Wail Quotes

50 quotes by 47 authors

I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that's how I get it out - with books, with the band,… — Henry Rollins
Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy… — Victoria Woodhull
What win I, if I gain the thing I seek? A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy. Who buys a minute's mirth to… — William Shakespeare
Two tires fly. Two Wail. A bamboo grove, all chopped down From it, warring songs. — Neal Stephenson
Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sell eternity to get a toy? For one grape who will the vine destroy? — William Shakespeare
Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf.… — Annie Dillard
But it is the knowledge of how contingent my unease is, how dependent on a baby that wails beneath my window one day and does… — J M Coetzee
And men my prophet wail deride! — Ilona Andrews
She folded her arms and then shouted, "Right you thieving scunners! How dare you steal Miss Treason's funeral meats!" "Oh, waily, waily, it's the foldin'… — Terry Pratchett
And next to Allie, the screamer, once more reminded of his job, began to wail in Allie's ear. Reflexively Allie clapped her hand over his… — Neal Shusterman
We are the owls of the weather chaw. We take it blistering, We take it all. Roiling boiling gusts, We're the owls with the guts.… — Kathryn Lasky
Morgan sighed. "I," she announced, "am so pathetic." "You are not," I said. "I am." She went over and straightened the cling wrap, corner to… — Sarah Dessen
Suddenly the full long wail of a ship's horn surged through the open window and flooded the dim room - a cry of boundless, dark,… — Yukio Mishima
I would like to visit the factory that makes train horns, and ask them how they are able to arrive at that chord of eternal… — Nicholson Baker
Its a bit mad. Too bad, I mean, that getting to know each just for a fleeting second Must be replaced by unperfect knowledge of… — John Ashbery
I don't know where to start," one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and jump in, and… — Anne Lamott
And the pain is too much it's too much it's too much and my hands are on my head and I'm rearing back and my… — Patrick Ness
In a world where people die every day, I think the important thing to remember is that for each moment of sorrow we get when… — Neil Gaiman
Occasionally I sense an insane wail deep down in the pit, the echo alone reaching me, striking without warning, a child weeping uninhibitedly, imprisoned forever. — Ingmar Bergman
That's Delhi. When life gets too much for you all you need to do is to spend an hour at Nigambodh Ghat,watch the dead being… — Khushwant Singh

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