“The abstract intelligence produces a fatigue that's the worst of all fatigues. It doesn't weigh on us like bodily fatigue, nor disconcert like the fatigue of emotional experience. It's the weight of our consciousness of the world, a shortness of breath in our soul.” WorldSoulConsciousnessWorstProduceEmotionalWeightBreathsAbstractFatigueShortness Author:Fernando Pessoa
“You go in the weight room and you lift weights and you do all these things to strengthen your body. This is strengthening your mind. When you can stay focused and you can use that focus to always come back with your breath to center yourself, so that you're kind of floating in the moment, in the spirit.” MindKindMomentsUseBodySpiritRoomsFocusWeightBreathsFocusedYour BodyLiftsFloatingStay FocusedStrengtheningWeight Room Author:Phil Jackson
“Everything is important, but there is a weight to these big or expected things and then there is the logistics of them and it's trying to find, while you worry about for instance the ballroom scene, how do you get 500 people to go to the loo in corsets and don't cost you an hour and how do you remember while you're organizing all that to take a breath and say, 'Well the scene is about all of that and it's about Prince hand on the small of Cinderella back as well' and we need time to do that properly as well.” PeopleNeedsTryingWellsImportantHandsBigsRememberHoursWorrySceneCostWeightBreathsExpectedInstanceTime Of NeedBallroomLogisticsCorsets Author:Kenneth Branagh
“And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; They have a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off our waking toils, They do divide our being.” DreamJoyTearsDevelopmentWeightBreathsTortureDividesWakingToil Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)
“In the end mortals always expired before faeries. They were such finite creatures. Their first heartbeat and breath were but a blink from death. To add the weight of nourishing his insatiable court in a time of peace was to hasten that unconscionably.” FirstsEndsCreaturesWeightBreathsCourtAddMortalsFiniteHeartbeatFaerieBlinkInsatiableExpired Author:Melissa Marr
“Sometimes you build up these walls, you build and you build and you build up these walls and you think they’re so strong, but then someone can come along and tip them over with only his fingers, or the weight of his breath.” ThinkingSometimesStrongWallWeightBreathsFingers Book:Wild Roses Source: Wild Roses
“Grief is like sinking, like being buried. I am in water the tawny color of kicked-up dirt. Every breath is full of choking. There is nothing to hold on to, no sides, no way to claw myself up. There is nothing to do but let go. Let go. Feel the weight all around you, feel the squeezing of your lungs, the slow, low pressure. Let yourself go deeper. There is nothing but bottom. There is nothing but the taste of metal, and the echoes of old things, and days that look like darkness.” WayFeelsLooksSidesWaterGriefDarknessColorTasteLetting GoLowsWeightPressureBreathsBottomDeeperBuriedMetalsEchoesDirtLungsChokeSinkingClawsOld ThingsSqueezing Author:Lauren Oliver
“She still had her bad days, no question, when the black dog of depression sniffed her out and settled its crushing weight on her chest and breathed its pungent dog breath in her face. On those days she called in sick to the IT shop where, most days, she untangled tangled networks for a song. On those days she pulled down the shades and ran dark for twelve or twenty-four or seventy-two hours, however long it took for the black dog to go on home to its dark master.” LongStillsTwoHomeFacesSongBlackHoursDarkFourDogMastersGoes OnSickWeightTwentiesBreathsRanCrushShopsChestsShadeTwelveSeventiesBad DayTangled Author:Lev Grossman
“I stare at her collarbone that's framed with lace, the hollow of her throat, her shoulders that rise with each rise with the weight of her next breath. We're fragile things. Our bones show through our skin. What would any god want with us?” WantShowsNextSkinsWeightBreathsBonesShouldersStaringThroatFragileHollowFramedLaceFragile Things Author:Lauren DeStefano
“Actors worry about bad breath, weight, receding hairlines and why their leading lady looks like their daughter.” LooksMotherActorsWorryDaughterWeightBreathsMother DaughterLeading LadiesBad Breath Author:Matthew Ashford
“Free driving is like an extreme sports version of snorkeling, ... That's about 50 feet deep. And basically what you do is you hold your breath and you wear a weight belt and go down as fast as possible and hold your breath for minutes at a time.” SportsFeetMinutesWeightBreathsExtremesDrivingVersionsBeltsExtreme Sports Author:Jessica Alba