Lament Quotes

106 quotes by 96 authors

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
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
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
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
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
I sometimes lament the fact that I do not have the benefit of a complete and ailment free body structure. — Amitabh Bachchan
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
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
Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madam Blaize, Who never wanted a good word From those who spoke her praise. — Oliver Goldsmith
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
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
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
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
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
A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other — Sean O'Casey
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
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
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
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
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

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