#breathe

Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it. ↗

— Jean Genet

#air #breathe #criminals #forbidden #hopelessly

Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns, But breathes, like perfect joys, Tender tones. ↗

— Frederick Tennyson

#dies #drowns #joys #like #loud

Do not be afraid that joy will make the pain worse; it is needed like the air we breathe. ↗

— Goran Persson

#air #breathe #joy #like #make

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#air #bound #breathe #care #content

Who breathe where you will, come into me and snatch me up to yourself. ↗

— Richard Rolle

#come #into #me #snatch #up

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#blend #breathe #creep #each #earthly

Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe. ↗

— David Sarnoff

#cannot #freedom #oxygen #science #which

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on. ↗

— George Santayana

#breathe #insufficient #like #live #necessary

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#any #argument #believing #breathe #cannot

But that little ‘ol gal in there cooking away stole my heart when I was about your age, and the little thief never gave it back. ↗