Sigh Quotes

• When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'

  Sydney J. Harris

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Sydney J. Harris (1953). “Strictly personal”

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• God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.

  Jean Paul

  God, Soul, Depth

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• Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart.

  Thomas Shadwell

  Art, May, Language

  'Psyche' (1675) act 3

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• A sigh isn't just a sigh. We inhale the world and breathe out meaning. While we can. While we can.

  Salman Rushdie

  World, Breathe, Inhale

  Salman Rushdie (1995). “The Moor's last sigh”

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• Between a gasp and a sigh, a life can change forever.

  Tim Lebbon

  Life, Forever

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• The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

  Minna Antrim

  Life, Drama, Ends

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• And all winds go sighing For sweet things dying.

  Christina Rossetti

  Death, Sweet, Wind

  "The Complete Works of Christina Rossetti".

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• Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.

  George Santayana

  Soul, Body, Spirituality

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.150, Рипол Классик

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

  Walter Savage Landor

  Life, Life Is, Cease

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.300

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• 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

  Music, Beautiful, Heart

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• Fear no more, says the heart, committing its burden to some sea, which sighs collectively for all sorrows, and renews, begins, collects, lets fall

  Virginia Woolf

  Fall, Heart, Sea

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.39, Broadview Press

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• You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss, A sigh is just a sigh; The fundamental things apply, As time goes by.

  Herman Hupfeld

  Time, Kissing, Popular Song

  "As Time Goes By" (song) (1931)

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• Sighs and silences and avoided conversations are just as important as the things you do talk about.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Silence, Important, Conversation

  Cecelia Ahern (2007). “If You Could See Me Now”, Hyperion

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• Man has here two and a half minutes-one to smile, one to sigh, and a half to love: for in the midst of this minute he dies.

  Jean Paul

  Life, Men, Two

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• There is a chord in every heart that has a sigh in it if touched aright.

  Ouida

  Heart, Sadness, Chords

  Ouida (1900). “Signa: A Story”

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• Mariam lay on the couch, hands tucked between her knees, watched the whirlpool of snow twisting and spinning outside the window. She remembered Nana saying once that each snowflake was a sigh heaved by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. That all the sighs drifted up the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke into tiny pieces that fell silently on the people below. As a reminder of how people like us suffer, she'd said. How quietly we endure all that falls upon us.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Life, Fall, Clouds

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.227, A&C Black

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• So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.

  Matthew Henry

  Pain, Anguish, Extremity

  Matthew Henry (1839). “An Exposition of the Old and New Testament: Wherein Each Chapter is Summed Up in Its Contents: Job-Solomon's Song. 1839”, p.24

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• Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.

  Charles Dickens

  Passion, Agriculture, Literature

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Dombey and Son”, p.292, Xist Publishing

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• What about this?" I held up a battered copy of Beauty and the Beast. "It sounds romantic." Xavier wrinkled his nose. "Disney... I don't think so." "Why not?" "Because if anyone found out, I'd never live it down." "I won't tell if you don't," I pleaded, and Xavier shook his head in defeat. "The things I do for you," He said with an exaggerated sigh.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Thinking, Sound, Why Not

  Alexandra Adornetto (2012). “Heaven: Number 3 in series”, p.29, Hachette UK

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• Thus one memory follows another until the waves dash together over our heads, and a deep sigh swells the breast, which warns us that we have forgotten to breathe in the midst of these pure thoughts.

  Max Muller

  Memories, Together, Forgotten

  Max Muller (1912). “Memories”

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• Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Hands, Action, Emotion

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 25, 2004.

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• Personally, I like it much better when someone else does the decision making. That way you have legitimate grounds to whine and complain. I tend to find both whining and complaining quite interesting and amusing, though sometimes--unfortunately--it's hard to choose which one of the two I want to do. Sigh. LIfe can be so tough sometimes.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Leadership, Two, Interesting

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “The Scrivener's Bones: Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians”, p.148, Macmillan

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• In my opinion, the trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments, which I have named the 'epic' one. It possesses nobility and grandeur to the highest degree; it has all the serious and powerful tones of sublime musical poetry, from religious, calm and imposing accents to savage, orgiastic outburst. Directed by the will of the master, the trombones can chant like a choir of priests, threaten, utter gloomy sighs, a mournful lament, or a bright hymn of glory; they can break forth into awe-inspiring cries and awaken the dead or doom the living with their fearful voices.

  Hector Berlioz

  Music, Religious, Powerful

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• The human heart has a sigh lonelier than the cry of the bittern.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Heart, Cry, Humans

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• You must remember this, a kiss is just a kiss.

  Herman Hupfeld

  Kissing, Romantic Love, Remember

  "Song: 'As Time Goes By (A Kiss Is Just A Kiss)'". 1931.

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