Lungs Quotes

“Inhale and hold the evening in your lungs.”
― Sebastian Faulks, Engleby

“I was mistaken
when I said you
live in my heart.
How absurd I was
when you live in my
fingertips so that everything
I touch is you. How foolish
I was when you live in my toes
so that everywhere I go there's you.
How senseless of me to say
you live in my heart
when you breathe in my lungs,
walk on my mind, and
drink in my mouth. I came to
pen another poem for you,
but even every unwritten poem
is you.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“You thought you had the choice to stay still or move forward, but your didn't. As long as your heart kept pumping an your blood kept blowing and your lungs kept filling, you didn't. The pang she felt for Tibby carried something like envy. You couldn't stand still for anything short of death, and God knew she had tried.”
― Ann Brashares, Sisterhood Everlasting

“I’m burning all the time. My pockets full of matches and lighters, the blue smoke crawling out like a skinny ghost from between my lips. My lungs on fire, the wings of them falling from the open sky.”
― Matthew Dickman

“He sat beside the window in the dark, with his eyes closed. Hearing to the sound of the rain. The whisky in his glass burnt his throat, while the smoke of his cigarette filled his lungs and the fire inside his heart consumed his soul slowly.”
― Akshay Vasu

“Every single time you looked at me, through the corner of your eye and smiled. My heart pushed the ribs with all the force towards my lungs, until it got crushed and I could not breathe anymore.”
― Akshay Vasu

“Marra carried the knowledge that her sister hated her snuggled up under her ribs. It did not touch her heart, but it seemed to fill her lungs, and sometimes when she tried to take a deep breath, it caught on her sister's words and left her breathless.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

“I do not know what inspires the image of a fish but it comes to me, wide eyed, open mouthed and gaping, glimmering, swimming towards me as though a creature of the darkness come to claim me. I imagine it in a twinkling blue pool. It swims through the dark currents of the sea, gliding above sea weed, beneath sunlight, augmenting and shying away from the surface. It belongs to this element between land and sky, sifts through it, a creature of the deep. My mind drifts, fades, but then comes back to the fish: its glimmering scales, its strange beady eyes. Its body is contained within the water. It opens its mouth, moving it open and closed as though it’s trying to speak a language I never learned. I think about the fish’s lungs, full of water. Is not the sea contained within the fish, too?”
― Annie Fisher, The Greater Picture

“Leave all your love and your longing behind, you can't carry it with you if you want to survive.”
― Florence Welch and Isabella Summers

“Kabla ya kukata roho mapigo ya kasi ya moyo aliyoyapata Yesu kutokana na mshtuko wa hipovolimia, pia yalisababisha maji kujikusanya katika vifuko vya maji au ute kandokando ya moyo na kandokando ya mapafu. Mkusanyiko huu wa maji kandokando ya moyo hujulikana kama ‘pericardial effusion’ na mkusanyiko wa maji kandokando ya mapafu hujulikana kama ‘pleural effusion’. Hii ndiyo maana baada ya Yesu kukata roho, na askari wa Kirumi kurusha mkuki katika ubavu wake, baada ya kutoboa mapafu na moyo, damu na maji vilitoka katika mbavu za Yesu kama Yohana alivyorekodi katika Injili yake. Mapafu ya Yesu na tumbo la Yesu vilijaa damu na maji. Mkuki ulivyotupwa maji yalitoka katika mapafu ya Yesu na katika tumbo la Yesu, na katika utando unaozunguka moyo wa Yesu, kutokana na kupasuka kwa moyo.”
― Enock Maregesi

“While I routinely breathed oxygen for five years at the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO), the medical profession refused to put me oxygen as they said it would damage my lungs by making them lazy.”
― Steven Magee

“After living an allergy free life, I developed seasonal allergies after having a CT X-Ray radiation scan of my lungs.”
― Steven Magee

“Hello COVID-19, goodbye lungs.”
― Steven Magee

“COVID-19 turned me into a germophobe.”
― Steven Magee

“I associate California with smoke inhalation.”
― Steven Magee

“Come to California...and breathe the toxic smoke!”
― Steven Magee

“On land you walk with
warm lungs. In the ocean, you are a fish

with gills, accustomed to swim cold waters.”
― Sneha Subramanian Kanta

“Lungs are meant to be filled with air, not smoke.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Most doctors that I have spoken to about using oxygen during sleep to treat low oxygen levels have warned me not to. They say oxygen makes the lungs lazy.”
― Steven Magee

“High altitude pulmonary edema has killed many mountaineers. Just like COVID-19, they suffocate from fluid filled lungs.”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“An ASD is an atrial septal defect. It is a hole in the heart. It is supposed to close at birth, but in some people it stays open. It causes low oxygen blood that is returning to the heart to mix with high oxygen blood. ASD’s can damage the lungs in the long term and can cause hypoxic blood to occur!”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“Allergies, it seems like everyone is developing them. I lived an allergy free life until I passed through a computed tomography X-ray scanner having my lungs examined. Afterwards I was extremely reactive to pollen with a runny nose and heavy sneezing every spring. It does respond to allergy medication and in my medicine cupboard you will find numerous allergy medications. Research into X-Ray radiation revealed that allergies are a known side effect of the exposure.”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“I had been researching high altitude diseases and their links to COVID-19, as both conditions are linked through hypoxia, also known as oxygen starvation or asphyxia. As the COVID-19 pandemic was progressing, more information was coming out about a debilitating condition called “Long COVID”. In particular, the damage it was wreaking on the kidneys. The lungs were typically the most damaged organ in surviving COVID-19 patients, followed by the kidneys.”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“Magical things are happening in the world of hypoxia.”
― Steven Magee

“Is hypoxic damage reversible? Perhaps.”
― Steven Magee

“Ammonia poisoning can cause fluid filled lungs.”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“Long COVID is believed to be related to Mitochondrial Disease.”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“When pain inspires you, your thoughts scream its lungs out.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“If your mind was as efficient as your lungs in taking what it needs and discarding what it doesn't, you would be invincible”
― Leo Lourdes, A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being

“The closer to the ocean you get, the better the air quality generally is.”
― Steven Magee