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Quotes About Lament

I will lament your departure. I will hide my shame for having erred on some obscure point, for thinking that the justice of war is the same of peacetime.
~ Paulo Coelho
good Hobbinoll, what garres thee greete? What! hath some wolfe thy tender lambes ytorne? Or is thy bagpype broke, that soundes so sweete? Or art thou of thy loved lasse forlorne?
~ Edmund Spenser
My grief lies all within; and these external manner of laments are merely shadows of the unseen grief that swells with silence in the tortur'd soul.
~ William Shakespeare
O, woe is me, To have seen what I have seen, see what I see!
~ William Shakespeare
But yet let me lament With tears as sovereign as the blood of hearts That thou my brother, my competitor In top of all design, my mate in empire, Friend and companion in the front of war, The arm of mine own body, and the heart Where mine his thoughts did kindle—that our stars Unreconcilable should divide Our equalness to this.
~ William Shakespeare
And my poor fool is hanged. No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life And thou no breath at all? O thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never.
~ William Shakespeare
O shut the door! and when thou hast done so, Come weep with me; past hope, past cure, past help!
~ William Shakespeare
And strange it is That nature must compel us to lament Our most persisted deeds.
~ William Shakespeare
Howl, howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stones!
~ William Shakespeare
No, coz, I rather weep. - Benvolio
~ William Shakespeare
The moon, methinks, looks with a watery eye; And when she weeps, weeps every little flower; Lamenting some enforced chastity.
~ William Shakespeare
Let us live so that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry," Mark Twain used to say.
~ Christopher McDougall
I didn't do anything," Han complained, the refrain of his entire life.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
He sighed and knew that life was full of 'if only' for everyone
~ Colin Dexter
If they are gods, why do you lament them? If you lament them, you must no longer regard them as gods.
~ Heraclitus
Mortals are fragile," I say. "Not you," he says in a way that sounds a little like a lament. "You never break." Which is ridiculous, as hurt as I am. I feel like a constellation of wounds, held together with string and stubbornness. Still, I like hearing it. I like everything he's saying all too well. That boy is your weakness.
~ Holly Black
It was terrifying," he says, "watching you fall. I mean, you're generally terrifying, but I am unused to fearing for you. And then I was furious. I am not sure I have ever been that angry before." "Mortals are fragile," I say. "Not you," he says in a way that sounds a little like a lament. "You never break.
~ Holly Black
It was terrifying,' he says, 'watching you fall. I mean, you're generally terrifying, but I am unused to fearing for you. And then I was furious. I am not sure I have ever been that angry before.' 'Mortals are fragile,' I say. 'Not you,' he says in a way that sounds a little like a lament. 'You never break.
~ Holly Black
By the ships there lies a dead man, unwept, unburied: Patroclus.
~ Homer
Remembering this, he [Achilles] wept bitterly, lying now on his side, now on his back, now on his face.
~ Homer
It's regret that kills, the if onlys that leave the mortal wounds.
~ Linda Francis Lee
But out of the many ironies in my current unhappy contretemps, perhaps the worst of all is that I, Dexter the Monster, Dexter the Ultimate Outsider, Dexter the Nonhuman—I, too, am reduced in extremis to that ultimate human lament: Why Me?
~ Jeff Lindsay
I will never get the hours back in my life that I spent covering the Federals, said David Remnick, the team's Washington Post beat writer. I'll be on my deathbed thinking about that.
~ Jeff Pearlman
Aunt Zo, who never missed a chance to lament her marriage, had said at dinner in her comedienne's voice, "My husband. Always the bridesmaid and never the bride.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides