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.
You can give your confession tomorrow, if you find a priest dumb enough to believe, because it only hurts when I breathe.
Tod A— "It Only Hurts When I Breathe", Release (1994)
"There's nothing wrong with the word conspiracy. It just means 'to breathe together'."
janeane garofalo— Majority Report, November 10, 2004 broadcast
A dense film of a conventional surfactant is quite impermeable. On the other hand, a dense film of Janus grains always has some interstices between the grains, and allows for chemical exchange between the two sides; "the skin can breathe". This may possibly be of some practical interest.
pierre-gilles de gennes— "Soft Matter" Nobel lecture (9 December 1991)
You breathe better when you're rich.
fernando pessoa— Original: Respira-se melhor quando se é rico.
— Ibid., p. 95
Batter my heart, three-personed God; for you As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend.
john donne— No. 14, line 1.
In all cultures, it is the task of a religion to close the field of contingency …and to set up havens of the absolute where it is possible to be led from acting to listening, from having to being, from planning to hoping, from judging to forgiving from the finite into the infinite. A society in which such open spaces of eternity do not exist or are only insufficiently developed dies of itself due to lack of air to breathe.
eugen drewermann— Quoted in Matthias Beier, A Violent God-Image. An Introduction to the Work of Eugen Drewermann, p. 276 (2004)
I used to believe there was no light But I found out Oh, life is far too short to fight Lose yourself, let go of your pain Taste the air you breathe and kiss the sky.
kerli kõiv— Butterfly Cry
Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
Gertrude Stein— "Form and Intelligibility," from The Radcliffe Manuscripts (1949); written in 1895 as an undergraduate at Radcliffe College
They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Richard II (c. 1595), Act II, scene 1, line 8.
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— Georges Clemenceau, Clemenceau, The Events of His Life as Told by Himself to His Former Secretary, Jean Martet (1930) as translated by Milton Waldman; Conversation with Jean Martet (18 December 1927), Chapter 11, page 167.
Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
— Gertrude Stein
— First written as an undergraduate at Radcliffe College (1895); "The Radcliffe Manuscripts", Form and Intelligibility (1949)
Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.
Alexander Pope— Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock (1712), Canto II, line 58.
Thoughts that breathe and words that burn.
thomas gray— Thomas Gray, Progress of Poesy, III. 3, line 4; Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 787-90.
breathe soft, ye winds! ye waves, in silence sleep!
john gay— John Gay, To a Lady, Epistle I, line 17.
