Best breaths & laughing Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Test every work of intellect or faith, And everything that your own hands have wrought And call those works extravagance of breath That are not suited for such men as come Proud, open-eyed and laughing to the tomb.”

Men Hands Laughing Proud Tests Breaths Intellect Tombs Extravagance

Book:Selected Poems And Four Plays

Source: Selected Poems And Four Plays

“But now I know that there is no killing A thing like Love, for it laughs at Death. There is no hushing, there is no stilling That which is part of your life and breath. You may bury it deep, and leave behind you The land, the people that knew your slain; It will push the sods from its grave, and find you On wastes of water or desert plain.”

People Knows Love May Water Behinds Laughing Land Waste Breaths Killing Graves Desert Behind You Like Love Sod

Book:Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

“This one sits shivering in Fortune's smile, taking his joy with bated, doubtful breath. This other, gnawed by hunger, all the while laughs in the teeth of Death.”

Joy Laughing Optimism Breaths Fortune Hunger Teeth Doubtful

Book:FLOWER AND THORN

Source: FLOWER AND THORN

“Reviving Spring, a toast to thy fresh lips! Thy blush is music, and e'en heaven lurks In thy thick perfumed hair that hangs about Thy flowered shoulders like enchanted rain; Thy sigh is song and thy soft breath a balm, Dispelling death -- soft loosing his cold grip, Unravelling darkness in the heart of pain, As o'er dank waters rings the laugh of dawn.”

Heart Pain Song Heaven Water Darkness Laughing Hair Cold Spring Rain Breaths Lips Rings Shoulders Dawn Thick Sigh Toasts Enchanted Dank Dispelling

Book:Cloudrifts at Twilight

Source: Cloudrifts at Twilight

“If a man can make me laugh and stimulate me intellectually, then I wouldn't mind if he was 4 ft. 8 in. with a huge belly. The only thing that would put me off is bad breath - but even that can be fixed. A bad personality isn't so easy to fix.”

Ifs Men Mind Easy Laughing Huge Personality Breaths Fixed Belly Make Me Laugh Bad Breath

Author:Olga Kurylenko

“It's been really important to me to create moments where there's a breath or moments where there's a laugh or moments where there's real life that's allowed to seep in through the cracks of whatever melodrama is happening, because that's what does happen in life.”

Doe Important Real Moments Happens Laughing Happenings Breaths Real Life Cracks Melodrama

Author:Sarah Polley

“I've seen a lot of people getting into Jazzmasters because of me, and, well, people don't know what they're in for. I mean if you're looking for endless sustain, you're going to have to get it out of your hands (laughs). Because a saxophonist gets it out of his breath. You've got to work for it on the guitar - it means you have to pull it out of yourself, otherwise, what are you doing? You end up playing a lot of noise or scale exercises.”

People Ifs Knows Wells Mean Ends Hands Laughing Exercise Breaths Guitar Scales Endless Noise Doing You

Author:Tom Verlaine

“The devil is perfectly willing that the Church should multiply its organization and its deftly contrived machinery for the conquest of the world for Christ, if it will only give up praying... Satan laughs softly, as he looks at the Church today, and says under his breath: "You can have your Sunday schools, your YMCAs...your grand choirs, and your fine organs, and your brilliant preachers...as long as you do not bring into them the power of Almighty God, sought and obtained by earnest, persistent, believing, mighty prayers."”

“The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.”

Order Fighting Laughing Truth Is Breaths Depth Everyday Dare Surface Swimming Pool Abyss Swimming Pool Springboards

Author:Franz Kafka

“Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.”

Life Inspirational Long Funny Laughing Laughter Humorous Breaths Witty Loud Sarcastic Staying Young Laugh Often

Author:George Carlin

“They finished laughing and caught their breaths, and looked at each other, and Ani thought Geric looked at her too long, as though he forgot he was looking, as though he did not wish to do anything else. She looked back. Her took heart took its time quieting down.”

