Sigh Quotes - Page 3

• The fundamental things apply
  As time goes by.

  Herman Hupfeld

  Fundamentals, Time Goes By, Time Goes On

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

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• The fundamentalists of every faith remain blind to the truth that the “sigh within the prayer is the same in the heart of the Christian, the Muslim, and the Jew.” I have seen this unity with my eyes, heard it with my ears, felt it with all my being.

  David James Duncan

  Christian, Prayer, Heart

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• While he has not, in my hearing, spoken the English language, he makes it perfectly plain that he understands it. And he uses his ears, tail, eyebrows, various rumbles and grunts, the slant of his great cold nose or a succession of heartrending sighs to get his meaning across.

  Jean Little

  Dog, Eyebrows, Tails

  Jean Little (1990). “Stars Come Out Within”, Markham, Ont. : Viking

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• A sigh is an amplifier for people who suffer in silence.

  Robert Orben

  Funny, People, Silence

  Robert Orben (2012). “2400 Jokes to Brighten Your Speeches”, p.312, Doubleday

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• Novels teach the youthful mind to sigh after happiness that never existed.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Mind, Teach, Novel

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• Here's a sigh to those who love me,And a smile to those who hate;And, whatever sky's above me,Here's a heart for every fate.

  Lord Byron

  Hate, Heart, Fate

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.536, Delphi Classics

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• If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.

  Lord Acton

  Morning, Anxiety, Paper

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• A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

  Arnold Haultain

  Funny, Women, Being A Woman

  Arnold Haultain (2015). “Hints for Lovers: "The Secret Nature and Psychology of Love"”, p.37, eKitap Projesi

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

  Anais Nin

  Secret, Curtains, Folds

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• Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs.

  William Wordsworth

  Compassion, Tears, Ends

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.102

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• your eyes... they're beautiful.you're beautiful." *sigh*

  Richelle Mead

  Beautiful, Eye, You Re Beautiful

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• Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh and sing all in a breath; it is called "the rejoicing of hope" (Hebrews 3:6).

  William Gurnall

  Christian, Hope, Laughter

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• Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.

  William Shenstone

  Life, Thinking, Dull

  'Written at an Inn at Henley' (1758).

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• I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of the cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it.

  Sonya Hartnett

  Beautiful, Long, Dying

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• I had my eyes closed in the dark, I sighed a million sighs, I told a million lies, to myself, to myself.

  Van Morrison

  Philosophy, Lying, Eye

  Song: Wonderful Remark, Album: Van Morrison At The Movies: Soundtrack Hits

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• Open your mouth wide A universal sigh.

  Thom Yorke

  Mouths, Universal, Wide

  "Song: 'Bloom'". 2011.

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• If you begin the day with a laugh, you may, nevertheless, end it with a sob and a sigh.

  Herman Melville

  Laughing, May, Pessimism

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.1524, Delphi Classics

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• Prison is a severe and terrible punishment; but for me, thanks to Arthur Balfour, this was not so. I was much cheered on my arrival by the warder at the gate, who had to take particulars about me. He asked my religion, and I replied 'agnostic.' He asked how to spell it, and remarked with a sigh: 'Well, there are many religions, but I suppose they all worship the same God.' This remark kept me cheerful for about a week.

  Bertrand Russell

  God, Punishment, Religion

  Bertrand Russell (1998). “Autobiography”, p.257, Psychology Press

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• Thomas A. Edison was once reluctantly persuaded by his wife to attend one of the big social functions of the season in New York. At last the inventor managed to escape the crowd of people vying for his attention, and sat alone unnoticed in a corner. Edison kept looking at his watch with a resigned expression on his face. A friend edged near to him unnoticed and heard the inventor mutter to himself with a sigh, "If there were only a dog here!"

  Edmund Fuller

  Dog, New York, Expression

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• He dropped the pretense, and dropped his head, so his brow came to rest against the sun-warmed top of hers. His arms went around her and drew her in, and Karou and Akiva were like two matches struck against each other to flare starlight. With a sigh, she softened, and it was pure homecoming to melt against him and rest.

  Laini Taylor

  Two, Arms, Sun

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• I sigh inside, so exhausted by these ugly questions, but when did a monster ever deserve its privacy?

  Isaac Marion

  Monsters, Ugly, Privacy

  Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?” (…) A sigh of longing. “To be honest, I wanted to be ruler of the entire world. Or the ruler’s trophy wife.

  Gena Showalter

  Wife, World, Want

  Gena Showalter (2011). “The Darkest Surrender”, p.310, HQN Books

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• Egypt loved the lotus becuase it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved. Thus can something as insignificant as a name-two syllables, one high, one sweet- summon up the innumerable smiles, tears, sighs and dreams of a human life.

  Anita Diament

  Dream, Sweet, Egypt

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• Children,” Lady Bridgerton said with a sigh as she retook her seat. “I am never quite certain if I’m glad I had them.

  Julia Quinn

  Children, Said, Certain

  Julia Quinn (2005). “It's in his kiss”

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• In my old age, I have come to believe that love is not a noun but a verb. An action. Like water, it flows to its own current. If you were to corner it in a dam, true love is so bountiful it would flow over. Even in separation, even in death, it moves and changes. It lives within memory, in the haunting of a touch, the transience of a smell, or the nuance of a sigh. It seeks to leave a trace like a fossil in the sand, a leaf burning into baking asphalt.

  Alyson Richman

  Memories, Believe, Moving

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