Sighing Quotes

69 quotes by 61 authors

Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die. — Lord Byron
One can be a soldier without dying and a lover without sighing. — Edwin Arnold
Their sighing, canting, grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces. — Robert Burns
Welcome ever smiles, and farewell goes out sighing. — William Shakespeare
Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless… — Victor Hugo
A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The sweetest lives are those to duty wed, Whose deeds, both great and small Are close-knot strands of an unbroken thread There love ennobles all.… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Pounding fragrant things - particularly garlic, basil, parsley - is a tremendous antidote to depression. But it applies also to juniper berries, coriander seeds and… — Patience Gray
There, by the starlit fences The wanderer halts and hears My soul that lingers sighing About the glimmering weirs. — A. E. Housman
Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost. — John Milton
The best advice I got from my aunt, the great singer Rosemary Clooney, and from my dad, who was a game show host and news… — George Clooney
Remember this-all the sighing, mourning, sobbing, and complaining in the world, does not so undeniably evidence a man to be humble, as his overlooking his… — Thomas Brooks
It's all a farce, - these tales they tell About the breezes sighing, And moans astir o'er field and dell, Because the year is dying. — Paul Laurence Dunbar
If we spend the time we waste in sighing for the perfect golden fruit in fulfilling the conditions of its growth, happiness will come, must… — Helen Keller
The Spirit of prayer makes us so intimate with God that we scarcely pass through an experience before we speak to Him about it, either… — Ole Hallesby
The world sits quiet, as if sighing and taking a long inhale after what seemed like forever with mankind and the noise pollution. — Tara Brown
It was one of those somber evenings when the sighing of the wind resembles the moans of a dying man; a storm was brewing, and… — Alfred de Musset
A child's kiss Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad; A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich; A sick man… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Everybody prays whether [you think] of it as praying or not. The odd silence you fall into when something very beautiful is happening or something… — Frederick Buechner
I'm guessing I'm your fake girlfriend? B. J. Asks, sighing. It's a miracle that he figured it out. He's not usually the best with things… — Lauren Barnholdt

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