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These don’t need to be audible sighs, you can just change the rate quietly, and you just might get the people around you to slow down their breathing as well. – Cynthia Ackrill	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Beauties of earth gather in your eyes so if you dream of me I am blessed within your sighs. – Heather Lydia Thornhill	added by heatherthornhill 1 year ago
There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind. – Dante Alighieri	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Lost money is bewailed with deeper sighs Than friends, or kindred, and with louder cries. – Juvenal	added by anonymous 12 years ago
A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: "Sing for us soon again;" that is as much as to say. "May new sufferings torment your soul." – Soren Kierkegaard	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers’ tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet. – William Shakespeare, Romeo, in Romeo and Juliet, act 1, sc. 1.	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Ae fond kiss, and then we severA farewell, and then foreverDeep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee.Who shall say that Fortune grieves him,While the star of hope she leaves himMe, nae cheerful twinkle lights me,Dark despair around benights me. – Robert Burns	added by anonymous 14 years ago

These don’t need to be audible sighs, you can just change the rate quietly, and you just might get the people around you to slow down their breathing as well.

– Cynthia Ackrill

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Beauties of earth gather in your eyes so if you dream of me I am blessed within your sighs.

– Heather Lydia Thornhill

added by heatherthornhill
1 year ago

There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.

– Dante Alighieri

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Lost money is bewailed with deeper sighs Than friends, or kindred, and with louder cries.

– Juvenal

added by anonymous
12 years ago

A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: "Sing for us soon again;" that is as much as to say. "May new sufferings torment your soul."

– Soren Kierkegaard

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers’ tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet.

– William Shakespeare, Romeo, in Romeo and Juliet, act 1, sc. 1.

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Ae fond kiss, and then we severA farewell, and then foreverDeep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee.Who shall say that Fortune grieves him,While the star of hope she leaves himMe, nae cheerful twinkle lights me,Dark despair around benights me.

– Robert Burns

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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