If I could choose between loving you and breathing I would use my last breathe to say I love you.

This is a hyperbolic declaration of devotion: the speaker frames love as more essential than the most basic requirement for life—breathing. By imagining a final breath used not for survival but for a last utterance of “I love you,” the line dramatizes love as an ultimate priority and a defining act of identity. The sentiment belongs to a long tradition of romantic rhetoric that equates love with life itself, using the language of mortality to intensify emotional stakes. Its popularity in anonymous circulation suggests it functions less as a traceable literary statement than as a reusable formula for expressing absolute commitment.

If I had to choose between loving you and breathing, I would use my last breath to say, “I love you.”
If I could choose between loving you and breathing, I’d use my last breath to tell you I love you.
If I had to choose between you and breathing, I’d use my last breath to say I love you.