I didn't want normal until I didn't have it anymore

In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of room to…

— Roy Harper

My heart sobbed a lament that was hard to ignore.

— Katie MacAlister

A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages…

— Mark Twain

You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It is in this way that…

— Victor Hugo

“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The liberal reward of labour, therefore, as it is the affect of increasing wealth, so it is the cause of increasing population. To complain…

— Adam Smith

There are two responses to really awful things. One is to lament and say, "Oh my God, oh lord." And the other is to…

— James McBride

“Lament calls us to examine the work of reconciliation between those who live under suffering with those who live in celebration. Lamentations”

— Soong-Chan Rah

You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded.

— Joseph Stalin

Every lover's lament has an element of boasting.

— Mason Cooley

“None but a fool or an infant could forget a father gone so far and cold. No. Lament is a pattern cut and fitted…

— Sophocles

Do not vainly lament, but do wonder at the rule of transiency and learn from it the emptiness of human life. Do not cherish…

— Gautama Buddha

I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene

— David McCullough

“Lament For J Among the small graves a soft shaft of sunlight gently rains On a memory; etches, as a glittering finger, Golden corn…

— Alan James Roll

“Lament No permanence is ours; we are a wave That flows to fit whatever form it finds: Through day or night, cathedral or the…

— Hermann Hesse