Top 100 Quotes About Lament
#1. Yet she (Princess Diana) suffered one ancient lament of many princess brides--- her husband didn't love her, hadn't wanted to marry her, rarely slept with her, and far prefered his mistress.
Eleanor Herman
#2. Those who aren't afraid to cry are the dreamers, and those who aren't afraid to lament are the lovers. The rest are just miserable.
Gregor Collins
#3. If you think you control things that are in the control of others, you will lament. You will be disturbed and you will blame both gods and men.
Epictetus
#4. Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided
'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear.
William Shakespeare
#5. Don't lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don't have a career. You have a life. Do the work. Keep the faith. Be true blue. You are a writer because you write. Keep writing and quit your bitching. Your book has a birthday. You don't know what it is yet.
Cheryl Strayed
#6. The sick person becomes very adept at distinguishing between compassion and pity. Compassion is someone else's suffering flaring in your own nerves. Pity is a projection of, a lament for, the self. All those people weeping in the mirror of your misery? Their tears are real, but they are not for you.
Christian Wiman
#7. When thou hast truly thanked the Lord for every blessing sent, But little time will then remain for murmur or lament.
Hannah More
#8. My age I will not once lament, / But sing, my time so near is spent.
Anne Bradstreet
#9. If they are gods, why do you lament them? If you lament them, you must no longer regard them as gods.
Heraclitus
#11. Convinced that the attachment of colonies to the metropolis, depends infinitely more upon moral and religious feeling, than political arrangement, or even commercial advantage, I cannot but lament that more is not done to instill it into the minds of the people.
John Strachan
#12. I will lament your departure. I will hide my shame for having erred on some obscure point, for thinking that the justice of war is the same of peacetime.
Paulo Coelho
#14. Lightly from fair to fair he flew, And loved to plead, lament, and sue; Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain, For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.
Walter Scott
#15. Nothing feels better than listening to the lament of your own heart- so unanimous in its own little world.
Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal
#16. Let not a libation of tears be the only offering at the shrine of Jesus; let us also rejoice with joy unspeakable. If we have need to lament our sin, how much more to rejoice at our pardon!
Charles Spurgeon
#17. We may need to learn how to lament and weep before the Lord and recognize our sins and those of our fellow Christians that have caused God to depart from our midst. In the midst of the pain of our lamentation, however, our confidence may yet be placed in God's faithfulness. As
Iain M. Duguid
#18. Every lover's lament has an element of boasting.
Mason Cooley
#19. It is our daily lament that we cannot love enough. Would that our hearts were capable of holding more, and reaching further.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#20. Funny thing about regrets. I don't lament what I've done, but rather, what I didn't do.
J.A. Konrath
#21. Don't fall in love with me. I hold within me a hundred prayers. My soul sings the lament of the damned. I am my own purgatory. I design my own hell.
Nessie Q.
#22. What we should lament is not the loss of houses or of land, but the loss of men's lives. Men come first; the rest is the fruit of their labour.
Thucydides
#23. When the habit of seeing things as they are turns into a mania, we lament the madman we have been and are no longer.
Emil Cioran
#25. We should cultivate the optimistic temperament, and endeavour to see the good that dwells in everything. If we sit down and lament over the imperfection of our bodies and our minds, we profit nothing; it is the heroic endeavour to subdue adverse circumstances that carries our spirit upward.
Swami Vivekananda
#26. We beat the drum slowly and played the fife lowly,
and bitterly wept as we bore him along.
For we all loved our comrade so brave, young and handsome,
we all loved our comrade although he'd done wrong.
The Cowboy's Lament
Leif Enger
#27. The often heard lament, 'I have so little time,' gives the lie to the
delusion that the daily is of little significance.
Kathleen Norris
#28. I lamented in every gathering;
I associated with those in bad or happy circumstances.
(But) everyone became my friend from his (own) opinion;
he did not seek my secrets from within me.
My secret is not far from my lament,
but eyes and ears do not have the light (to sense it.
Rumi
#29. We lament, too, the destruction of purity among women and young girls as is evidenced by the increasing immodesty of their dress and conversation and by their participation in shameful dances.
Pope Pius XI
#30. If religious belief be indeed so necessary to mankind, as we are continually assured that it is, there is great reason to lament, that the intellectual grounds of it should require to be backed by moral bribery or subornation of the understanding.
John Stuart Mill
#31. Cease to lament for that thou canst not help; and study help for that which thou lamentest.
William Shakespeare
#32. Human nature is divided; it contains both darkness and light. You can choose to accept the darkness and lament it, or you can choose to expand the light until the darkness no longer dominates.
Deepak Chopra
#33. And so Enoch held up Miss Peregrine's cage and she let out a great screeching cry. We answered with a cry of our own, both a victory yell and a lament, for everything lost and yet to be gained.
Ransom Riggs
#34. Let the stars illuminate the basked love of your life. Never let the raw renderings cast a shadow over your sparkling heart. Let the lament of your soul become the music of your own body! Be your own master!
Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal
#35. The intensity of the love of the upright is not so much to be judged by what it appears as by what the upright long for. It is our daily lament that we cannot love enough.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#36. We are going to a new world ... and no doubt it is there that everything is for the best; for it must be admitted that one might lament a little over the physical and moral happenings of our own world.
Voltaire
#37. Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her.
William Wordsworth
#38. To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
Edmund Burke
#40. Lament invoked love.
Woe invoked wonder.
Grief invoked grace.
Cry invoked celebration.
(Page 80)
Neena Verma
#41. Personally, sometimes I'll lament the journey of an Asian-American actor, walking into audition rooms in 1999.
Kelvin Yu
#42. This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren't old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex.
Poppy Z. Brite
#43. With childhood comes a brief grace period of ignorant bliss
when you're not aware of the pain around you. That is the most special, truly unique time. It is the core of adult lament.
Barry Privett
#44. Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madam Blaize, Who never wanted a good word From those who spoke her praise.
Oliver Goldsmith
#45. It had barely registered, the lament was so commonplace. But I felt it now.
Gillian Flynn
#46. Jeremiah has to lament that there are as many altars as towns in Judah.
Julius Wellhausen
#47. I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?
Epictetus
#48. I think as someone who collects beautiful things from the past, the thing that I miss the most about modernism and the things I lament about the past are everyday things that you would use were made more beautifully.
Dita Von Teese
#49. Lack of spiritual desire should grieve us and lead us to lament its absence, to seek earnestly for its bestowal, so that our praying, henceforth, should be an expression of the soul's sincere desire.
E. M. Bounds
#50. We whine about things we have little control over; we lament what we believe ought to be changed.
Philip Yancey
#51. To make wail and lament for one's ill fortune, when one will win a tear from the audience, is well worthwhile.
Aeschylus
#52. but I could feel the jealous eyes of the steexin hangers-on still in line, and I lament to report that it boosted my spirits some), he
Alena Graedon
#54. Neither rejoice nor lament prematurely; for whatever may happen, all will be well if we only have health; for happiness exists
merely in the imagination.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
#55. This civilization is rapidly passing away, however. Let us rejoice or else lament the fact as much as everyone of us likes; but do not let us shut our eyes to it.
Joseph Alois Schumpeter
#56. For me, it's always a little sad getting out of bed. Every morning after I get up, I always gaze longingly at my bed and lament, 'You were wonderful last night. I didn't want it to end. I can't wait to see you again.
Jim Gaffigan
#57. One can always lament, you know - but to laugh in the face of life, that's very hard. And for me the great tragedian should also be a great comedian.
Martha Graham
#58. One of the rules of Greek lament poetry is that it mustn't mention the dead by name in case of invoking a ghost. Maybe the 'Iliad,' crowded with names, is more than a poem. Maybe it's a dangerous piece of the brightness of both this world and the next.
Alice Oswald
#59. I have sincerely tried not to deride the action of men, not to lament nor to abhor them. I have done all in my might to understand them.- Spinoza
Lion Feuchtwanger
#60. Mark my words, you will rue this day, lament it in tears. You will come to me on your knees sobbing, begging for forgiveness. But I will tell you now and I will tell you then, you are on your own, Skyla.
Addison Moore
#61. I am glad I will be leaving Italy. It costs too much to lover her.[The emigrant's lament]
Maria Martin
#62. I will roar argon into chlorine, xenon into fluorine, all the noble gases into reactive ones My lament will terrify even the stars.
Jessica Stern
#63. When I lament and darken over my diminishments, I accomplish nothing. It's better to sit at the window all day, pleased to watch birds, barns, and flowers.
Donald Hall
#64. Jubilation knows and Longing grants
only Lament still learns; with girlish hands
she counts the ancient evil through the nights.
But suddenly, unpracticed and askant,
she lifts one of our voice's constellations
Into the sky unclouded by her breath.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#65. The Moon"
There is such loneliness in that gold.
The moon of the nights is not the moon
Who the first Adam saw. The long centuries
Of human vigil have filled her
With ancient lament. Look at her. She is your mirror.
Jorge Luis Borges
#66. We feel something like respect for consistency even in error. We lament the virtue that is debauched into a vice; but the vice that affects a virtue becomes the more detestable.
Thomas Paine
#67. God wants us to lament. Complaint doesn't see the goodness of the character of God. Lament is authentic about the feelings but knows the goodness and benevolence of God.
Ann Voskamp
#68. Aunt Zo, who never missed a chance to lament her marriage, had said at dinner in her comedienne's voice, My husband. Always the bridesmaid and never the bride.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#69. So many times have I heard the common lament, "If only I could go back to that age, knowing what I now know!" Those words amuse me profoundly, for in truth, the lament should be, "If only I could reclaim the lust and the joy I knew then!
R.A. Salvatore
#70. While we lament the apparent injustice of pain and suffering, how often do we forget that every good thing in a fallen world is wholly a gift of God's mercy and grace.
