Breathe

Famous quotes containing the word breathe:

“We breathe an ill wind,
nevertheless our kind
in mushroom multitudes
jostles for elbow-room
moonwards ...”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

“They say the tongues of dying men
Enforce attention like deep harmony.
Where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain,
For they breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are ... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)