Sigh Quotes - Page 14

• Ah! the spendthrift, love: it gives all and everything with the first sigh!

  Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis

  Love, Giving, Firsts

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• A certain ultra-dignified gentleman of unusual prominence carried himself so stiffly that nobody felt free to call him by his first name. He quarreled with a friend of earlier days and from then on the two never spoke. The day the friend died an associate found the ultra-dignified gentleman staring through the window. When he came out of his reverie, he soliloquized with a sigh, ""He was the last to call me John."" Is any man really entitled to regard himself a success who has failed to inspire at least a goodly number of fellow mortals to greet him by his first name?

  B. C. Forbes

  Friendship, Men, Numbers

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• it is my lady! *sighs* o, it is my love! o, that she knew she were! she speaks, yet she sais nothing. what of that? her eye discourses; i will answer it. i am too bold, 'tis not to me she speaks; two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, having some business, do entreat her eyes to twinkle in their spheres till they return.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Eye, Two

  William Shakespeare (1852). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: From the text of Johnson, Steevens, and Reed: With the preface of Dr. Johnson, and a copious glossary. Complete in 1 volume”, p.118

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• Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running—that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach by the sigh of the sea out there, with the Ma-Wink fallopian virgin warm stars reflecting on the outer channel fluid belly waters. And if your cans are redhot and you can't hold them in your hands, just use good old railroad gloves, that's all.

  Jack Kerouac

  Happiness, Running, Beach

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.7, Penguin

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• Learning to let go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large, brother-in-law or end-of-quarter office lockdown—like a beach ball on water. The next time a problem arises in your life, take a deep breath, let out a sigh, and replace the thought Oh no! with the thought Okay.

  Martha Beck

  Letting Go, Beach, Brother

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• It is hard to laugh at the need for beauty and romance, no matter how tasteless, even horrible, the results of that need are. But it is easy to sigh. Few things are sadder than the truly monstrous.

  Nathanael West

  Laughing, Romance, Needs

  Nathanael West (1969). “Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust”, p.61, New Directions Publishing

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• Stephanie,' Valerie said. 'She's going to have a baby, and she's getting married.' My father was confused. He looked around the room. No Joe. No Ranger. His eyes locked on Diesel. 'Not the psycho,' he said. Diesel blew out a sigh. My father turned to my mother. 'Get me the carving knife. Make sure it's sharp.

  Janet Evanovich

  Mother, Baby, Father

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• Half the night I waste in sighs, Half in dreams I sorrow after The delight of early skies; In a wakeful dose I sorrow For the hand, the lips, the eyes, For the meeting of the morrow, The delight of happy laughter, The delight of low replies.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dream, Laughter, Eye

  Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Maud: A Monodrama (Part Ii, Excerpt)”

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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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• 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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• I mean *sigh* Sickening eyes I can tell that you're in touch with your feminine side

  Nicki Minaj

  Flirty, Mean, Eye

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid;
  Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms,
  The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans,
  Liege of all loiterers and malcontents.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Senior, Dwarves

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 3, sc. 1, l. [189]

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