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Quotes About Sighs

I feed my heart with sighs, that's all it asks, I live on tears, I think I'm born to weep; I don't complain of that, since in my state weeping is sweeter than you might believe.
~ Petrarch
Fiona only spoke when called upon and always sighed her way through answers as if school were the ultimate inconvenience. She was unknowable in the way that all girls are unknowable, but also in her own way.
~ Aaron Starmer
Love consists of feelings mixed with groans of sighs.
~ Prof.Salam Al Shereida
There was no sign on the face of nature of this amazing tale that was not so much told as suggested to me in desolate exclamations, completed by shrugs, in interrupted phrases, in hints ending in deep sighs.
~ Joseph Conrad
There is an old saying that every time you sigh, a drop of blood falls from your heart. It seems I sigh more now than I ever did, and that probably means my heart has lost many tear-shaped drops. I have lived my life, as we all do, between these sighs, between these drops of blood.
~ Judy Collins
Wenn Seufzer die Welt verbessern könnten, sie wäre längst keiner Verbesserung mehr fähig.
~ Wilhelm Raabe
I had my eyes closed in the dark, I sighed a million sighs, I told a million lies, to myself, to myself.
~ Van Morrison
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Still, the days were endurable and came and went like breath with only a few deep heaves to harm the pace.
~ William H. Gass
There is no happiness for him who oppresses and persecutes; no, there can be no repose for him. For the sighs of the unfortunate cry for vengeance to heaven.
~ Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
The heart from out the bosom Was never given in vain But bought with sighs aplenty And sold for endless rue And now I am two and twenty And oh tis true, tis true
~ Alfred Edward Housman
Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.
~ Ralph Bakshi
We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
~ Saint Augustine
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
~ William Shakespeare
Africa is a land of dreams and memories. It is rifts of remembrance stitched together with the sighs of time.
~ Deanna Raybourn
Vinne sighs; she has a deep distrust of marriage, which in her observation has an almost irresistable tendency to turn friends and lovers into relatives, if not into foes.
~ Alison Lurie
But in the suite, all Kat heard was the deep sighs of her companions and their simultaneous exclamation, "Benjamin Franklin.
~ Ally Carter
Rows and rows of books lined the shelves and I let my eyes linger on the sturdy spines, thinking how human books were, so full of ideas and images, worlds imagined, worlds perceived; full of fingerprints and sudden laughter and the sighs of readers, too.
~ Kim Edwards
Maybe tonight, maybe tonight by the fire all alone you and I. Nothing around but the sound of heart and your sighs.
~ Neil Diamond
Reír, y el mundo reirá contigo. llorar, y llorar a solas. Cantas, y las montañas le echo usted. Suspiras, y se pierde en el aire. Os alegráis, y el mundo va a buscarte. lloras, y el mundo se irá. Usted puede estar en sintonía con el mundo, su gente y la naturaleza que te rodea. Usted es el origen, y usted es el centro de su felicidad y bienestar. Por lo que agradecer y disfrutar de la vida, todos los días, ya que viene a ti. Animarme, mi amigo!
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
Por que siempre ha sido propio el amor que después de los besos vengan los suspiros.
~ Larry McMurtry
In Cintra, as she remembered, an attractive man was one whose head reached the ceiling, whose shoulders were as broad as a doorway, who swore like a dwarf, roared like a buffalo and stank at thirty paces of horses, sweat and beer, regardless of what time of day or night it was. Men who did not correspond to this description were not recognised by Queen Calanthe's chambermaids as worthy of sighs and gossip.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
What a terrible dream I had a few days ago. [...] To the knives and forks clung the tears of enemies I destroyed, and the glasses sang with the sighs of many poor people, but the tear-stains only made me want to laugh, while the hopeless sighs sounded to me like music. I needed banquet music and had it.
~ Robert Walser
Communities tend to be guided less than individuals by conscience and a sense of responsibility. How much misery does this fact cause mankind! It is the source of wars and every kind of oppression, which fill the earth with pain, sighs and bitterness.
~ Albert Einstein