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There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.

Dante Alighieri

Pain, Dark, Language Words

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The sigh, the groan of a broken heart, will soon go through the ceiling up to heaven, aye, into the very bosom of God.

Charles Simeon

Heart, Broken, Heaven

Charles Simeon (1847). “Memoirs of the Life of the Rev. Charles Simeon ...: With a Selection from His Writings and Correspondence”, p.654

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Implores the passing tribute of a sigh.

Thomas Gray

Passing, Tribute, Passings

Alexander Pope, Mr. Jerningham (Edward), Thomas Gray, Helen Maria Williams, Thomas Percy (1796). “Poems, moral, elegant and pathetic:: viz. Essay on man, by Pope; The monk of La Trappe, by Jerningham; The grave, by Blair; An elegy in a country churchyard, by Gray; The hermit of Warkworth, by Percy; and original sonnets, by Helen Maria Williams”, p.148

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After all, the world is not a stage-not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially novels, are not little theatres where the reader sits aloft and watches...and sighs, commiserates, condones and smiles. That's what you want a book to be: because it leaves you so safe and superior, with your two-dollar ticket to the show. And that's what my books are not and never will be...Whoever reads me will be in the thick of the scrimmage, and if he doesn't like it if he wants a safe seat in the audience-let him read someone else.

D. H. Lawrence

Art, Book, Reading

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So…” Kimball looks at his book helplessly. “There’s nothing you can tell me about Paul Owen?” “Well.” I sigh. “He led what I suppose was an orderly life, I guess. “ Really stumped, I offer, “He...ate a balanced diet.

Bret Easton Ellis

Book, Looks, Wells

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In all this welter of women I still hadn't got one for myself, not that I was trying too hard, but sometimes I felt lonely to see everybody paired off and having a good time and all I did was curl up in my sleeping bag in the rosebushes and sigh and say bah. For me it was just red wine in my mouth and a pile of firewood

Jack Kerouac

Lonely, Wine, Sleep

Jack Kerouac (2007). “Road Novels 1957-1960”

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To sigh, yet feel no pain; To weep, yet scarce know why; To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by.

Charles Lamb

Beauty, Sports, Pain

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I love listening to music with my mate. We don't do it often, but when we do we'll just sit there and lose our heads in it. Sooner or later he'll start saying something to the effect of "Hey, Thom, can you put in something else now?" but I'll just nod coldly and respond "not just yet". But after awhile, I'll finally budge. And that's when I crack a big smile and take out The Bends and put in Kid A. My friend just sighs and leaves the room, and I can't blame him. He's not ready for that leap yet.

Thom Yorke

Kids, Listening, Cracks

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Lightly from fair to fair he flew, And loved to plead, lament, and sue; Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain, For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.

Walter Scott

Life, Pain, Suits

Sir Walter Scott (1866). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott”, p.102

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Me and my friend Ioan Gruffudd are like chalk and cheese when it comes to clothes. He lives for his clothes and has an amazing wardrobe. If we're going out I'll turn up at his house and say, 'I haven't got anything to wear,' and he'll tut and sigh and then lend me something swanky.

Matthew Rhys

Clothes, House, Cheese

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Wake up now, look alive, for here is a day off work just to praise Creation: the turkey, the squash, and the corn, these things that ate and drank sunshine, grass, mud, and rain, and then in the shortening days laid down their lives for our welfare and onward resolve. There's the miracle for you, the absolute sacrifice that still holds back seed: a germ of promise to do the whole thing again, another time. . . Thanksgiving is Creation's birthday party. Praise harvest, a pause and sigh on the breath of immortality.

Barbara Kingsolver

Party, Rain, Sunshine

Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.284, Faber & Faber

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Red like blood White like bone Red like solitude White like silence Red like the beastly instinct White like a god's heart Red like thawing hatred White like a frozen, pained cry Red like the night's hungry shadows Like a sigh piercing the moon it shines white and shatters red

Tite Kubo

Heart, Moon, Night

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Tell me Jesse, does she sigh when you kiss her too

Meg Cabot

Kissing, Doe

FaceBook post by Meg Cabot from May 21, 2013

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Go isn't functional, it's pragmatical. Why pure paradigms like FP or OOP are always a must? (sigh)

Frank Muller

Programming, Paradigm, Pure

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Rest forever, tired heart.
The final illusion has perished.
The one we believed eternal is gone.
Just like that. Out the door desire
follows hope. Rest forever.
Enough throbbing. Nothing deserves your attention
nor is the earth worth a sigh.
Bitterness and boredom is life,
nothing else ever, and the world is mud.
Quiet now. Despair for the last time.
Fate gives us dying as a gift.
Now turn from the hills, the ugly hidden power
which rules for the common evil
and the infinite vanity of it all.

Giacomo Leopardi

Tired, Heart, Fate

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O, my God! withhold from me the wealth to which tears and sighs and curses cleave. Better none at all than wealth like that.

Christian Scriver

Tears, Riches, Wealth

Christian Scriver (1857). “Gotthold's Emblems: or Invisible things understood by things that are made. Tr. by R. Menzies”, p.24

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They're all gonna be considered kooks and freaks and so forth. My point here is that many in the Drive-By Media, the faces that you see (sigh), they're just are repeating what's presented to them. They're repeating what they hear when they talk to other like-minded people.

Rush Limbaugh

Media, People, Faces

Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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The man who is fond of complaining likes to remain amid the objects of his vexation. He will most strongly revolt against every means proposed for his deliverance. This is what suits him. He asks nothing better than to sigh over his position and to remain in it.

Francois Guizot

Mean, Responsibility, Men

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The rustle of the leaves in summer's hush When wandering breezes touch them, and the sigh That filters through the forest, or the gush That swells and sinks amid the branches high,-- 'Tis all the music of the wind, and we Let fancy float on the aeolian breath.

John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

Music, Summer, Wind

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A shining isle in a stormy sea, We seek it ever with smiles and sighs; To-day is sad. In the bland To-be, Serene and lovely To-morrow lies.

Mary C. Ames

Lying, Sea, Shining

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Take gifts with a sigh: most men give to be paid.

John Boyle O'Reilly

Men, Giving, Paid

John Boyle O'Reilly (1882). “Songs, Legends and Ballads”

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For repeating themselves from the first kiss to the last sigh, the average man's love affairs have History blushing with envy.

Helen Rowland

Kissing, Men, Average

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Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours.

Bill Vaughan

Stars, Worry, Progress

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If there were dreams to sell, What would you buy? Some cost a passing bell; Some a light sigh, That shakes from Life's fresh crown Only a rose-leaf down. If there were dreams to sell, Merry and sad to tell, And the crier rung the bell, What would you buy?

Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Dream, Light, Rose

'Dream-Pedlary'

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Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river, Making a poet out of a man. The true gods sigh for the cost and the pain-- For the reed that grows never more again As a reed with the reeds of the river.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Music, Pain, Men

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.519

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