Top 100 Quotes About Sighing
#1. Sure. Waffles are fine. How come you didn't ask me what I wanted?" "I'm asking you now." "They're fine," Janine said again. Sighing, she turned back to the computer. I stuck my tongue out at her and ran downstairs. "Waffles are fine!" I told Mimi.
Ann M. Martin
#2. Presently a vagrant poodle dog came idling along, sad at heart, lazy with the summer softness and the quiet, weary of captivity, sighing for change.
Mark Twain
#3. The sighing of the devotee clears a path for him into the world unseen, and his tears wash away the sins of ages. All revelation follows the ecstasy; all knowledge that a book can never contain, that a language can never express, nor a teacher teach, comes to him of itself.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#4. When people call it that I always get pissed off because I always think depression sounds like you just get like really sad, you get quiet and melancholy and just like sit quietly by the window sighing or just lying around. A state of not caring about anything. A kind of blue kind of peaceful state.
David Foster Wallace
#5. Their sighing, canting, grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.
Robert Burns
#7. Are you going to spend what might be your last your last few days together in Franklen Grove sulking and sighing? Or are you are you going to make the most of them?" "Im a profetional sulker," Ivy replied "And I have a very dramatic sigh,"Olivia said and sighed dramaticly.
Sienna Mercer
#8. He was weak for Ryan, always had been and always would be, but he was much weaker without Ryan. Sighing,
Alessandra Hazard
#9. One day ... " Gabe whispered. "When my heart is mine again. When I'm not sharing it with a dying girl ... I'll give you everything."
"Gabe," I said, sighing. "Right now? I'm perfectly happy with the pieces. No matter how broken they may be.
Rachel Van Dyken
#10. Each evening she held his head in her hands and ran her aching fingers thru the thick ruff of fur around his neck. He burrowed against her, sighing devotion.
Meg Rosoff
#11. Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters.
Georg Trakl
#12. Sighing, she shut the book with a snap. All right. You need to vent, so I'll listen to you vent. But do it quickly, because Rydstorm was about to plunder Sabine with his thick, hard -
Gena Showalter
#13. O Lord, all my longing is known to you; my sighing is not hidden from you.
Anonymous
#14. Can I view thee panting, lying On thy stomach, without sighing; Can I unmoved see thee dying On a log Expiring frog!
Charles Dickens
#15. For I have hedged me with a thorny hedge,
I live alone, I look to die alone:
Yet sometimes, when a wind sighs through the sedge,
Ghosts of my buried years, and friends come back,
My heart goes sighing after swallows flown
On sometime summer's unreturning track.
Christina Rossetti
#16. If you're sighing with contentment, you're either one sick fuck or you don't grasp the seriousness of the situation. While I no longer kill, I am a killer. A killer in love is a very dangerous thing.
C.J. Roberts
#17. Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost.
John Milton
#18. Twenty-two years eight months and four days from that moment, a promising young Alpha- Minus administrator at Mwanza-Mwanza was to die of trypanosomiasis - the first case for over half a century. Sighing, Lenina went on with her work.
Aldous Huxley
#19. Ah! the year is slowly dying,
And the wind in tree-top sighing,
Chant his requiem.
Thick and fast the leaves are falling,
High in air wild birds are calling,
Nature's solemn hymn.
Mary Weston Fordham
#20. I did that girly little sighing thing you do when you can't handle all the sweetness anymore and bit my lip.
Shelly Crane
#21. Whether you find it through mediation or sighing over tea or just turning all your devices off for five minutes, listening is an ancient lifeline by which we are awakened time and again. Once reawakened, we more easily find our way to each other, and so help each other live.
Mark Nepo
#22. Say you'll marry me." Sighing melodramatically, Tyler wound his free arm around Johnnie's neck. He pulled back enough to look again into Johnnie's eyes. "Fine. But why do I get the feeling I get to be the bride?
Jet Mykles
#23. Declan paused then, sighing, as if the weight of the story was a tangible thing, and he needed to take a moment to regain his strength.
