Breathless Quotes - Page 3

• With surgical insight, Inside Madeline delves into the most complex female territory imaginable and dissects until every honest bone is revealed. Bomer's prose doesn't flinch, doesn't filter-the bravery of these stories left me breathless.

  Alissa Nutting

  Bravery, Territory, Female

  4 Copy quote

• Vain empty words / Of honour, glory and immortal fame, / Can these recall the spirit from its place, / Or re-inspire the breathless clay with life? / What tho' your fame with all its thousand trumpets, / Sound o'er the sepulchres, will that awake / The sleeping dead.

  George Sewell

  Sleep, Inspire, Clay

  George Sewell (1719). “The Tragedy of Sir Walter Raleigh: As it is Acted at the Theatre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields”, p.12

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think I've got it pretty easy compared with somebody who works at a desk nine to five. I'm just working for an hour in the evening. I get a bit breathless, as I have to talk non-stop because of the puppets.

  Nina Conti

  Thinking, Puppets, Nine

  4 Copy quote

• I believe that the main thing in beginning a novel is to feel, not that you can write it, but that it exists on the far side of a gulf, which words can't cross: that it's to be pulled through only in a breathless anguish.

  Virginia Woolf

  Believe, Writing, Sides

  Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann Banks (1977). “A Change of Perspective”, Chatto & Windus

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I love 'Breathless,' and 'Paris, Texas,' and 'Badlands.' I was obsessed with those films in my teens. I remember watching 'Badlands' and being amazed that there were these scenes in which nobody said anything and the silence told the whole story.

  Agyness Deyn

  Texas, Paris, Silence

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A fearful instance of the ill consequences attending upon irascibility - alive, with the qualifications of the dead - dead, with the propensities of the living - an anomaly on the face of the earth - being very calm, yet breathless.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Anomalies, Alive, Earth

  Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.799, Xist Publishing

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• A mouth that has no moisture and no breath
  Breathless mouths may summon;
  I hail the superhuman;
  I call it death-in-life and life-in-death.

  William Butler Yeats

  Greatness, Moisture, Mouths

  "Byzantium" l. 15 (1933)

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Miss Cecily," she gasped, and then her eyes went to Will. She clapped a hand over her mouth, turned, and bolted back into the house. "Oh, dear," said Tessa. "I have that effect on women," Will said. " I probably should have warned you before you agreed to marry me." "I can still change my mind," Tessa said sweetly. "Don't you dare-," he began with a breathless half laugh.

  Cassandra Clare

  Princess, Eye, Hands

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.544, Simon and Schuster

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• What are you doing?" he breathed. "You're going around, stirring up everything." "I've got time on my hands," I shot back, just as breathless, "since I dumped my asshat boyfriend." He growled, fiercely passionate, his hand in my hair pulling so tightly it pained me. "You can't make this up with a kiss or a f*ck, Gideon. Not this time." Gideon & Eva

  Sylvia Day

  Kissing, Hair, Hands

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.496, Penguin

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Morning, Sky, Vivid

  Kenneth Grahame (1908). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.156

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• Whether you approach your dreams on soft feet or in a breathless run, just so long as you acknowledge that your dreams are valuable and worthy of pursuing, then you’ve made it.

  Devon Monk

  Running, Dream, Feet

  4 Copy quote

• Once, when she was six years old, she had fallen from a tree, flat on her stomach. She could still recall that sickening interval before breath came back into her body. Now, as she looked at him, she felt the same way she had felt then, breathless, stunned, nauseated.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Years, Tree, Six Year Olds

  9 Copy quote

• And then we were kissing. My hand let go of the oxygen cart and I reached up for his neck, and he pulled me up by my waist onto my tiptoes. As his parted lips met mine, I started to feel breathless in a new and fascinating way. The space around us evaporated, and for a weird moment I really liked my body, this cancer-ruined thing I'd spent years dragging around suddenly seemed worth the struggle, worth the chest tubes and PICC lines and the ceaseless bodily betrayal of the tumors.

