“Nothing would give up life:
Even the dirt kept breathing a small breath.”

“Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.”

Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe ether, to sink in and die.”

Annie Dillard book The Living

“The ambitions are wake up, breathe, keep breathing.”

Nicole Blackman (1971) American musician

“Nothing that is complete breathes.”

Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet

“I will never give up… I will never give up! As long I'm still breathing in this world… As long I'm still standing, I will never give up!!!”

Hiro Mashima (1977) Japanese manga artist

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”

Annie Dillard book The Living

“Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective—even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth.”

Jeff VanderMeer book Annihilation

“Life is not breaths you take, but the moments that take your breath away.”

George Strait (1952) American country music singer, actor and music producer

“Life is not measured by the breathes you take, but by the moments that take your breathe away.”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian