Ancient Quote by Diane Duane

I have often sung to drown my sorrow, but seldom to express my happiness. Crying for joy, and singing for joy, were alike uncommon…

— Frederick Douglass

“All of us sing more from sorrow than from joy. It is tragedy that leaves a mark on the mind and calls for the…

— Anonymous

“The water called. Like a siren on a foggy night, singing beautifully to lonely boaters, luring them closer. Promising companionship but ultimately dragging them…

— Cambria Hebert

“My loves have always been seared with this singing, this singing written by death, the way some lands have always been crippled by war.”

— Hannah Lillith Assadi

“In the waters there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than any substance else that is in this Earth;…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

And we will cause it to be well-made, this Sacrifice. You, young and never loving; I, old and never loved. Such a Song the…

— Diane Duane

Sing, my tongue, the Saviour's glory, Of His Flesh, the mystery sing; Of the Blood, all price exceeding, Shed by our Immortal King, Destined,…

— Thomas Aquinas

To course across more kindly waters now my talent's little vessel lifts her sails, leaving behind herself a sea so cruel; and what I…

— Dante Alighieri

“Some say the ocean roars, I hear it ever weeping. Weep, ocean, weep for those gone before. Weep, O sea, for the open graves…

— Craig Froman

Seas wept from our deep sorrows.

— John Milton

“Up the still, glistening beaches, Up the creeks we will hie, Over banks of bright seaweed The ebb-tide leaves dry. We will gaze, from…

— Matthew Arnold

“The roar of the sea may be joyous to a rejoicing spirit, but to the son of sorrow the wide, wide ocean is even…

— Charles H. Spurgeon