Wailing Quotes

67 quotes by 58 authors

A few melancholy birds were pipping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty silence fell — J.R.R. Tolkien
Clouds of black birds rose up wailing and screaming, like the thoughts of my heart. — Mary Renault
She was perfect. I knew this the moment she emerged from my body, white and wet and wailing. Beyond the requisite ten fingers and ten… — Vanessa Diffenbaugh
I am further back, surrounded on all sides by wailing men, their faces shiny with tears. Uncle Al promised three dollars and a bottle of… — Sara Gruen
I can still hear my mother wailing over some new kitchen crisis, "Oh God," and my father answering cozily from the silo, "Were you calling… — Peter De Vries
Acting is bad acting if the actor himself gets emotional in the act of making the audience cry. The object is to make the audience… — Rex Harrison
So much time weeping and wailing and shaking our fists, creating enemies that really don't exist. — Don Henley
And over the pond are sailing Two swans all white as snow; Sweet voices mysteriously wailing Pierce through me as onward they go. They sail… — Heinrich Heine
I felt if I went chronologically, I'd get bogged down in childhood and that's part of our culture of complaint in America. This endless wailing… — Edmund White
On the Avenue in front of the White House were several hundred colored people, mostly women and children, weeping and wailing their loss. This crowd… — Gideon Welles
Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear… — Hamlin Garland
Saturday night at my house, I often trot out classic movies and force the urchins to watch them. There is much wailing and gnashing of… — Bill O'Reilly
'Spectrum' is in part a disco song. But we play it hard, and it's a real euphoric, wailing tune. It's kind of like a total… — Florence Welch
Then it's goodbye, Sangsara for me Besides, girls aren't as good as they look And Samadhi is better than you think When it starts in… — Jack Kerouac
Her mind lives tidily, apart from cold and noise and pain. And bolts the door against her heart, out wailing in the rain. — Dorothy Parker
A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed, cut holes in it, and called it a human being. Since then, it's been wailing a tender… — Rumi
After a while, though the grief did not go away from us, it grew quiet. What had seemed a storm wailing through the entire darkness… — Wendell Berry
These tears I'm wailing, I spill not without reason. Remove them, my dearest love. Take me to the place I've been dreaming of, where the… — Steven Morrissey
And when he had put his hand on mine with a cheerful look, wherefrom I took courage, he brought me within to the secret things.… — Dante Alighieri
The tune was wailing and mournful, almost flagrantly so, and the total effect was of a heartbroken piccolo being parted forever from its bagpipe lover. — Peter S. Beagle

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