“Your faith has found no more air to breathe. And suffocation is a hard death.”

— Hermann Hesse , book Steppenwolf

Source: Steppenwolf (1927), p.149

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German writer 1877–1962

Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“And 't is my faith, that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes.”

William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet

Source: Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Lines written in Early Spring.

“Love frees a soul and in the same breath can sometimes suffocate it.”

Cecelia Ahern book A Place Called Here

Variant: There's a fine line between love and hate. Love frees a soul and in the same breath can sometimes suffocate it.
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“You don’t protest air pollution by holding your breath.”

Ron English (1959) American artist

Ron English's Fauxlosophy (2016)

“When I was suffocated by my own suffering, I could only cry out with the breath left in my chest, "Stab me with your anger! But don't kill me with your love!"”

Titon Rahmawan

“I used to believe there was no light
But I found out
Oh, life is far too short to fight
Lose yourself, let go of your pain
Taste the air you breathe and kiss the sky.”

Kerli (1987) Estonian singer

Butterfly Cry
Love is Dead (2008)

“Love is all around you like the air and is the very breath of your being.”

Barry Long (1926–2003) Australian spiritual teacher and writer

Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
Context: Love is all around you like the air and is the very breath of your being. But you cannot know it, feel its unfeeling touch, until you pause in your busy-ness, are still and poised and empty of your wanting and desiring. When at rest the air is easily offended and will flee even from the fanning of a leaf, as love flees from the first thought. But when the air or love moves of its own accord it is a hurricane that drives all before it.

“Ardently alert means that when the mind is staying with the breath, you try to be as sensitive as possible in adjusting it to make it feel good, and in monitoring the results of your efforts. Try long breathing to see how it feels. Try short breathing, heavy breathing, light breathing, deep, shallow. The more refined you can make your awareness, the better the meditation goes because you can make the breath more and more refined, a more and more comfortable place for the mind to stay. Then you can let that sense of comfort spread throughout the body. Think of the breath not simply as the air coming in and out the lungs, but as the flow of energy throughout the whole body. The more refined your awareness, the more sensitive you can be to that flow. The more sensitive you are, the more refined the breath becomes, the more gratifying, the more absorbing it becomes as a place to stay.”

Thanissaro Bhikkhu (1949) Theravadin Buddhist Monk and Scholar

"Meditation: The How and the Why" (2003)

“Hold your horses. I'm coming."…
"From where I'm standing you're just breathing laboriously."
The snow swam out of focus. "Breathing hard. Are you coming or just breathing hard. You've got to get your one-liners straight.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Bleeds

“Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death.”

Debbie Macomber (1948) American writer

Source: Mrs. Miracle

“Your faith has found no more air to breathe. And suffocation is a hard death.”

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