“Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.”
Bible
“If you're here for inspiration, you're too late. If you're here for the funeral, you're too early.”
Will & Grace
“I have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I'll weep.”
William Shakespeare
“And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another.”
“And all wept, and bewailed her: but he said, Weep not; she is not dead, but sleepeth.”
“We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.”
Charles de Montesquieu
“Fair daffodils, we weep to see / You haste away so soon: / As yet the early-rising sun / Has not attained his noon.”
Robert Herrick
