Breathing Quotes - Page 35

• there does seem to me something sad in life. It is hard to say what it is. I don't mean the sorrow that we all know, like illness and poverty and death. No, it is something different. It is there, deep down, deep down, part of one, like one's breathing.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Sadness, Mean, Sorrow

  Katherine Mansfield (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)”, p.420, Delphi Classics

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• How agreeable to watch, from the other side of the high stile, this mighty creature, this fat bull of Bashan, snorting, champing, pawing the earth, lashing the tail, breathing defiance at heaven and at me ... his heart hot with hate, unable to climb a stile.

  Rose Macaulay

  Hate, Heart, Heaven

  Rose Macaulay (2011). “Personal Pleasures”, p.42, A&C Black

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• If I should die, think only this of me:
  That there's some corner of a foreign field
  That is forever England. There shall be
  In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
  A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
  Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
  A body of England's, breathing English air,
  Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

  Rupert Brooke

  Flower, Book, Home

  'The Soldier' (1914)

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• There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels from every province of her empire.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Nature, Essence, Mind

  Thomas Carlyle, Jane Welsh Carlyle (1909). “The Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh”

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• The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to; but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species of moral ipecacuanha, enough to destroy any comfort.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Vulgarity Is, Comfort, Moral

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• The whole environment out there is a living, breathing almost conscious being that is saying something to us human beings. The forests can't act but they can inspire us and they inspire people like myself and money others in the conservation movement to act on their behalf.

  Ian Cohen

  People, Inspire, Movement

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• This is the fear: death will come and we have not lived yet. We are just preparing to live. Nothing is ready; life has not happened. We have not known the ecstasy which life is; we have not known the bliss life is; we have not known anything. We have just been breathing in and out. We have been just existing. Life has been just a hope and death is coming near. And if life has not yet happened and death happens before it, of course, obviously, we will be afraid because we would not like to die.

  Rajneesh

  Death, Life Is, Bliss

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• The true man breathes with his heels.

  Zhuangzi

  Life, Men, Breathe

  Zhuangzi, Burton Watson, Columbia College (Columbia University) (1968). “The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu”, p.78, Columbia University Press

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• Pranayama is the practice of breath control. The word prana refers not only to breath, but also to air and life itself.

  Christy Turlington

  Life, Air, Practice

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• Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not just lustful petting but transcendental metamorphosis when you became aware that the greatness of this being was breathing into you. Licking the sides and corners of your mouth, like sealing a thousand fleshy envelopes filled with the essence of your passionate being and then opened by the same mouth and delivered back to you, over and over again - the first kiss of the rest of your life.

  Saul Williams

  Love, Life, Romantic

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• Mark the babe not long accustomed to this breathing world; One that hath barely learned to shape a smile, though yet irrational of soul, to grasp with tiny finger - to let fall a tear; And, as the heavy cloud of sleep dissolves, To stretch his limbs, becoming, as might seem. The outward functions of intelligent man.

  William Wordsworth

  Baby, Fall, Sleep

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.491

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• But you learn to smother the living breathing soul, go deaf to it, and this violence to the self is what is commonly called sanity in the places where I have lived.

  Philip O Ceallaigh

  Depression, Self, Soul

  Philip Ó Ceallaigh (2006). “Notes from a Turkish Whorehouse”

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• Life is a moving, breathing thing. We have to be willing to constantly evolve. Perfection is constant transformation.

  Nia Peeples

  Moving, Perfection, Transformation

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• Calligraphy may well be simply an artistic version of another form, that is the ideograms which make up the poem, but then not only does it reflect the character and temperament of the artist but . . . also betrays his heart rate, his breathing.

  Sijie Dai

  Heart, Character, Artist

  Dai Sijie (2009). “Once on a Moonless Night”, p.17, Random House

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• I’d rather protect a living, breathing person I can touch than some shogun above the clouds I’ll never see.

  Hijikata Toshizo

  Clouds, Shoguns, Protect

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• I had to keep breathing. Even though there was no reason to hope... I stayed alive. I kept breathing. And one day my logic was proven all wrong because the tide came in, and gave me a sail. And now, here I am. Im back... Because now i know what I have to do now. I have to keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?

  Tom Hanks

  Here I Am, One Day, Alive

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• I remember nothing of this, no ambulance rides, nothing. Nothing between switching out the bedside lamp and the sudden indignity of rebirth: the slaps, the brightness, the tubing, the speed, the urgent insistence that I be choked back into breathing life. I have felt so sorry for babies ever since.

  Stephen Fry

  Baby, Sorry, Breathing Life

  Stephen Fry (1997). “Moab is My Washpot”, Random House (UK)

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• To me, working out is literally like eating a meal or drinking water or breathing.

  Hilary Swank

  Drinking, Work Out, Water

  "Hilary Swank Is Ready for Takeoff". Interview with Joanna Coles, www.marieclaire.com. October 7, 2009.

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• When you're pushed killing is as easy as breathing.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Rambo, Killing, Easy

  "Fictional character: John Rambo". "Rambo IV", www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• We need to make sure that the powers that be know that arts education is as vital and as important as geography and arithmetic. You know, it is a part of the spiritual and the soulful experience and expression of being human and it is a necessity, as necessary as water, as breathing air.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Spiritual, Art, Air

  "Art (Education) Talk with Rosie O'Donnell" by Paulette Beete, www.arts.gov. June 30, 2014.

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• Seize the day. Because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die.

  Robin Williams

  Believe, Carpe Diem, Dead Poets Society

  "Apple Ad Features Robin Williams’ 'Dead Poets Society' Speech" by Michelle Jones, www.valuewalk.com. August 12, 2014.

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• John Hall, my geography teacher at school inspired me to a lifelong interest in geography and a curiosity about our world which has stayed with me through my life. Geography is a living, breathing subject, constantly adapting itself to change. It is dynamic and relevant. For me geography is a great adventure with a purpose.

  Michael Palin

  Teacher, School, Adventure

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• For a moment the feeling crept over me that my work, my vision, is going to destroy me, and for a fleeting moment I let myself take a long, hard look at myself, something I would not otherwise do--out of instinct, on principle, out of self-preservation--look at myself with objective curiosity to see whether my vision has not destroyed me already. I found it comforting to note that I was still breathing.

  Werner Herzog

  Self, Long, Feelings

  Werner Herzog (2009). “Conquest of the useless: reflections from the making of Fitzcarraldo”, Ecco Pr

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• Everyone was laughin'. Even that deaf mute boy was breathing heavy and pointing at me. Which is laughter to their kind.

  Dave Attell

  Funny, Laughter, Humor

  "Skanks for the Memories". Comedy Album, 2003.

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• I'm the No. 1 living and breathing rock star. I am Axl Rose; I am Jim Morrison; I am Jimi Hendrix.

  Kanye West

  Stars, Rocks, Rose

  "Kanye West, the Transformer, on his New Album Yeezus and Kim Kardashian" by Christopher Bagley, www.wmagazine.com. June 19, 2013.

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