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Quotes About Sighing

Poor, deluded Shawondasee! 'T was no woman that you gazed at, 'T was no maiden that you sighed for, 'T was the prairie dandelion That through all the dreamy Summer You had gazed at with such longing, You had sighed for with such passion, And had puffed away forever, Blown into the air with sighing. Ah! deluded Shawondasee!
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sighing restlessly, the boundless sea broke huge rollers into white cream which hissed hungrily up to the tideline.
~ Brian Jacques
Sighing, I invite the earth to suspend them indefinitely, freezing them in battle, many once again mutilated and deformed, as solidly as Winter's iced statues littering the grounds.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Sighing, Kruppe reached into the small purse strapped to his belt, probed within the leather pouch, then, brows lifted in sudden dismay: 'Dearest Meese, yet another discovery…
~ Steven Erikson
What she uttered was a lengthened sighing, apparently at something in her mind which had led to her presence here. There was a spasmodic abandonment about it as if, in allowing herself to utter the sound, the woman's brain had authorized what it could not regulate.
~ Thomas Hardy
sighing as if he regretted leaving, although I thought not, that sudden oncoming of emptiness and sadness washing over me then, too.
~ Susanna Moore
Back in the cabin I light the fire and sit sighing and there are leaves skittering on the tin roof, it's August in Big Sur --- I fall asleep in the chair and when I wake up I'm facing the thick little tangled woods outside the door and I suddenly remember them from long ago
~ Jack Kerouac
She is sighing deeply now with sympathy and delight - the delight of an addict when someone else admits he's hooked, too.
~ Christopher Isherwood
The night, a living presence, was in constant motion, shifting itself, sighing, breathing. She wondered if perhaps it, too, was trying to get warm.
~ Laird Koenig
Sí, claro -replicó el otro, suspirando. -El mismo Sydney, con la misma suerte. Ya en aquel entonces hacía los ejercicios escolares de otros chicos y raras veces los míos. -¿Y por qué no los tuyos? -Sabe Dios. Era mi estilo, supongo.
~ Charles Dickens
Love consists of a little sighing, a little crying, a little dying — and a deal of lying.
~ Author Unknown
silly women believe love is sighing I am dying still if he wrote it I suppose thered be some truth in it true or no it fills up your whole day and life always something to think about every moment and see it all around you like a new world
~ James Joyce
We women take love too seriously. Men wish to be loved with laughter, not with sighing. So laugh, sweetheart, laugh, or soon you may be weeping.
~ Minna Antrim
The sighing of the devotee clears a path for him into the world unseen, and his tears wash away the sins of ages. All revelation follows the ecstasy; all knowledge that a book can never contain, that a language can never express, nor a teacher teach, comes to him of itself.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
The Autumn is old; The sere leaves are flying; He hath gather'd up gold, And now he is dying;- Old age, begin sighing!
~ Thomas Hood
But to go to school in a summer morn, O! It drives all joy away; Under a cruel eye outworn, The little ones spend the day In sighing and dismay.
~ William Blake
And all the winds go sighing, For sweet things dying
~ Christina Georgina Rossetti
When people call it that I always get pissed off because I always think depression sounds like you just get like really sad, you get quiet and melancholy and just like sit quietly by the window sighing or just lying around. A state of not caring about anything. A kind of blue kind of peaceful state.
~ David Foster Wallace
sensations of somatic distress occurring in waves lasting from twenty minutes to an hour at a time, a feeling of tightness in the throat, choking with shortness of breath, need for sighing, and an empty feeling in the abdomen, lack of muscular power, and an intense subjective distress described as tension or mental pain." Tightness in the throat.
~ Joan Didion
Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
~ John Milton
During the funeral, I realized that I couldn't stop sighing. I later read that sighing is one way we process grief. It is a physiological response to distress.
~ Mark Batterson
Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using. Why so? More we enjoy it, more it dies; If not enjoyed, it sighing cries, Hey ho.
~ Samuel Daniel
The adept of courtly love, fresh from sighing at his unapproachable lady's feet, could pause on his homeward journey to tumble a shepherdess in her meadow, a fresh-faced village girl under a hedge. The Muslims in Spain and Syria were shocked by the licentiousness of the French.
~ Unknown
She had hoped it would be at least a little longer before the knights started coming back, so she couldn't help sighing as she stuck a leather bookmark in the book and closed it. Then she went out to argue with whoever it was until they went away.
~ Patricia C. Wrede