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Quotes About Weep

We wept when we were born though all around us smiled; so shall we smile when we die while all around us weep.
~ Charles Spurgeon
If you want to heal Heal others And smile or weep At this very happy reversal of fate
~ Muriel Barbery
On the porch, green-shuttered, cool, Asleep is Bertram, that bronze boy, Who, having wound her around a spool, Sends her spinning like a toy Out to the garden, all alone, To sit and weep on a bench of stone. Soon the purple dark will bruise Lily and bleeding-heart and rose, And the little Cupid lose Eyes and ears and chin and nose, And Jane lie down with others soon Naked to the naked moon.
~ Donald Justice
Behold a candle, how it gives its light. It weeps its life away drop by drop in order to give forth its flame of light.
~ Abdu'l-Bahá
Weep if you must Parting is hell But life goes on So sing as well.
~ Joyce Grenfell
Ah! Mother, Mother! You still think I am a child - why can I not put my head in your lap and weep? Why have I always to be strong and self-controlled? I would like to weep and be comforted too, indeed I am little more than a child; in the wardrobe still hang short, boy's trouser - it is such a little time ago, why is it over?
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Ah! Mother, Mother! You still think I am a child - why can I not put my head in your lap and weep? Why have I always to be strong and self-controlled? I would like to weep and be comforted too, indeed I am little more than a child; in the wardrobe still hang short, boy's trousers - it is such a little time ago, why is it over?
~ Erich Maria Remarque
the desire that no daughter of mine should ever be in a position to be able to write BY GRAND CENTRAL STATION I SAT DOWN AND WEPT -- exquisite prose though it might contain. ('BY GRAND CENTRAL STATION I TORE OFF HIS BALLS' would be more like it, I should hope.)
~ Angela Carter
When a[n Afghan Arab] fighter fell, his comrades would congratulate him and weep because they were not also slain in battle.
~ Lawrence Wright
Punctured, utterly deflated, he dropped into a chair and, covering his face with his hands, began to weep. A few minutes later, however, he thought better of it and took four tablets of soma. Upstairs in his room the Savage was reading Romeo and Juliet.
~ Aldous Huxley
They do not sweat and whine about their condition. They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins.'' [...] To be a perfect animal and a perfect human - that was the ideal.
~ Aldous Huxley
And she began to weep, dropping her head onto her forearms and rocking backwards and forwards in that curious motion that is perhaps a subconscious attempt to mimic the movement that brings comfort to a tiny baby. That we should in moments of sorrow seek to return to a time when the harshness of the world could be forfended by the simple reassurances of our parents; that we should do that …
~ Alexander McCall Smith
They ask of me only to weep repentance for a sin that does not concern me and I shall get in return an alien freedom I don't understand: to be drubbed in one thin, wounding water after another of their philosophy - and confidently they would hang their washing in the heavens.
~ Donald MacAulay
Life is a jest of the Gods and there is no justice. You must learn to laugh… or else you'll weep yourself to death.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Weep not for me but for thy children.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sacrifice by its very nature was arrogant and impersonal; sacrifice should be eternally supercilious. Weep not for me but for thy children.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
We thought to weep, but sing for joy instead, Full of the grateful peace That follows her release; For nothing but the weary dust lies dead.
~ Louisa May Alcott
she clutched her purse and was completely composed, gracefully accepting people's sympathies, but when they started to shovel the dirt over old dick's coffin she began to weep, and her grief was strong enough to chase the sparrows from the trees.
~ Alice Hoffman
No more to say, and nothing to weep for but the Beings in the Dream, trapped in its disappearance
~ Allen Ginsberg
We don't understand that life is heaven, for we have only to understand that and it will at once be fulfilled in all its beauty, we shall embrace each other and weep.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
I'm an incredibly emotional person, but I always feel bad about that. The work is therapy... I need to emote wildly while I write. I weep. I'll laugh, get excited, and get up and pace. I try to take the emotional journey with the characters.
~ Matthew Quick
When you weep and lament, you will struggle to achieve and rejoice.
~ Auliq Ice
Let Art and Genius weep.
~ Samuel Johnson
There was a time that crepuscular was mild, The hour for tea, acquaintances, and fall Away of day's difficulties, all Discouragement. Weep, you are not a child.
~ John Berryman