Best Sigh Quotes
439 Sigh quotes by 341 unique authors
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A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.
— Arnold Haultain
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When you describe the miserable and unfortunate, and want to make the reader feel pity, try to be somewhat colder - that seems to give…
— Anton Chekhov
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Teach your children well...and feed them on your dreams...Don't ever ask them why. If they told you you would cry. So just look at them…
— Graham Nash
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Stop entertaining those vain fears. Remember it is not feeling which constitutes guilt but the consent to such feelings. Only the free will is capable…
— Pio of Pietrelcina
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I've been a dweller on the plains, have sighed when summer days were gone; No more I'll sigh; for winter here Hath gladsome gardens of…
— Dorothy Wordsworth
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There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of…
— Dante Alighieri
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Go isn't functional, it's pragmatical. Why pure paradigms like FP or OOP are always a must? (sigh)
— Frank Muller
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I can't tell you how many times in the '90s I'd meet somebody, we'd be having a nice time, and they'd sigh and go, 'This…
— Ethan Hawke
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Me and my friend Ioan Gruffudd are like chalk and cheese when it comes to clothes. He lives for his clothes and has an amazing…
— Matthew Rhys
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But enough is enough. One turns at last even from glory itself with a sigh of relief. From the depths of mystery, and even from…
— Annie Dillard
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Lightly from fair to fair he flew, And loved to plead, lament, and sue; Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain, For monarchs seldom sigh in…
— Walter Scott
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To sigh, yet feel no pain; To weep, yet scarce know why; To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by.
— Charles Lamb
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After all, the world is not a stage-not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially novels, are not…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Implores the passing tribute of a sigh.
— Thomas Gray
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This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I…
— Petrarch
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A brotherly person rejoices on my account when he approves me, but when he disapproves, he is loving me. To such people I will reveal…
— Saint Augustine
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People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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A final reminder. Whenever you are in Paris at twilight in the early summer, return to the Seine and watch the evening sky close slowly…
— Kate Simon
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And when life's sweet fable ends, soul and body part like friends; no quarrels, murmurs, no delay; a kiss, a sigh, and so away.
— Richard Crashaw
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Poetry, my dear friends, is a sacred incarnation of a smile. Poetry is a sigh that dries the tears. Poetry is a spirit who dwells…
— Khalil Gibran
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True hearts have eyes and ears, no tongues to speak; They hear and see, and sigh, and then they break.
— Edward Dyer
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I put all my sighs in a lockbox
— Al Gore
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For the virtuoso, musical works are in fact nothing but tragic and moving materializations of his emotions; he is called upon to make them speak,…
— Franz Liszt
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Will God or someone give me the power to breathe my sigh into my canvases, the sigh of prayer and sadness, the prayer of salvation,…
— Marc Chagall
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