Sighs

Sighs are especially audible, single exhalations of air out of the mouth or nose, that humans use to communicate emotion. It often arises from a negative emotion, such as dismay, dissatisfaction, boredom, or futility. A sigh can also arise from positive emotions such as relief, particularly in response to some negative situation ending or being avoided.

Quotes

 * Sigh'd and look'd, and sigh'd again.
 * John Dryden, Alexander's Feast (1697), line 120.


 * My soul has rest, sweet sigh! alone in thee.
 * Petrarch, To Laura in Death (c. 1348-1350), Sonnet LIV, line 14.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

 * Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 707.


 * Sighed and wept and said no more.
 * Isle of Ladies. Erroneously attributed to Chaucer as Dream, line 931.


 * Implores the passing tribute of a sigh.
 * Thomas Gray, Elegy in a Country Churchyard, Stanza 20.


 * To sigh, yet feel no pain.
 * Thomas Moore, Songs from M. P.; or, The Blue Stocking.


 * Oh, if you knew the pensive pleasure That fills my bosom when I sigh, You would not rob me of a treasure  Monarchs are too poor to buy.
 * Samuel Rogers, To ——, Stanza 2.


 * Yet sighes, deare sighes, indeede true friends you are That do not leave your left friend at the wurst,  But, as you with my breast, I oft have nurst So, gratefull now, you waite upon my care.
 * Sir Philip Sidney, Sighes.


 * * * Sighs Which perfect Joy, perplexed for utterance, Stole from her sister Sorrow.
 * Alfred Tennyson, The Gardener's Daughter, line 249.