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“My favourite writer is Beckett and I keep going back to wallow in his work like a deep pool of dark humour or like an oxygen tank when you can't breath in a world consumed by piety, hypocrisy and self-satisfaction.”

World Self Dark Humour Breaths Satisfaction Hypocrisy Keep Going Pool Favourite Oxygen Consumed Tanks Piety Beckett Self-satisfaction

Author:Simon Critchley

“If you want the truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world it will fly; it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it.”

Ifs World Want Light Lying Breaths Train Rounds Pulling Feathers

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“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."”

“I believe in a spiritual world - not as anything separate from this world - but as its innermost truth. With the breath we draw we must always feel this truth, that we are living in God.”

World Feels Believe Spiritual I Believe This World Draws Breaths I Believe In

Book:Essays

Source: Essays

“Mozart in his music was probably the most reasonable of the world's great composers. It is the happy balance between flight and control, between sensibility and self-discipline, simplicity and sophistication of style that is his particular province... Mozart tapped once again the source from which all music flows, expressing himself with a spontaneity and refinement and breath-taking rightness that has never since been duplicated.”

World Self Style Particular Source Balance Discipline Flow Breaths Simplicity Flight Reasonable Composer Sensibility Self Discipline Spontaneity Provinces Refinement Sophistication

Author:Aaron Copland

“Deep inside I feel that this world we live in is really a big, huge, monumental symphonic orchestra. I believe that in its primordial form all of creation is sound and that it's not just random sound, that it's music. You've heard the expression, music of the spheres? Well, that's a very literal phrase. In the Gospels, we read, "And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul." That 'breath of life' to me is the music of life and it permeates every fiber of creation.”

Men World Feels Believe Wells Made Soul Bigs Earth Form I Believe Sound Lord Heard Creation This World Expression Huge Breaths Dust Phrases Spheres Orchestra Literal Fiber Deep Inside Lord God

Author:Michael Jackson

“Go out into the world uncorrupted, a breath of fresh air in this squalid and polluted society. Provide people with a glimpse of good living and of the living God.”

People World Air Breaths Glimpse Fresh Air Good Living

Book:God's Message for Each Day: Wisdom from the Word of God

Source: God's Message for Each Day: Wisdom from the Word of God

“The Goddess of wealth is unsteady, and so is the life breath. The duration of life is uncertain, and the place of habitation is uncertain; but in all this inconsistent world religious merit alone is immovable.”

World Life Is Religious Wealth Breaths Merit Goddess Uncertain Duration Inconsistent

Author:Chanakya

“The next time you get the urge to shut somebody up because they don't see the world exactly the same way you do, take a deep breath, get out your Bill of Rights, and count to the ten amendments.”

World Way Next Rights Ten Breaths Bills Urges Amendments Next Time Deep Breath Bill Of Rights Take A Deep Breath

Book:Rants

Source: Rants

“What people love about life is its miraculous beauty; what they hate about death is the loss and decay around it. Yet losing is not losing, and decay turns into beauty, as beauty turns back into decay. We are breathed in, breathed out. Therefore all you need is to understand the one breath that makes up the world.”

People World Needs Life Is Hate Turns Loss Losing Breaths Decay Miraculous

Book:The Second Book of the Tao

Source: The Second Book of the Tao

“What would the world be like if people said whatever they were thinking, all the time, whenever it came to them? How long would a blind date last? About 13 seconds, I think. Oh, sorry, your rear end is too big. That's ok, your breath stinks anyway. See you later.”

People Ifs Thinking World Long Said Ends Bigs Lasts Dating Breaths Blind Sorry Seconds Stink Blind Date

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“To be sure the landscape can't run away, and yet I always fear that it may. [Sometimes] I must set up my tripod, so I worry that the landscape may disappear the next second and I don't stop keeping an eye on it while I get prepared. Then, when pressing the shutter, I hold my breath. These moments are the greatest joys in my life, as if I were undressing the most beautiful woman in the world - that is, if she will allow herself be undressed. If the photo is a success, it means that she was willing. If not, it has been a lovely dream.”

“With every true friendship we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests. Thought by thought and act by act, with every breath we build more firmly the kingdom of non-violence that is the true home of the spirit of humanity.”

