Weeping Quotes
266 quotes by 214 authors
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In the midnight of a soul's unsleeping, hear the waterfall of women weeping. Hear the distant noise of traffic stalling, hear the prostituted children calling.
— Pete Townshend
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There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumor of all lands: the springing and the…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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How many fears came between us? Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hell rained smoldering pus from skies made of winged death. Horror tore this world asunder.…
— Aberjhani
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So much time weeping and wailing and shaking our fists, creating enemies that really don't exist.
— Don Henley
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Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows. What poor, defenceless creatures they would be!
— Douglas William Jerrold
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My tears are buried in my heart, like cave-locked fountains sleeping.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers?
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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There is a certain pleasure in weeping; grief finds in tears both a satisfaction and a cure.
— Unknown Author
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When from soft love proceeds the deep distress, ah! why forbid the willing tears to flow?
— William Cowper
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A baby was sleeping, Its mother was weeping.
— Samuel Lover
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Trust not a woman when she weeps, for it is her nature to weep when she wants her will.
— Socrates
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For one drop calls another down, till we are drowned in seas of grief.
— Isaac Watts
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We weep and laugh, as we see others do.
— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
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There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
— Matthew McConaughey
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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
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A picture can be funny and also weep inducing. One cries for many reasons. The state of weeping, for me, is induced by recognition of…
— Joe Bradley
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IN PERSIA I SAW that poetry is meant to be set to music & chanted or sung--for one reason alone--because it works.A right combination of…
— Hakim
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Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to…
— Michael J. Fox
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When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your…
— Khalil Gibran
Who Wrote These Weeping Quotes
214 authors contributed a total of 266 Weeping Quotes, led by these top contributors: