The dead kept vigil in the streets, in homes, demanding…

“Last night he kept the vigil alone. He lay awake, wishing Liz back; waiting for her to come and lie beside him. It's true…

— Hilary Mantel

“He’d never sat vigil for someone before—didn’t know what he was supposed to do other than wait. And lust for the man sitting by…

— Rhys Ford

I know there are some people in British Columbia who are still holding a vigil for '3rd Rock'.

— Wayne Knight

To look back is to relax one's vigil.

— Bette Davis

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he…

— Marc Chagall

“I keep vigil over the stories of men and the stories of things, in case I can discern some secret message of my Love.”

— Nikolaj Velimirović

“I’d write and read and let myself, a little at a time, step down into myself- like a stairway down into a dark, intimate…

— Mark Doty

“I saw that vigil now as necessary, a prerequisite for my insides to harden and cure just like the willow of a cricket bat…

— Abraham Verghese

It was one long, anxious, inexorable, eternal vigil.

— Frank James

As we maintain the vigil of peace, we must remember that justice is a vigil, too - a vigil we must keep in our…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“So she began her death vigil.”

— Sarah J. Maas

“I know what it felt . . . like when I . . . thought you were dead, and-" A small gasp for breath,…

— Diana Gabaldon

We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

That we may give our body and our blood over to suffering and pain, like Christ - not for Self, but to give harvests…

— Oscar Romero

I always thought of myself as a moderate liberal, a fighter for peace and justice. I never thought of myself as being all that…

— George McGovern