Breathe Quotes
From 'The New Colossus', inscribed at the foot of the Statue of Liberty, New York harbour,1883.
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Manners are of more importance than laws. The law can touch us here and there, now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation like that of the air we breathe in.
Edmund Burke— No. 1, p. 172 in The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: A New Edition, v. VIII. London: F. C. and J. Rivington, 1815.
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love … then make that day count!
steve maraboli— p. 144 (Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010))
We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives.
Christopher Charles Herbert Lehmann-Haupt— 1984 On Peter Brooks Reading for thePlot (1984). In the NewYork Times,11 Jul.
The bird of truth would not be able to fly if it weren't for the air of lies we breathe.
eugene j. martin— from E.J. Martin's website at [3]
Bright-eyed Fancy, hov'ring o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe and words that burn.
thomas gray— III. 3, Line 2.
Making money out of paper, making paper out of trees We’re making so much money we can hardly breathe
todd snider— "Stuck on a Corner" (2008)
“We are able to breathe, drink, and eat in comfort because millions of organisms and hundreds of processes are operating to maintain a liveable environment, but we tend to take nature's services for granted because we don't pay money for most of them.”
— Eugene Odum (1975) A Bridge Between Science and Society as cited in: Edward Goldsmith (2002) "Ecology – a bridge"
But I have lived, and have not lived in vain: My mind may loose its force, my blood its fire, And my frame perish even in conquering pain; But there is that within me which shall tire Torture and Time, and breathe when I expire. Something unearthly, which they deem not of, Like the remembered tone of a mute lyre, Shall on their softened spirits sink, and move In hearts all rocky now the late remorse of love.
Rochdale— 1812-18 Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto 4, stanza137.
The advantage of pure, and the disadvantage of impure air are experienced each time we breathe, and all who understand the causes of disease know that an impure atmosphere is most unfavourable to the enjoyment of health, and an efficient cause to shorten human existence within the natural life of man. It is therefore most desirable that decisive measures should be devised and generally adopted to ensure to all a pure atmosphere, in which to live during their lives.
Robert Owen— 3rd Part (The Book of the New Moral World (1836-1844))
I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth, And sounds as if it should be writ on satin, With syllables which breathe of the sweet South, And gentle liquids gliding all so pat in, That not a single accent seems uncouth, Like our harsh northern whistling, grunting guttural, Which we're obliged to hiss, and spit, and sputter all.
lord byron— Stanza 44 (Beppo (1818))
Instead of the poems I had hoped for, there came only a shuddering blackness and ineffable loneliness; and I saw at last a fearful truth which no one had ever dared to breathe before the unwhisperable secret of secrets The fact that this city of stone and stridor is not a sentient perpetuation of Old New York as London is of Old London and Paris of Old Paris, but that it is in fact quite dead, its sprawling body imperfectly embalmed and infested with queer animate things which have nothing to do with it as it was in life.
h. p. lovecraft— "He" - Written 11 August 1925; first published in Weird Tales, Vol. 8, No. 3 (September 1926)
He bore a simple wild-flower wreath: Narcissus, and the sweet brier rose; Vervain, and flexile thyme, that breathe Rich fragrance; modest heath, that glows With purple bells; the amaranth bright, That no decay, nor fading knows, Like true love's holiest, rarest light; And every purest flower, that blows In that sweet time, which Love most blesses, When spring on summer's confines presses.
thomas love peacock— Rhododaphne, Canto I, line 107.
Anger and tenderness: my selves. And now I can believe they breathe in me as angels, not polarities.
— 1981AWild Patience HasTaken MeThis Far,'Integrity'.
But ’neath yon crimson treeLover to listening maid might breathe his flame,Nor mark, within its roseate canopy,Her blush of maiden shame.
william cullen bryant— Autumn Woods. Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he’s not a man of action. It is as if a tennis player before returning a ball stopped to think about his views of the physical and mental advantages of tennis. You must act as you breathe.
Georges Clemenceau— Conversation with Jean Martet (18 December 1927), Ch. 11, p. 167.
My Mum was Jewish. Maybe I'm a really bad Jew because I'm always so excited to say that I am, but I don't live and breathe the religion.
Stella mcCartney— Glamour magazine
Oh! breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade,Where cold and unhonour'd his relics are laid.
thomas moore— Oh Breathe Not His Name, st. 1.
When we have found how the nucleus of atoms is built up we shall have found the greatest secret of all — except life. We shall have found the basis of everything — of the earth we walk on, of the air we breathe, of the sunshine, of our physical body itself, of everything in the world, however great or however small — except life.
ernest rutherford— As quoted in The Wit and Wisdom of the 20th Century : A Dictionary of Quotations? (1987) by Frank S. Pepper, p. 226
For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause to breathe, And love itself have rest.
lord byron— St. 2 (So, We'll Go No More A-Roving (1817))
See the wretch that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again: The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise.
thomas gray— Line 41. (Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude (1754))
We accepted a definition of ourselves which confined the self to the source and to the limitations of conscious attention. This definition is miserably insufficient, for in fact we know how to grow brains and eyes, ears and fingers, hearts and bones, in just the same way that we know how to walk and breathe, talk and think only we can't put it into words. Words are too slow and too clumsy for describing such things, and conscious attention is too narrow for keeping track of all their details.
alan watts— (page 112) (The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (1966))
Do you realize sufficiently what it means to rule to rule in a secret society? Not only over the lesser or more important of the populace, but over the best of men, over men of all ranks, nations, and religions, to rule without external force, to unite them indissolubly, to breathe one spirit and soul into them, men distributed over all parts of the world?
— Adam Weishaupt, "Greeting to the newly integrated illuminatos dirigentes", in Nachtrag von weitern Originalschriften vol. 2 (1787) p. 45
Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; love more, and all good things will be yours.
— Swedish proverb, in Stepping Stones, p.127
There is a terrorism which threatens security, honour, property and the like; there is a cultural terrorism which tears human identity apart; there is an information terrorism which deprives man of his freedom to breathe in an unpolluted atmosphere. Towards a definition of terrorism.
— Iran says Saudis can curb divisive religious statements, Mehr News Agency, 22 July 2007.
Give a child the habit of sacredly regarding the truth of carefully respecting the property of others of scrupulously abstaining from all acts of improvidence which can involve him in distress, and he will just as likely think of rushing into the element in which he cannot breathe, as of lying or cheating or stealing.
— Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux]], p. 295.
Eye hath not seen it, my gentle boy! Ear hath not heard its deep songs of joy; Dreams cannot picture a world so fair Sorrow and death may not enter there; Time doth not breathe on its fadeless bloom, For beyond the clouds, and beyond the tomb, It is there, it is there, my child!
felicia hemans— Felicia Hemans, The Better Land
By the air which I breathe, and by the water which I drink, I will not endure to be blamed on account of this discourse.
— As reported by Heraclides Ponticus (c. 360 BC), and Diogenes Laërtius, in Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, "Pythagoras", Sect. 6, in the translation of C. D. Yonge (1853)
We're all doomed, you know. The whole, silly, drunken, pathetic lot of us. Doomed by the air we're about to breathe.
— On the Beach (1959), written by John Paxton, based on the 1957 novel by Nevil Shute
