“A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover!” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
it is a heartBreaking sound, Amir Jan, the Wailing of a mother. I pray to Allah you Never hear it. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear. — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
So much time weeping and wailing and shaking our fists, creating enemies that really don't exist. — Don Henley Copy Share Image
Sorry to bother you,” Bella said over the wailing. “But she wants her daddy. — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I must confess that waltzes do not move me, I guess I hummed the blues too early, and spent too many midnights… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
So loud was the wailing of the women and children that there was not one man among us whose heart did not… — Hernando Cortes Copy Share Image
Walter turned on the radio: electric violins wailing, twisted romance, the four-square beat of heartbreak. Trite suffering, but suffering nonetheless. The entertainment… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
You know, when I'm playing, I think of myself in front of the Wailing Wall with a saxophone in my hands, and… — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
And in all of Babylonia there was wailing and gnashing of teeth, 'til the prophets bade the multitudes get a grip on… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Why oh why, I thought, are we British brought up to not show emotions? Stiff upper lip and all that. Right now… — Fiona Fridd Copy Share Image
After a while, though the grief did not go away from us, it grew quiet. What had seemed a storm wailing through… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed, cut holes in it, and called it a human being. Since then, it's been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'Spectrum' is in part a disco song. But we play it hard, and it's a real euphoric, wailing tune. It's kind of… — Florence Welch 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
She was perfect. I knew this the moment she emerged from my body, white and wet and wailing. Beyond the requisite ten… — Vanessa Diffenbaugh Copy Share Image
Do one of three things. One, go and find a wailing wall and feel sorry for yourselves. Two, go psycho and start… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Brightpaw's eye opened and she fixed a cloudy gaze on Fireheart. "What happened?" he repeated. "What did this?" A thin wailing came… — Erin Hunter Copy Share Image
My neighbor Alice Pierce is fond of singing folk music to her garden plants. Thinks it makes them grow or something. The… — Helen Simonson Copy Share Image
Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If anyone asks you if you’re taken,” I said, “the answer is yes.” “I think I can live with that,” he promised.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I had often heard Mentor say, that the voluptuous were never brave, and I now found by experience that it was true;… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Years ago I went to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem and did what all tourists there do: wrote some words on a… — Zoketsu Norman Fischer Copy Share Image
I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail… — Hamlin Garland Copy Share Image
All right." He straightened up and seemed to be true to his promise to let it go. "I will be a man… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I often wonder what would have happened to me if I hadn't made that decision. I suppose I would have sunk. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our weapons are the ironic mind against the literal: the open mind against the credulous; the courageous pursuit of truth against the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Her mind lives tidily, apart from cold and noise and pain. And bolts the door against her heart, out wailing in the… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
the occasional cries of a lost loon, strayed from its flock in northern migration, fill the swamp with sounds of wailing. — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
Yes, this is life; and everywhere we meet, Not victor crowns, but wailings of defeat. — Elizabeth Oakes Smith Copy Share Image
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Clouds of black birds rose up wailing and screaming, like the thoughts of my heart. — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
