Time Quote by Eugene H. Peterson

Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more. Such grief does not desire consolation. It feeds on the sense of its hopelessness. Lamentations…

— Anonymous

“Lamentation is the intentional process of grieving and mourning so that we can bid an honest farewell to what we’ve lost and embrace the…

— Russ Ramsey

“There is silent and long-suffering sorrow to be met with among the peasantry. It withdraws into itself and is still. But there is a…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

As long as there's been poetry, there have been lamentations.

— Edward Hirsch

“I think you and I ought to publish our letters (they'd be a jolly good book by the way) under the title of lamentations,…

— C.S. Lewis

“Lament calls us to examine the work of reconciliation between those who live under suffering with those who live in celebration. Lamentations”

— Soong-Chan Rah

“What’s more, lament is a pathway. Honest expression to God makes way for God to come and work His real healing. Lament is a…

— Esther Fleece

“My prayers, my tears, my wishes, fears, and lamentations, were witnessed by myself and heaven alone. When we are harassed by sorrows or anxieties,…

— Anne Brontë

“No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief, More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring. Comforter, where, where is your comforting?…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

“Lamenting keeps us engaged with God. When we lament, we invite God into our pain so that we can know his comfort, and others…

— Vaneetha Rendall Risner

Anguish devours the mind, and furious rage, and hope than which the heart can bear no heavier burden, when it is long deferred.

— Statius

My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the…

— William Shakespeare