Weeping Quotes - Page 5

• I’m alone with the ghost of the swamp, somewhere near the weeping willows.

  Steven Herrick

  Swamps, Weeping Willows, Ghost

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• You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence or in absence.

  Rumi

  Broken Heart, Grief, Sky

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• Does this mean we will always understand our challenges? Won't all of us, sometime, have reason to ask, 'O God, where art thou?' Yes! When a spouse dies, a companion will wonder. When financial hardship befalls a family, a father will ask. When children wander from the path, a mother and father will cry out in sorrow. Yes, 'weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.' Then, in the dawn of our increased faith and understanding, we arise and choose to wait upon the Lord, saying, 'Thy will be done.'

  Robert D. Hales

  Mother, Morning, Art

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• Im interested in existential films: I love movies that console you in the same way that a person consoles a weeping child.

  Louis Garrel

  Children, Movie Love, Way

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• Once Confucius was walking on the mountains and he came across a woman weeping by a grave. He asked the woman what here sorrow was, and she replied, We are a family of hunters. My father was eaten by a tiger. My husband was bitten by a tiger and died. And now my only son! Why don't you move down and live in the valley? Why do you continue to live up here? asked Confucius. And the woman replied, But sir, there are no tax collectors here! Confucius added to his disciples, You see, a bad government is more to be feared than tigers.

  Lin Yutang

  Husband, Father, Moving

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• I don't think I've left a trail of weeping women in my wake. I mean, the number of serious relationships I've had has not been into double digits.

  Jay McInerney

  Mean, Thinking, Numbers

  "The beautiful and the damned" by Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2000.

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• I found that I had become so spinsterish that I was made neurotic not only by my life of domesticity but by the slightest derangement of my room. I would burst into a fit of weeping if the kettle was not facing due east.

  Quentin Crisp

  East, Rooms, Fit

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 21, 1968.

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• Dear, harmless age! the short, swift span Where weeping Virtue parts with man; Where love without lust dwells, and bends What way we please without self-ends. An age of mysteries! which he Must live that would God's face see Which angels guard, and with it play, Angels! which foul men drive away.

  Henry Vaughan

  Angel, Men, Self

  Henry Vaughan, Henry Francis Lyte (1871). “The Poetical Works of Herbert and Vaughan: With a Memoir”, p.241

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• When rowan leaves are dank and rusting And rowan berries red as blood, When in my palm the hangman's thrusting The final nail with bony thud, When, over the foul flooding river, Upon the wet grey height, I toss Before my land's grim looks, and shiver As I swing here upon the cross, Then, through the blood and weeping, stretches My dying sight to space remote; I see upon the river's reaches Christ sailing to me in a boat.

  Alexander Blok

  Blood, Land, Rivers

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• To multitudes of sufferers on beds of pain and languishing, Jesus has been the great physician to-day; in many a weeping circle around precious dust, He has been the Divine comforter, and the tears have almost ceased to flow as this Jesus has touched the bier. Dying lips have whispered His name, and the valley of the shadow has been illumined as with the glory from the celestial shores.

  Abbott Eliot Kittredge

  Jesus, Pain, Dust

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 94, 1895.

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• Like a goddess on her azure hill, the star of my ambition, the mistress of my dream; a thing apart, that we can worship, but not touch; a wild desire, that, in the madness of the thought, soars higher in its dignity, and leaves me weeping in the dust.

  William Batchelder Greene

  Dream, Stars, Ambition

  William Batchelder Greene (1871). “Imogen: And Other Poems”, p.65

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• You, sleeping on your bed of nails. Weeping an ocean beyond the pale. Strange, sorrow is your greatest skill. You're suffering from overkill... Choose whether to laugh or to cry. Menace and promise mingle in your eye. Wait, it's only a matter of time. You know everything will be fine... Rain falls down and the seas run high. When you're by my side we can rise above it. Let me dry all the tears inside. On your way you cannot hide from the howling wind and the roaring tide. You might get hurt but your fears will subside when you at last escape from the tears inside.

