Best Sigh Quotations
439 Sigh quotes by 341 unique authors
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Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.
— Alexander Pope
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Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her.
— William Wordsworth
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What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Every tear is answered by a blossom, Every sigh with songs and laughter blent, April-blooms upon the breezes toss them. April knows her own, and…
— Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
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Although the Irish language is connected with the many recollections that twine around the hearts of Irishmen, yet the superior utility of the English tongue,…
— Daniel O'Connell
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There is poetry and there is beauty in real sympathy; but there is more - there is action. The noblest and most powerful form of…
— Octavius Winslow
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It is Satan's work to fill men's hearts with doubt. He leads them to look upon God as a stern judge. He tempts them to…
— Ellen G. White
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Why do you live in your body like you will be given another? As if it were temporary. You starve it, you let anyone touch…
— Warsan Shire
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Sigh... I have learned that *everything* is so hard...except what Allah makes easy. So we must *beg* Him to make it easy on us.
— Yasmin Mogahed
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When you’re in love, you don’t need words. A look, a touch, a sigh – you’ve said it all.
— Juliet Mills
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The man who let the love of his life pass him by will end up alone with his regrets and all the sighs in the…
— Yasmina Khadra
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Most of the sighs we hear have been edited.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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While he has not, in my hearing, spoken the English language, he makes it perfectly plain that he understands it. And he uses his ears,…
— Jean Little
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When I open my eyes I must sigh, for what I see is contrary to my religion, and I must despise the world which does…
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.
— Derek Walcott
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His wet white face and miserable eyesBrought nurses to him more than groans and sighs:But hoarse and low and rapid rose and fellHis troubled voice:…
— Siegfried Sassoon
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Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart.
— Thomas Shadwell
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May a merciful God preserve me from a Christian Church in which everyone is a saint! I want to be and remain in the church…
— Martin Luther
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God is too good to be unkind and He is too wise to be mistaken. And when we cannot trace His hand, we must trust…
— Charles Spurgeon
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To the questioning glance of love, as it flashes out and then conceals itself, speech has no reply; the smile, the kiss, the sigh answer.
— Jose Rizal
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Settle this in your heart: Whether I am up or down, the Lord Jesus is the same. Whether I sing or sigh, the promise is…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Satan the envious said with a sigh: Christians know more about their hell than I
— Alfred Kreymborg
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I teach my sighs to lengthen into songs.
— Theodore Roethke
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My poor soul! Sigh, pray and strive to take upon you the blessed yoke of Christ, and you will live on earth in a heavenly…
— Tikhon of Zadonsk
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