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Love is a smoke made with fume of sighs;
Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; — William Shakespeare

Hold your breath and close your eyes
Distract yourself with other guys
It's no surprise, your defeated sighs
Aren't you tired of the lies? — Cora Carmack

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

Death wakes up from a snooze, checks his pocket watch, and sighs. — Ishbelle Bee

Frantically, he scans the room, settling on the closet.
Brayden sighs, 'Seriously, dude? Must we live the cliche?' — Lynn Kelling

He sighs, smiling a resigned little smile. "Waverly, you make me want to die, but it's in the best way. You have no idea. — Brenna Yovanoff

Grievance is a sullen little boat, blown in the creepy breeze of ridiculous sighs. — Michael Perry

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

Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes. — Homer

My eyes in tears
Heart never sighs
My mind never fears
I conquer the lies — Munia Khan

Under the Sun of the night. The Sun in winter is addictive. And at night like it is. To be in the forest and wait for a rain of sighs. — Gwen Calvo

I put all my sighs in a lockbox — Al Gore

His words! Damn him and his words! They make me forget that I care about anything. — M. Leighton

How happy the lover,
How easy his chain,
How pleasing his pain,
How sweet to discover
He sighs not in vain. — John Dryden

The shy little Mayflower weaves her nest, But the south wind sighs o'er the fragrant loam, And betrays the path to her woodland home. — Sarah Helen Whitman

And the very folds of the curtains contained secrets and sighs. — Anais Nin

Sombre and rich, the skies;
Great glooms, and starry plains.
Gently the night wind sighs;
Else a vast silence reigns. — Lionel Johnson

Left lipstick imprints the shape of grateful, rubbery sighs ... — Margaret Atwood

Life is but sighs; and, when they cease, 'tis over. — Walter Savage Landor

Olivia: How does he love me?
Viola: With adoration, with fertile tears,
With groans that thunder love, with sighs of fire. — William Shakespeare

I sighed, a deep and heavy sigh. If only sighs could carry all my troubles away. — Denise Grover Swank

Dog sighs are some form of distilled truth. What does he know? What do dogs know? Ed sighs like he knows the truth about me and he loves me anyway. — Charles Yu

The sound of his sleep, the snores and sighs and small noices, is company. — Jackie Kay

Home is the place we should return to with eager spirits, the journey's end we reach with sighs of contentment. — Karen Burton Mains

By late autumn the yard would grow thick with fallen leaves, causing the landlady to heave many deep sighs. — Takashi Hiraide

Her soft spanish accent and her infinite arsenal of sighs. — Kiersten White

The Golden stock ... ," Mustang murmurs. "How can you be so cold?"
"Little girl," Antonia sighs, "Gold is a cold metal. — Pierce Brown

But for my sighs, I should be drowned by my tears; and but for my tears, I should be burned by my sighs. — Ibn Al-Farid

To every man his little cross. (He sighs.) Till he dies. (Afterthought.) And is forgotten. — Samuel Beckett

Because I want you to be happy. With or without me, whatever it takes." Theo sighs. "That's the difference between wanting someone and loving them. — Claudia Gray

So you're a reader," My mom sighs, as if somehow this elevates Isabel to yet another realm of perfection. — Denis Markell

The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the teacup opens A lane to the land of the dead. — W. H. Auden

From out the throng and stress of lies, from out the painful noise of sighs, one voice of comfort seems to rise: It is the meaner part that dies. — William Morris

She gave me for my pains a world of sighs. — William Shakespeare

My soul's a little grief, grappling your chest,
To climb your throat on sobs; easily chased
On other sighs and wiped by fresher winds. — Wilfred Owen

In rising sighs and falling tears. — Joseph Addison

Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart. — Thomas Shadwell

When, finally, she did sleep, it was the slumber of a watcher and waiter. Light, and full of sighs. — Clive Barker

Opportunity never knocks. It hangs thick in the air all around you.
You breathe it unthinking, and
dissipate it with your sighs. — Roy H. Williams

A partner who rolls her eyes, sighs, turns away, sends a very toxic message. — Steve Biddulph

We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs. — Saint Augustine

Never durst poet touch a pen to write
Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs; — William Shakespeare

I value the lover's
sighs of happiness and I despise the hypocrite
mumbling his prayers. — Omar Khayyam

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

Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs. — Ralph Bakshi

From being used so much, kneaded with sweat and sighs, the air in the room had begun to turn to mud. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

She rubs my back and sighs.
Jesus Abby, I'm so sorry. If I didn't know any better, I'd say you're still hung up on him. Big time. — Annie Brewer

Fear no more, says the heart, committing its burden to some sea, which sighs collectively for all sorrows, and renews, begins, collects, lets fall — Virginia Woolf

Never durst a poet touch a pen to write
Until his ink was tempered with love's sighs. — William Shakespeare

Mr. Freeman sighs. No imagination. What are you thirteen? Fourteen? You've already let them beat your creativity out of you! — Laurie Halse Anderson

Meg sighs. "That sounded really bitchy, huh?" She's one of the nicest people I've ever known, but when she's drunk, the girl can get a little mean. — Apryl Baker