  John Green

  Letting Go, Betrayal, Cancer

  4 Copy quote

• Traditionally, I have responded to the transcendent mystics of all religions. I have always responded with breathless excitement to anyone who has ever said that God does not live in a dogmatic scripture or in a distant throne in the sky, but instead abides very close to us indeed- much closer than we can imagine, breathing right through our own hearts.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Heart, Sky, Breathing

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.14, Bloomsbury Publishing

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• "It's so beautiful!" she said, a little breathless with her speed. "You never saw anything so beautiful! It has come! I thought it had come that other morning, but it was only coming. It is here now! It has come, the Spring!"

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Beautiful, Morning, Spring

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “The Secret Garden”, p.136, Xist Publishing

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• don't make me regret this" I said, breathless. " You haven't regretted me once". He kissed me, and I answered so hungrily I thought my lips would bruise. Patch&Nora ( p. 180)

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Regret, Bruises, Lips

  4 Copy quote

• The scars of your love remind me of us they keep me thinking that we almost had it all the scars of your love they leave me breathless I can't help feeling we could have had it all

  Adele

  Break Up, Thinking, Feelings

  Song: Rolling In The Deep, Album: 21, 2011

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea: Listen! the mighty being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thundereverlastingly.

  William Wordsworth

  Time, Sea, Heaven

  1802 'It is a beauteous evening calm and free', l.1-8 (published 1807).

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Occasionally, very occasionally, say at four o’clock in the afternoon on a wet Sunday, she feels panic-stricken and almost breathless with loneliness. Once or twice she has been known to pick up the phone to check that it isn’t broken. Sometimes she thinks how nice it would be to be woken by a call in the night: ‘get in a taxi now’ or ‘I need to see you, we need to talk’. But at the best of times she feels like a character in a Muriel Spark novel – independent, bookish, sharp-minded, secretly romantic.

  David Nicholls

  Nice, Loneliness, Character

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.106, Hachette UK

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• I turn around from the window and for the first time I see him... It is Richard, smiling at my surprise. I run to him, without thinking what I am doing. I run to the first friendly face that I have seen since Christmas, and in a moment I am in his arms and he is holding me tightly and kissing my face, my closed eyes, my smiling mouth, kissing me till I am breathless and have to pull away from him.

  Philippa Gregory

  Running, Eye, Kissing

  Philippa Gregory (2012). “The Kingmaker's Daughter”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• One night when my longing for her was like a fire burning out of control in my heart and my head, I wrote her a letter that just seemed to go on and on. I poured out my whole heart in it, never looking back to see what I'd said because I was afraid cowardice would make me stop. I didn't stop, and when a voice in my head clamored that it would be madness to mail such a letter, that I would be giving her my naked heart to hold in her hand, I ignored it with a child's breathless disregard of the consequences.

  Stephen King

  Love, Dream, Children

  13 Copy quote

• Just that, is one of those uncommon moments, those times when you don't wish for something else, for even one thing to be different; when you have no other needs or worries, where your insides are calm, and everything you were ever restless about, anything that had ever given you angst, is quieted to stillness. No steel ball in your chest, no breathless fear. No blue numbness of nearly passing out, no nagging doubts of the backstage mind. All of that, forgotten. It is just rightness, so rare.

  Deb Caletti

  Blue, Numbness, Worry

  17 Copy quote

• Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will be in breathless pursuit.

  Robert Breault

  Kids, Expectations, Parent

  9 Copy quote

• For a moment his eyes locked onto me with an intensity that left me breathless.

  Richelle Mead

  Eye, Moments, Intensity

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.165, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I pu my finger to her lips. "You have to hush a minute so that I can tell you something." "What?" she says, bites my finger. I look at her. "I love you." She gets quiet, the kind of quiet that sinks into her, softens her. "Well that works out," she finally says, her voice deeper and breathless, her eyes moist, "because I love you too." She turns, leans against my arm, and settles into me.

  Brad Barkley

  Love You, Eye, Voice

  5 Copy quote