Sigh Quotes - Page 11

• Lost money is bewailed with deeper sighs Than friends, or kindred, and with louder cries.

  Juvenal

  Cry, Kindred, Lost

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• Splutter, splutter. Yes - we're off - we're rising. But why start off with an engine like that? But it smooths out now, like a long sigh, like a person breathing easily, freely. Like someone singing ecstatically, climbing, soaring - sustained note of power and joy. We turn from the lights of the city; we pivot on a dark wing; we roar over the earth. The plane seems exultant now, even arrogant. We did it, we did it!

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Dark, Light, Climbing

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• I came to admire this machine which could lift virtually any load strapped to its back and carry it anywhere in any weather, safely and dependably. The C-47 groaned, it protested, it rattled, it leaked oil, it ran hot, it ran cold, it ran rough, it staggered along on hot days and scared you half to death, its wings flexed and twisted in a horrifying manner, it sank back to earth with a great sigh of relief - but it flew and it flew and it flew.

  Len Morgan

  Sigh Of Relief, Wings, Weather

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• But you the pathways of the sky Found first, and tasted heavenly springs, Unfettered as the lark that sings, And knew strange raptures, - though we sigh, "Poor Iccarus!"

  Florence Earle Coates

  Spring, Sky, Larks

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• What did I hope for, what did I expect, what rich future did I foresee, when the phantom of my first love, rising up for an instant, barely called forth one sigh, one mournful sentiment?

  Ivan Turgenev

  First Love, Rising Up, Phantoms

  Ivan Turgenev (2012). “First Love and the Diary of a Superfluous Man”, p.89, Courier Corporation

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• And I'll have you know that if you hurt my son again, if he so much as sighs sadly over his coffee, I will hire a man, a Russian, probably, to hunt you down and rip all that shiny black hair from your head, then break your skinny arms and legs, and set you on fire, and then put you out with a hammer. And should there be children from your beastly rutting, I shall have the Russian man cut them to tiny pieces and feed them to Madame Jacob's dog. because, although he may be only a worthless, simpleminded, libertine artist, Lucien is my favorite, and I will not have him hurt. Do you understand?

  Christopher Moore

  Dog, Hurt, Children

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• The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Clever, Planning, Assuming

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• Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs.

  Katherine Applegate

  Book, Long, Homework

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• Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.

  Homer

  Eye, Silence, Speech

  Homer, Alexander Pope (1809). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.1072

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• Pride sings and dances; humility sighs.

  Mason Cooley

  Dance, Humility, Pride

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• Ah! the spendthrift, love: it gives all and everything with the first sigh!

  Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis

  Love, Giving, Firsts

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• A certain ultra-dignified gentleman of unusual prominence carried himself so stiffly that nobody felt free to call him by his first name. He quarreled with a friend of earlier days and from then on the two never spoke. The day the friend died an associate found the ultra-dignified gentleman staring through the window. When he came out of his reverie, he soliloquized with a sigh, ""He was the last to call me John."" Is any man really entitled to regard himself a success who has failed to inspire at least a goodly number of fellow mortals to greet him by his first name?

  B. C. Forbes

  Friendship, Men, Numbers

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• 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

  Heaven, Vengeance, Cry

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• Passion makes the old medicine new:
  Passion lops off the bough of weariness.
  Passion is the elixir that renews:
  how can there be weariness
  when passion is present?
  Oh, don't sigh heavily from fatigue:
  seek passion, seek passion, seek passion!

  Rumi

  Love, Passion, Medicine

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.91, Lulu.com

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• Climb the steep Cold Mountain way Roads to Cold Mountain are many and never ending The valleys are long and deep, the peaks piled high The streams are wide, the grass is thick The moss is slippery though there is no rain The pines sigh though there is no wind Who can escape the snares of the world And come to sit with me among the white clouds?

  Hanshan

  Rain, Clouds, Wind

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• 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 losses.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Loss, Choices, Rejection

  Wislawa Szymborska, Stanisław Barańczak, Clare Cavanagh (2000). “Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997”, p.145, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Prayer can assume very different forms, from quiet, blessed contemplation of God, in which eye meets eye in restful meditation, to deep sighs or sudden exclamations of wonder, joy, gratitude or adoration.

  Ole Hallesby

  Gratitude, Prayer, Blessed

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• Sombre and rich, the skies;
  Great glooms, and starry plains.
  Gently the night wind sighs;
  Else a vast silence reigns.

  Lionel Johnson

  Night, Wind, Sky

  Lionel Pigot Johnson, “By The Statue Of King Charles At Charing Cross”

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• I waved my hand in front of my face, obi-wan style. "I am not here." Niall's mucas glands kicked into overdrive. "Eoin's dead! And his ghost is standing right there on the grass!" Donal let out a long suffering sigh. "Eoin is being a writer." Niall calmed down, becuase everyone knows writers are weird and are always doing stupid thingss.

  Eoin Colfer

  Stupid, Hands, Long

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• I miss that moment when you're about to go through the tube turn-style but you put your ticket in the wrong way and then as you're trying to figure out how exactly to get in the damn station you hear a collective sigh of 40 people behind you pissed that you're slowing down the herd.

  Dan Mangan

  People, Missing, Style

  Source: www.themetropolist.com

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• This doesn't mean you're getting a discount." Audrey heaved a mock sigh. "Oh well. I guess I'll have to ply you with sexual favors, then." Gnome choked on the soup. "I'm old enough to be your grandfather!" Audrey winked at him, gathering the empty bags. "But you're not.

  Ilona Andrews

  Mean, Grandfather, Gathering

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Fate's Edge”, p.19, Penguin

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• Let me twine Mine arms about that body, where against My grained ash an hundred times hath broke And scarr'd the moon with splinters: here I clip The anvil of my sword, and do contest As hotly and as nobly with thy love As ever in ambitious strength I did Contend against thy valour. Know thou first, I loved the maid I married; never man Sigh'd truer breath; but that I see thee here, Thou noble thing! more dances my rapt heart Than when I first my wedded mistress saw Bestride my threshold.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Moon, Men

  William Shakespeare (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.137

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• King-sized? It would take up all my space. I need wide-open spaces." She glanced at Kane for help, but he was rolling around on a matress and moaning in a loud, orgasmic manner. She rolled her eyes and heaved a sigh.

  Christine Feehan

  Kings, Eye, Space

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• I told him about me being a summoner, and what that entailed. At the end of he simply gave a long sigh. “Why couldn’t you simply be an alcoholic like all the other detectives?” I grinned. “Demon summoning has less vomiting!

  Diana Rowland

  Long, Vomiting, Detectives

  Diana Rowland (2011). “Secrets of the Demon: Demon Novels, Book Three”, p.202, Penguin

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• But he [Depression] just gives me that dark smile, settles into my favorite chair, puts his feet on my table and lights a cigar, filling the place with his awful smoke. Loneliness watches and sighs, then climbs into my bed and pulls the covers over himself, fully dressed, shoes and all. He's going to make me sleep with him again tonight, I just know it.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Loneliness, Sleep, Dark

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.50, Bloomsbury Publishing

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