Lament Quotes
106 quotes by 96 authors
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Especially look to those sins to which your crosses have some reference and respect. Are you crossed in your goods? Think if you did not…
— William Whately
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Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Grieving, like being blind, is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in mourning, but after the early…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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When thou diest, thy soul will be tormented alone; that will be a hell for it, but at the day of judgment they body will…
— Charles Spurgeon
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He whom you see-along the downward arc- was William, and the land that mourns his death, for living Charles and Frederick, now laments; now he…
— Dante Alighieri
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I sometimes lament the fact that I do not have the benefit of a complete and ailment free body structure.
— Amitabh Bachchan
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Lightly from fair to fair he flew, And loved to plead, lament, and sue; Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain, For monarchs seldom sigh in…
— Walter Scott
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I mean to be too rich to lament or to feel anything of the sort. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I…
— Jane Austen
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Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madam Blaize, Who never wanted a good word From those who spoke her praise.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Nothing beats a haunted moonlit night on All Hallows Eve.... And on this fatal night, at this witching time, the starless sky laments black and…
— Elizabeth Kim
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We should cultivate the optimistic temperament, and endeavour to see the good that dwells in everything. If we sit down and lament over the imperfection…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Cuba laments and expresses its profound sadness for the loss of so many innocent lives and expresses our absolute rejection of acts of terrorism, wherever…
— Felipe Perez Roque
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I once picked up a woman from a garbage dump and she was burning with fever; she was in her last days and her only…
— Mother Teresa
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In my opinion, the trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments, which I have named the 'epic' one. It possesses nobility…
— Hector Berlioz
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A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other
— Sean O'Casey
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Adam Smith's 'invisible hand' is not above sudden, disturbing, movements. Since its inception, capitalism has known slumps and recessions, bubble and froth; no one has…
— Margaret Thatcher
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In these sad and ominous days of mad fortune chasing, every patriotic, thoughtful citizen, whether he fishes or not, should lament that we have not…
— Grover Cleveland
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This civilization is rapidly passing away, however. Let us rejoice or else lament the fact as much as everyone of us likes; but do not…
— Joseph A. Schumpeter
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We see a world of abundance, not limits. In the midst of a great deal of talk about reducing the human ecological footprint, we offer…
— William McDonough
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Youth -- nothing else worth having in the world...and I had youth, the transitory, the fugitive, now, completely and abundantly. Yet what was I going…
— Richard Halliburton
Who Wrote These Lament Quotes
96 authors contributed a total of 106 Lament Quotes, led by these top contributors: