Top 225 Breathing Quotes

I prefer to be in tune with my surroundings and to be aware of things. I like listening to my foot strike and my breathing. It can be quite soothing.
Paula Radcliffe
It is imperative for the health and safety of millions of workers that we ensure that breathing systems needed for protection are widely available, convenient and economical.
Bill Shuster
Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.
Thomas de Quincey
I appreciate breathing and smelling and seeing.
YG
The water was like a physiological stimuli to the subconscious that overwhelmed people with too much psychoanalytical material, you might say. People could do 10 breathing sessions without the water, and then they did breathing sessions in the water.
Leonard Orr
Presenting the American songbook as a living, breathing entity that’s expanding all the time is very important.
Chris Thile
Meditation is about breathing, it’s about clarity, taking your time and not rushing through your thinking.
Jamal Murray
I’m really fascinated and you know I’ve been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being used in another way.
Kathy Acker
Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.
Paul Auster
I like that Pilates compromises the mind and body. It’s not just about being able to run around the block a few times. It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
Aimee Mullins
We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earlie

We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect.
Sissela Bok
If China can’t even given LinkedIn enough breathing room to operate in China, that would be a very unfortunate signal for a government to send its professionals about its priorities.
Rebecca MacKinnon
Breathing and using cold, through cold showers and experiences, provides a boost of performance compared to anything that would be possible if the person had not done that.
Wim Hof
I’ve been doing breathing routines for years. It is massive. It helped me in commentary as well.
Ravi Shastri
Art for me is like breathing.
Yoko Ono
I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then I stood for a few moments, breathing in the soft, warm air that was charged with the scent of white lilacs below.
Angus Wilson
Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.
Arthur Koestler
In terms of political contributions, the free speech rights of corporations I don’t think deserve the same protections as the free speech rights of real living, breathing, voting humans.
Chris Coons
Being a pop-leaning, female artist, you’d think that I’d have my record company breathing down my neck and trying to control everything I’m doing. Actually, they’ve just kind of let me take the wheel.
Halsey
Reduce the stress levels in your life through relaxation techniques like meditation, deep breathing, and exercise. You’ll look and feel way better for it.
Suzanne Somers
There’s so much life to live, and if you just keep on breathing and keep on walking, you will get through everything.
Brian Welch
Our thoughts are certainly part of us; they come from us, but we are not our thoughts. Have you ever woken up in the morning and said to yourself, ‘I am not going to think today; I am too tired’? No, of course not. Just as breathing happens and is constant, thoughts happen, and they are also constant.
Elizabeth Thornton
I try to do the deep breathing exercises and I end up panicking in the middle of them and it never goes well.
Steve Kornacki
From the first I became convinced that what I must look for was lead dust and lead fumes, that men were poisoned by breathing poisoned air, not by handling their food with unwashed hands.
Alice Hamilton
I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes.
Vera Wang
I always say a film should be given breathing space.
Farah Khan
I didn’t want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn’t love literature, but I couldn’t distinguish it from reading, and reading was already my default activity, almost like breathing.
Barbara Ehrenreich
No Minnesotan should ever experience preventable health risks from breathing polluted air or from drinking unsafe water.
Ilhan Omar
To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
Martin Luther
A lot of people don’t like the road, but it’s as natural to me as breathing.
Bob Dylan
I fixed my nose, and now I’m breathing better, snoring less.
Wanderlei Silva
I started boxing for exercise, and on the very first day, the trainer got in the ring with me and said, ‘Whoever controls the breathing in the ring controls the fight.’ I immediately passed out.
Garry Shandling
I like the sounds of real, living, breathing musicians. When a real person plays something, there’s a soul. They’re giving you their emotions.
Michael Giacchino
Dad is and always will be my living, breathing superhero.
Bindi Irwin
I know it is common nowadays for artists to start labels but this is a thoroughly constructed vehicle for inspired talent. This is a market that we’ve been living, breathing and eating for our entire lives – one where a huge void currently exists. Favored Nations is a long-term commitment.
Steve Vai
The prisoners for better security against conversation shall have a canvas bag put over the head of each and tied around the neck, with a holes for proper breathing and eating, but not seeing.
Edwin M. Stanton
Voting is like alchemy – taking an abstract value and breathing life into it.
Sharon Salzberg
Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next.
George Steinbrenner
I believe that every character is a setting, a world with moving parts, and on the other hand, every setting is, in fact, a character – a living breathing thing with personality and backstory. The way stories come to life, at least for me, is when these elements commune in relationship to one another.
Jason Reynolds
I meditate and I have cut out red meat. For me it is just breathing techniques, learning to be still, to control your thought processes, it calms you down. It wasn’t about dealing with the pressure of games – I’ve always been all right in matches.
Fabian Delph
In man, the mechanical breathing is essential to life, and it is one of the old tests for death to see whether these movements have ceased completely.
August Krogh
If I'm breathing in 2016, I'll be happy.

If I’m breathing in 2016, I’ll be happy.
Andrew Cuomo
I believe the body can take care of itself. It’s all about self-health. It’s about depending on our breathing.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.
Chuck Palahniuk
I have to experiment with methods and I’m trying to find an authentic way of making an equivalent of the living, breathing person within the limits of a single picture.
Peter Wright
Breathing in the proper state gets you into a state where you digest food better and calms your brainwaves down.
Bryson DeChambeau
Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing.
Colin R. Davis
I have defeated this earthworm with my words. Imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists.
Charlie Sheen
Breathing in South Korea, even though the life here is not easy, makes me so happy. I feel that sitting in a coffee shop, having a cup of tea, and looking out of the window at the blue sky – this is happiness. Truly happiness.
Lee Hyeon-seo
One of the things you will notice about the book of Mark is that if you read through it in one setting, you will be breathing hard at the end. Literally, Mark has set up this book in a way that it is almost like several snapshots of Jesus Christ.
Paul Washer
My sense of religion is Einstein’s sense of relativity. I don’t believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.
Mandy Patinkin
With contemporary poetry having approximately as many fans outside the immediate field as there are devotees of undergoing knee surgery, any sentient, breathing reader who’s genuinely interested in poetry… not scared of it… seems a godsend.
Amy Gerstler
Doris Day started performing at a young age, had a tough road to success, and once she achieved it delivered the goods 100 percent and brilliantly, always making difficult work look as easy as breathing.
Robert Osborne
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
Arundhati Roy
I am a different person in front of the camera; it comes as easy to me as breathing does.
Karan Patel
As parents, we’ll go to the ends of the earth for our kids. As soon as they’re born – and during pregnancy – we hope and pray for their good health. As soon as they’re born, we swaddle them, feed them, and breathe a sigh of relief when we see their little bodies breathing and crying as they should.
Ralph Northam
My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I don’t know the exact time of her death, because none of us thought to look at a clock for a while after she stopped breathing.
Meghan O’Rourke
Growing up I always knew I had a deviated septum on the right side of my nose, which caused trouble breathing. The older I got, the worse it got.
Ashley Tisdale
With dancing, so much is about sexuality and sensuality and without life experience it becomes much more of a performance, rather than a living, breathing entity from the soul.
Nigel Lythgoe