World Whole Home Spirit Humanity Violence Breaths Foundation Whole World Kingdoms True Friend True Friendship Non Violence Very True True Home

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“It's so much harder than it looks - to conjure a fictional world that some passing wolf of skepticism can't just blow down in one breath.”

World Looks Harder Breaths Blow Passing Passings Skepticism Fictional Worlds

Author:William Finnegan

“[People] need to find words that can reconnect them with each other. That is the gift of good liturgy, yeah. We're not talking about fluffy stuff. We're talking about real life for people around the world. Our prayers should be said like the daily breath that gives us life.”

People World Needs Giving Should Said Real Stuff Prayer Talking Breaths Yeah Real Life Around The World Our Prayers Not Talking Fluffy Liturgy

Author:Shane Claiborne

“When I wake up, I immediately pray. When I go to sleep, I pray. Honestly, a prayer every second, in every breath. I suggest the whole world to do it. Prayer is amazing.”

World Whole Prayer Sleep Praying Wake Up Breaths Honestly Whole World I Pray Going To Sleep Every Second

Author:DJ Khaled

“I think all of us in the commentary business need to take a deep breath. And it can't be true that every single week the world is ending in some different way. And this presidency [of Donald Trump] will be judged like all presidencies - on the state of the economy and by events.”

Thinking World Way Needs Different States Economy Week Events Trump Breaths Being True Different Ways Judged Presidency Commentary Deep Breath Take A Deep Breath

Author:Rich Lowry

“Trump is not presidential: this is not normal, it cannot be treated as normal. We have to fight with our last breath to make sure that the vision for the country that this racist white nationalist Bannon has cannot be achieved in this country. We are a country that, whether he likes it or not, is about to become the first nation in the world that is majority minorities.”

World Firsts Country Lasts Fighting Nations White Vision Trump Normal Breaths Majority Likes Treated Presidential Minorities Racist

Author:Reza Aslan

“Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest.”

World Our Lives This World Breaths Manifest Loan Transitory Indolence Abode Caliphs

Author:Abu Bakr

“There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it - roaming the world.”

Men World Should Has Beens Father Bits Should Have Breaths Complexity Pockets Maps Devoted Should Have Been Roaming Family Man

Author:Christian Bale

“We're living in momentous times, Garion. The events of a thousand years and more have all focused on these very days. The world, I'm told, is like that. Centuries pass when nothing happens, and then in a few short years events of such tremendous importance take place that the world is never the same again." I think that if I had my choice, I'd prefer one of those quiet centuries," Garion said glumly. Oh, no," Silk said, his lips drawing back in a ferretlike grin. "Now's the time to be alive - to see it all happen, to be a part of it. That makes the blood race, and each breath is an adventure.”

Ifs Thinking World Years Said Happens Choices Race Alive Blood Century Events Adventure Thousand Quiet Importance Breaths Lips Focused Drawing Thousand Years Silk

Author:David Eddings

“To plot is to live. […] We start out lives in chaos, in babble. As we surge up into the world, we try to devise a shape, a plan. There is dignity in this. Your whole life is a plot, a scheme, a diagram. It is a failed scheme but that's not the point. To plot is to affirm life, to seek shape and control. Even after death, most particularly after death, the search continues. Burial rites are an attempt to complete the scheme, in ritual. Picture a state funeral, Jack. It is all precision, detail, order, design. The nation holds its breath. - (WN 292)”

World Trying States Whole Life Is Order Nations Plans Design Shapes Dignity Breaths Chaos Details Whole Life Plot Ritual Funeral Schemes After Death Precision Rite Burial Diagrams

Author:Don DeLillo

“Be compassionate," Morrie whispered. And take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much better a place." He took a breath, then added his mantra: "Love each other or die.”

Ifs World Would Be Dies Responsibility This World Lessons Breaths Compassionate Taking Responsibility Love Each Other Mantras Morrie

Book:Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson

Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson

“A novel is not an allegory.... It is the sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with the characters and become involved in their destiny, you won't be able to empathize, and empathy is at the heart of the novel. This is how you read a novel: you inhale the experience. So start breathing.”

Ifs World Heart Character Able Destiny Novel Involved Empathy Breaths Sensual Breathing Another World Allegory Inhale Tehran

Book:Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

Source: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

“God picks up the reed-flute world and blows. Each note is a need coming through one of us, a passion, a longing pain. Remember the lips where the wind-breath originated, and let your note be clear. Don't try to end it. Be your note.”

