Top 385 Sigh Quotes & Sayings

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

Between a gasp and a sigh, a life can change forever.

I remember how, at first, I had felt the tension in his lips, as if he was trying to make a barrier between us - then they had relaxed, parted slightly. And that's when I had known he wanted to kiss me, wanted to give in. That little parting of the lips, the little sigh that came out... I would hear that sigh forever. That little, little sound when the whole world seemed to open up.

I stifled a sigh and ignored the Imprinted Drunk Vision Girl.

Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.

Will God or someone give me the power to breathe my sigh into my canvases, the sigh of prayer and sadness, the prayer of salvation, of rebirth?

I'll go find a shadow, and sigh till he come" (Phebe)

The fate of peoples is made like this, two men in small rooms. Forget the coronations, the conclaves of cardinals, the pomp and processions. This is how the world changes: a counter pushed across a table, a pen stroke that alters the force of a phrase, a woman's sigh as she passes and leaves on the air a trail of orange flower or rose water; her hand pulling close the bed curtain, the discreet sigh of flesh against flesh.

And feeling clever, I've always thought, is just a sigh away from being cheerful.

Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.

Here are lips of flame eager to be extinguished by love's liquid sigh.

A laugh is the loud echo of a sigh; a sigh the faint echo of a laugh.

Life is a long drawn out lie, with a sniffling sigh at the end of it.

A little noiseless noise among the leaves, Born of the very sigh that silence heaves.

So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.

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

I heard a sigh, as though the books were breathing. I felt that this was where I belonged. This was where I lived.

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

I hope that when the world comes to an end, I can breathe a sigh of relief, because there will be so much to look forward to

To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent.

Yes, that's it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it's always tea time.

True hearts have eyes and ears, no tongues to speak; they hear and see, and sigh, and then they break.

Witch, do this for me, Find me a moon made of longing. Then cut it sliver thin, and having cut it, hang it high above my beloved's house, so that she may look up tonight and see it, and seeing it, sigh for me as I sigh for her, moon or no moon.

Sigh no more ladies, sigh no more, men were deceivers ever

The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.

A writer can be identified just through his sigh, as a mouthful of words are flooded out in his single sigh.

The human heart has a sigh lonelier than the cry of the bittern.

For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.

Implores the passing tribute of a sigh.

The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something.

Had sigh'd to many, though he loved but one.

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

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

What better is there to sigh for than happiness, yesterday's or tomorrow's.

Some people always sigh in thanking God.

Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.

When you’re in love, you don’t need words. A look, a touch, a sigh – you’ve said it all.

I have found a dream of beauty at which one might look all one's life and sigh.

Haiku is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather, it is the deep breath of life.

Did you ever observe that immoderate laughter always ends in a sigh?

Satan the envious said with a sigh: Christians know more about their hell than I

I get very cranky when interrupted. I snap at people, sigh dramatically and slam my door shut.

Don't be sorry, Callie,' he says with a heavy-hearted sigh. 'You have your own sad story.

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,- One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never.

A sigh isn't just a sigh. We inhale the world and breathe out meaning. While we can. While we can.

He sighed. It was a long sigh, weary and worldly-wise. The kind of sigh you could picture God heaving after six days of hard work and looking forward to some serious cosmic R&R, only to be handed a report by an angel concerning a problem with someone eating an apple.

God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.

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

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'

A sigh can shatter a castle in the air.

Some sigh for this and that; My wishes don't go far; The world may wag at will, So I have my cigar.

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

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

Open your mouth wide A universal sigh.

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

You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss, A sigh is just a sigh; The fundamental things apply, As time goes by.

Think not thou canst sigh a sigh And thy maker is not by; Think not thou canst weep a tear And thy maker is not near.

To this urn let those repair That are either true or fair; For these dead birds sigh a prayer.

There is a chord in every heart that has a sigh in it if touched aright.

When trouble haunts me, need I sigh?No, rather smile away despair