  Tim Finn

  Running, Hurt, Rain

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• The graceful tear that streams for others' Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest.

  Pliny the Elder

  Animal, Men, Tears

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• Rash combat oft immortalizes man; if he should fall, he is renowned in song; but after-ages reckon not the ceaseless tears which the forsaken woman sheds. Poets tell us not of the many nights consumed in weeping, or of the dreary days wherein her anguished soul vainly yearns to call her loved one back.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Song, Fall, Night

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• They are not long, the weeping and the laughter. Love and desire and hate; I think they have no portion in us after We pass the gate.

  Ernest Dowson

  Laughter, Hate, Thinking

  'Vitae Summa Brevis'

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• Everyone has a family tree; the Dawsons have one, it's a weeping willow.

  Les Dawson

  Family, Tree, Weeping Willows

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• The highlight of my career was my first sale, to F&SF, in 1989. Nothing yet has topped that moment. I was weeping in joy and relief. Publishing one story was all that I ever wanted, or expected. Everything since then - award nominations, getting into best-of anthologies, meeting my idols at conventions, drinking with my idols at conventions - has been wonderful, but it's all gravy.

  Daryl Gregory

  Drinking, Joy, Wonderful

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• In the midnight of a soul's unsleeping, hear the waterfall of women weeping. Hear the distant noise of traffic stalling, hear the prostituted children calling.

  Pete Townshend

  Children, Reality, Soul

  Song: Hiding Out, Album: White City: A Novel

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• IN PERSIA I SAW that poetry is meant to be set to music & chanted or sung--for one reason alone--because it works.A right combination of image & tune plunges the audience into a hal (something between emotional/aesthetic mood & trance of hyperawareness), outbursts of weeping, fits of dancing--measurable physical response to art. For us the link between poetry & body died with the bardic era--we read under the influence of a cartesian anaesthetic gas.

  Hakim

  Art, Emotional, Dancing

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• What if the leaves were to fall a-weeping, and say, "It will be so painful for us to be pulled from our stalks, when autumn comes?" Foolish fear! Summer goes, and autumn succeeds. The glory of death is upon the leaves; and the gentlest breeze that blows takes them softly and silently from the bough, and they float slowly down, like fiery sparks, upon the moss.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Summer, Fall, Autumn

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.110

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• The smog was heavy, my eyes were weeping from it, the sun was hot, the air stank, a regular hell is L.A.

  Jack Kerouac

  Eye, Air, Hot

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.117, Penguin

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• When you attend a funeral, It is sad to think that sooner o' Later those you love will do the same for you. And you may have thought it tragic, Not to mention other adjec- Tives, to think of all the weeping they will do. (But don't you worry.

  Tom Lehrer

  Thinking, Worry, Funeral

  Song: We Will All Go Together When We Go, Album: More of Tom Lehrer

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• Guided by His wisdom, strong in His strength, there maybe for you struggle and suffering, the darkness and the storm. "The disciple is not above His Master." There may be weeping that shall endure for a night, but joy shall come in the morning. If the night cometh, so also the morning, "a morning without clouds," the morning of an eternal day.

  Mark Hopkins

  Strong, Morning, Struggle

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• Tears never yet saved a soul. Hell is full of weepers weeping over lost opportunities, perhaps over the rejection of an offered Saviour. Your Bible does not say, "Weep, and be saved." It says, "Believe, and be saved." Faith is better than feeling.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Believe, Opportunity, Rejection

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 244, 1895.

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• A weeping woman is a bucket with no bottom.

  Robert Jordan

  Buckets, Bottom, Wot

  Robert Jordan, Harriet McDougal, Alan Romanczuk, Maria Simons (2015). “The Wheel of Time Companion: The People, Places and History of the Bestselling Series”, p.420, Macmillan

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