A loss, but who still mourns the breath of one woman, or laments one wife? Though my heart never can forget, how,… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I certainly have a lot to lament, as do we all, everybody has their griefs. But the griefs we can fix, shouldn't… — Elizabeth Edwards Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the only thing we might legitimately lament in an old man’s death would be his failure to have used his time… — Shawn Davis Copy Share Image
I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided 'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In the deaths of figures such as George H.W. Bush there's another opportunity to prize the civility we lament as having passed. — Jessica Tarlov Copy Share Image
She took a moment to lament her lack of parasol. Every time she left the house, she felt keenly the absence of… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
As I grew older, I understood that instructions came with this voice. What were these instructions? The instructions were never to lament… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
A seamlessly told and scrupulously detailed history of the Hartsoe clan of Haw County, North Carolina, Love and Lament is that rare… — T. R. Pearson Copy Share Image
Fro and to in my dreams to you To the haunting tune of the harp For the price I paid when you… — Maggie Stiefvater 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
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
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
“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
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
I once picked up a woman from a garbage dump and she was burning with fever; she was in her last days… — Mother Teresa 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
In our whole life melody the music is broken off here and there by rests, and we foolishly think we have come… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
October's bellowing anger breakes and cleavesThe bronzed battalions of the stricken woodIn whose lament I hear a voice that grievesFor battle's fruitless… — Siegfried Sassoon 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
When you are young, you think that the old lament the deterioration of life because this makes it easier for them to… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
When thou diest, thy soul will be tormented alone; that will be a hell for it, but at the day of judgment… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Sri Yukteswar used to poke gentle fun at the commonly inadequate conceptions of renunciation."A beggar cannot renounce wealth," Master would say. "If… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
One can always lament, you know — but to laugh in the face of life, that's very hard. And for me the… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
Cease to lament for that thou canst not help; and study help for that which thou lamentest. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“You can lament and carry on all you want to, but bad stuff happens to good people and there's not much any… — Robin McGraw Copy Share Image
“The real problem is that this devaluing of lament often betrays our failure to admit that our suffering is real and painful.… — Kelly M. Kapic Copy Share Image
Never lament what you cannot have; truly accept that you have enough of everything. — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of… — Roy Harper Copy Share Image
I often lament that new picture books don't get read because the classics hold up so well. It's a ridiculous complaint because,… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
...all of our laments could not add a single second to her life, not one additional beat of the heart, nor a… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
I have tried sedulously not to laugh at the acts of man, nor to lament them, nor to detest them, but to… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
...secretly I lament the hundreds [of fish] we never caught because we forever persisted in fishing only the likliest holding water. — Tom Sutcliffe Copy Share Image
“If they are gods, why do you lament them? If you lament them, you must no longer regard them as gods.” — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
A little time, and thou shalt close thy eyes; and him who has attended thee to thy grave, another soon will lament. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“(Later, I'l learn that's the structure of an elegy: lament, consolation; bad news, followed by good news.)” — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“Could I weep my soul Into one precious pearl Deep in the sea I'd let it lie Lost, where no waves curl.… — W.J. Turner Copy Share Image
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