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439 Sigh quotes by 341 unique authors

why can't you see i'm a kid', said the kid. Why try to make me like you? Why are you hurt when I don't cuddle?… — Shel Silverstein
How does fear become so powerful? We can’t see it. We can’t touch it, yet it gets its claws in us and begins to control… — Gena Showalter
Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection,… — Simone Weil
Yes, that's it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it's always tea time. — Lewis Carroll
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought... — William Shakespeare
When the starry sky, a vista of open seas, or a stained-glass window shedding purple beams fascinate me, there is a cluster of meaning, of… — Julia Kristeva
Come away, come away, Death, And in sad cypress let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath, I am slain by a fair cruel… — William Shakespeare
I was perpetually grief-stricken when I finished a book, and would slide down from my sitting position on the bed, put my cheek on the… — Marya Hornbacher
If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs, "The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies." While the wolf waits below, hungry and… — Louis Sachar
The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the teacup opens A lane to the land of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Mariam lay on the couch, hands tucked between her knees, watched the whirlpool of snow twisting and spinning outside the window. She remembered Nana saying… — Khaled Hosseini
But with a sigh he had released her hand, while she was so lost in the fantasy that she hadn't felt it go away, as… — Thomas Pynchon
The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is… — Jack Kerouac
I'd love to, she finally said,"on one condition." I steadied myself, hoping it wasn't something too awful. "Yes?" "You have to promise that you won't… — Nicholas Sparks
She admired him; she was used to clutching her hands together in his wake and heaving audible sighs. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Personally, I like it much better when someone else does the decision making. That way you have legitimate grounds to whine and complain. I tend… — Brandon Sanderson
Inching one's way along a steep cliff in the dark: on reaching the highway, one breathes a sigh of relief. Just when one can't take… — Banana Yoshimoto
Marriage I think For women Is the best of opiates. It kills the thoughts That think about the thoughts, It is the best of opiates.… — Stevie Smith
It is hard to laugh at the need for beauty and romance, no matter how tasteless, even horrible, the results of that need are. But… — Nathanael West
She talks with a broken heart - Her voice lutes brokenly like a heart lost, musically too, like in a lost grove, it's almost too… — Jack Kerouac
Stephanie,' Valerie said. 'She's going to have a baby, and she's getting married.' My father was confused. He looked around the room. No Joe. No… — Janet Evanovich
Half the night I waste in sighs, Half in dreams I sorrow after The delight of early skies; In a wakeful dose I sorrow For… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
I forced myself to picture the last moments. The penultimate breath. A final sigh. And yet. It was always followed by another. — Nicole Krauss
Mr. Freeman sighs. "No imagination. What are you thirteen? Fourteen? You've already let them beat your creativity out of you! — Laurie Halse Anderson
Do you like to slide?" His voice was eager. Stair rails! Did he suspect me? I forced a sigh. "No, Majesty. I'm terrified of heights."… — Gail Carson Levine

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