Wail Quotes
50 Wail quotes by 47 unique authors
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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
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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
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And men my prophet wail deride!
— Ilona Andrews
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born, Relieve my languish and restore the light; With dark forgetting of…
— Samuel Daniel
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Time with his old flail Beat me full sore; Till: Hold, I cried, I'll stand no more. Then I heard a wail And looking spied…
— John Dewey
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I actually started singing in church when I was about five years old. I remember looking at the choirs and just hearing all of those…
— Kelly Rowland
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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.
— Minna Antrim
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Few of us will forget the wail of mingled grief, rage and horror which rose from the camp when the Indians returned to it and…
— John Gibbon
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Laughter does not deny pain. Laughter - like a wail - acknowledges and replies to pain.
— Tim O'Brien
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It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me,…
— Bible
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This is how my Gran Ma used to drop it on me when she was getting ready to cut my arse! Don't let me have…
— Glen Rambharack
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You can cry, cry, cry. Yes baby, you can wail. Beat your head on the pavement. Till the man comes and throws you in jail.
— Robben Ford
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When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,…
— William Shakespeare
Who Wrote These Wail Quotes
47 authors contributed a total of 50 Wail Quotes, led by these top contributors: