In rising sighs and falling tears. [ Addison ]

Different minds
Incline to different objects; one pursues
The vast alone, the wonderful, the wild;
Another sighs for harmony and grace,
And gentlest beauty. [ Akenside ]

A friendless heart is like a hollow shell,
That sighs o'er its own emptiness. [ Thomas Hood ]

We cannot pass our guardian angel's bound,
Resign'd or sullen, he will hear our sighs. [ Keble ]

The heart that sighs has not what it desires. [ Proverb ]

Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs. [ William Shakespeare ]

Never durst poet touch a pen to write
Until his ink were temper'd with love's sighs. [ William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, Act IV. Sc. 3 ]

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs;
Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes;
Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears:
What is it else? A madness most discreet,
A choking gall, and a preserving sweet. [ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ]

As one who in some frightful dream would shun
His pressing foe, labors in vain to run
And his own slowness in his sleep bemoans.
In short thick sighs, weak cries, and tender groans. [ Dryden ]

The father sighs more at the death of one son, than he smiles at the birth of many. [ Proverb ]

O, my God! withhold from me the wealth to which tears and sighs and curses cleave. Better none at all than wealth like that. [ Christian Scriver ]

The happiest woman sees not gladness alone reflected from her mirror; its surface will inevitably be sometimes dimmed with sighs. [ Mme. Louise Colet ]

Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words, and resorts to the pantomime of sighs and glances. [ Bovee ]

There is no happiness for him who oppresses and persecutes; no, there can be no repose for him. For the sighs of the unfortunate cry for vengeance to heaven. [ Pestalozzi ]

Genius is only as rich as it is generous. If it hoards, it impoverishes itself. What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have leisure and a quiet mind. [ Henry D. Thoreau ]

Love delights in paradoxes. Saddest when it has most reason to be gay, sighs are the signs of its deepest joy, and silence the expression of its yearning tenderness. [ Bovee ]

Melancholy, or low spirits, is that hysterical passion which forces unbidden sighs and tears; it falls upon a contented life, like a drop of ink on white paper, which is not the less a stain that it carries no meaning with it. [ Sir W. Scott ]

None but those who have loved can be supposed to understand the oratory of the eye, the mute eloquence of a look, or the conversational powers of the face. Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words, and resorts to the pantomime of sighs and glances. [ Bovee ]