Matt Chandler
#71. A single radio post still heard him. The only link between him and the world was a wave of music, a minor modulation. Not a lament, no cry, yet purest of sounds that ever spoke despair.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#72. Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a stricken lament of terrible beauty. And Harry felt, as he had felt about phoenix song before, that the music was inside him, not without: It was his own grief turned magically to song..
J.K. Rowling
#73. Thou wilt lament
Hereafter, when the evil shall be done
And shall admit no cure.
Homer
#74. And the heart sounds like a sour conch,
calls, oh sea, oh lament, oh molten panic,
scattered in the unlucky and disheveled waves:
the sea reports sonorously
on its languid shadows, its green poppies.
Pablo Neruda
#75. It is foolishness to want what never was or will never will be, lament the passage of time, and live in fearfulness of an uncertain future. The moods generated by regret including depression and self-loathing congeal in our sentient consciousness creating the painful landscape of the self.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#76. When someone is force to realize that the road he'd been working hard to make progress on was no different from the place he'd started, and when he realized that he had in fact gone backward, all that person can do is face the pale sky and lament.
Mizuki Nomura
#77. Surely common sense as well as anthropological evidence documents the universal need to pray, to hope, and to lament or carouse through song.
Russell Sherman
#78. Even as he who glories while he gains will, when the time has come to tally loss, lament with every thought and turn despondent,
Dante Alighieri
#79. I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene
David McCullough
#80. You throw a torch into a pile of buildings, and when they are consumed, you sit among the ruins and lament the fall.
Mary Shelley
#81. The Rilo Kiley song 'A Better Son/Daughter' is my most requested song - especially for people who are at the age I was when I wrote it. It's sort of a mid-twenties lament.
Jenny Lewis
#82. Don't cry pretty girl. Who you are is why you're so good at everything. You won't let yourself be otherwise. And thats what fascinates me. Duke- Lament
Maggie Stiefvater
#83. Once I checked my email, I would get lost in a book so I could feel the main character's pain instead of mine, laugh at her missteps rather than lament my own, and cheer for the happy ending that seemed to elude me.
Meredith Schorr
#84. I get an audience personally involved in a song - because I'm involved myself. It's not something I do deliberately: I can't help myself. If the song is a lament at the loss of love, I get an ache in my gut. I feel the loss myself and I cry out the loneliness, the hurt and the pain that I feel.
Frank Sinatra
#85. Hast thou fallen? Do not groan and lament: rather be thankful for the opportunity given thee to rise once more.
Ivan Panin
#86. Adults spend $500 billion on games and leisure activity each year, and some adults lament that kids get $15 billion for toys.
Brian Sutton-Smith
#87. I think you're really nice"
"I'm nothing special." it's not a lament. More a statement.
Elise Valmorbida
#88. I have tried sedulously not to laugh at the acts of man, nor to lament them, nor to detest them, but to understand them.
Baruch Spinoza
#89. In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of room to abuse each other, which we continue to do.
Roy Harper
#90. Loved ones are sometimes taken from us, either by death or other circumstances outside our control. Yes, we should lament their departure and yes, we should pray for them often. But we shouldn't dwell so deeply upon such vacancies that life itself becomes empty.
John Shors
#91. Everyone performs bad actions ... A bad person is someone who does not lament his bad actions.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#92. Those who lament the dissolution of the American family-kids with no way to get to Girl Scouts, aging parents put into nursing homes-should remember what it was that kept the American family together: women's blood.
Joan Acocella
#93. Too often, I hear newspaper folk lament that people "should" pay for their news. I have never seen a successful business model built on the verb "should," nor on tradition, entitlement, virtue or what a journalist most wants to do.
Mark E. Briggs
#94. My problem with country music is that I try to avoid the very situations the lyrics lament.
Sue Grafton
#95. The word "to grieve" or "lament" in Japanese is actually made up of two different kanji characters - "sadness" and "resentment.
Takashi Hiraide
#96. In these sad and ominous days of mad fortune chasing, every patriotic, thoughtful citizen, whether he fishes or not, should lament that we have not among our countrymen more fishermen.
Grover Cleveland
#97. I do think environmental writers need to be forward thinking, not just lamenting our losses. We do need to lament; in some ways it's important to be the vessels for grief for all that's being lost on our planet. But we also need to be forward thinking.
Alison Hawthorne Deming
#98. I thank thee, king, For thy great bounty, that not only givest Me cause to wail but teachest me the way How to lament the cause.
William Shakespeare
#99. Somewhere in the night there were cries of grief. With nothing better to do, Billy shuffled in their direction. He wondered what ragedy so many had found to lament out of doors.
Kurt Vonnegut
#100. I write in a hurry, because the little one, who has been sleeping a long time, begins to call for me. Poor thing! when I am sad, I lament that all my affections grow on me, till they become too strong for my peace, though they all afford me snatches of exquisite enjoyment.
Mary Wollstonecraft
