Sigh Quotes - Page 14

• My soul's a little grief, grappling your chest,
  To climb your throat on sobs; easily chased
  On other sighs and wiped by fresher winds.

  Wilfred Owen

  Grief, Wind, Soul

  Wilfred Owen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)”, p.47, Delphi Classics

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• You love me?' 'Yes, you great lummox. I love you.' He lets out a sigh. 'Sweet Camulos! It's about time.

  R.L. LaFevers

  Sweet, Love You

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

  William Shakespeare

  Love You, Writing, Ink

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.173

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• Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower:
  Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented sigh.

  Thomas More

  Art, Flower, Sky

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• Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in struggling for them.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Struggle, Perfect, Pearls

  Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to "Little Men"”, p.121, Booklassic

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• What can be said in New Year rhymes, That's not been said a thousand times? The new years come, the old years go, We know we dream, we dream we know. We rise up laughing with the light, We lie down weeping with the night. We hug the world until it stings, We curse it then and sigh for wings. We live, we love, we woo, we wed, We wreathe our prides, we sheet our dead. We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear, And that's the burden of a year.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  New Year, Dream, Lying

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1454, Delphi Classics

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• I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.

  Petrarch

  Sweet, Memories, Love Is

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• For pines are gossip pines the wide world through And full of runic tales to sigh or sing.

  James Elroy Flecker

  Gossip, World, Tales

  1913 'Brumana'.

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• What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, I have forgotten, and what arms have lain Under my head till morning, but the rain Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh Upon the glass and listen for reply, And in my heart there stirs a quiet pain For unremembered lads that not again Will turn to me at midnight with a cry. Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree, Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one, Yet knows its boughs more silent than before: I cannot say what loves have come and gone, I only know that summer sang in me A little while, that in me sings no more.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Summer, Lonely, Morning

  Harp-Weaver and Other Poems (1923) sonnet 19

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• The old men gazed on them in their loveliness, and turned away with that deep and painful sigh, which the gladness of childhood, and thetransient beauty of youth, are so apt to awaken in the bosom of the aged.

  Lydia M. Child

  Men, Childhood, Youth

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• Religious distress is at the same time the expression of the real distress and also the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of the spiritless condition. It is the opium of the people.

  Karl Marx

  Religious, Real, Heart

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1975). “Collected works”

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• What I'm suggesting is, stand for yourself, be for something, and the hell with it. Because the hand-wringers and the editorialists and the sigh-and-pontificate crowd will be against you, whatever you do.

  James Carville

  Hands, Crowds, Hell

  Interview with Joan Walsh, www.salon.com. March 12, 2002.

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• I would go to the craft services table and have Oreos or whatever, and a grown woman would come up to me and look at what I was eating and sigh and go, "I remember the days when I could eat like that." And I never knew what to say that, because I was 9.

  Mara Wilson

  Oreos, Looks, Crafts

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow? If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad, Threatening the welkin with his big-swoln face? And wilt thou have a reason for this coil? I am the sea; hark, how her sighs do blow! She is the weeping welkin, I the earth: Then must my sea be moved with her sighs; Then must my earth with her continual tears Become a deluge, overflow'd and drown'd: For why my bowels cannot hide her woes, But like a drunkard must I vomit them. Then give me leave, for losers will have leave To ease their stomachs with their bitter tongues.

  William Shakespeare

  Blow, Wind, Sea

  "The Works of William Shakespeare". Volume VI,

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• Under my head till morning; but the rain, Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh, Upon the glass and listen for reply.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Morning, Rain, Glasses

  1923 Harp-Weaver and Other Poems,'Sonnet19: What lips my lips have kissed'.

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• How it pours, pours, pours,
  In a never-ending sheet!
  How it drives beneath the doors!
  How it soaks the passer's feet!
  How it rattles on the shutter!
  How it rumples up the lawn!
  How 'twill sigh, and moan, and mutter,
  From darkness until dawn.

  Rossiter Johnson

  Rain, Doors, Rivers

  Rossiter Johnson (1902). “Morning Lights and Evening Shadows”

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• If there were reason for these miseries, then into limits could I bind my woes. If the winds rages, doth not the sea wax mad, threat'ning the welkin with its big-swoll'n face? And wilt though have a reason for this coil? I am the sea. Hark how her sighs doth blow. She is the weeping welkin, I the earth.

  William Shakespeare

  Blow, Wind, Sea

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.218, Oxford University Press

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• A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

  Henry Fielding

  Love, Glasses, Laughing

  Henry Fielding (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Fielding (Illustrated)”, p.1997, Delphi Classics

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• Behind the corpse in the reservoir, behind the ghost on the links, Behind the lady who dances and the man who madly drinks, Under the look of fatigue, the attack of migraine and the sigh There is always another story, there is more than meets the eye.

  W. H. Auden

  Eye, Men, Looks

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• The shower of answers to your prayers will continue to your dying hour. Nor will it cease then. When you pass out from beneath the shower, your dear ones will step into it. Every prayer and every sigh which you have uttered for them and their future welfare will, in God's time, descend upon them as a gentle rain of answers to prayer.

  Ole Hallesby

  Change, Prayer, Rain

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• If I am despised by the world, If it considers me as nothing, A divine peace flood me. For I have the Host as my support. When I draw near the ciborium, All my sighs are heard... To be nothing is my glory. I am the atom of Jesus.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Jesus, Support, World

  St. Therese of Lisieux (2013). “The Poetry of St. Therese of Lisieux: The Complete Edition”, p.102, ICS Publications

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• Some people always sigh in thanking God.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Gratitude, People, Thank God

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2012). “Browning: Poems”, p.170, Everyman's Library

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• Foreigners cannot enjoy our food, I suppose, any more than we can enjoy theirs. It is not strange; for tastes are made, not born. I might glorify my bill of fare until I was tired; but after all, the Scotchman would shake his head and say, 'Where's your haggis?' and the Fijan would sigh and say, 'Where's your missionary?'

  Mark Twain

  Tired, Might, Bills

  Mark Twain (2015). “A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.221, 谷月社

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• When you describe the miserable and unfortunate, and want to make the reader feel pity, try to be somewhat colder - that seems to give a kind of background to another's grief, against which it stands out more clearly. Whereas in your story the characters cry and you sigh. Yes, be more cold. ... The more objective you are, the stronger will be the impression you make.

  Anton Chekhov

  Kindness, Grief, Character

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• Teach your children well...and feed them on your dreams...Don't ever ask them why. If they told you you would cry. So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.

  Graham Nash

  Dream, Children, Love You

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