Wail Quotes

50 Wail quotes by 47 unique authors

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
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
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
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
The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh. — Minna Antrim
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
Laughter does not deny pain. Laughter - like a wail - acknowledges and replies to pain. — Tim O'Brien
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
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
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
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

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