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Quotes About Wail

With all of us nursing you— Must you still prolong the agony of life? While I, having lost my hold on the tremendous Faith, Having divested myself of purity and suchlike humble items, Now walk in the sombre bluish world of the Asura. --- Silent Wail
~ Kenji Miyazawa
So, there on the front step, he decided to go with total hysteria. He started breathing hard, pumping up some tears, got a good whimpering sob going, then opened the door with a dieseling back sniffle. He fell onto the welcome mat and let loose with a full fire-truck-siren wail.
~ Christopher Moore
to surpass the unutterable despair expressed in that one chorus, 'Go where glory waits thee!' It was a requiem, a dirge, a moan, a howl, a wail, a lament, an abstract of everything that is sorrowful and hideous in sound.
~ Charles Dickens
Then a hundred sad voices lifted a wail, And a hundred glad voices piped on the gale: 'Time is short, life is short,' they took up the tale: 'Life is sweet, love is sweet, use to-day while you may; Love is sweet, and to-morrow may fail; Love is sweet, use to-day.
~ Christina Rossetti
Life is nothing but an occassional burst of laughter rising above the interminable wail of grief.
~ Henry Roth
My lord, wise men ne'er wail their present woes, But presently prevent the ways to wail.174
~ William Shakespeare
high-pitched wail of the emergency General Quarters
~ David Weber
Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A full-blown storm where everything changes. The sky goes through four days in an hour, the trees wail, little animals skitter in the mud and everything gets dark and goes completely wild.
~ Joan Didion
Cease, man, to mourn, to weep, to wail; Enjoy thy shining hour of sun; We dance along Death's icy brink, But is the dance less full of fun?
~ Richard Francis Burton
Occasionally I sense an insane wail deep down in the pit, the echo alone reaching me, striking without warning, a child weeping uninhibitedly, imprisoned forever.
~ Ingmar Bergman
Its a bit mad. Too bad, I mean, that getting to know each just for a fleeting second Must be replaced by unperfect knowledge of the featureless whole Like some pocket history of the world, so general As to constitute a sob or wail
~ John Ashbery
Wail, for the Day of the LORD is near; it will come as destruction from the Almighty.
~ Isaiah 13:6
Wail, O gate! Cry out, O city! Melt away, all you Philistines! For a cloud of smoke comes from the north, and there are no stragglers in its ranks.
~ Isaiah 14:31
Cross over to Tarshish; wail, O inhabitants of the coastland!
~ Isaiah 23:6
My servants will shout for joy with a glad heart, but you will cry out with a heavy heart and wail with a broken spirit.
~ Isaiah 65:14
“Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.
~ Jeremiah 14:2
Wail, you shepherds, and cry out; roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock. For the days of your slaughter have come; you will fall and be shattered like fine pottery.
~ Jeremiah 25:34
Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been shattered. Wail for her; get her balm for her pain; perhaps she can be healed.
~ Jeremiah 51:8
Cry out and wail, O son of man, for the sword is wielded against My people; it is against all the princes of Israel! They are tossed to the sword with My people; therefore strike your thigh.
~ Ezekiel 21:12
On that day,” declares the LORD, “a cry will go up from the Fish Gate, a wail from the Second District, and a loud crashing from the hills.
~ Zephaniah 1:10