Breathless Quotes

• Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.

  Rupert Brooke

  Summer, Nature, Laughter

  Cambridge Review 8 Dec. 1910, "Sonnet"

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• Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Happiness, Patience, Time

  Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”

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• New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights.

  Hamilton Wright Mabie

  New Year, New Beginnings, Men

  Hamilton Wright Mabie (1893). “My Study Fire”

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• The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration.

  William Wordsworth

  Time, Quiet, Holy

  "It Is a Beauteous Evening" l. 1 (1807)

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• When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Dream, Dark, Silence

  Wislawa Szymborska, Stanisław Barańczak, Clare Cavanagh (2000). “Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.

  William Faulkner

  Fun, Grief, Statistics

  If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem "The Wild Palms" (1939)

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• People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.

  Weegee

  Photography, People, Waiting

  Weegee (1975). “Naked city”, Da Capo Pr

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• A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Leadership, Inspiration, Elements

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• All Heaven and Earth are still, though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most.

  Lord Byron

  Sleep, Silence, Heaven

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.76, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark.

  Anthony Trollope

  Girl, Eye, Dark

  Anthony Trollope (1862). “Orley farm”, p.141

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• There must be always remaining in every life, some place for the singing of angels, some place for that which in itself is breathless and beautiful.

  Howard Thurman

  Beautiful, Angel, Singing

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• In these days when science is clearly in the saddle and when our knowledge of disease is advancing at a breathless pace, we are apt to forget that not all can ride and that he also serves who waits and who applies what the horseman discovers.

  Harvey Cushing

  Waiting, Pace, Disease

  Harvey Cushing (1940). “Consecratio Medici: And Other Papers”

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• Being afraid is the worst sin there is.

  Jean-Paul Belmondo

  Fear, Sin, Worst

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• Life, for the most part, inevitably becomes routine, the random confluence of timing and fortune that configures its components all but forgotten. But every so often, I catch a glimpse of my life out of the corner of my eye, and am rendered breathless by it.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Eye, Glimpse, Routine

  Jonathan Tropper (2011). “Everything Changes”, p.9, Hachette UK

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• There is something about her eyes. Eyes don't breathe. I know that much. But hers look breathless.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Eye, Looks, Breathe

  Mary E. Pearson (2014). “The Jenna Fox Chronicles”, p.19, Macmillan

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• You are the promised kiss of springtime that makes the lonely winter seem long. You are the breathless hush of evening that trembles on the brink of a lovely song.

  Frank Sinatra

  Romantic, Song, Lonely

  Song: All The Things You Are

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• Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views become more extensive.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Tired, Climbing, Views

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• Is it a fact-or have I dreamt it-that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Dream, Mean, Science

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography”, p.515, e-artnow

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• When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Should Have, Should

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• What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal... and then die.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Ambition, Immortal, Dies

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• PROCTOR, his mind wild, breathless: I say--I say--God is dead!

  Arthur Miller

  Mind, God Is Dead

  Arthur Miller (2015). “Miller Plays: 1: All My Sons; Death of a Salesman; The Crucible; A Memory of Two Mondays; A View from the Bridge”, p.311, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Like a soldier back from battle you fill my vision. You're a flood, a baptism I'd forgotten, and the force of you leaves me breathless.

  Julie Berry

  Love, Baptism, Soldier

  Julie Berry (2013). “All the Truth That's In Me”, p.67, Penguin

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• Breathless and unharmed, we emerge from the mazes of metaphysics and psychology where man and the soul are playing hide-and-seek.

  Ameen Rihani

  Men, Psychology, Soul

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• Why is life speeded up so? Why are things so terribly, unbearably precious that you can't enjoy them but can only wait breathless in dread of their going?

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Life, Waiting, Enjoy

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1973). “Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead”

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• Sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Strong, America, Unions

  "The Building of the Ship" l. 378 (1849)

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