Breathtaking Quotes

“breathtaking, adj.

Those mornings when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word.”
― David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary

“The eye turned to the fire gave back no light and he closed it with his thumb and sat by her and put his hand upon her bloodied forehead and closed his own eyes that he could see her running in the mountains, running in the starlight where the grass was wet and the sun's coming as yet had not undone the rich matrix of creatures passed in the night before her. Deer and hare and dove and groundvole all richly empaneled on the air for her delight, all nations of the possible world ordained by God of which she was one among and not separate from. Where she ran the cries of the coyotes clapped shut as if a door had closed upon them and all was fear and marvel. He took up her stiff head out of the leaves and held it or he reached to hold what cannot be held, what already ran among the mountains at once terrible and of great beauty, like flowers that feed on flesh. What blood and bone are made of but can themselves not make on any altar nor by any wound of war. What we may well believe has power to cut and shape and hollow out the dark form of the world surely if wind can, if rain can. But which cannot be held never be held and is no flower but is swift and a huntress and the wind itself is in terror of it and the world cannot lose it.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing

“When perception and sensitivity do meet, we feel empowered to create a colorful world and share a breathtaking experience. If our view can awaken and enrapture our feeling, we can also enhance our insight. ("Disruption»)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“She was the sky full of surprises. Her dreams were blue and breathtaking as a bright day and her secrets were dark and poetic as a cold night. Either way, she was the most beautiful mess that one had ever come across.”
― Akshay Vasu

“Your kiss can take my breath away, Bree, not that you haven’t before, but now we can give each other frost kisses. – Kian, Frost Kisses”
― Kailin Gow

“He leaned his head against the dark iron gate, and Evangeline would forever remember the way he looked just then.

He was still indescribably breathtaking, but it was all the tragic beauty of a sky where every single star was falling. His hair was a storm of broken gold. HIs eyes were a mess of silver and blue. The deadness she'd seen her first night in Valorfell was gone, but now she understood why it had been there, why he seemed so unable to give comfort or kindness. The girl who was supposed to be his one true love had literally stabbed him in the heart.”
― Stephanie Garber, Once Upon a Broken Heart

“If I was asked to write a poem about her. Every word I use would end up, being her name. And it would still sound so beautiful and breathtaking to me in the end.”
― Akshay Vasu

“Always be thankful for the little things... even the smallest mountains can hide the most breathtaking views!”
― Nyki Mack

“Breathtaking, splendid, wondrous, sublime, all those words describe you, exactly as you are. You are a work of art! Enjoy your beauty!”
― Amy Leigh Mercree

“Life is amazing. And then it's awful. And then it's amazing again. And in between the amazing and the awful, it's ordinary and mundane and routine. Breathe in the amazing, hold on through the awful, and relax and exhale during the ordinary. That's just living heartbreaking, soul-healing, amazing, awful, ordinary life. And it's breathtakingly beautiful.”
― L.R. Knost

“You are a breathtaking work of art,
far too brilliant to be hidden,
far too beautiful to be broken.”
― Sai Pradeep

“Do I have something on my face?”
Nate shook his head. “Nah, I was just wondering what a genuine smile looked like from you. It’s breathtaking.”
― Katherine McIntyre, Stronger Than Hope

“This morning the sunrise splashed a brilliant red across a sleepy sky. And I wondered what right I had to such a breathtaking sight. As I pondered the thought, I realized that this was not some right that I possess. Rather, it was a gift that God bestowed.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Miss Kuhli (Merrihew had heard it “Cooley” the day before, and had built quite a different picture) was Eurasian. Not since the perfection of ferro-concrete and its self-stressed freedom has architecture been able to match the construction of such eyelids and supraorbital arches as those with which Miss Kuhli had been born. Her hands seemed to be the cooperative work of a florist and a choreographer. Her body had not been designed, but inspired, and her hair was such that it could not be believed at a single glance.”
― Theodore Sturgeon, The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Volume XIII: Case and the Dreamer

“Sunrises and sunsets were breathtaking moments in his life. Moments of exhilaration and ecstasy. Deeply moving moments when he would dream. Dreams that splashed myriad colors on his mind's gray canvas!”
― Avijeet Das

