Weeping Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Start trying to work out who deserves what, and before long you'll spend the rest of your days weeping for each and every person in the world.

  George R. R. Martin

  Long, Work Out, Trying

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• A man met a lad weeping. "What do you weep for?" he asked. "I am weeping for my sins," said the lad. "You must have little to do," said the man. The next day, they met again. Once more the lad was weeping. "Why do you weep now?" asked the man. "I am weeping because I have nothing to eat," said the lad. "I thought it would come to that," said the man.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, Next Day, Littles

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.3462, e-artnow

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• What a wonder is it, that two natures infinitely distant, should be more intimately united than anything in the world; and yet without any confusion! That the same person should have both a glory and a grief; an infinite joy in the Deity, and an inexpressible sorrow in the humanity! That a God upon a throne should be an infant in a cradle; the thundering Creator be a weeping babe and a suffering man, are such expressions of mighty power, as well as condescending love, that they astonish men upon earth, and angels in heaven.

  Thomas Goodwin

  Grief, Angel, Men

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• On the Avenue in front of the White House were several hundred colored people, mostly women and children, weeping and wailing their loss. This crowd did not diminish through the whole of that cold, wet day; they seemed not to know what was to by their fate since their great benefactor was dead, and though strong and brave men wept when I met them, the hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.

  Gideon Welles

  Strong, Children, War

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• God listens to our weeping when the occasion itself is beyond our knowledge, but still within His love and power.

  Daniel A. Poling

  Prayer, His Love, Stills

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• Tears are another river that takes us home. We become alive with tears. There isn't a chance to return to sleep when we are weeping.

  David Paul

  Home, Sleep, Rivers

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• Turning, then, from this loathsome combination of church and state, and weeping over the follies of our fellow men, who yield themselves the willing dupes and drudges of these mountebanks, I consider reformation and redress as desperate, and abandon them to the Quixotism of more enthusiastic minds.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Yield, Mind

  Thomas Jefferson (2012). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 8: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815”, p.212, Princeton University Press

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

  Otto von Bismarck

  Peace, War, Eye

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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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