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Quotes about Sighs

Now, that Lazarus should lie stranded there on the curbstone before the door of Dives, this is more wonderful than that an iceberg should be moored to one of the Moluccas. Yet Dives himself, he too lives like a Czar in an ice palace made of frozen sighs, and being a president of a temperance society, he only drinks the tepid tears of orphans.
- Herman Melville
Yet Dives himself, he too lives like a Czar in an ice palace made of frozen sighs, and being a president of a temperance society, he only drinks the tepid tears of orphans.
- Herman Melville
The soul lets out some sighs — not great ones — because it can do no more; they are felt within.
- Teresa of Avila
We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
- St. Augustine