“She is the night. She is the stars. Her soul soars and her mind races. She has a beauty that is unfathomable.”
― Blake Wilbanks, Queen of Night

“Every moment those cold fingers of you touches my skin in these rainy nights, they lit fire to my soul a bit at a time. These moments make me crave to be destroyed, even more. In the end, when my whole soul is engulfed in the fire that you have started, I want to pull you into my arms and destroy you too, in every breathtaking way that exists.”
― Akshay Vasu, The Abandoned Paradise: Unraveling the beauty of untouched thoughts and dreams

“Sensuality is the ultimate ticket to new and exciting experiences as well as deeper mysteries.”
― Lebo Grand

“The actual purpose of our sensuality is to take us to a much more deeper, breathtaking and adventurous place than we initially imagined.”
― Lebo Grand

“He pocketed his phone and stood, haunted by a dark thought: he might not want trouble, but he wanted her. And they seemed to come hand in hand.”
― Ronie Kendig, Kings Falling

“And you chose Quintessa over the two million units?” Bridgebane asked. “Over the huge bonus you could have had?”
“Yeah.” Shade cocked his head. “I guess I made a better choice than you did.”
― Amanda Bouchet, Starbreaker

“You are whoever they want you to be.
You are more then enough, because you are not real.
You are perfect, because you don't exist.
(Not you.)
(Never you.)”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“They burned down the market on the day Vivek Oji died.”
― Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji

“One of the most breathtaking concepts in all of Scripture is the revelation that God knows each of us personally and that we are in His mind both day and night. There is simply no way to comprehend the full implications of His love by the King of kings and Lord of lords. He is all-powerful and all-knowing, majestic and holy, from everlasting to everlasting. Why would He care about us—about our needs, our welfare, our fears? We have been discussing situations in which God doesn’t make sense. His concern for us mere mortals is the most inexplicable of all.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

“It was as though she faced a lion—raw beauty, extreme power and a posed threat—yet she couldn’t look away. He would devour her. ~ Emily/Godric”
― Lauren Smith, Wicked Designs

“I've felt so many quiets in my life. So many silences that lingered, in different ways. Some crash, some burn. Some fall slowly, like snow, and other pelt heavily, like rain. But this one is strange and new.
This one trembles.”
― Sara Wolf, Send Me Their Souls

“Beauty is certainly not all these breathtaking body features the eye can see.

Beauty is more of the moral ethics qualities that instill someone's personality.”
― Ricardo Derose

“He turned toward her, the wrinkle in his brow easing as he caught sight of her. ‘Aria.’ His breath caught.
Her heart stopped at the sound of her name on his lips. The world around her quieted, and for a moment, nothing else existed as she stepped toward him, longing for more but not daring to hope.”
― Grace Hitchcock, Hearts of Gold Collection

“Do I get to look at you properly now?" I asked, turning. "Or is this going to be a case of 'If you see my face, I'll have to kill you'?"
"I promised I wouldn't hurt you," he said. "I don't break my promises."
"I'm glad to hear---" Words failed me when I turned around. He wasn't traditionally handsome but ruggedly so, with a strong jaw, a straight nose, and a wide, stubborn mouth. His eyes were dark and velvety, sprinkled with gold. Gorgeous. Just like the rest of him. Even partially hidden in the shadows, he was simply the most breathtaking man I'd ever seen.
My knees weakened and I struggled to regain my composure.
I was already dead when he smiled. I died a little more when he brushed back the longish dark hair that was a damp tangle around his chiseled face. He wore a leather jacket over broad shoulders and a gray T-shirt stretched tight across the hard, muscled chest I'd had the pleasure of leaning against for the last twenty minutes. I guessed him to be an inch or two over six feet, maybe slightly less if his battered leather boots had heels.
"Hello, beautiful."
My mouth opened and closed, but nothing came out. He looked like trouble. But it was the kind of trouble that sent a delicious thrill down my spine.”
― Sara Desai, To Have and to Heist

“You―” he groans as he never takes his lips off mine, never stops piercing me with his tongue, “―are…” he pants. “Fucking. Breathtaking.”
I can’t help the whimper that slips out of my throat.
“My Lucy darling.” He softly bites my lip as those words roll off his tongue. “You’re all I want.”
― Dolores Lane, Bloody Fingers & Red Lipstick