Maggie Stiefvater
#24. It flourished on the air softly in vapors of cobalt light, whispering and sighing.
Ray Bradbury
#25. This is what great masterpieces must feel like on museum walls - like sighing, like climbing out of their rigidly stretched frames, and falling, boneless, into a lover's glance.
Leylah Attar
#26. Sighing dismally, she acknowledged that some things just weren't humanly possible - not even Martha Stewart could fold fitted sheets.
Karen Marie Moning
#27. The wave paused, and then drew out again, sighing like a sleeper whose breath comes and goes unconsciously.
Virginia Woolf
#28. Even though Ronan was snarling and Noah was sighing and Adam was hesitating, he didn't turn to verify that they were coming. He knew they were. In three different ways, he'd earned them all days or weeks or months before, and when it came to it, they'd all follow him anywhere.
Maggie Stiefvater
#29. Back in the cabin I light the fire and sit sighing and there are leaves skittering on the tin roof, it's August in Big Sur
I fall asleep in the chair and when I wake up I'm facing the thick little tangled woods outside the door and I suddenly remember them from long ago
Jack Kerouac
#30. In your
Curled petals what ghosts
Of blue headlands and seas,
What perfumed immortal breath sighing
Of Greece.
Adelaide Crapsey
#31. For, through the twilight sounds of crickets and sighing trees, a faint, surprising wisp of music came floating to them and all three turned toward it, toward the wood.
Natalie Babbitt
#32. By the time you swear you're his, shivering and sighing, And he vows his passion is infinite,undying-Lady,make a note of this: One of you is lying
Dorothy Parker
#34. There's music in the sighing of a reed;
There's music in the gushing of a rill;
There's music in all things, if men had ears;
The earth is but the music of the spheres.
George Gordon Byron
#35. This place had been here long before him. It would go on sighing and breathing and being itself after he had gone, the land lapping on and on, watching, waiting, getting on with its own life.
Kate Grenville
#36. And how they set me up in court! They really set me up!" "Even if they hadn't set you up, you'd have been convicted anyway," Alyosha said, sighing. "Yes, the local public is sick of me!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#37. He leaned against her, pressing his shoulder to hers.
'Don't be mad at me,' he said, sighing. 'It makes me crazy.
Rainbow Rowell
#38. You stare at your dream from a distance, longing, sighing, seeing what you deem is a warning of IMPOSSIBLE. But if you would squint real hard you would see the truth; the sign correctly reads 'I'M POSSIBLE.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#39. Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.
Lord Byron
#40. All the world knows how to cry but not all the world knows how to sigh. Sighing is extra.
Gertrude Stein
#41. Lettie sighed - wisdom seems to be highly correlated with sighing.
Laura May
#42. But to go to school in a summer morn, O! It drives all joy away; Under a cruel eye outworn, The little ones spend the day In sighing and dismay.
William Blake
#43. Human beings in there took turns standing or lying down. The legs of those who stood were like fence posts driven into a warm, squirming, farting, sighing earth. The queer earth was a mosaic of sleepers who nestled like spoons.
Kurt Vonnegut
#44. And I am weary of the anguish
Increasing winters bear;
Weary to watch the spirit languish
Through years of dead despair.
So, if a tear, when thou art dying,
Should haply fall from me,
It is but that my soul is sighing,
To go and rest with thee.
Emily Bronte
#45. The voice of God whispers in the heart
So softly
That the soul pauses,
Making no noise,
And strives for these melodies,
Distant, sighing, like faintest breath,
And all the being is still to hear.
Stephen Crane
#46. Artists will sometimes speak of Rome with disparagement or indifference while it is before them; but no artist ewer lived in Rome and then left it, without sighing to return.
George Stillman Hillard
#47. Let me begin again as a speck
of dust caught in the night winds
sweeping out to sea. Let me begin
this time knowing the world is
salt water and dark clouds, the world
is grinding and sighing all night, and dawn
comes slowly, and changes nothing.
Philip Levine
#48. I heard the sighing of the reedsAt noontide and at evening,And some old dream I had forgottenI seemed to be remembering.
