Quotes About Lament

What a shame, I often think, that she foresaw only the end times, never hot dogs.

Carus, Carus, gib mir meine Millionen wieder!

I am the Dark One, – the Widower, – the Unconsoled The Aquitaine Prince whose Tower is destroyed: My only star is dead,- and my constellated lute Bears the black Sun of Melancholia.

Je suis le ténébreux, — le veuf, — l'inconsolé, Le prince d'Aquitaine à la tour abolie : Ma seule étoile est morte, — et mon luth constellé Porte le Soleil noir de la Mélancolie." "I am the Dark One, – the Widower, – the Unconsoled The Aquitaine Prince whose Tower is destroyed: My only star is dead,- and my constellated lute Bears the black Sun of Melancholia.

Should have. Would have. Could have. Didn't.

Poor Catullus, you should cease your folly.

It is a weary lament to lay most acts of violence and aggression, from the strictly local to the truly global, squarely at the feet of men. Yet the association is strong and undeniable

but sing no more this bitter tale that wears my heart away

When Achilles heard this he sank into the black depths of despair. He picked up the dark dust in both his hands and poured it on his head...he cast himself down on the earth and lay there like a fallen giant, fouling his hair and tearing it out with his own hands...[the maidservants] beat their breasts with their hands and sank to the ground beside their royal master.

Your arrows for my tears.

During the daytime I glut myself with sorrow and lament, having my own duties to see to, and my house-maidens' work: but night falls and the world sleeps. Then I lie in my bed and the swarming cares so assail my inmost heart that I go distraught with misery.

I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene

Daniel, beloved, I am powerless to effect the destiny of the divine in the flesh. The time of resurrection is at hand. I can only lament for the loss of his light but I am she who is eternally with you.

Beneath the awesome lament of the cities was an undersong of human terror.

Long ruddy rays touched the surface of the lake, where black swans haunted the shores, shrouded among rigid spears of reds. The swans sang to the approaching night, and to Khaster, it sounded like a lament for the end of the world.

You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.

In a strange way, I envied the quality of Morrie's time even as I lamented its diminishing supply. Why did we bother with all the distractions we did? .. give up days and weeks of our lives, addicted to someone else's drama.

When a colleague at Brandeis died suddenly of a heart attack, Morrie went to his funeral. He came home depressed. "What a waste," he said. "All those people saying those wonderful things, and Irv never got to hear any of it".

It was all right to be sad. It was all right to lament. It was all right to feel anger. But [is] not all right to run away.

Laments were as old as verses of love, she knew. They were verses of love. For the departed who will never be met again, for the burned cities.

La experiencia ya le había enseñado que el futuro la reservaría más tiempo del tolerable para lamentarse de los errores cometidos en el pasado

Owners, physicians, and overseers regularly accused female laborers of pretending to be pregnant. The charge of "shamming" was a self-serving lament as much as a legitimate concern, as it was rare for pregnant women to be given any dispensation.

My heart sobbed a lament that was hard to ignore.

A GALWAY LAMENT You watched—through April from a place of forbearance … called fortitude.