Heart Long Wish Laughing Breaths Caught Finished

Book:The Goose Girl

Source: The Goose Girl

“There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”

World Hard Reason Happiness Laughing Breaths Lovely Stomach Bad Day Deep Breath Perks Perks Of A Wallflower

Book:The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o'clock on an ordinary morning: The non-suicide is a little traveling suck of care, sucking care with him from the past and being sucked toward care in the future. His breath is high in his chest. The ex-suicide opens his front door, sits down on the steps, and laughs. Since he has the option of being dead, he has nothing to lose by being alive. It is good to be alive. He goes to work because he doesn't have to.”

Source: Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book

“I don't know what to do!" cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath; and making a perfect Laocoön of himself with his stockings. "I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to every-body! A happy New Year to all the world! Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!”

Source: Dickens' Christmas Spirits: A Christmas Carol and Other Tales

“I laugh maniacally, then take a deep breath and touch my chest- expecting a heart to be thumping quickly, impatiently, but there's nothing there, not even a beat.”

Heart Laughing Beats Breaths Chests Expecting Deep Breath Take A Deep Breath

Book:American Psycho: Picador Classic

Source: American Psycho: Picador Classic

“I suddenly leaned forward,bringing my face close to hers.catching her breath,stifling that laugh and pink tongue,she watched me wide-eyed.I removed the wallet from my back pocket and sat down casually again. "What happened?" I asked idly. "I thought...never mind".She blinked. Ha,gotcha”

Mind Faces Laughing Happened Breaths Wide Tongue Sat Pockets Catching Wallets Stifling

Author:Chetan Bhagat

“This is how it works You're young until you're not You love until you don't You try until you can't You laugh until you cry You cry until you laugh And everyone must breathe Until their dying breath No, this is how it works You peer inside yourself You take the things you like And try to love the things you took And then you take that love you made And stick it into some Someone else's heart Pumping someone else's blood And walking arm in arm You hope it don't get harmed But even if it does You'll just do it all again”

Ifs Trying Heart Doe Made Young Laughing Blood Dying Love You Cry Arms Walking Breaths Sticks Breathe Peers Just Do It Things You Like

Author:Regina Spektor

“God, you have a beautiful laugh, and your smile. Jesus, it knocks the breath out of me." "You can't talk to me like that, nobody says things like that to a woman he just met. It's insane." "I just did. And I plan to keep saying them until you believe every word.”

Believe Beautiful Jesus Laughing Plans Mets Breaths Insane Talk To Me Your Smile

Author:Maya Banks

“You’ll be fine. You’re 25. Feeling [unsure] and lost is part of your path. Don’t avoid it. See what those feelings are showing you and use it. take a breath. You’ll be okay. Even if you don’t feel okay all the time.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Use Feelings Lost Interesting Laughing Path Fine Okay Breaths Unsure

Author:Louis C. K.

“Well then, "Katsa said. "Of course, we'll operate with the greatest possible secrecy, Bitterblue. And for what it's worth, we'll deny your involvement to our dying breaths, and I'll kill anyone who doesn't." Bann began to laugh into Raffin's shoulder. Smiling, Raffin said sideways to him, "Can you imagine what it would be like to be able to say that and mean it?”

Wells Mean Said Would Be Able Courses Laughing Imagine Dying Breaths Deny Shoulders Secrecy Involvement Sideways Katsa

Book:Bitterblue

Source: Bitterblue

“[The woman] paused and seemed to take a deep breath. 'You see,' she declared. 'I am Tom Mallow's aunt.' Catherine's first instinct was to burst out laughing. She wondered why there was something slightly absurd about aunts; perhaps it was because one thought of them as dear, comfortable creatures, somehow lacking in dignity and prestige.”

Firsts Laughing Creatures Comfortable Dignity Breaths Instinct Dear Absurd Toms Lacking Aunt Prestige Deep Breath Take A Deep Breath

Book:Less than angels

Source: Less than angels

“Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh and sing all in a breath; it is called "the rejoicing of hope" (Hebrews 3:6).”

“This is how it works You're young until you're not You love until you don't You try until you can't You laugh until you cry You cry until you laugh And everyone must breathe Until their dying breath.”

Trying Young Laughing Dying Cry Breaths Chaos Breathe

Author:Regina Spektor

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