Wailing Quotes

67 quotes by 58 authors

So loud was the wailing of the women and children that there was not one man among us whose heart did not bleed at the… — Hernando Cortes
The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear. — William C. Bryant
Spring is the season of gaiety, and winter of terror; in spring the heart of tranquility dances to the melody of the groves, and the… — Samuel Johnson
I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon… — Hamlin Garland
There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of… — Dante Alighieri
Walter turned on the radio: electric violins wailing, twisted romance, the four-square beat of heartbreak. Trite suffering, but suffering nonetheless. The entertainment business. What voyeurs… — Margaret Atwood
You know, when I'm playing, I think of myself in front of the Wailing Wall with a saxophone in my hands, and I'm davening, I'm… — Stan Getz
She marking them begins a wailing note And sings extemporally a woeful ditty How love makes young men thrall and old men dote How love… — William Shakespeare
Humanity looks upon Jesus the Nazarene as a poor-born Who suffered misery and humiliation with all of the weak. And He is pitied, for Humanity… — Khalil Gibran
Isn't food important? Why not "universal food coverage"? If politicians and employers had guaranteed us "free" food 50 years ago, today Democrats would be wailing… — Ann Coulter
My neighbor Alice Pierce is fond of singing folk music to her garden plants. Thinks it makes them grow or something. The Major had often… — Helen Simonson
Do one of three things. One, go and find a wailing wall and feel sorry for yourselves. Two, go psycho and start bombing -- but… — Saul Alinsky
The trigger has been squeezed, the deathly mechanism has been enabled, the fatal course of a bullet has been set. No amount of bleating or… — Nicola Barker
So I'm at the wailing wall, standing there like a moron, with my harpoon. — Emo Philips
Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road, a long, agonized wailing, as if from fear. The sound was… — Bram Stoker
Much of my crying is for joy and wonder rather than for pain. A trumpet's wailing, a wind's warm breath, the chink of a bell… — Marlena De Blasi
We both grew up in the atmosphere of struggle, both Ossie and me, ... I come out of Harlem and Harlem comes out of me… — Ruby Dee
You yourself are to blame. This weeping and wailing and knocking your heads into corners [against brick walls, as it were] will not do you… — Swami Vivekananda
Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of the sweat of… — Khalil Gibran
A savage place! As holy and enchanted/As e'er beneath the waning moon was haunted/By woman wailing for her Demon Lover! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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