Sigh Quotes - Page 11

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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In all states of dilemma or of difficulty, prayer is an available source. The ship of prayer may sail through all temptations, doubts and fears, straight up to the throne of God; and though she may be outward bound with only griefs, and groans, and sighs, she shall return freighted with a wealth of blessings!

Charles Spurgeon

Prayer, Grief, Blessing

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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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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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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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The honeymoon is not actually over until we cease to stifle our sighs and begin to stifle our yawns.

Helen Rowland

Honeymoon, Cease

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Ambition becomes displeasing when it is once satiated; there is a reaction; and as our spirit, till our last sigh, is always aiming toward some object, it falls back on itself, having nothing else on which to rest; and having reached the summit, it longs to descend.

Pierre Corneille

Fall, Ambition, Lasts

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Blest be that spot, where cheerful guests retire
To pause from toil, and trim their evening fire;
Blest that abode, where want and pain repair,
And every stranger finds a ready chair
Blest be those feasts with simple plenty crown'd,
Where all the ruddy family around
Laugh at the jest or pranks, that never fail,
Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale,
Or press the bashful stranger to his food,
And learn the luxury of doing good.

Oliver Goldsmith

Pain, Simple, Fire

Oliver Goldsmith (1833). “Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With a New Life of the Author”, p.81

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Some must delve when the dawn is nigh;
Some must toil when the noonday beams;
But when might comes, and the soft winds sigh,
Every man is a King of Dreams.

Clinton Scollard

Dream, Kings, Men

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When I remember something which I had,
But which is gone, and I must do without,
I sometimes wonder how I can be glad,
Even in cowslip time when hedges sprout;
It makes me sigh to think on it,--but yet
My days will not be better days, should I forget.

Jean Ingelow

Regret, Thinking, Remember Something

Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.206

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No two on earth in all things can agree;
All have some darling singularity;
Women and men, as well as girls and boys,
In gewgaws take delight, and sigh for toys,
Your sceptres and your crowns, and such like things,
Are but a better kind of toys for kings.
In things indifferent reason bids us choose,
Whether the whim's a monkey or a muse.

Charles Churchill

Girl, Kings, Boys

Charles Churchill (1822). “The Poems of Charles Churchill”, p.95

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It is not for nothing that a man's best friends sigh when he marries, especially if he is a man of genius.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Men, Genius, Ifs

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Women and Economics”, p.72, Booklassic

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When children ask you questions about gray hairs, and wrinkles in the face, and sighs that have no words, and smiles too bright to be carved upon the radiant face by the hands of hypocrisy--when they ask you about kneeling at the altar, speaking into the vacant air, and uttering words to an unseen and in an invisible Presence--when they interrogate you about your great psalms, and hymns, and anthem-bursts of thankfulness, what is your reply to these? Do not be ashamed of the history. Keep steadily along the line of fact. Say what happened to you, and magnify God in the hearing of the inquirer.

Joseph Parker

Children, Hymns, Wrinkles

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The inward sighs of humble penitence
Rise to the ear of Heaven, when peal'd hymns
Are scatter'd with the sounds of common air.

Joanna Baillie

Humble, Hymns, Air

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Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the shutters of one house are closed, while the curtains of the next are brushed by shadow of the dance. A wedding-party returns from church, and a funeral winds to its door. The smiles and the sadness of life are the tragi-comedy of Shakespeare. Gladness and sighs brighten and dim the mirror he beholds.

Robert Aris Willmott

Party, Grief, Sadness

Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

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The conservative may clamor against reform, but he might as well clamor against the centrifugal force. He sighs for the "good old times,"--he might as well wish the oak back into the acorn.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Wish, Reform, May

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The happiest woman sees not gladness alone reflected from her mirror; its surface will inevitably be sometimes dimmed with sighs.

Louise Colet

Mirrors, Sometimes, Bliss

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Yes, as a people we are spoiled. We look for dinners that take two minutes to cook in our microwave instead of five, and we audibly sigh if the directions on the box require us to stir at the halfway point. Aw, I gotta stir? See what else is in the freezer.

Martha Bolton

Two, People, Cooking

Martha Bolton (2003). “I Think, Therefore, I Have a Headache!: A Laugh-Out-Loud Look at Life”, Bethany House Pub

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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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That we would do
We should do when we would, for this 'would' changes,
And hath abatements and delays as many
As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents,
And then this 'should' is like a spendthrift sigh,
That hurts by easing.

William Shakespeare

Change, Hurt, Hands

William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.235

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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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I can't take it y'all
I can feel the city breathin
Chest heavin, against the flesh of the evening
Sigh before we die like the last train leaving

Mos Def

Cities, Hip Hop, Leaving

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I've been a dweller on the plains, have sighed when summer days were gone; No more I'll sigh; for winter here Hath gladsome gardens of his own.

Dorothy Wordsworth

Summer, Winter, Garden

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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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None but those who have loved can be supposed to understand the oratory of the eye, the mute eloquence of a look, or the conversational powers of the face. Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words, and resorts to the pantomime of sighs and glances.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Love, Heart, Eye

Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.34

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