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Quotes About Sigh

Poor little place,' he murmured with a sigh. She heard him. He said the most melancholy things, but she noticed that directly he had said them he always seemed more cheerful than usual. All this phrase-making was a game, she thought, for if she had said half what he said, she would have blown her brains out by now.
~ Virginia Woolf
The salt gale blew in at Betty Flanders's bedroom window, and the widow lady, raising herself slightly on her elbow, sighed like one who realizes, but would fain ward off a little longer—oh, a little longer!—the oppression of eternity.
~ Virginia Woolf
Should this be the end of the story? a kind of sigh? a last ripple of the wave? A trickle of water to some gutter where, burbling, it dies away?
~ Virginia Woolf
No temas más, dice el corazón, confiando su carga a algún mar que suspira colectivamente por todas las penas, un mar que se renueva, que comienza a moverse, que se detiene y cae.
~ Virginia Woolf
Did you accomplish anything in your meeting with Kynan and Arik?" Limos, looking proud of herself, bobbed her head excitedly. "I broke Arik's ribs." Reaver exhaled on a deep sigh. "Anything else?
~ Larissa Ione
He likes you," Miss Dove said, sounding surprised. "Yes," Harry answered with an unhappy sigh. He had long ago accepted the fact that cats adored him. The reason, of course, was because both God and cats had the same perverse sense of humor. When the animal buried its claws in his thigh and began to knead with happy abandon, he set his jaw and bore it. "Mr. Pigeon? Rather fitting for you to choose that name, Miss Dove. Both birds, you know.
~ Laura Lee Guhrke
climbed back on deck, where he no doubt breathed a sigh of relief.
~ Laurence Bergreen
That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.
~ Charles Dickens
Barkis suspira.
~ Charles Dickens
So I dreamed. Aye one remembers With a sigh those dear Septembers; And I start, as well I may: I have wasted half a day.
~ Alexander Smith, "Autumn"
Well pleased, with a sigh of relief he dropped into the chair and sat watching her, talking idly, as one who is feeling his way to a pleasant intimacy of whose nature he is not quite sure. She was very sweet and sympathetic about the examinations, told how she hated them herself and thought they ought to be abolished; said he
~ Grace Livingston Hill
the safety back on, and unloaded it, popping the round from the chamber. I slipped the magazine into my pocket and the gun into the glove box. "Hey, I—" "Just don't," I said. She threw her hands up and huffed a huge sigh.
~ James Patterson
If through all thy discouragemnets thy condition prove worse and worse, so that thou canst not pray, but are struck dumb when thou comest into his presence, as David, then fall making signs when thou canst not speak; groan, sigh, sob, "chatter, "as Hezekiah did; bemoan thyself for thine unworthiness, and desire Christ to speak thy requests for thee, and God to hear him for thee.
~ Thomas Goodwin
He punctuated this last thought with such a deep sigh that a house sparrow singing near by stopped and rushed home to be with his family.
~ Norton Juster
It's that hum in your left ear, A sigh coming from deep within you, A dream in which you keep falling forever, The hour in which you sit up in bed As though someone has shouted your name.
~ Charles Simic
Susurrus is a different kind of flirt though, fickle as a godling of wind can only be but light and warm as one father, bold as the other. And his is a different kind of love, one that has lasted near as long as this world has now and stayed as fresh somehow, even in his flightiness. It is Susurrus makes her sigh for those days, even though he makes them all sigh.
~ Hal Duncan
GUY: You're a writer? ME: Yeah. GUY: Any of your books made into a movie? ME: Sigh.
~ laurie victoria
Ah! what could we do but what we did! We sighed and fainted on the Sofa.
~ Jane Austen
I heaved a large sigh of resignation and pushed off on my three-mile route, mapped out with great care to avoid hills and bakeries.
~ Janet Evanovich
She paused, and heaved a sigh that seemed to come straight up from the cami-knickers. A silence ensued.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Star regarded it for a moment and, with a sigh, sank into the bubbles.
~ Pamela Anderson
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~ Dan Simmons
For a Tear is an Intellectual thing, And a Sigh is the Sword of an Angel King, And the bitter groan of a Martyr's woe Is an Arrow from the Almightie's Bow.
~ William Blake
The first harsh, sparse, swift drops rush through the leaves and across the ground in a long sigh, as though of relief from intolerable suspense.
~ William Faulkner