Lament Quotes

“The two duties are to lament or praise.”

— Theodore Roethke

“Go, go, magic clover.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Be here now is the daydreamer's lament.”

— Kyle Pivarnik

Every lover's lament has an element of boasting.

— Mason Cooley

Too much to lament a misery is the next way to draw on a remediless mischief.

— Roger Chamberlain

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

— Anonymous

My age I will not once lament, / But sing, my time so near is spent.

— Anne Bradstreet

Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided 'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear.

— William Shakespeare

Thou wilt lament Hereafter, when the evil shall be done And shall admit no cure.

— Homer

“I do, and I lament the loss of a wonderfully twinkly word.”

— Joanne Macgregor

“Hands that never touch. Lips that never meet. The Almost Lovers, never to be.”

— Rae Hachton

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

— David McCullough

With a sad lament my dreams are faded like a broken melody. While the gods of love look down and laugh. At…

— Mambo All Stars

While we lament the apparent injustice of pain and suffering, how often do we forget that every good thing in a fallen…

— Matt Chandler

“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

Because, death is certain for the one who is born, and birth is certain for the one who dies. Therefore, you should…

— Bhagavad Gita

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

We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.

— David Ogden Stiers

Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The infernal storm, eternal in its rage, sweeps and drives the spirits with its blast; it whirls them, lashing them with punishment.…

— Dante Alighieri

“We beat the drum slowly and played the fife lowly, and bitterly wept as we bore him along. For we all loved…

— Leif Enger

“In much of urban and Western civilization today, with no proper tragic sense of life, we try to believe that it is…

— Richard Rohr

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

“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

To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it…

— Anne Bronte

Whiffle [whine and wheeze and snuff and sniffle]: The annoying scratchy sound made by weepy feminists as they lament the sufferings of…

— Camille Paglia

I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go…

— Epictetus

“A man in trouble laments that he did not listen to his teachers, and thus he finds himself in a sad state,…

— Anonymous

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

In our whole life melody the music is broken off here and there by rests, and we foolishly think we have come…

— John Ruskin

Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I once picked up a woman from a garbage dump and she was burning with fever; she was in her last days…

— Mother Teresa

Night of Sleepless Love The night above. We two. Full moon. I started to weep, you laughed. Your scorn was a god,…

— Federico Garcia Lorca

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

— Hermann Hesse

“I picked him up and set him against the steering wheel, facing me, his feet on my thighs. The huge lament continued,…

— Don DeLillo

Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man?

— William Wordsworth

“It had barely registered, the lament was so commonplace. But I felt it now.”

— Gillian Flynn

“Funny thing about regrets. I don’t lament what I’ve done, but rather, what I didn’t do.”

— J.A. Konrath

A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other

— Sean O'Casey

My heart sobbed a lament that was hard to ignore.

— Katie MacAlister