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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 eyesDistract 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 penitenceRise to the ear of Heaven, when peal'd hymns
Are scatter'd with the sounds of common air. — Joanna Baillie
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
The happiest woman sees not gladness alone reflected from her mirror; its surface will inevitably be sometimes dimmed with sighs.
— Louise Colet
I put all my sighs in a lockbox
— Al Gore
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
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
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
So you're a reader," My mom sighs, as if somehow this elevates Isabel to yet another realm of perfection.
— Denis Markell
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
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
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 writeUntil his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs; — William Shakespeare
I value the lover'ssighs 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 writeUntil 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
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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 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
All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.
— William Shakespeare
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
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
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
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
Our yesterdays Are like a lonely and a ruined land Wherein a breeze of recollection sighsA 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
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