Weeping Quotes - Page 10

• The bravest thing I've ever done is fly to New York. I'm simply terrified of aeroplanes - I am the woman you see weeping at the airport.

  Samantha Bond

  New York, Airports, Done

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• For by my glee might many men have laughed,
  And of my weeping may something have been left,
  Which must die now.

  Wilfred Owen

  Men, Glee, May

  Wilfred Owen, “Strange Meeting”

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• When you're writing for the screen you're really thinking all the time of what you have to do to make sure that they have the information that they need, that the emotional thread is not snapped, that the story moves at the right speed, to keep the audience hopefully sitting on the edge of their seats or else weeping or laughing.

  Salman Rushdie

  Moving, Writing, Emotional

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• The most wounding insult to an educated Russian was to be called nekulturny-uncultured-yet the same men who sat in the gilt boxes at the Moscow State Opera weeping at the end of a performance of Boris Gudunov could immediately turn around and order the execution or imprisonment of a hundred men without blinking. A strange people, made more strange by their political philosophy.

  Tom Clancy

  Philosophy, Men, Order

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• And then theres always the crying and the weeping that we hear-children, women, even men. And these images and these sounds are always with me.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Children, Men, Sound

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• Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Peace, War, Eye

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• I am not prone to weeping as our sex commonly are; the want of which vain dew perchance shall dry your pities;
  but I have that honorable grief lodged here which burns worse than tears drown.

  William Shakespeare

  Sex, Women, Grief

  William Shakespeare, John Pitcher (2010). “The Winter's Tale: Third Series”, p.194, A&C Black

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• The tears, when they come to some men, are worse than beatings. They're wounded worse by sobbing, men like that, than they are by boots and batons. Tears begin in the heart, but some of us deny the heart so often, and for so long, that when it speaks we hear not one but a hundred sorrows in the heartbreak. We know that crying is a good and natural thing. We know that crying isn't a weakness, but a kind of strength. Still, the weeping rips us root by tangled root from the earth, and we crash like fallen trees when we cry.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Rip, Heart, Men

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.563, Macmillan

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• Every cradle asks us, Whence? and every coffin, Whither? The poor barbarian, weeping above his dead, can answer these questions as intelligently as the robed priest of the most authentic creed.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Coffins, Answers, Barbarians

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1883). “Popular edition of col. Ingersoll's lectures. (Freethought publ. co.'s ed.).”

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• In this mob of I's inside, which one is me? Hear me out. I know I'm wandering, but don't start putting a lid on this racket. No telling what I'll do then. Every moment I'm thrown by your story. One moment it's happy, and I'm singing. One moment it's sad, and I'm weeping. It turns bitter, and I pull away. But then you spill a little grace, and just like that, I'm all light. It's not so bad, this arrangement, actually.

  Rumi

  Light, Grace, Singing

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• God uses people. God uses people to perform His work. He does not send angels. Angels weep over it, but God does not use angels to accomplish His purposes. He uses burdened broken-hearted weeping men and women.

  David Wilkerson

  Angel, Men, People

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• On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep.

  William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell

  Children, Sleep, Long

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• Sitting down and weeping is what women have done for centuries, and it has done no good at all. Nor praying. God has given us the earth. He is not waiting in the next room, ready to fix it for us if we ruin it. If we do not care for it, no one will. On other worlds, other races of men perhaps do better than we have done. He cares for us, but he does not control what we do.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Men, Race, Other Worlds

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• All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.

  Seneca the Younger

  Laughter, Causes, All Things

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• I never again want to see the face of a starving child or hear the weeping of a mother who has lost her son to war. Peace, this is what my husband gave his life for, and I want the world to know that he did not die in vain. Peace, this is what will make me very happy.

  Jehan Sadat

  Mother, Children, Husband

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• Space is still filled with the noise of destruction and annihilation, the shouts of self-assurance and arrogance, the weeping of despair and helplessness. But round about the horizon the eternal realities stand silent in their age-old longing. There shines on them already the first mild light of the radiant fulfillment to come. From afar sound the first notes as of pipes and voices, not yet discernable as a song or melody. It is all far off still, and only just announced and foretold. But it is happening, today.

  Alfred Delp

  Song, Reality, Self

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• I'm almost weeping when I'm painting my daughter. I've been thinking she won't be little for much longer.

  Chantal Joffe

  Daughter, Thinking, Littles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To her bier Comes the year Not with weeping and distress, as mortals do, But, to guide her way to it, All the trees have torches lit; Blazing red the maples shine the woodlands through.

  Lucy Larcom

  Autumn, Years, Shining

  Lucy Larcom (1869). “Poems”, p.115

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• There is no laughter except that it is eventually followed up with weeping.

  Ibn Sirin

  Laughter

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• Eating, drinking, sleeping
  a little laughter ! much weeping!
  Is that all ? Do not die here like a worm.
  Wake up! Attain immortal bliss!

  Sivananda

  Laughter, Drinking, Sleep

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• Laughter and weeping, the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy, mark the extremes of a continuous spectrum; both provide channels for the overflow of emotion; both are

  Arthur Koestler

  Laughter, Greek, Tragedy

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• A painting is what you make of it, besides which, 'Moon, Weeping' has a better ring to it than 'Paintbrush, Dripping.

  Robert Breault

  Art, Moon, Titles

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• Learn weeping, and thou shalt laugh gaining.

  George Herbert

  Laughing, Sorrow, Gains

  "The Works of George Herbert: In Prose and Verse".

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• We have wept enough. No more weeping, but stand on feet and be men.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Men, Feet

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• Here's flowers for you; Hot lavender, mints, savoury, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun And with him rises weeping: these are flowers Of middle summer, and I think they are given To men of middle age.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Flower, Men

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.7584, BookCaps Study Guides

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