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Quotes About Lament

Weep for the lives your wishes never led.
~ Wystan Hugh Auden
Nonetheless: if only and if only and if only.
~ David Sheff
By the Rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yea! we wept when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there, they that carried us away captive, required of us a song; and they who wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. How can we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth.
~ David W. Blight
It takes a genius to whine appealingly.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
The jazz band stopped dead. The clock's chimes launched into the lament of the Westminster bells. A terrible silence hovered. "Ha!" said Hildesheim. "Ha!" said Bobby Moos. Right then the band sensed death.
~ Jean Ray
I hate the moonlight because it's beautiful and he isn't here to see it with me.
~ Jean Webster
Perché, dopo averla rinviata in così tanti modi, credo che la mia trasformazione sarà più radicale del previsto, che potrei diventare davvero qualcosa di simile alla creatura lamentosa. A quel punto vedrò la luna vera?
~ Jeff Vandermeer
then raised their heads and uttered a series of weird, mournful, dirgelike cries.
~ Alfred Lansing
O sad kissed mouth, how sorrowful it is!
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
what a nervous readiness attached to its lament
~ Alice Oswald
William Pratchett's last words on this earth were an anguished cry of, 'I haven't had my custard yet.
~ Rob Wilkins
Once through this ruined city did I pass I espied a lonely bird on a bough and asked 'What knowest thou of this wilderness?' It replied: 'I can sum it up in two words: 'Alas, Alas!
~ Khushwant Singh
Lord God, I feel so wretched! Lord God, I feel so wretched
~ Knut Hamsun
Of course, there is no lack of organizations that lament the breakdown of human communities and strive to rebuild them. A wide variety of groups, from feminist activists to Islamic fundamentalists, are in the business of community-building, and we will examine some of these efforts in later chapters. What makes Facebook's gambit unique is its global scope, its corporate backing, and its deep faith in technology. Zuckerberg
~ Yuval Noah Harari
I'm a lost soul. We do wail.
~ zelazny roger ii
Lament turned to Skulduggery. "Do you want me to hold your hand?" "I'd rather you didn't." "Perfectly understandable," Lament said.
~ Derek Landy
Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her.
~ William Wordsworth
For himself, he grew desperate; his sorrow was of the king that will not lament, he neither wept nor prayed - he cursed and defied - execrated God and man, and gave himself up to reckless dissipation.
~ Emily Bronte
Me thinks this heart should rest awhile... / Those flowers were formed to feel the breeze / Wave their light leaves in summer's glow... / And I lament because I know / That cold departure pictures mine.
~ Emily Bronte
We need personal prayer—to sustain us, to help us find courage, to lament. Jesus provides the example that in cases of extreme concern, of course, we pray for ourselves.
~ Amy-Jill Levine
Signori, i pinguini sono malcontenti del nuovo regime, perché, anche se ne traggono profitto, è naturale per gli uomini lamentarsi della propria condizione.
~ Anatole France
In durance vile here must I wake and weep,And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
~ Robert Burns
Weep for Manetheren. Weep for what is lost forever.
~ Robert Jordan
Oh, this is the most TRAGICAL thing that ever happened to me!
~ L.M. Montgomery