Top 35 Sigh Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Sigh Quotes from famous people such as Matthew Rhys, Derek Walcott, John Hersey, Jean Paul, James Lovelock, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Me and my friend Ioan Gruffudd are like chalk and chees

Me and my friend Ioan Gruffudd are like chalk and cheese when it comes to clothes. He lives for his clothes and has an amazing wardrobe. If we’re going out I’ll turn up at his house and say, ‘I haven’t got anything to wear,’ and he’ll tut and sigh and then lend me something swanky.
Matthew Rhys
Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.
Derek Walcott
All morning they watched for the plane which they thought would be looking for them. They cursed war in general and PTs in particular. At about ten o’clock the hulk heaved a moist sigh and turned turtle.
John Hersey
God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.
Jean Paul
This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief.
James Lovelock
Ineffective substitute teaching is a problem that means thousands of hours of lost learning for America’s students. It cannot be dismissed with a sigh and ‘Just wait for the teacher to come back on Monday.’
Adora Svitak
Going through puberty, that Cape Canaveral of the hormones, young girls are in love with the idea of being in love, trying it out for sighs.
Allison Pearson
Yesterday I was a dog. Today I’m a dog. Tomorrow I’ll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There’s so little hope for advancement.
Charles M. Schulz
In my business – SAT tutoring – you get used to sighs. A client’s mother frets over the sheer amount of work her daughter has to do to get her score up, until she reaches the resigned moment when she will sigh and observe that no one thought you could prepare for the SAT back when she took it – it was ‘untutorable.’
Eliot Schrefer
Feminism is experiential; it’s comparing notes. And when those stories get told, and you realize it’s not just you – it’s bigger – there’s just a huge sigh of relief. Otherwise, you think you’re crazy.
Robin Morgan
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.
Matthew Henry
Since cowardice must occur at a time and place where an enemy either has already appeared or may yet turn up, servicemen in peacetime – and ordinary civilians – can breathe a sigh of relief. If you are yellow-bellied back home, you’re not technically a coward.
Charles Duhigg
It’s strange to think about the scathing reviews ‘Sigh No More’ got and then consider that we could win best album a year or so later.
Ted Dwane
We cannot pass our guardian angel’s bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
Saint Augustine
I’m still not entirely sure how ‘Pretty Girl’ blew up the way it did. It wasn’t really meant to. The song was originally meant for a compilation tape for a magazine called ‘The Le Sigh’, and I made the video in about 30 minutes.
Clairo
Everywhere I go, particularly when there’s people who know me or recognize me, I get the warmest hugs and happiest sighs full of hope and full of relief.
Margaret Trudeau
Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.
Ralph Bakshi
A writer can be identified just through his sigh, as a mouthful of words are flooded out in his single sigh.
Gulzar
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
William Shakespeare
What better is there to sigh for than happiness, yesterday’s or tomorrow’s.
Ben Hecht
Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people.
John Desmond Bernal
Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.
George Santayana
Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart.
Thomas Shadwell
We reached a high point in my opinion with the passage of the civil rights legislation and Martin Luther King’s success and the crusade of others. I think we kind of breathed a sigh of relief as if we had achieved the end of racial discrimination or white supremacy.
Jimmy Carter
If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.
John Dalberg-Acton
Waiting tables has never paid my bills, a fact which I prefer to hide from my colleagues with deep sighs about the price of just about everything.
David Chang
The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything.
Carl Yastrzemski
I remember my mom sitting at our kitchen table, paying bills with a small smile. She’d sigh and say, ‘I’m so blessed to be able to pay these.’ She knew it was about what you have.
Faith Salie
Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.
David K. Shipler
Everyone asks me about why I care about anime and football so much, but that’s because anything dark that happened in my life, those two things would make me feel better. I just used to sit in front of the TV and watch football and breathe a sigh of relief. You know what I mean? It’s another world. An escape.
AJ Tracey
That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity’s small change in general society.
Charles Dickens
What does love look like? It has the hands to help othe

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
Saint Augustine
Thus one memory follows another until the waves dash together over our heads, and a deep sigh swells the breast, which warns us that we have forgotten to breathe in the midst of these pure thoughts.
Max Muller
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
Karl Marx
Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.
Noam Chomsky