Quotes About Sighs

Sighs united together are almost prayers; prayers coming from two hearts are almost acts of grace.

Vaudeville audiences… could give the loudest sighs I have ever heard. Prisoners in the Bastille couldn't have touched them.

A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music.

I can Leap back, the plant thinks. Angie can no longer see what she is doing. Her eyes are shut, her thoughts have stopped. One small hand rests on Andy's neck; the other fist withdraws until the knife points earthward. Down, down, down, the invader demands. Something sighs sharply, and it might be Andy or it might be the entire forest. Leap, Leap, Leap, the Joshua implores.

How happy the lover, How easy his chain, How pleasing his pain, How sweet to discover He sighs not in vain.

Life is but sighs; and, when they cease, 'tis over.

In the bitter air, the grieving were wreathed in white by their sighs.

and the very folds of the curtains contained secrets and sighs.

demanding. His slightest touch had elicited sighs and murmurs of pleasure.

My father, my father, and dost thou not hear The words that the Erl-King now breathes in mine ear? 'Be calm, dearest child, 'tis thy fancy deceives; Tis the sad wind that sighs through the withering leaves.

Te molesta que permanezca en silencio? ¿Qué iba a decir? No te das cuenta de la callada elocuencia de suspiros y miradas. Una diosa es capaz de romper el sello de los labios. Es Aurora. Ella me despertará un día junto a tus pechos. Sí, entonces cantaré mi himno a los dioses matinales, como el cuadro mnemónico, dulce revelador de secretos.

I wish I was in Spain now, a glass of wine and a plate of ham." He sighs. "Instead of which I've got all this shit to sort out.

And did with sighs their fate deplore, Since I must shelter them no more; And if before my joys were such, In having heard, and seen too much, My grief must be as great and high, When all abandoned I shall be, Doomed to a silent destiny.

La princesa está triste, ¿qué tendrá la princesa? Los suspiros se escapan de su boca de fresa

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.

left lipstick imprints the shape of grateful, rubbery sighs...

Sighs are the punctuation of most of our lives, of relief, of how much worse it could have been, of "Now what?

But the weight of her anguish over Gregory – this one missing airman, this unreliable, perhaps unworthy man – filled her whole upper half, diaphragm, lungs, ribs, shoulders, with such crushing gravity that the sighs with which she was obliged to displace it shook her entire body.

the gnashing of teeth, the hissing of fire, the reeking sighs abate. All filthy memories fade out. My last regrets scamper off. . . . A spiritual battle is as brutal as a battle of men.

Look for the hand that points the way, And take the path where children play. Then where the face with breath that sighs Bends to admire its gleaming eyes, You way is marked by lines of light That mean escape from endless night.

Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever. Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart. Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs.

Sometimes when earth's gods are homesick they visit in the still night the peaks where once they dwelt, and weep softly as they try to play in the olden way on remembered slopes. Men have felt the tears of the gods on white-capped Thurai, though they have thought it rain; and have heard the sighs of the gods in the plaintive dawn-winds...

Because it is a customary cross, As die to love as thoughts, and dreams, and sighs, Wishes, and tears, poor fancy's followers.