Quotes about Sigh
For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh.
- Psalm 90:9
And looking up to heaven, He sighed deeply and said to him, “Ephphatha!” (which means, “Be opened!”).
- Mark 7:34
His heart was full of sorrow every step of the way. Sometimes he sighed, sometimes he wept, and he often chided himself for being so foolish as to fall asleep in that place. After all, it had been established for the purpose of modest refreshment from his weariness.
- John Bunyan
The wave paused, and then drew out again, sighing like a sleeper whose breath comes and goes unconsciously.
- Virginia Woolf
Barkis suspira.
- Charles Dickens
The first harsh, sparse, swift drops rush through the leaves and across the ground in a long sigh, as though of relief from intolerable suspense.
- William Faulkner
To sentimentalize something is to savor rather than to suffer the sadness of it, is to sigh over the prettiness of it rather than to tremble at the beauty of it, which may make demands of us or pose fearsome threats.
- Frederick Buechner
She came out of her reverie with a deep sigh and looked at him with a dreamy gaze of a soul that had been wandering afar, star-led.
- LM Montgomery
And I have such a cold in the head—I can do nothing but sniffle, sigh and sneeze. Isn't that alliterative agony for you?
- LM Montgomery
Shearwater sighed, like a whale in the night.
- Aldous Huxley
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?
- Marc Chagall
The Dormouse looked out, and he said with a sigh: "I suppose all these people know better than I. It was silly, perhaps, but I did like the view Of geraniums (red) and delphiniums (blue).
- AA Milne