“The most hideous scene of life and the world is, the lamentation of a hungry child.” — Yash Thakur Copy Share Image
As poets, our lamentations are glorious, filled with the virtues angles would learn to envy. — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations? — Dorothy Salisbury Davis Copy Share Image
Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a useful place for lamentation...poems are a place where we can cry out.” — bell hooks Copy Share Image
Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the… — David K. Shipler Copy Share Image
When one has lost a friend one's eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The gods at will can shape a gladder strain, and from the lamentations at the graveside, a song of triumph may arise. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them [worlds], we… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
on the instant clamorous eaves, A climbing moon upon an empty sky, And all that lamentation of the leaves, Could but compose… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Desolate--Life is so dreary and desolate-- Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single,… — Alice Cary Copy Share Image
The measure of woman's distaste for any part of her life lies not in the loudness of her lamentations (these are only… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Why has no one written a November rhapsody with plenty of lilt and swing? The poets who are moved at all by… — Mabel Osgood Wright Copy Share Image
Every class of society has its cant of lamentation, which is understood or regarded by none but themselves; and every part of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Time is never more misspent than while we declaim against the want of it; all our actions are then tinctured with peevishness.… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
I confess, without shame, that I am sick and tired of fighting — its glory is all moonshine; even success the most… — William Tecumseh Sherman 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
“If the years have taught me one thing it's that those who care are always scarce. Those who genuinely care; not the… — Darrell Drake Copy Share Image
“An Evening Air I go out in the grey evening In the air the odor of flowers and the sounds of lamentation.… — Samar Sen Copy Share Image
“Out of the starless night that covers me, (O tribulation of the wind that rolls!) Black as the cloud of some tremendous… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
We hear a great deal of lamentation these days about writers having all taken themselves to the colleges and universities where they… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Humanity looks upon Jesus the Nazarene as a poor-born Who suffered misery and humiliation with all of the weak. And He is… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“Between the sleeping and the waking, it is there. Between the rising and the resting, it is there. It is always there.… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“Not to waste the spring I threw down everything, And ran into the open world To sing what I could sing... To… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“The hour of spring was dark at last, sensuous memories of sunlight past, I stood alone in garden bowers and asked the… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Here sighs and cries and shrieks of lamentation echoed throughout the starless air of Hell; at first these sounds resounding made me… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of the women.” — Conan of Cimmeria Copy Share Image
There was much woe and lamentation in the seventies that the game was dying. — John Thorn Copy Share Image
From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Great were the lamentation and the cry when the news of this mischance was noised about the city. Such a tumult of… — Marie de France Copy Share Image
“Lamentation is the intentional process of grieving and mourning so that we can bid an honest farewell to what we’ve lost and… — Russ Ramsey Copy Share Image
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