Weeping Quotes

266 quotes by 214 authors

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
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
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
So much time weeping and wailing and shaking our fists, creating enemies that really don't exist. — Don Henley
Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping? — Anna Letitia Barbauld
What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows. What poor, defenceless creatures they would be! — Douglas William Jerrold
My tears are buried in my heart, like cave-locked fountains sleeping. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers? — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
There is a certain pleasure in weeping; grief finds in tears both a satisfaction and a cure. — Unknown Author
When from soft love proceeds the deep distress, ah! why forbid the willing tears to flow? — William Cowper
A baby was sleeping, Its mother was weeping. — Samuel Lover
Trust not a woman when she weeps, for it is her nature to weep when she wants her will. — Socrates
For one drop calls another down, till we are drowned in seas of grief. — Isaac Watts
We weep and laugh, as we see others do. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. — Matthew McConaughey
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
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
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
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
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

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