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Quotes About Sigh

An unforgettable love, and brief. Like a hurricane? No, a love as brief as the sigh of a guillotined head, brief like beauty, absolute beauty
~ Roberto Bolano
For, "Yes," he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life.
~ Robin Hobb
and to die with the Warrior's Prayer on his lips. For, 'Yes', he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life. Acceptance.
~ Robin Hobb
He took a deep breath that whispered into his lungs.
~ Robin Hobb
For a brief, self-indulgent moment, Ingrey pictured himself drawing his steel and beheading his servant. Alas, the hall was too narrow for such a swing to be executed properly. He gave over the vision with a long sigh and levered himself to his feet.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
In a life where there is only the bearable and the unbearable, a sigh of relief is an ecstasy.
~ Lorrie Moore
Lady Anne fetched a sigh.
~ Ronald Firbank
Soul of Gerontius (Hereafter Soul) I went to sleep; and now I am refresh'd, A strange refreshment: for I feel in me An inexpressive lightness, and a sense Of freedom, as I were at length myself, And ne'er had been before. How still it is! I hear no more the busy beat of time, No, nor my fluttering breath, nor struggling pulse; Nor does one moment differ from the next. I had a dream; yes:—some one softly said He's gone; and then a sigh went round the room.
~ Saint John Henry Newman
A sigh isn't just a sigh. We inhale the world and breathe out meaning. While we can. While we can.
~ Salman Rushdie
I sigh therefore I am . . . In the beginning and unto the end was and is the lung: divine afflatus, baby's first yowl, shaped air of speech, staccato gusts of laughter, exalted airs of song, happy lover's groan, unhappy lover's lament, miser's whine, crone's croak, illness's stench, dying whisper, and beyond and beyond the airless, silent void. A sigh isn't just a sigh. We inhale the world and breathe out meaning. While we can. While we can.
~ Salman Rushdie
Suspiro ergo sum.
~ Salman Rushdie
Alas, alas!' Andrea said, with a sigh. 'One can never be completely happy in this world.
~ Alexandre Dumas
I heard a sigh, as though the books were breathing. I felt that this was where I belonged. This was where I lived.
~ Alice Hoffman
Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
~ William Shenstone
A chance word or a sigh are just as much evidence as a speech or a murder: the life they reveal ceases to be secret and enters the realm of action.
~ E.M. Forster
He'd not always be just a shepherd. Someday he'd go to Sembia's docks and meet with adventure, Brann promised himself Ã¢â'¬Â¦ not for the first time. He sighed at that thought, shook his head with a wry smile, and glanced about at the sheep again.
~ Ed Greenwood
but the rain Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh Upon the glass and listen for reply...
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
How do you know, poor fool? Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence'; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
~ Francesco Petrarch
She probably missed the Morrows' party on my account, waiting around the house for me to show up, Elizabeth thought, heaving a deep sigh.
~ Francine Pascal
A glorious death would be in my final breath to take before I die, to hear one final time on my belovèd's mouth the sound of her eternal sigh.
~ Roman Payne
Cotrim, who was present, said: "Those came who had a genuine interest in you and in us. The eighty would have come only as a formality, would have talked about the inertia of the government, about patent medicines, about the price of real estate, or about each other…" Damasceno listened in silence, shook his head again, and sighed: "But they should have at least come.
~ Machado de Assis
Since thou and I sigh one another's breath, Whoe'er sighs most is cruellest, and hastes the other's death.
~ John Donne
Sigh'd and look'd, and sigh'd again.
~ John Dryden
We are the voices of the wandering wind, Which moan for rest and rest can never find; Lo! as the wind is so is mortal life, A moan, a sigh, a sob, a storm, a strife.
~ Edwin Arnold