Lungs Quotes - Page 2

• It's very difficult to play when your lung comes out of your air

  Paul Merson

  Air, Play, Difficult

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• Raindrops are beating, a large puddle is forming, there on the balcony. It all floats in Emptiness, in purest Transparency, with no one here to watch it. If there is an I, it is all that is arising, right now and right now and right now. My lungs are the sky; those mountains are my teeth; the clouds are my skin; the thunder is my heart beating time to the timeless; the rain itself, the tears of our collective estate, here where nothing is really happening.

  Ken Wilber

  Rain, Heart, Sky

  Ken Wilber (2000). “One Taste”, p.151, Shambhala Publications

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• Whatever difficulty you face, there are time-tried ways you can listen your way through. Because listening is the doorway to everything that matters. It enlivens the heart the way breathing enlivens the lungs. We listen to awaken our heart. We do this to stay vital and alive.

  Mark Nepo

  Wise, Wisdom, Heart

  Mark Nepo (2012). “Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• Wouldn't it be good to forget everything even if it's just for tonight? Indulge in pleasure... breathe a sweet poison deep into your lungs.

  SebastiAn

  Sweet, Forget Everything, Indulge In

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• My body rises with the water. Instead of kicking my feet to stay abreast of it, I push all the air from my lungs and sink to the bottom. The water muffles my ears. I feel its movement over my face. I think about snorting the water into my lungs so it kills me faster, but I can't bring myself to do it. I blow bubbles from my mouth. Relax. I close my eyes. My lungs burn.

  Veronica Roth

  Eye, Blow, Thinking

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• A government can be compared to our lungs. Our lungs are best when we don't realize they are helping us breathe. It is when we are constantly aware of our lungs that we know they have come down with an illness.

  Laozi

  Government, Politics, Helping

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• Air goes in and out of my nose, throat, lungs, blood, heart brain - and so I am

  Matthew Quick

  Heart, Air, Blood

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• There is no way that the heart-lung machine could have been devised and developed other than through studies on living creatures

  Norman L Browse

  Heart, Animal, Way

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• 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

  Eye, Dark, Fog

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.269

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• Not smoking enough will cause lung cancer! If anybody is getting a cancerous activity in the lung, the probabilities are that it's radiation dosage coupled with the fact that he smokes.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Cancer, Smoking, Causes

  Lecture 35 in Saint Hill Special Briefing Course, July 19, 1961.

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• Lazy breathing converts the lungs, literally and figuratively speaking, into a cemetery for the deposition of diseased, dying and dead germs as well as supplying an ideal haven for the multiplication of other harmful germs.

  Joseph Pilates

  Breathing, Lazy, Dying

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• I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer.

  Iain Glen

  Cancer, Lung Cancer, Knows

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm probably a lot closer than perhaps the contents of my early fiction suggest to a jaded Denny's waitress with smoker's-lung-black humor than a ghost hunter.

  Karen Russell

  Black, Hunters, Fiction

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It hurts to look at the clouds, but it also helps, like most things that cause pain. So I need to run, and as my lungs burn and my back rebels with that stabbing knife feeling and my legs muscles harden and the half inch of loose skin around my waist jiggles, I feel as though my penance for the day is being done and that maybe God will be pleased enough to lend me some help, which I think is why He has been showing me interesting clouds for the past week.

  Matthew Quick

  Running, Hurt, Pain

  Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook”, p.15, Pan Macmillan

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• I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills. But I am here, my legs blocks of concrete, my lungs empty of air, my throat burning. There will be no floating away.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Summer, Block, Night

  Khaled Hosseini (2011). “The Kite Runner: Rejacketed”, p.301, A&C Black

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• we can't afford to do anyone harm because we owe them our lives each breath is recycled from someone else's lungs our enemies are the very air in disguise you can talk a great philosophy but if you can't be kind to people every day it doesn't mean that much to me it's the little things you do the little things you say it's the love you give along the way

  Ani DiFranco

  Philosophy, Love You, Mean

  Song: Looking For The Holes, Album: Not So Soft

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• I don't know when they first had feeds. Like maybe, fifty or a hundred years ago. Before that, they had to use their hands and their eyes. Computers were all outside the body. They carried them around outside of them, in their hands, like if you carried your lungs in a briefcase and opened it to breathe.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  Eye, Hands, Years

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• Birds... scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth. They know the truth. Screaming bloody murder all over the world in our ears, but sadly we don't speak bird.

  Kurt Cobain

  Sad, Nature, Morning

  "Journals". Book by Kurt Cobain, November 2002.

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• For a week, almost without speaking, they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous reflection of luminous insects, and their lungs were overwhelmed by a suffocating smell of blood.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Grief, Reflection, Blood

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, p.16, Penguin UK

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• Down the hall came the wife. She was glorious, burning. She didn't know yet that her husband was dead. We knew. That's what gave her such power over us. The doctor took her into a room with a desk at the end of the hall, and from under the closed door a slab of brilliance radiated as if, by some stupendous process, diamonds were being incinerated in there. What a pair of lungs! She shrieked as I imagined an eagle would shriek. It felt wonderful to be alive to hear it! I've gone looking for that feeling everywhere.

  Denis Johnson

  Husband, Doctors, Doors

  "'What a Pair of Lungs!': Denis Johnson’s Ecstatic American Voice" by Philip Gourevitch, www.newyorker.com. May 27, 2017.

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• Trying to exhaust himself, Vaughan devised an endless almanac of terrifying wounds and insane collisions: The lungs of elderly men punctured by door-handles; the chests of young women impaled on steering-columns; the cheek of handsome youths torn on the chromium latches of quarter-lights. To Vaughan, these wounds formed the key to a new sexuality, born from a perverse technology. The images of these wounds hung in the gallery of his mind, like exhibits in the museum of a slaughterhouse.

  J. G. Ballard

  Technology, Men, Keys

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• I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. There are a lot of medical things that happen. A hip fracture, three different kinds of lung cancer, pneumonia, blood poisoning, and so on.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Cancer, Pneumonia, Blood

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• I have a huge rib cage, which is why I can hold a note out until I'm blue in the face... because I have such a big lung capacity.

  Jessica Simpson

  Blue, Ribs, Faces

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• I want to preach till the last breath in my lungs runs out.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Running, Want, Lasts

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• My dear, dear girl [. . .] we can't turn back the days that have gone. We can't turn life back to the hours when our lungs were sound, our blood hot, our bodies young. We are a flash of fire--a brain, a heart, a spirit. And we are three-cents-worth of lime and iron--which we cannot get back.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Girl, Heart, Iron

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