Moans Quotes
30 quotes by 26 authors
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Some reckon their age by years, Some measure their life by art; But some tell their days by the flow of their tears And their…
— Abram Joseph Ryan
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That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this…
— Lydia M. Child
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The thundering line of battle stands, And in the air Death moans and sings: But Day shall clasp him with strong hands, And Night shall…
— Julian Grenfell
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Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a…
— Emma Goldman
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Through the chill of December the early winter moans... but it's that January wind that rattles old bones.
— John Facenda
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A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in. A minute to smile and an hour to weep in. A pint of joy to…
— Paul Laurence Dunbar
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Sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet; Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moans of doves in immemorial…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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I contribute to the dead of winter and the moans of silence, blood trails are music to my ears ... I'm a gut pile addict…
— Ted Nugent
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Stand still, close your eyes and listen; in the silence you can hear the cries of pain and low moans of anguish of animals waiting…
— Ashley Montagu
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It's all a farce, - these tales they tell About the breezes sighing, And moans astir o'er field and dell, Because the year is dying.
— Paul Laurence Dunbar
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In such situations, of course, people don't nurse their anger silently, they moan aloud; but these are not frank, straightforward moans, there is a kind…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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It's so hard to listen to these trains outside my window, here it comes again. And it's calling me, begging me, follow me down the…
— Melissa Etheridge
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The ocean moans over dead men's bones.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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It was one of those somber evenings when the sighing of the wind resembles the moans of a dying man; a storm was brewing, and…
— Alfred de Musset
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Everyone moans about the collapsing U.S. infrastructure.
— James Fallows
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A minute to smile and an hour to weep in, A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the…
— Paul Laurence Dunbar
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The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, Tis not too late to seek a…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Forest, I fear you! In my ruined heart your roaring wakens the same agony as in cathedrals when the organ moans and from the depths…
— Charles Baudelaire
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After perhaps thirty meters, just as a soldier turned around, the girl was felled. Hands were clamped upon her from behind and the boy next…
— Markus Zusak
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Where to start? Everything cracks and shakes, The air trembles with similes, No one world's better than another; the earth moans with metaphors.
— Osip Mandelstam
Who Wrote These Moans Quotes
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