Arthur Symons
#49. Fling out, fling out, with cheer and shout, To all the winds of Our Country's Banner! Be every bar, and every star, Displayed in full and glorious manner! Blow, zephyrs, blow, keep the dear ensign flying! Blow, zephyrs, sweetly mournful, sighing, sighing, sighing!
Abraham Coles
#50. Sighing my sadness into him, I gently kiss his lips. I will remember this moment for eternity.
Sarah Ann Walker
#51. Catching a glimpse of her reflection in the mirror, she briefly wished once again that she was taller, sexier and bigger in the chest. Sighing, she reconciled herself with the knowledge that if she were, the world would never be able to live with her.
Pamela Murdaugh-Smith
#53. 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
#54. At the end of the sky I am a swimmer. In the water I can become a child again, splashing, sighing, holding my breath until enough is enough, I come up choking, my lungs needful of a fresh supply of air.
Abigail George
#55. Q: What sound or noise do you love? A: Puppies sighing.
Steven Rowley
#56. A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#57. This quiet Dust was Gentlemen and Ladies,
And Lads and Girls;
Was laughter and ability and sighing,
And frocks and curls.
This passive place a Summer's nimble mansion,
Where Bloom and Bees
Fulfilled their Oriental Circuit,
Then ceased like these.
Emily Dickinson
#58. A child's kiss Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad; A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich; A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong; Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense Of service which thou renderest.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#59. Sighing, Irene said, Why is it that we can love so much that which only makes us cry?
Susannah thought for only a moment, and then, with certainty, she said: Because it is that which calls us home to the heart.
Alice Walker
#60. Was he bewitched by those beautiful eyes, that soft, half-open, sighing mouth which lay so close upon his shoulder only yesterday? He could not even shake off the recollection that she had been there; that her arms had been round him, once - if never again.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#61. It's all a farce, - these tales they tell About the breezes sighing, And moans astir o'er field and dell, Because the year is dying.
Paul Laurence Dunbar
#62. Passover isn't about eating, Hannah," her mother began at last, sighing and pushing her fingers through her silver-streaked hair. "You could have fooled me," Hannah muttered.
Jane Yolen
#63. I have been here before,
But when or how I cannot tell:
I know the grass beyond the door,
The sweet keen smell,
The sighing sound, the lights around the shore.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
#64. Manon Blackbeak awoke to the sighing of leaves, the distant call of wary birds, and the reek of loam and ancient wood. She
Sarah J. Maas
#65. Life is so short," I said sighing, "the past so long. Shouldn't we turn the page and move on?"
"The past is the future," Aunt Emily shot back
Joy Kogawa
#66. Silly women believe love is sighing I am dying still if he wrote it I suppose thered be some truth in it true or no it fills up your whole day and life always something to think about every moment and see it all around you like a new world
James Joyce
#67. And the ransomed of the LORD shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
Anonymous
#68. Sighing heavily, for he disliked violence generally and murder in particular, Cabal set off to commit violent murder.
Jonathan L. Howard
#69. We women take love too seriously. Men wish to be loved with laughter, not with sighing. So laugh, sweetheart, laugh, or soon you may be weeping.
Minna Antrim
#70. His text took only a moment. You tell the guy you're dating that your boyfriend's back. I let my arms drift back down to the bed as I closed my eyes, sighing. Yeah, that's what I was thinking, too. My phone beeped again. And he's gonna be in trouble . . .
Penelope Douglas
#71. Warning signs that lover is bored:
1. Passionless kisses
2. Frequent sighing
3. Moved, left no forwarding address.
Matt Groening
#72. Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished.
Anna Seward
#73. The night, a living presence, was in constant motion, shifting itself, sighing, breathing. She wondered if perhaps it, too, was trying to get warm.
Laird Koenig
#74. Love is a farce; matrimony is a humbug; husbands are domestic Napoleons, Neroes, Alexanders,
sighing for other hearts to conquer, after they are sure of yours.
