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• Sorry to bother you,” Bella said over the wailing. “But she wants her daddy.

  J.R. Ward

  Sorry, Zsadist, Daddy

  J.R. Ward (2008). “Father Mine: Zsadist and Bella's Story: A Black Dagger Brotherhood Novella”, p.93, Penguin

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• The tune was wailing and mournful, almost flagrantly so, and the total effect was of a heartbroken piccolo being parted forever from its bagpipe lover.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Heartbroken, Forever, Bagpipes

  Peter S Beagle (2007). “A Fine & Private Place”, p.140, Tachyon Publications

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• Her mind lives tidily, apart from cold and noise and pain. And bolts the door against her heart, out wailing in the rain.

  Dorothy Parker

  Pain, Rain, Heart

  Dorothy Parker (1936). “Not So Deep as a Well”, Macmillan Company of Canada

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• Yes, this is life; and everywhere we meet,
  Not victor crowns, but wailings of defeat.

  Elizabeth Oakes Smith

  Life, Crowns, Defeat

  Elizabeth Oakes SMITH, John KEESE (of Newburyport, Mass.) (1843). “The Sinless Child, and Other Poems. Edited by J. Keese”, p.163

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• it is a heartBreaking sound, Amir Jan, the Wailing of a mother. I pray to Allah you Never hear it.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Mother, Heartbreaking, Sound

  Khaled Hosseini (2011). “The Kite Runner: Rejacketed”, p.183, A&C Black

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• You know, when I'm playing, I think of myself in front of the Wailing Wall with a saxophone in my hands, and I'm davening, I'm really telling it to the Wall.

  Stan Getz

  Wall, Thinking, Hands

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• Then it's goodbye, Sangsara for me Besides, girls aren't as good as they look And Samadhi is better than you think When it starts in hitting your head In with Buzz of glittergold Heaven's Angels, wailing, saying We've been waiting for you since morning, Jack Why were you so long dallying in the sooty room? This transcendental Brilliance Is the better part (of Nothingness I sing) Okay. Quit. Mad. Stop.

  Jack Kerouac

  Girl, Goodbye, Morning

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• I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets. It has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful. Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and benumbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.

  Hamlin Garland

  Blessed, Fall, Sunset

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• Spring is the season of gaiety, and winter of terror; in spring the heart of tranquility dances to the melody of the groves, and the eye of benevolence sparkles at the sight of happiness and plenty: in winter, compassion melts at universal calamity, and the tear of softness starts at the wailing of hunger and the cries of the creation in distress

  Samuel Johnson

  Spring, Heart, Eye

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• Humanity looks upon Jesus the Nazarene as a poor-born Who suffered misery and humiliation with all of the weak. And He is pitied, for Humanity believes He was crucified painfully. . . . And all that Humanity offers to Him is crying and wailing and lamentation. For centuries Humanity has been worshiping weakness in the person of the Savior. The Nazarene was not weak! He was strong and is strong! But the people refuse to heed the true meaning of strength.

  Khalil Gibran

  Jesus, Strong, Believe

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• So loud was the wailing of the women and children that there was not one man among us whose heart did not bleed at the sound.

  Hernando Cortes

  Children, War, Heart

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• Walter turned on the radio: electric violins wailing, twisted romance, the four-square beat of heartbreak. Trite suffering, but suffering nonetheless. The entertainment business. What voyeurs we have all become.

  Margaret Atwood

  Music, Squares, Romance

  Margaret Atwood (2000). “The Blind Assassin”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• Just as we're always told that schoolyard bullies are actually deeply insecure, liberals rationalize their own ferocious behavior by claiming to have been wounded somehow. What about the little guy our poor, insecure bully is beating the living daylights out of? How's his self-esteem coming along? That is the essence of liberals: They viciously attack everyone else, while wailing that they are the victims.

  Ann Coulter

  Self Esteem, Insecure, Essence

  "Guilty: Liberal "Victims" and Their Assault on America". Book by Ann Coulter, www.today.com. January 6, 2009.

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• As much as it pleases God to bless you, there will be moments when everything you try goes up in smoke. There will be moments when the one you counted on most walks away and leaves you groping through blinding tears and wailing questions of why. Plans and goals can be circumvented by the most disappointing of times, leaving you learning the art of patience and the acceptance of a denied request.

  T. D. Jakes

  Art, Acceptance, Goal

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• I must confess that waltzes do not move me, I guess I hummed the blues too early, and spent too many midnights out wailing to the rain.

  Assata Shakur

  Rain, Moving, Midnight

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• I felt like I could get away with calling it Black Hours. That could easily be the most depressing record ever written, but because there is this sense of fun throughout the whole thing I felt like I could get away with it. Like "5 A.M."; that song's in a minor key and I'm just wailing away and it could have been just wallowing depression, but it's not.

  Hamilton Leithauser

  Song, Depressing, Fun

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the Year On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying. . . .

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Lying, Flower, Years

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume”

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• If I sing "you broke my heart, you left me flat," everyone knows exactly what that means - they know the story. But if I sing a line that's plaintive or wailing, people can experience their own set of emotions and their own story. Each of us might give that phrase a different meaning. It's open to interpretation, and one song becomes a thousand songs. I love that.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Song, Mean, Heart

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• My wife made me watch this documentary about the Iraq War, and there was a really powerful moment where they followed some civilian whose family had been killed. This was 5 or 10 minutes of this woman talking, and it was extremely arresting. You realize how you never hear from the person on the receiving end of a war without a reporter stepping in to compartmentalize the story. Usually they're just a few shots at the end of a news report, wailing and screaming at a funeral.

  Charlie Brooker

  Powerful, War, Talking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Isn't food important? Why not "universal food coverage"? If politicians and employers had guaranteed us "free" food 50 years ago, today Democrats would be wailing about the "food crisis" in America, and you'd be on the phone with your food care provider arguing about whether or not a Reuben sandwich with fries was covered under your plan.

  Ann Coulter

  Phones, Years, America

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• My neighbor Alice Pierce is fond of singing folk music to her garden plants. Thinks it makes them grow or something. The Major had often wondered how a wailing rendition of 'Greensleeves' would encourage greater raspberry production but Alice insisted that it worked far better than chemical fertilizers, and she did produce several kinds of fruit in pie-worthy quantitites. No sense of pitch, but plenty of enthusiasm, he added.

  Helen Simonson

  Music, Garden, Thinking

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• We both grew up in the atmosphere of struggle, both Ossie and me, ... I come out of Harlem and Harlem comes out of me - wailing police sirens and street parties, rumors and landlords, that cultural, spiritual scene. And Ossie came up from the South, where struggle and dying were part of everyday life. That is who we are.

  Ruby Dee

  Spiritual, Party, Struggle

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• Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of the sweat of their brows or the blood of their hearts.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Blood, Hands

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• A few melancholy birds were pipping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty silence fell

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Silence, Bird, Shadow

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.137, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Clouds of black birds rose up wailing and screaming, like the thoughts of my heart.

  Mary Renault

  Heart, Clouds, Rose

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