Sigh Quotes - Page 13

• O happiness! our being's end and aim!
  Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name:
  That something still which prompts the eternal sigh,
  For which we bear to live, or dare to die.

  Alexander Pope

  Happiness, Gratitude, Appreciation

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 4 (1734) l. 1

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• she sighs, then breaks a piece off the muffin in my hand. 'Hey. There are plenty more just five feet to your right.' 'then you shouldn't be so concerned about losing some of yours.' she says, grinning. 'Fair enough.

  Veronica Roth

  Hands, Feet, Hey

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• We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful and so solemn. Beauty exalts, but beauty also lulls. Early associations endear, but they also confuse. Through that beautiful solemnity, the transporting or horrifying realities of which the Book tells may come to us blunted and disarmed, and we may only sigh with tranquil veneration when we ought to be burning with shame, or struck dumb with terror, or carried out of ourselves by ravishing hopes and adorations.

  C. S. Lewis

  Beautiful, Bible, Book

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• Shame on you, Crispin. Married how long, and you haven't spanked your wife with a metal spatula yet?" I'd gotten used to Ian's assumption that everyone was as perverted as he was, so I didn't miss a beat. "We prefer blender beaters for our kitchen utensil kink," I said with a straight face. Bones hid his smile behind his hand, but Ian looked intrigued. "I haven't tried that ... oh, you're lying, aren't you?" "Ya think?" I asked with a snort. Ian gave a sigh of exaggerated patience and glanced at Bones. "Being related to her through you is a real trial.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Lying, Real, Thinking

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• If your purse no longer bulges
  and you've lost your golden treasure,
  If times you think you're lonely
  and have hungry grown for pleasure,
  Don't sit by your hearth and grumble,
  don't let mind and spirit harden.
  If it's thrills of joy you wish for
  get to work and plant a garden!
  
  If it's drama that you sigh for,
  plant a garden and you'll get it
  You will know the thrill of battle
  fighting foes that will beset it
  If you long for entertainment and
  for pageantry most glowing,
  Plant a garden and this summer spend
  your time with green things growing.

  Edgar Guest

  Summer, Lonely, Spring

  Edgar Albert Guest (1916). “A Heap O' Livin' Along Life's Highway”

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• Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.

  Walter Raleigh

  Grieving, Comfort, Use

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• Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, "just in case," in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

  Alexander Herzen

  Memories, Men, Years

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• A little noiseless noise among the leaves, Born of the very sigh that silence heaves.

  John Keats

  Silence, Littles, Noise

  'I stood tip-toe upon a little hill' (1817) l. 10

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• I want free life, and I want fresh air;
  And I sigh for the canter after the cattle,
  The crack of the whip like shots in battle,
  The medley of horns, and hoofs, and heads
  That wars, and wrangles, and scatters and spreads;
  The green beneath and the blue above,
  And dash, and danger, and life and love.

  Frank Desprez

  Life And Love, Freedom, War

  Frank Desprez, “Laska”

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• Life! we've been long together
  Through pleasant and through cloudy weather;
  Tis hard to part when friends are dear,-
  Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear.
  Then steal away, give little warning.
  Choose thine own time,
  Say not "Good-night," but in some brighter clime,
  Bid me "Good-morning."

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Life, Friends, Good Night

  Anna Letitia Barbauld (2001). “Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.175, Broadview Press

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• And when you sigh from kiss to kiss
  I hear white Beauty sighing, too,
  For hours when all must fade like dew.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beauty, Kissing, White

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.50, Wordsworth Editions

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• For once, he slept first. She lay in the dark, listening to him breathe, stealing a little of his warmth as her own body cooled. Since he was asleep, she stroked his hair. "I love you," she murmured. "I love you so much, I'm stupid about it." With a sigh, she settled down, closed her eyes, and willed her mind to empty. Beside her, Roarke smiled into the dark. He never slept first.

  Nora Roberts

  Stupid, Love You, Eye

  J. D. Robb, Nora Roberts (2011). “J. D. Robb In Death Collection”, p.1172, Penguin

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• 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

  Life, Wind, Voice

  Edwin Arnold (2016). “The Light of Asia, or the Great Renunciation (Mahâbhinishkramana): Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India and Founder of Buddhism (as Told in Verse by an Indian Buddhist)”, p.34, Routledge

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• Teach me to feel that Thou art always nigh;
  Teach me the struggles of the soul to bear;
  To check the rising doubt, the rebel sigh;
  Teach me the patience of unanswered prayer.

  George Croly

  Patience, Art, Prayer

  George Croly (1851). “Scenes from scripture: with other poems”, p.13

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

  John Dryden

  Life, Sweet, Pain

  John Dryden (1762). “The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq: In Six Volumes”, p.372

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• My wife, my Mary, goes to her sleep the way you would close the door of a closet. So many times I have watched her with envy. Her lovely body squirms a moment as though she fitted herself into a cocoon. She sighs once and at the end of it her eyes close and her lips, untroubled, fall into that wise and remote smile of the Ancient Greek gods. She smiles all night in her sleep, her breath purrs in her throat, not a snore, a kitten's purr... She loves to sleep and sleep welcomes her.

  John Steinbeck

  Wise, Fall, Sleep

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.57, Penguin

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• In Japanese and Italian, the response to ["How are you?"] is "I'm fine, and you?" In German it's answered with a sigh and a slight pause, followed by "Not so good.

  David Sedaris

  Italian, Fine, Response

  David Sedaris (2013). “Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls”, p.42, Hachette UK

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• Out-worn heart, in a time out-worn,
  Come clear of the nets of wrong and right;
  Laugh, heart, again in the grey twilight,
  Sigh, heart, again in the dew of the morn.

  William Butler Yeats

  Twilight, Heart, Sadness

  'An Irish Airman Foresees his Death'

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• If I go away What would still remain of me? The ghost within your eyes? The whisper in your sighs? You see...Believe And I'm always there.

  Jon Oliva

  Love, Long Distance Relationship, Believe

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• But enough is enough. One turns at last even from glory itself with a sigh of relief. From the depths of mystery, and even from the heights of splendor, we bounce back and hurry for the latitudes of home.

  Annie Dillard

  Home, Sigh Of Relief, Height

  Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.21, Canongate Books

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• To be in love, where scorn is bought with groans; coy looks, with heart-sore sighs; one fading moment's mirth

  William Shakespeare

  Love You, Heart, Looks

  William Shakespeare (1839). “The Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakspere: Comedies / ... Shakspere”, p.19

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• I would like to think that no one would die anymore
  if we all believed in daisies
  but the worms know better, don't they?
  They slide into the ear of a corpse
  and listen to his great sigh.

  Anne Sexton

  Thinking, Ears, Slides

  Anne Sexton (1974). “The death notebooks”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Here are lips of flame eager to be extinguished by love's liquid sigh.

  Aberjhani

  Love, Angel, Kissing

  Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams”, p.57, Lulu.com

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• Love is a smoke rais'd with the fume of sighs; being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears; what is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall, and a preserving sweet.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Eye, Love Is

  William Shakespeare (1847). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.148

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• Happy the Man, who void of Cares and Strife,
  In Silken, or in Leathern Purse retains
  A Splendid Shilling: He nor hears with Pain
  New Oysters cry'd, nor sighs for chearful Ale

  John Phillips

  Money, Pain, Men

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