Best Sighs Quotations
119 Sighs quotes by 99 unique authors
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What do you do?' she asks, holding out the vest. 'What do you do?' 'What do you do?' she asks, her voice shaking. 'Don't ask…
— Bret Easton Ellis
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I was on a walking tour of Oxford colleges once with a group of bored and unimpressable tourists. They yawned at Balliol's quad, T.E. Lawrence's…
— Connie Willis
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Fear no more, says the heart, committing its burden to some sea, which sighs collectively for all sorrows, and renews, begins, collects, lets fall
— Virginia Woolf
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When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and…
— A. E. Housman
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But he [Depression] just gives me that dark smile, settles into my favorite chair, puts his feet on my table and lights a cigar, filling…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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My head grew muddled with it all; the silly ways adults acted with one another, never saying what they meant, trusting in sighs and glances…
— Melanie Benjamin
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Sighs and silences and avoided conversations are just as important as the things you do talk about.
— Cecelia Ahern
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Love is a smoke rais'd with the fume of sighs; being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers'…
— William Shakespeare
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Egypt loved the lotus becuase it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved. Thus can something as insignificant as a name-two…
— Anita Diament
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Because it is a customary cross, As die to love as thoughts, and dreams, and sighs, Wishes, and tears, poor fancy's followers.
— William Shakespeare
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In my madness I was actually in love with her for the few hours it all lasted; it was the same unmistakable ache and stab…
— Jack Kerouac
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... and the very folds of the curtains contained secrets and sighs.
— Anais Nin
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And I'll have you know that if you hurt my son again, if he so much as sighs sadly over his coffee, I will hire…
— Christopher Moore
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Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs.
— Katherine Applegate
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Coeur qui soupire n'a pas ce qu'il desire. The heart that sighs does not have what it desires.
— Sarah Strohmeyer
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Marina sighs. "Love's a tidal wave," she says. "Because it sweeps you off your feet?" I ask. "No. Because it sucks you under and you…
— Jodi Picoult
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What is suffering? I'm not sure what it is, but I know that suffering is the name we give to the origin of all the…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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I cross my arms. "It was a two minute conversation." "I don't think a smaller time frame makes it less unwise." He furrows his eyebrows…
— Veronica Roth
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My wife, my Mary, goes to her sleep the way you would close the door of a closet. So many times I have watched her…
— John Steinbeck
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He once thought it himself, that he might die with grief: for his wife, his daughters, his sisters, his father and master the cardinal. But…
— Hilary Mantel
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she sighs, then breaks a piece off the muffin in my hand. 'Hey. There are plenty more just five feet to your right.' 'then you…
— Veronica Roth
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A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge…
— John Cheever
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Waiting tables has never paid my bills, a fact which I prefer to hide from my colleagues with deep sighs about the price of just…
— David Chang
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Most part of a lover's life is full of agony, anxiety, fear and grief, complaints, sighs, suspicions, and cares (heigh-ho my heart is woe), full…
— Robert Burton
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My heart sighs whenever were apart, you fill life in it again.
— Superman
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