Wail Quotes

50 quotes by 47 authors

This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The only thing that makes life endurable in this world is human love, and yet, according to Christianity, that is the very thing that we… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms. — William Shakespeare
Life is nothing but an occassional burst of laughter rising above the interminable wail of grief. — Henry Roth
The harmonica is the most voice-like instrument, you can make it wail, feel happy, or cry. It's like singing the blues without words. — Charlie Musselwhite
LOVE is essentially self-communicative: those who do not have it catch it from those who have it.... No amount of rites, rituals, ceremonies, worship, meditation,… — Meher Baba
If you see anybody wail and complain, call him a slave, though he be clad in purple. — Epictetus
Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame,-nothing but well and fair, And what… — John Milton
God is near at hand when you do approach Him in prayer. Oh, comforting truth! A God at hand to hear the softest breath of… — Octavius Winslow
I wanted a line in a poem to be the hollow ney of the dervish orchestra whose plaintive wail is a call to God. But… — Anne Michaels
I hear the mournful wail of millions! — Frederick Douglass
Many Americans don't mourn in public anymore - we don't wear black, we don't beat our chests and wail. — Meghan O'Rourke
To make wail and lament for one's ill fortune, when one will win a tear from the audience, is well worthwhile. — Aeschylus
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
Vanitas vanitatum has rung in the ears Of gentle and simple for thousands of years; The wail still is heard, yet its notes never scare… — Frederick Locker-Lampson
Now and then we hear the wilder voices of the wilderness, from animals that in the hours of darkness do not fear the neighborhood of… — Theodore Roosevelt
Rough wind, the moanest loud Grief too sad for song; Wild wind, when sullen cloud Knells all the night long; Sad storm, whose tears are… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of… — Michael J. Fox
You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that… — Charlie Parker
I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind… — Buddy Rich

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