I can go into the wilderness and not see anyone for days and experience a kind of space that hasn't changed for… — Edward Burtynsky Copy Share Image
In these sad and ominous days of mad fortune chasing, every patriotic, thoughtful citizen, whether he fishes or not, should lament that… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
One of the rules of Greek lament poetry is that it mustn't mention the dead by name in case of invoking a… — Alice Oswald 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
To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive… — Edmund Burke 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
I have long admired the visceral storytelling and moral complexity of John Vaillant’s brilliant non-fiction about humankind’s tragically ambivalent relationship with the… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“What’s more, lament is a pathway. Honest expression to God makes way for God to come and work His real healing. Lament… — Esther Fleece Copy Share Image
“I've built many doorways and set out traps so that no one will be able to reach this place. That's what the… — Mizuki Nomura Copy Share Image
“Since we seem to have lost the willingness, the vocabulary, or even the capacity, to engage in authentic biblical lament (at least… — Christopher J.H. Wright Copy Share Image
“When I was a young man and very well thought of, I couldn't ask aught that the ladies denied. I nibbled their… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
“So that you will hear me my words sometimes grow thin as the tracks of the gulls on the beaches. Necklace, drunken… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Is yours an honest lament? ... Most are not, you know. Most self-imposed burdens are founded on misperceptions. We - at least… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A superb and dreadfully moving account of the glory and subsequent murder by the Romanians of the Jewish city in Odessa. .… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“We live in a world that is beyond our control, and life is in a constant flux of change. So we have… — Glenn Pemberton Copy Share Image
Envy is an ill-natured vice, and is made up of meanness and malice. It wishes the force of goodness to be strained,… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Nothing beats a haunted moonlit night on All Hallows Eve… And on this fatal night, at this witching time, the starless sky… — Elizabeth Kim Copy Share Image
I think as someone who collects beautiful things from the past, the thing that I miss the most about modernism and the… — Dita Von Teese Copy Share Image
When someone is force to realize that the road he'd been working hard to make progress on was no different from the… — Mizuki Nomura Copy Share Image
With childhood comes a brief grace period of ignorant bliss -- when you're not aware of the pain around you. That is… — Barry Privett Copy Share Image
The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth. In many parts of the… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“I lamented in every gathering; I associated with those in bad or happy circumstances. (But) everyone became my friend from his (own)… — Rumi Copy Share Image
She kindly laments that I am not of the party, and to be sure I honour great ladies, and I admire great… — Elizabeth Montagu Copy Share Image
Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
There are two responses to really awful things. One is to lament and say, "Oh my God, oh lord." And the other… — James McBride Copy Share Image
If a man lives to any considerable age, it can not be denied that he laments his imprudences, but I notice he… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I mean to be too rich to lament or to feel anything of the sort. A large income is the best recipe… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
It is an evil world. The fires of hatred and violence burn fiercely. Evil is powerful, the devil covers a darkened earth… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
“During the daytime I glut myself with sorrow and lament, having my own duties to see to, and my house-maidens' work: but… — Homer Copy Share Image
I get an audience personally involved in a song - because I'm involved myself. It's not something I do deliberately: I can't… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Yiddish, the language which will ever bear witness to the violence and murder inflicted on us, bear the marks of our expulsions… — I. L. Peretz 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
Lament is a cry of belief in a good God, a God who has His ear to our hearts, a God who… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
