(34 quotes found)
“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”
William Shakespeare
“So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, / Which sucks two souls, and vapours both away,/ Turn thou ghost that way, and let me turn this, / And let our selves benight our happiest day.”
John Donne
“Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them [worlds], we have not yet conquered one?”
Alexander The Great
“What 'twas weak to do 'Tis weaker to lament, once being done”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.”
David K Shipler
“Cease to lament for that thou canst not help; and study help for that which thou lamentest”
“Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory! / He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.”
Bible
“There shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein is no pleasure, saith the LORD.”
“I don't know if Minnesota has anything to lament. It's never bad to have high income. But high income does bring high taxes.”
Curtis Dubay
“Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.”
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