Best Sighs Quotes
119 Sighs quotes by 99 unique authors
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Man no longer dreams over a book in which a soft voice, a constant companion, observes, exhorts, or sighs with him through the pangs of…
— Loren Eiseley
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The Merchant, to Secure His Treasure The merchant, to secure his treasure, Conveys it in a borrowed name: Euphelia serves to grace my measure, But…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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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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What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind.
— Henry David Thoreau
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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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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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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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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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I teach my sighs to lengthen into songs.
— Theodore Roethke
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All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.
— William Shakespeare
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He could hear trhe voices, the whispers, the sighs, of these souls who were unable to let go of their burdens. ... Pi understood this…
— Clare Vanderpool
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Out of the sighs of one generation are kneaded the hopes of the next.
— Machado de Assis
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But for my sighs, I should be drowned by my tears; and but for my tears, I should be burned by my sighs.
— Ibn al-Farid
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There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up The second…
— Rudolf Bing
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I had my eyes closed in the dark, I sighed a million sighs, I told a million lies, to myself, to myself.
— Van Morrison
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Maybe tonight, maybe tonight by the fire all alone you and I. Nothing around but the sound of heart and your sighs.
— Neil Diamond
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A shining isle in a stormy sea, We seek it ever with smiles and sighs; To-day is sad. In the bland To-be, Serene and lovely…
— Mary C. Ames
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She's got Greta Garbo's standoff sighs, she's got Bette Davis eyes.
— Kim Carnes
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To describe love-making is immoral and immodest; you know it is. To describe it as it really is, or would appear to you and me…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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None but those who have loved can be supposed to understand the oratory of the eye, the mute eloquence of a look, or the conversational…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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I've heard stories about me as a kid. My dad got me a T-shirt that said "here comes trouble," and when I ask my mom…
— Kristin Bauer van Straten
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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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