, p.18, Open Road Media

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• It is not possible to control the outside of yourself until you have mastered your breathing space. It is not possible to change anything until you understand the substance you wish to change.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Space, Breathing, Wish

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, p.141, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• All she wanted was a breathing space in which to hurt.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Hurt, Wanted, Breathing

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone With The Wind: American Literature”, p.999, 谷月社

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• A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis. The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.

  John Berger

  Arches, Cigarette, Dialogue

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• Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

  Arthur Koestler

  Mean, History, Politics

  Arthur Koestler (2015). “Darkness at Noon”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is a breathing-space between two eternities, a holiday with appalling realities behind and before.

  Louise Imogen Guiney

  Life, Holiday, Reality

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• In the future, I will make certain that I commit to projects so there's enough breathing space for me to have an emotional life.

  Twyla Tharp

  Emotional, Enough, Projects

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• That's the purpose of old age... To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did what we did.

  Colleen McCullough

  Giving, Age, Purpose

  Colleen McCullough (2013). “The Thorn Birds”, p.601, Head of Zeus

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• I like the work hanging free in the frame. I don't like too much frame around it but I like a little breathing space around the piece.

  Robert Barry

  Pieces, Littles, Too Much

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• The cry of the Have-Nots has never been "give us our hearts," but always "get off our backs"; they ask not for love but for breathing space.

  Saul Alinsky

  Heart, Space, Breathing

  "Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals". Book by Saul Alinsky (p. 19), 1971.

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• There is a movement happening, a quiet one. A low-profile, low-resolution revolution. Comprised of writers and dreamers, of guerrilla artists and thought-ninjas. Those with something to say. They communicate through text inscribed on true public spaces, rather than blogs and forums. Choosing fewer words, even without being bound by 140 character limits. Using ink instead of pixels. Sending messages in living, breathing space. Pens scream louder into the void. Even if permanent ink is not aptly named.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Character, Artist, Space

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• [The public lands represent] in a sense, the breathing space of the nation.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Land, Nations, Breathing

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• Work before eating, rest after eating. Eat not ravenously, filling the mouth gulp after gulp without breathing space.

  Maimonides

  Mouths, Eating, Filling

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• What, really, is wanted from a neighborhood? Convenience, certainly, an absence of major aggravation, to be sure. But perhaps mostof all, ideally, what is wanted is a comfortable background, a breathing space of intermission between the intensities of private life and the calculations of public life.

  Joseph Epstein

  Aggravation, Absence, Convenience

  Joseph Epstein (1979). “Familiar territory: observations on American life”, Oxford University Press

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• The eighteen years he has lived seem but a moment, a breathing space in the long march of humanity. Already he hears death calling. With all his heart he wants to come close to some other human, touch someone with his hands, be touched by the hand of another.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Heart, Hands, Years

  Sherwood Anderson (1995). “Winesburg, Ohio”, p.145, Courier Corporation

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• Of men eternally dear! happy indeed
  If you have breathing-space
  From pain: blessed all the more
  If death should heal you of the pain you fear!

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Pain, Ifs, Breathing

  "Leopardi: Poems and Prose".

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• Because of my job, my hair gets played with a lot on set, so I try to give it little bit of breathing space when Im not working.

  Gugu Mbatha-Raw

  Jobs, Space, Hair

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The time in between my clapping is ma. If you just have non-stop action with no breathing space at all, it's just busyness, But if you take a moment, then the tension building in the film can grow into a wider dimension. If you just have constant tension at 80 degrees all the time you just get numb.

  Roger Ebert

  Degrees, Dimensions, Action

  Roger Ebert (2003). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2004”, p.740, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I think her friends were worried that the bulimia might come back, about some psychological slide, and she was given breathing space to some extent by the media as much as she ever has been.

  Anthony Holden

  Thinking, Media, Literature

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• The confined air of a metropolis is hurtful to the minds and bodies of those who have never lived out of it. It is impure, stagnant--without breathing-space to allow a larger view of ourselves or others--and gives birth to a puny, sickly, unwholesome, and degenerate race of beings.

  William Hazlitt

  Breathing, Cities, Space

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.524

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