Lament Quotes

Lament Quote of the day

Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it's like they are holding the baby of you.

My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul.

You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

I sometimes lament the fact that I do not have the benefit of a complete and ailment free body structure.

Cease to lament for that thou canst not help; and study help for that which thou lamentest.

A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other

While we lament the apparent injustice of pain and suffering, how often do we forget that every good thing in a fallen world is wholly a gift of God's mercy and grace.

When thou hast truly thanked the Lord for every blessing sent, But little time will then remain for murmur or lament.

We lament, too, the destruction of purity among women and young girls as is evidenced by the increasing immodesty of their dress and conversation and by their participation in shameful dances.

A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility

I have tried sedulously not to laugh at the acts of man, nor to lament them, nor to detest them, but to understand them.

No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.

Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man?

Thou wilt lament Hereafter, when the evil shall be done And shall admit no cure.

This civilization is rapidly passing away, however. Let us rejoice or else lament the fact as much as everyone of us likes; but do not let us shut our eyes to it.

A superb and dreadfully moving account of the glory and subsequent murder by the Romanians of the Jewish city in Odessa. . . . Odessa is both celebration and lament and equally impressive as both.

I will roar argon into chlorine, xenon into fluorine, all the noble gases into reactive ones My lament will terrify even the stars.

We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.

Human nature is divided; it contains both darkness and light. You can choose to accept the darkness and lament it, or you can choose to expand the light until the darkness no longer dominates.

To make wail and lament for one's ill fortune, when one will win a tear from the audience, is well worthwhile.

I mean to be too rich to lament or to feel anything of the sort. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.

Hast thou fallen? Do not groan and lament: rather be thankful for the opportunity given thee to rise once more.

In these sad and ominous days of mad fortune chasing, every patriotic, thoughtful citizen, whether he fishes or not, should lament that we have not among our countrymen more fishermen.

Do not vainly lament, but do wonder at the rule of transiency and learn from it the emptiness of human life. Do not cherish to unworthy desire that the changeable might become unchanging.

Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided 'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear.

Lightly from fair to fair he flew, And loved to plead, lament, and sue; Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain, For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.

If your everyday life appears to be unworthy subject matter, do not complain to life. Complain to yourself, Lament that you are not poet enough to call up its wealth.

In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of room to abuse each other, which we continue to do.

The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth. In many parts of the planet, the elderly lament that once beautiful landscapes are now covered with rubbish.

Everything good in life is either immoral, illegal or fattening.

If you think you control things that are in the control of others, you will lament. You will be disturbed and you will blame both gods and men.

The Jaguar's Children is a beautifully rendered lament for an imperiled culture and the brave lives that would preserve it. You should read it.

Most women lament not the death of their lovers so much out of real affection for them, as because they would appear worthy of love.

Far in the pillared dark Thrush music went- Almost like a call to come in To the dark and lament. But no, I was out for stars: I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been.

Too much to lament a misery is the next way to draw on a remediless mischief.

Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her.

Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madam Blaize, Who never wanted a good word From those who spoke her praise.

Surely common sense as well as anthropological evidence documents the universal need to pray, to hope, and to lament or carouse through song.

We feel something like respect for consistency even in error. We lament the virtue that is debauched into a vice; but the vice that affects a virtue becomes the more detestable.

We whine about things we have little control over; we lament what we believe ought to be changed.

...secretly I lament the hundreds [of fish] we never caught because we forever persisted in fishing only the likliest holding water.

Every lover's lament has an element of boasting.

All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it.

People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways.

Although I could lament in the language and feelings of David for Absalom, I am constrained to say, peace to his manes. Let us weep for the living, and not for the dead.

My age I will not once lament, / But sing, my time so near is spent.

With childhood comes a brief grace period of ignorant bliss -- when you're not aware of the pain around you. That is the most special, truly unique time. It is the core of adult lament.

Whiffle [whine and wheeze and snuff and sniffle]: The annoying scratchy sound made by weepy feminists as they lament the sufferings of women and, houndlike, sniff out evidence of male oppression.

And over your unconsecrated head you'll hear the howling wolves lament their fate and yours the livelong year.