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Quotes About Lament

How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow!
~ Anonymous
My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death.
~ Anonymous
Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
~ Anonymous
Would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!
~ Anonymous
Sen Caladan'? sevdin Yitik hükümdar?n?n yas?n? tuttun... Ama ?st?rap öÄŸretti ki Silemez yeni â??klar Ebedi hayaletleri.
~ Frank Herbert
My writing was all about you; all I did there, after all, was to bemoan what I could not bemoan upon your breast.
~ Franz Kafka
my world is collapsing, my world is rebuilding itself; wait and see how you (meaning me) survive it all. I'm not lamenting the falling apart, it was already in a state of collapse, what I'm lamenting is the rebuilding, I lament my waning strength, I lament being born, I lament the light of the sun.
~ Franz Kafka
All I did there, after all, was to bemoan what I could not bemoan upon your breast.
~ Franz Kafka
I can go into the wilderness and not see anyone for days and experience a kind of space that hasn't changed for tens of thousands of years. Having that experience was necessary to my perception of how photography can look at the changes humanity has brought about in the landscape. My work does become a kind of lament.
~ Edward Burtynsky
For me a Writing Day was an occasion for self-reproach and panic, a time to lament the passing of the years, stare out of windows and remember that even those famous late starters Joseph Conrad and George Eliot had started by the age I was now.
~ Howard Jacobson
If only. The saddest two words in any language.
~ Maggie Osborne
When you weep and lament, you will struggle to achieve and rejoice.
~ Auliq Ice
Deja de compadecerte de ti mismo. La compasión escasea mucho en el mundo y es una lástima desperdiciarla. Dicho
~ Amos Oz
That I want nothing," said the Prince, "or that I know not what I want, is the cause of my complaint; if I had any known want, I should have a certain wish; that wish would excite endeavour, and I should not then repine to see the sun move so slowly towards the western mountains, or to lament when the day breaks, and sleep will no longer hide me from myself.
~ Samuel Johnson
The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Time and time again my eyes have been opened to what I am, but always too late and always to no purpose.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ach! Er ist tot! Wie dauert er mich! Wie bin ich bekümmert!
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Even as the words came out of my mouth, my heart was dying a million deaths.
~ Anthony Kiedis
Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
What's the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn't.
~ Morrissey
The sea complains upon a thousand shores.
~ Alexander Smith
All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it.
~ Margaret Atwood
But to note is not to disparage. All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it.
~ Margaret Atwood
I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
~ Bernard Berenson