Lament Quotes

106 Lament quotes by 95 unique authors

She took a moment to lament her lack of parasol. Every time she left the house, she felt keenly the absence of her heretofore ubiquitous… — Gail Carriger
There's a wonderful old Italian joke about a poor man who goes to church every day and prays before the statue of a great saint,'Dear… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Don't cry pretty girl. Who you are is why you're so good at everything. You won't let yourself be otherwise. And thats what fascinates me."… — Maggie Stiefvater
Don't lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don't have a career. You have a life. Do the work.… — Cheryl Strayed
To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it must one day… — Anne Bronte
The sun shines through the window And the sun shines through your hair It seems like you're beside me But I know that you're not… — Maggie Stiefvater
Fro and to in my dreams to you To the haunting tune of the harp For the price I paid when you died that day… — Maggie Stiefvater
Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a… — Leonardo da Vinci
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it. — Seneca the Younger
Convinced that the attachment of colonies to the metropolis, depends infinitely more upon moral and religious feeling, than political arrangement, or even commercial advantage, I… — John Strachan
Jeremiah has to lament that there are as many altars as towns in Judah. — Julius Wellhausen
In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of room to abuse… — Roy Harper
I think as someone who collects beautiful things from the past, the thing that I miss the most about modernism and the things I lament… — Dita Von Teese
Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves,… — Bible
Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the… — Bible
Because, death is certain for the one who is born, and birth is certain for the one who dies. Therefore, you should not lament over… — Bhagavad Gita
My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured… — William Shakespeare
In this age of crowds in which I have determined to be a solitary, perhaps the greatest sin would be to lament the presence of… — Thomas Merton
There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present. — Unknown Author
Never lament what you cannot have; truly accept that you have enough of everything. — Senoraroy

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