Best Sigh Thoughts
439 Sigh quotes by 341 unique authors
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That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.
— Charles Dickens
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When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'
— Sydney J. Harris
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So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.
— Matthew Henry
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What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe…
— James Lovelock
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Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of…
— Karl Marx
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Thus one memory follows another until the waves dash together over our heads, and a deep sigh swells the breast, which warns us that we…
— Max Muller
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God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.
— Jean Paul
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Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.
— Charles M. Schulz
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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
— William Shakespeare
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When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow? If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad, Threatening the welking with his big-swoln…
— William Shakespeare
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Behind the corpse in the reservoir, behind the ghost on the links, Behind the lady who dances and the man who madly drinks, Under the…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If there were reason for these miseries, then into limits could I bind my woes. If the winds rages, doth not the sea wax mad,…
— William Shakespeare
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To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,- One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never.
— William Shakespeare
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I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of the cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful…
— Sonya Hartnett
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Other sound than the owl's voice there was none, save the falling of a fountain into its stone basin; for, it was one of those…
— Charles Dickens
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What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, I have forgotten, and what arms have lain Under my head till morning, but the…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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it is my lady! *sighs* o, it is my love! o, that she knew she were! she speaks, yet she sais nothing. what of that?…
— William Shakespeare
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Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running—that's the way to live. All alone…
— Jack Kerouac
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Learning to let go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large, brother-in-law or end-of-quarter office…
— Martha Beck
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Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where…
— Margaret Atwood
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I wasted time, and now doth time waste me; For now hath time made me his numbering clock: My thoughts are minutes; and with sighs…
— William Shakespeare
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It's hard to believe. Where does the times go?' Betty sighs. 'I've always hated that phrase. It makes it would like time went on a…
— Gabrielle Zevin
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