Quote by Russ Ramsey

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

“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

“Lamentations is insurance against premature comfort, against "healing the wounds of my people lightly" During the time of ruin there are always those who…

— Eugene H. Peterson

“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

“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

“It's not a cry of grief, she finds, nor one of pain or loss or sorrow; rather, its a shout of triumph, of victory,…

— Robert Jackson Bennett

“I am thinking of Achilles’ grief, he said. That famous, terrible, grief. Let me tell you boys something. Such grief can only be told…

— Tobias Wolff

“There is a sacredness in tears....They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.”

— Washington Irving

“The words sounded like a mournful incantation.”

— Dan Simmons

Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in his moments…

— Samuel Johnson

“My particular grief Is of so flood-gate and o'erbearing nature That it engluts and swallows other sorrows, And it is still itself.”

— William Shakespeare

“Sorrow is the darkest, most intense form of passion hidden in the recesses of the human spirit.”

— Andrea Randall