World Inspirational Needs Trying Ends Pain Remember Passion Clear Wind Picks Breaths Longing Notes Lips Blow Reeds Flutes

Author:Rumi

“There was her face, like a summer peach, beautiful and warm, and the light of the candles reflected in her dark eyes. [He] held his breath. The entire world waited and held its breath.”

World Light Eye Beautiful Faces Dark Summer Breaths Warm Candle Peaches Dark Eyes

Author:Ray Bradbury

“Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth. We walk through it, yell into it, rake leaves, wash the dog, and drive cars in it. We breathe it deep within us. With every breath, we inhale millions of molecules of sky, heat them briefly, and then exhale them back into the world.”

Thinking World Looks Earth Walks Millions Feet Sky Dog Car Standing Breaths Breathe Heat Look Up Molecules Deep Within Inhale Rakes

Book:Soul of the Sky: Exploring the Human Side of Weather

Source: Soul of the Sky: Exploring the Human Side of Weather

“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

“However in the world did her skin come green?" Nanny wondered, stupidly, for Melena blanched and Frex reddened, and the baby held her breath as if trying to turn blue to please them all. Nanny had to slap her to make her breath again.”

Ifs World Trying Turns Baby Please Skins Breaths Blue Green Slap Nannies

Book:The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz

Source: The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz

“I'm absolutely removed from the world at such times...The hours go by without my knowing it. Sitting there I'm wandering in countries I can see every detail of - I'm playing a role in the story I'm reading. I actually feel I'm the characters - I live and breath with them.”

World Feels I Can Country Character Stories Reading Hours Roles Knowing Sitting Breaths Details Wander

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“He lay listening to the water drip in the woods. Bedrock, this. The cold and the silence. The ashes of the late world carried on the bleak and temporal winds to and fro in the void. Carried forth and scattered and carried forth again. Everything uncoupled from its shoring. Unsupported in the ashen air. Sustained by a breath, trembling and brief. If only my heart were stone.”

Ifs World Heart Water Silence Air Wind Listening Cold My Heart Late Stones Breaths Lays Woods Void Ashes Trembling Bleak Bedrock

Book:The Road

Source: The Road

“..she began to stand around the gate and expect things. What things? She didn't know exactly. Her breath was gusty and short. She knew things that nobody ever told her. For instance, the words of the trees and the wind. .. She knew the world was a stallion rolling in the blue pasture of ether. She knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by sun-up. It was wonderful to see it take form with the sun and emerge from the gray dust of its making.”

Knows World Form Sun Wonderful Tree Wind Built Breaths Blue Instance Dust Evening Gates Gray Rolling Old World Pastures Stallions

Author:Zora Neale Hurston

“Then I saw it, and it just grabbed me. That moment, that breath just before destiny, between innocence and power. He'll pull the sword free. You know it. And in that moment, the world changes. Camelot's born, Arthur's fate is sealed. He'll unite a people, be betrayed by a woman and a friend, and sire the man who'll kill him. In this moment, he's a boy. In the next he'll be a king.”

People Knows Men World Moments Next Born Boys Destiny Saws Fate Kings Breaths Innocence That Moment Betrayed Arthur Camelot

Book:Nora Roberts' Key Trilogy

Source: Nora Roberts' Key Trilogy

“We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away.”

Ifs World May Stills Grows Perception Breaths Dull Vantage Point

Author:Alan Moore

“I should have kissed more than your hand...thought I'd have more time," he whispered between liquid, panting breaths. "...too late now." I looked into his eyes and completely forgot the rest of the world. In that moment, all I knew was that I was holding Stark in my arms, and I was going to lose him very, very soon.”

World Should Moments Hands Eye Loses Arms Late Should Have Breaths His Eyes Too Late That Moment More Time Liquid Starks House Of Night

Author:P. C. Cast

“My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back room of a shadowy house, and grew up amidst ancient furniture, books in Latin, and human mummies, but none of those things made me melancholy, because I came into the world with a breath of the jungle in my memory.”

World Humans Mean Made Book Mother House Names Born Memories Rooms Grew Grew Up Breaths Ancient Melancholy Latin Furniture Jungle Meaning Life Mummy

Book:Eva Luna

Source: Eva Luna

“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.”

