Lament Quotes

106 Lament quotes by 95 unique authors

We whine about things we have little control over; we lament what we believe ought to be changed. — Philip Yancey
I will weep and wail for the mountains and take up a lament concerning the desert pastures. They are desolate and untraveled, and the lowing… — Jeremiah
One is constantly reminded of the infinite lavishness and fertility of Nature-inexhaustible abundance amid what seems enormous waste. And yet when we look into any… — John Muir
A little time, and thou shalt close thy eyes; and him who has attended thee to thy grave, another soon will lament. — Marcus Aurelius
Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it's… — Anne Lamott
I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always… — Sean O'Casey
We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information. — David Ogden Stiers
My experiences of men has neither disposed me to think worse of them nor be indisposed to serve them: nor, in spite of failures which… — Robert E. Lee
My heart sobbed a lament that was hard to ignore. — Katie MacAlister
All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it. — Margaret Atwood
The world turns and the world spins, the tide runs in and the tide runs out, and there is nothing in the world more beautiful… — Gary D. Schmidt
Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps. — Friedrich Nietzsche
When you are young, you think that the old lament the deterioration of life because this makes it easier for them to die without regret.… — Julian Barnes
Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a stricken lament of terrible beauty. And Harry… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
and over your unconsecrated head you'll hear the howling wolves lament their fate and yours the livelong year; — Charles Baudelaire
Night of Sleepless Love The night above. We two. Full moon. I started to weep, you laughed. Your scorn was a god, my laments moments… — Federico Garcia Lorca
A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility — Tom Brokaw
...all of our laments could not add a single second to her life, not one additional beat of the heart, nor a breath. — Audrey Niffenegger
And when he had put his hand on mine with a cheerful look, wherefrom I took courage, he brought me within to the secret things.… — Dante Alighieri
I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does… — Epictetus
No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand. — Baruch Spinoza
Thery're both iron, isn't that funny?" "Funny haha or funny strange?" James handed them back to me "Funny 'occult'" "Ah. Funny strange" James looked at… — Maggie Stiefvater
She passed these years in a distant corner of her mind. A dry, barren field, out beyond wish and lament, beyond dream and disillusionment. There,… — Khaled Hosseini
I didn't want normal until I didn't have it anymore — Maggie Stiefvater
Laments of an Icarus The paramours of courtesans Are well and satisfied, content. But as for me my limbs are rent Because I clasped the… — Charles Baudelaire

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