Wept Quotes
151 quotes by 126 authors
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When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love…
— Jane Campion
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I wept not, so to stone within I grew.
— Dante Alighieri
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We are fit for the work of God only when we have wept over it, prayed about it, and then we are enabled by Him…
— Alan Redpath
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That good gardener, who wept thorns plowing his fields - harvests grace with joy.
— Aberjhani
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Dost thou understand me, sinful soul? He wrestled with justice, that thou mightest have rest; He wept and mourned, that thou mightest laugh and rejoice;…
— John Bunyan
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Tears fell from my eyes - yes, weak and foolish as it now appears to me, I wept for my departed youth; and for that…
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
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We wept when we were born though all around us smiled; so shall we smile when we die while all around us weep.
— Charles Spurgeon
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She might have wept then, had not the sky begun to do it for her.
— George R. R. Martin
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When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown…
— Henry Twells
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I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for several months before…
— Christiaan Barnard
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A boy has never wept...nor dashed a thousand kin
— Dutch Schultz
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Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and shew'd how fields were won.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Life is neither to be wept over nor to be laughed at but to be understood.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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And in that narrow cockpit I wept, as I shall never weep again, when I felt the concrete brush against his wheels and, with a…
— Pierre Clostermann
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The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency- showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
— Alan Furst
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When you were born, the rivers dried up and the cattle in Rockingham County wept blood.
— Maggie Stiefvater
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To be much for God, we must be much with God. Jesus, that lone figure in the wilderness, knew strong crying, along with tears. Can…
— Leonard Ravenhill
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It's hard to tell our bad luck from our good luck sometimes. And most of us have wept copious tears over someone or something when…
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
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When I sang my American folk melodies in Budapest, Prague, Tiflis, Moscow, Oslo, or the Hebrides or on the Spanish front, the people understood and…
— Paul Robeson
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Oh! don't you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt, Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown, Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile,…
— Thomas Dunn English
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