Wept Quotes
151 quotes by 122 authors
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I have prayed with the families and wept at the funerals of Hoosiers who did not shrink from 9-11 but grew into heroes whose names…
— Mike Pence
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But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
— Arthur Rimbaud
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The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.
— George Santayana
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After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left.
— Morrie Schwartz
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That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found…
— Khaled Hosseini
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If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters…
— Michael Ende
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It had ceased raining in the night and he walked out on the road and called for the dog. He called and called. Standing in…
— Cormac McCarthy
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Then he gave her a kiss on the forehead that felt like a baptism and she wept like a baby.
— Zadie Smith
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My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt.
— William Blake
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I wept like a child. It was not because I was overcome at having survived my ordeal, though I was. Nor was it the presence…
— Yann Martel
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Unless a man has pity he is not truly a man. If a man has not wept at the worlds pain he is only half…
— William Saroyan
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And truly it little matters what I say, this or that or any other thing. Saying is inventing. Wrong, very rightly wrong. You invent nothing,…
— Samuel Beckett
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taking her hand he led her out into a broad stretch of hard sandy soil that the moon flooded with great splendor. They floated out…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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His lies were so exquisite I almost wept.
— Dave Eggers
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Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? But though I have wept and fasted,…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief;
— William C. Bryant
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People hide their truest nature. I understood that; I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the…
— Alice Hoffman
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I wept in my dreams. I dreamed you lay in the grave; I awoke, and the tears still poured down my cheeks. I wept in…
— Heinrich Heine
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For a year after that was done to me I wept every day at the same hour and for the same space of time. That…
— Oscar Wilde
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your letters got sadder. your lovers betrayed you. kid, I wrote back, all lovers betray. it didn't help. you said you had a crying bench…
— Charles Bukowski
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