Flute of Breath
Dusky condolence
Today i 'll sing you
My Sighs — Satbir Singh Noor

Because it is a customary cross, As die to love as thoughts, and dreams, and sighs, Wishes, and tears, poor fancy's followers. — William Shakespeare

And yet, my girl, we weep in vain,
In vain our fate in sighs deplore;
Remembrance only can remain,
But that, will make us weep the more. — George Gordon Byron

Pride sings and dances; humility sighs. — Mason Cooley

I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand. — Lord Byron

I can't wear a man's jacket with a ball gown. She rolls her eyes at him, sighs. But thanks, honey. — Kathryn Stockett

Can you really have thought that love and joy would always be at the mercy of frowns and sighs? — C.S. Lewis

She waits for me, my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs; I'll say her nay, and hide away, Then take her by surprise. — Mary Mapes Dodge

Distressed sighs!" Robert protested. "Not once did I stoop to distressed sighs! I might have emitted a manly huff of oppression. — Courtney Milan

Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs. — Katherine Applegate

He narrows his eyes.
"Is this true?" He sighs. "It is, isn't it? That's all I need. — David Almond

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear. — William Shakespeare

Blushes and sighs are all very pretty, but soft words butter no parsnips. — Alyssa Everett

I teach my sighs to lengthen into songs,
Yet, like a tree, endure the shift of things. — Theodore Roethke

He sighs. "It's just, you said they're up there protecting us..." He looks down at his hands in his lap. "Then why didn't they protect me? — Dannielle Wicks

if the river were dry, I am able to fill it with my tears; if the wind were down, I could drive the boat with my sighs. — William Shakespeare

Come on Princess," he sighs, as he scoops me up off the sand and carries me to my room. "I'm not going to be able to sleep, unless I know you're safe. — Jillian Dodd

Quilty grimaces. "I don't like what comes after 'dicker.' " "What is that?" Quilty sighs. "Dickest. I mean, really: it's not a contest! — Lorrie Moore

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

I turn my back on him as he goes,
and settle myself in the parlor,
and touch Ma's piano.
My fingers leave sighs
in the dust. — Karen Hesse

Alone in the clearing, I rediscover your sighs in the notes of turgid and green leaves — Luca Ferrarini

Venice, it's temples and palaces did seem like fabrics of enchantment piled to heaven. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

She admired him; she was used to clutching her hands together in his wake and heaving audible sighs. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Maybe tonight, maybe tonight by the fire all alone you and I. Nothing around but the sound of heart and your sighs. — Neil Diamond

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. — William Shakespeare

He sighs and bows his head, burying his face in his hands. I touch his hair. His ears. Bear may be my rock, but Dom is the force that moves me. — T.J. Klune

Lost money is bewailed with deeper sighs Than friends, or kindred, and with louder cries. — Juvenal

I had my eyes closed in the dark, I sighed a million sighs, I told a million lies, to myself, to myself. — Van Morrison

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

The Bagman lived in a castle made from the tears of children, the bones of the brave and the sighs of the dead. — Rachael McKay

What do you want, Patrick?" she sighs.
"I just want peace, love, friendship, understanding," I say dispassionately. — Bret Easton Ellis

You don't love me," I say.
He sighs ruefully. "Maybe not. I can't help seeing you the way a starving man sees bread. — Rosamund Hodge

Long years - " he sighs. "Again you found me." "Here," she murmurs. — Virginia Woolf

So I woke, I listened, and I heard the small sounds of a wood at night, the things moving, the claws in the dead leaves, the wind's soft sighs. — Bernard Cornwell

Marina sighs. "Love's a tidal wave," she says. "Because it sweeps you off your feet?" I ask. "No. Because it sucks you under and you drown. — Jodi Picoult

Our yesterdays Are like a lonely and a ruined land Wherein a breeze of recollection sighs
A fading land to which is no return. — Henry Abbey

Out of the sighs of one generation are kneaded the hopes of the next. — Machado De Assis

Harold sighs. "Jude," he says, "there's not an expiration date on needing help, or needing people. You don't get to a certain age and it stops. — Hanya Yanagihara

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

Sighs united together are almost prayers; prayers coming from two hearts are almost acts of grace. — Alexandre Dumas

Coeur qui soupire n'a pas ce qu'il desire.
The heart that sighs does not have what it desires. — Sarah Strohmeyer

Most of the sighs we hear have been edited. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Plum smiles, sighs, and shakes her head. 'No. You know, I thought Dan was a good guy. Maybe there are no good guys left. — Gemma Burgess

Africa is a land of dreams and memories. It is rifts of remembrance stitched together with the sighs of time. — Deanna Raybourn

He's hopeless," sighs Suze. "You know, he can name about a hundred breeds of sheep but not one of Madonna's husbands. — Sophie Kinsella

What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams. — Nikos Kazantzakis

True repentance includes sorrow for sin and contrition of heart. It breaks the heart with sighs and sobs and groans ... — Thomas Brooks

Bread is for us a kind of successor to the motherly breast, and it has been over the centuries responsible for billions of sighs of satisfaction. — Margaret Visser

Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs. — William Wordsworth