“Life by life and love by love We passed through the cycles strange, And breath by breath and death by death We followed the chain of change. Till there came a time in the law of life When over the nursing sod The shadows broke and the soul awoke In a strange, dim dream of God.” SoulGodDreamLawStrangeShadowAnd LoveBreathsChainsBrokeCyclesLife And LoveNursingLaws Of LifeSod Book:Evolution: A Poem Source: Evolution: A Poem
“I've never been obsessed with celebrity or star-struck or anything. I met Penelope Cruz when we were in Toronto, who I think is a goddess and an unbelievable actress, and she introduced herself. As she walked away from the table I had to take a deep breath, which was strange because I've never had that with anyone.” ThinkingStarsStrangeMetsBreathsTablesActressesObsessedGoddessUnbelievableDeep BreathTorontoCruzTake A Deep Breath Author:Carey Mulligan
“Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.” BookCreativityCuttingAliveCreationBuildingStrangeCreatingBreathsAddDelicateInwardOrganismsUrgencyCreative MindOverpoweringCreating MusicGifted Children Author:Pearl S. Buck
“We have all probably noted those sudden moments of quiet - those strange and almost miraculous moments in the life of a big city when there is a cessation of traffic noise - just an instant when there is only the sound of footsteps which serves to emphasize a sudden peace. During those seconds it is possible to notice the sunlight, to notice our fellow humans, to take breath.” HumansMomentsBigsSoundCitiesSilenceStrangeQuietBreathsFellowsNoiseInstantSecondsSunlightTrafficMiraculousFootstepsBig Cities Author:Dorothy Day
“I am not fitted to give concerts. The audience intimidates me, I feel choked by its breath, paralyzed by its curious glances, struck dumb by all those strange faces.” GivingFeelsFacesMusicAudienceStrangeMusicianBreathsCuriousDumbConcertsGlancesIntimidatingParalyzed Author:Frederic Chopin
“I think," Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, "that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live. I can give back to the world all that I didn't do. All that I might have been and couldn't be. All the choices I didn't make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world. To the lives that haven't been lived yet. That will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life I did live, the love I loved, the breath I breathed.” ThinkingWorldGivingHas BeensMadeSaidI CanMightDiesChoicesLostVoiceLossHavensStrangeBreathsBreatheMight Have BeenGiving Back Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“I do not remember very many things from the inside out. I do not remember what it felt like to touch things, or how bathwater traveled over my skin. I did not like to be touched, but it was a strange dislike. I did not like to be touched because I craved it too much. I wanted to be held very tight so I would not break. Even now, when people lean down to touch me, or hug me, or put a hand on my shoulder, I hold my breath. I turn my face. I want to cry.” PeopleWantHandsWantedRememberFacesTurnsFeltBreakToo MuchCryStrangeSkinsBreathsShouldersTouchedDislikeHugTraveledTouch MeHug MeBreak Even Book:Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia Source: Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
“Poetry is perhaps this: an Atemwende, a turning of our breath. Who knows, perhaps poetry goes its way—the way of art—for the sake of just such a turn? And since the strange, the abyss and Medusa’s head, the abyss and the automaton, all seem to lie in the same direction—is it perhaps this turn, this Atemwende, which can sort out the strange from the strange? It is perhaps here, in this one brief moment, that Medusa’s head shrivels and the automaton runs down? Perhaps, along with the I, estranged and freed here, in this manner, some other thing is also set free?” KnowsWayArtMomentsSeemsRunningLyingTurnsStrangeBreathsSakePoetry IsAbyssBrief MomentsMedusa Author:Paul Celan
“You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it; and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world.” KnowsWorldLooksKindJoyTurnsKnow HowAliveWonderfulSeeingStrangeBreathsLipsDryFearfulEnchantingQuiver Book:The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories Source: The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories
“It was stealing her breath, imbecile. Go get a towel." -Christophe, Strange Angels by Lili St. Crow” StrangeAngelBreathsStealingCrowTowelsImbeciles Author:Lilith Saintcrow
“Take some very deep breaths," Miranda said. "Relax. Concentrate. Then envision a frosty six-pack and wiggle your pinky." A frosty six-pack. Kylie inhaled. He held out her pinky, and right then Della chimed in. "We are talking a six=pack of soda, not a cold guy with good-looking abs, right?" There was a strange kind of sizzle in the air. And suddenly appearing in front of the refrigerator was a shirtless, shivering guy with great abs. His blue eyes studied the three of them in complete bafflement. "What the...!" he muttered. Kylie gasped. Miranda giggled. Della snorted with laughter.” KindSaidEyeGuyThreeTalkingAirFrontsStrangeColdSixLaughterBreathsBlueRelaxPacksLooking GoodAppearingBlue EyesVery DeepDeep BreathRefrigeratorsSodaMirandaSix Packs Author:C.C. Hunter
“One world on its own is a strange enough seethe of coiling, unknowable veins of intention and chance, but two? Where two worlds mingle breath through rips in the sky, the strange becomes stranger, and many things may come to pass that few imaginations could encompass.” WorldMayTwoEnoughImaginationChanceSkyStrangeBreathsIntentionStrangerVeinsRipTwo Worlds Author:Laini Taylor
“It took my breath away, that evening. If you've ever dreamed that you walked into your best-loved book or film or TV program, then maybe you've got some idea how it felt: things coming alive around you, strange and new and utterly familiar at the same time; the catch in your heartbeat as you move through the rooms that had such a vivid untouchable life in your mind, as your feet actually touch the carpet, as you breathe the air; the odd, secret glow of warmth as these people you've been watching for so long, from so far away, open their circle and sweep you into it.” PeopleIfsMindLongBookIdeasFilmMovingFeltRoomsSecretAliveAirFeetStrangeTvsProgramBreathsBreatheCirclesFamiliarEveningOddWarmthFar AwayCarpetVividHeartbeatUntouchables Author:Tana French
“So small as to be negligible. It's strange, but there's something in that thought that makes me feel almost...free.” FeelsStrangeBreaths Author:Veronica Roth
“She took a deep breath, "Last chance. Are you in need of rescuing?" His expression turned very strange, almost as if she'd struck him, "yes," he said finally. -Tana and Gavriel-page 33- chapter 5” IfsNeedsSaidLastsChanceStrangeExpressionPagesBreathsChaptersChances AreDeep BreathLast Chance Author:Holly Black