Lament Quotes

106 Lament quotes by 95 unique authors

Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her. — William Wordsworth
Do not vainly lament, but do wonder at the rule of transiency and learn from it the emptiness of human life. Do not cherish to… — Gautama Buddha
Did you measure to attain your height? Did you use geometry to radiate your limb? Did you lament storm-torn branches? Did you inventory your leaves… — Ming-Dao Deng
When thou hast truly thanked the Lord for every blessing sent, But little time will then remain for murmur or lament. — Hannah More
This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren't old enough to understand that… — Poppy Z. Brite
It gladdens me to know that Baldr’s father [Odin] makes ready the benches for a banquet. Soon we shall be drinking ale from the curved… — Ragnar Lodbrok
I certainly have a lot to lament, as do we all, everybody has their griefs. But the griefs we can fix, shouldn't we go around… — Elizabeth Edwards
If you think you control things that are in the control of others, you will lament. You will be disturbed and you will blame both… — Epictetus
Far in the pillared dark Thrush music went- Almost like a call to come in To the dark and lament. But no, I was out… — Robert Frost
I can go into the wilderness and not see anyone for days and experience a kind of space that hasn't changed for tens of thousands… — Edward Burtynsky
If your everyday life appears to be unworthy subject matter, do not complain to life. Complain to yourself, Lament that you are not poet enough… — Rainer Maria Rilke
She kindly laments that I am not of the party, and to be sure I honour great ladies, and I admire great wits, but I… — Elizabeth Montagu
One can always lament, you know — but to laugh in the face of life, that's very hard. And for me the great tragedian should… — Martha Graham
Human nature is divided; it contains both darkness and light. You can choose to accept the darkness and lament it, or you can choose to… — Deepak Chopra
I don't like the fact that we're not creating jobs the way we used to create jobs in Pennsylvania. I lament the fact that we're… — Tom Wolf
Stop seeing socialists and anti-Americans as Democrats. When a Michael Moore compares beheaders to our own Minutemen and laments that too many Democrats were in… — Victor Davis Hanson
I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene — David McCullough
A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages over… — Mark Twain
If a man lives to any considerable age, it can not be denied that he laments his imprudences, but I notice he often laments his… — Robert Louis Stevenson
The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color.… — Joyce Carol Oates
In our whole life melody the music is broken off here and there by rests, and we foolishly think we have come to the end… — John Ruskin
People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the… — Aasif Mandvi
To make wail and lament for one's ill fortune, when one will win a tear from the audience, is well worthwhile. — Aeschylus
The Jaguar's Children is a beautifully rendered lament for an imperiled culture and the brave lives that would preserve it. You should read it. — John Burnham Schwartz
I have long admired the visceral storytelling and moral complexity of John Vaillant’s brilliant non-fiction about humankind’s tragically ambivalent relationship with the natural world. Now… — John Burnham Schwartz

Who Wrote These Lament Quotes

95 authors contributed a total of 106 Lament Quotes, led by these top contributors: