Usage examples for Sighing

Famous quotes with Sighing

• All the world knows how to cry but not all the world knows how to sigh. Sighing is extra.

  Gertrude Stein
• An unaffected man in a negative light Could not have borne his labor nor have died Sighing that he should leave the banjo’s twang.

  Wallace Stevens
• No man has seen her, this pitiful ghost, And no woman either, but heard her at most, Sighing and tapping and Sighing again, You have weaned me too soon, you must nurse me again.

  Stevie Smith
• he felt he saw God's image open before him. He felt the deity reveal itself in Nature in an inexpressible music, the sonic revelation of the deity; and before he knew it, he himself had become a trembling voice in a celestial chorus of glory.Sighing, he became aware of his own insignificance in the midst of this infinite chorus glory and radiance; his whole consciousness dissolved into one sacred, tearful yearning to be allowed to be one with the Highest and be no longer any part of himself. He lay for a long time on the sand or on the grass, and wept tears of deep and fervent happiness, face to face with the inexpressible. "God, God, God!" he cried, trembling with love and reverence, and kissed the ground and dug his fingers into the turf.

  Halldór Laxness
• This time, there was no punishment from above. Sighing, Hamilton almost wished there had been; the capricious personality element infuriated him. There was just too little relationship between deed and punishment; the lightning was probably cutting down some totally innocent Cheyennite, on the far side of town.

  Philip K. Dick

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