You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It is in this… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Lords, I protest my soul is full of woe That blood should sprinkle me to make me grow. Come, mourn with me… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Did you measure to attain your height? Did you use geometry to radiate your limb? Did you lament storm-torn branches? Did you… — Ming-Dao Deng Copy Share Image
“The crying out to God in lament over a broken history is often set aside in favor of a triumphalistic narrative. We… — Soong-Chan Rah Copy Share Image
We lament, too, the destruction of purity among women and young girls as is evidenced by the increasing immodesty of their dress… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
In European and American society, many pundits started to lament the death of literature; looking at youth who were getting more and… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“The tragedy of Dionysus: Wear a black robe at night, and white you’ll wear by morning; but wear a purple robe to… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to… — Aasif Mandvi Copy Share Image
“The law presumably says that it is finest to keep as quiet as possible in misfortunes and not be irritated, since the… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“In those moments of unnaming when we have lost ourselves, we must remember to return to our past redemptions to find God's… — Dan B. Allender Copy Share Image
I don't like the fact that we're not creating jobs the way we used to create jobs in Pennsylvania. I lament the… — Tom Wolf Copy Share Image
One is constantly reminded of the infinite lavishness and fertility of Nature-inexhaustible abundance amid what seems enormous waste. And yet when we… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“And Jabim is the Lord of broken things, who sitteth behind the house to lament the things that are cast away. And… — Lord Dunsany Copy Share Image
We see a world of abundance, not limits. In the midst of a great deal of talk about reducing the human ecological… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
“He was a strong and noble lord with piercing eyes of grey. He sat upon his noble throne shining like the dawn.… — Laurel A. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Convinced that the attachment of colonies to the metropolis, depends infinitely more upon moral and religious feeling, than political arrangement, or even… — John Strachan Copy Share Image
Preserve your peace of mind. There is not much time; all things end in death. Do not lament the past too much,… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Far in the pillared dark Thrush music went- Almost like a call to come in To the dark and lament. But no,… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I will weep and wail for the mountains and take up a lament concerning the desert pastures. They are desolate and untraveled,… — Jeremiah Copy Share Image
“I have no sounds that could serve to soothe me, no violoncello like him, no lament that anyone would recognize as a… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
“Our unclaimed Shunemite, however, can only look on. No kiss for her. Being the most beautiful woman in Israel isn't enough for… — Michael Ben Zehabe Copy Share Image
This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren't old enough… — Poppy Z. Brite Copy Share Image
For me, it's always a little sad getting out of bed. Every morning after I get up, I always gaze longingly at… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
Don't lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don't have a career. You have a life.… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Do not vainly lament, but do wonder at the rule of transiency and learn from it the emptiness of human life. Do… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
We are going to a new world... and no doubt it is there that everything is for the best; for it must… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When Jimmie Johnson goes out early and finishes 35th, as he did Sunday, he can look at the cameras, lament about it… — Kurt Busch Copy Share Image
“Lamenting keeps us engaged with God. When we lament, we invite God into our pain so that we can know his comfort,… — Vaneetha Rendall Risner Copy Share Image
To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
Whiffle [whine and wheeze and snuff and sniffle]: The annoying scratchy sound made by weepy feminists as they lament the sufferings of… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
The infernal storm, eternal in its rage, sweeps and drives the spirits with its blast; it whirls them, lashing them with punishment.… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“In much of urban and Western civilization today, with no proper tragic sense of life, we try to believe that it is… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“We beat the drum slowly and played the fife lowly, and bitterly wept as we bore him along. For we all loved… — Leif Enger Copy Share Image
Thery're both iron, isn't that funny?" "Funny haha or funny strange?" James handed them back to me "Funny 'occult'" "Ah. Funny strange"… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
He whom you see-along the downward arc- was William, and the land that mourns his death, for living Charles and Frederick, now… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
The liberal reward of labour, therefore, as it is the affect of increasing wealth, so it is the cause of increasing population.… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my… — Bible Copy Share Image
Before I had published anything, I still hung out with people who liked to write. None of us had published, so there… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image