Fanny Fern
#75. There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true. Sighing,
Patrick Rothfuss
#76. The world sits quiet, as if sighing and taking a long inhale after what seemed like forever with mankind and the noise pollution.
Tara Brown
#77. The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the Year On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying ...
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#78. If Amy had one ounce of romance in her soul, she would be sighing with gratification. Instead, she said acerbically, "All that's missing is the love poem."
Jermyn deposited her in a chair by the table. "I'll order a pen and ink for you.
Christina Dodd
#79. One can be a soldier without dying and a lover without sighing.
Edwin Arnold
#80. Sighing, she headed back to work. She braced herself to lift the heavy lid of yet another trunk. The sight inside curled a small smile onto her lips, as it had with every trunk she'd pried open this morning.
Books. More beautiful, precious books.
Catherine LaRoche
#81. He went up to his room after dinner in order to be alone with his soul: and at every step his soul seemed to sigh: at every step his soul mounted with his feet, sighing in the ascent, through a region of viscid gloom.
James Joyce
#82. I squinted at the clock, sighing when I realized it was only 7 A.M. "Christ. Do you think the powers that be would mind if I asked them to make sure the next apocalypse takes place later in the day? Maybe around teatime?"
"Good luck with that.
Allison Pang
#83. Deconstruction is not meant to be a soft sighing for the future, but a way of deciding now and being impassioned in a moment.
John D. Caputo
#84. Right now he's like the ocean at night- you know it's there, but even though the lights are coming on you can't see it and all you know of it is washing sound somewhere sighing in the back room of a house when they think no one is listening.
Polly Johnson
#85. Sighing restlessly, the boundless sea broke huge rollers into white cream which hissed hungrily up to the tideline.
Brian Jacques
#86. Perhaps if only once you did enjoy
The thousandth part of all the happiness
A heart beloved enjoys, returning love,
Repentant, you would surely sighing say,
"All time is truly lost and gone
Which is not spent in serving love."
Torquato Tasso
#87. Remember this-all the sighing, mourning, sobbing, and complaining in the world, does not so undeniably evidence a man to be humble, as his overlooking his own righteousness, and living really and purely upon the righteousness of Christ.
Thomas Brooks
#88. I sighed, then hated myself for sighing, such an impotent and ultimately dishonest thing to do, the refuge of those lacking the courage to articulate their displeasure.
Ron Currie Jr.
#89. You were able to wait,' said Dantes, sighing. 'Your long labor gave you a constant occupation, and when you didn't have your work to distract you, you had your hopes to console you.
Alexandre Dumas
#90. From haunted spring and dale Edg'd with poplar pale The parting genius is with sighing sent.
John Milton
#91. Sighing, Brand did an act he thought never to do. He took a faerie, a goblin, and a sister and hugged them to his heart.
Maggie L. Wood
#92. How do you know, poor fool? Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence'; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
Francesco Petrarca
#93. Katsa kicked off her shoes, hitched up her skirt, and climbed into the fountain, sighing as the cold water ran between her toes and lapped at her ankles. it was a great improvement over her shoes. She would not put them on again tonight.
Kristin Cashore
#95. Utterance
Sitting over words
Very late I have heard a kind of whispered sighing
Not far
Like a night wind in pines or like the sea in the dark
The echo of everything that has ever
Been spoken
Still spinning its one syllable
Between the earth and silence
W.S. Merwin
#96. Mine is a long and a sad tale!' said the Mouse, turning to Alice, and sighing. 'It is a long tail, certainly,' said Alice, looking down with wonder at the Mouse's tail; 'but why do you call it sad?
Lewis Carroll
#97. Yes, I have a driver's license."
I leaned back against the wall, sighing. "Man, that must be so cool."
"It ranks right up there with lockers. In fact, sometimes I put my license inside my locker, and it's so cool I worry that the whole thing might explode with the sheer coolness of it all.
Kiersten White
#98. The Autumn is old; The sere leaves are flying; He hath gather'd up gold, And now he is dying;- Old age, begin sighing!
Thomas Hood
#100. I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for something it cannot have; and so am I.
Greta Garbo
