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Quotes About Sigh

Oh, things are wretched, miserable!' said Oblonsky, and sighed heavily.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Constance shrieked. The other children jumped. Milligan sighed.
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
What kind of sigh was that? Peril wondered. Was it an "I wish I were alone with Peril" sigh? Or a "worried about my students" sigh? Knowing Clay, it could also be a "we're all out of goats and I really wanted one" sigh.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
The words 'mainly in America' translated to me as 'this is bollocks' and I sat back in my chair with a sigh.
~ Danny Wallace
He narrows his eyes. "Is this true?" He sighs. "It is, isn't it? That's all I need.
~ David Almond
The moon shines bright: in such a night as this, When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees, And they did make no noise, in such a night, Troilus methinks mounted the Troyan walls, And sigh'd his soul toward the Grecian tents, Where Cressid lay that night.
~ William Shakespeare
My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable loss.
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
A friend writes of the numbing effects of humming and it returns you to your own sigh. It's no longer audible. You've grown into it. Some call it aging--an internalized liquid smoke blurring ordinary ache.
~ Claudia Rankine
Yare Yare Daze.
~ Unknown
Cardan draws a sharp breath and then lets it out slowly. 'I'd prefer to live.
~ Holly Black
I don't know," sighed
~ Jeffrey Archer
Her cell phone rang, the booming strains of the 'Ride of the Valkyries.' 'Speak of the devil,' she flipped open her cell phone with a sigh of resignation. 'Yes, Mom.
~ Jennifer Crusie
It is hard to laugh at the need for beauty and romance, no matter how tasteless, even horrible, the results of that need are. But it is easy to sigh. Few things are sadder than the truly monstrous.
~ Nathanael West
It was not so much a modification of the darkness, as a sigh of relief, a slight relaxing of tension, so that one felt , rather than saw, that the night had suddenly lost a shade of its density... ah! yes; there! between these two shoulders of the hills she is bleeding to death.
~ Unknown
what April called a whimsper, half whisper, half whimper),
~ Unknown
Mr. James would have preferred a younger and more attractive secretary, but he merely sighed and said, "Oh well . . . Of course you know best, Mrs. B. She certainly seems very keen.
~ Unknown
Here's a sigh to those who love me, And a smile to those who hate; And whatever sky's above me, Here's a heart for every fate.
~ Lord Byron
Too oft is a smile But the hypocrite's wile, To mask detestation or fear; Give me a soft sigh, Whilst the soultelling eye Is dimm'd, for a time, with a Tear
~ Lord Byron
For pleasures past I do not grieve, Nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave No thing that claims a tear. And now I'm in the world alone, Upon the wide, wide sea; But why should I for others groan, When none will sigh for me? Perchance my dog will whine in vain Till fed by stranger hands; But long ere I come back again He'd tear me where he stands.
~ Lord Byron
The vinyl cushioned seat on his chair let out a long windy sigh like a mule when its packs are unloaded.
~ Unknown
Calories, Emily said on a sigh. The evil tiny creatures that live in my closet and sew my clothes a little tighter every night.
~ Jill Shalvis
She looked up at me with a polite smile, her dark hair long and appealing...I liked the smile. Maybe I didn't look like a beaten-up bum. Maybe on me it just looked ruggedly determined. I'm sorry, sir, she said, but the addiction counseling center is on twenty-six. Sigh.
~ Jim Butcher
Do you think you'll be the guy to make the queen of the angels sigh?
~ Jim Morrison
Out-worn heart, in a time out-worn, Come clear of the nets of wrong and right; Laugh heart again in the gray twilight, Sigh, heart, again in the dew of the morn.
~ W.B. Yeats