Thinking World Giving Has Beens Made Said I Can Might Dies Choices Lost Voice Loss Havens Strange Breaths Breathe Might Have Been Giving Back

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest, And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss A dateless bargain to engrossing death!”

“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

“In a world beyond this one, that river goes on singing sweetly, enchanting us with what we want to hear, shaping what we need to see in order to keep going. In those waters, all disappointments are forgotten, our mistakes forgiven. Gazing into them, we see a strong father. A loving mother. Warm rooms where we are sheltered, adored, wanted. And the uncertainty of our futures is nothing more than the fog of breath on a windowpane.”

Source: The Gemma Doyle Trilogy

“Standing Here My entire world far beneath my feet, I should be filled with pride. Instead, I feel overwhelmed by a sense of defeat. Suddenly it comes to me, toes tempted to test the ledge, that there is a way out of this. Clam surety flows through my veins, and as I turn to wave good-bye, I wonder if it will hurt or if a single person will cry at my funeral. I take a deep breath, a final taste of sweet mountain air. I conjure Leona, Emily. Move my feet closer. Closer There's Grandma One, Grandma Two, and their spouses, waiting for me. I see Dad. Cara. Mommy. I screw up my courage, step over”

“Breathe in, breath out. Oxygen is carcinogenic and likely puts a limit on our life span. It would be unwise though, to try to extend life by not breathing at all. Which of us doesn't do it? Either we loll in anaerobic stupor, too afraid to fill our lungs with risky beauty, or we roll out fire like dragons, destroying the world we love. I try not to burn up my world with rage. It is so hard.”

World Trying Hard Would Be Fire Our Lives Limits Breaths Breathe Rage Breathing Dragons Destroying Oxygen Lungs Unwise Life Span

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.”

World Want Pain Passion Individual Grows Consciousness Lovers Laughter Breaths Dust Jealous Ashes Heroines

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays

“He stretched out his hands as he sang, sadly, because all beauty is sad…The poem had done no ‘good’ to anyone, but it was a passing reminder, a breath from the divine lips of beauty, a nightingale between two worlds of dust. Less explicit than the call to Krishna, it voiced our loneliness nevertheless, our isolation, our need for the Friend who never comes yet is not entirely disproved.”

World Needs Two Done Hands Loneliness Divine Breaths Lips Passing Passings Dust Isolation Nevertheless Reminders Krishna Explicit Two Worlds Nightingales

Author:E. M. Forster

“I just found this world a hard place to be good in,’ says Bunny, then he closes his eyes and, with an expiration of breath, goes still.”

World Stills Hard Eye Found This World Breaths Be Good His Eyes Bunnies

Book:The Death of Bunny Munro: A Novel

Source: The Death of Bunny Munro: A Novel

“Brother dear,” I said, “did your soul leave your body while Amos was talking, or did you actually hear him? Egyptian gods real. Red Lord bad. Red Lord’s birthday: very soon, very bad. House of Life: fussy magicians who hate our family because dad was a bit of a rebel, whom you could take a lesson from. Which leaves us—just us—with Dad missing, an evil god about to destroy the world, and an uncle who just jumped off the building—and I can’t actually blame him.” I took a breath. [Yes, Carter, I do have to breathe occasionally.]”

“The world had taken a deep breath and was having doubts about continuing to revolve.”

World Taken Doubt Breaths Continuing Deep Breath Caged Caged Birds I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

Book:The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou

Source: The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou

“Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath;/ We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness of death”

World Breaths Feds Pale Grey Fullness Pagan Heathen

Author:Algernon Charles Swinburne

“We'll bury our mothers and fathers - shuttling our children off for sleepovers, jumping on red-eyes, telling eachother stories that hurt to hear, about gasping, agonal breaths, hospice nurses, scars and bruises and scabs, and how skin papers shortly after a person passes. We will nod in agreement that it is as much an honor to witness a person leave this world as it is to watch a person come into it.”

“My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. That's just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy.”

World I Can Joy Spirit Dies Can Do Loss Grief Steps Forever Sad And Love Breaths Grieving Going Away My Sister Daring Emulate Griefing Those Grieving Never Stop Loving

Book:The Sky Is Everywhere

Source: The Sky Is Everywhere

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