Top 100 Quotes About Wail
#2. Their own souls rose and cried
Alarum when they heard the sudden wail
Of stricken freedom and along the gale
Saw her eternal banner quivering wide.
John Le Gay Brereton
#3. Life is nothing but an occassional burst of laughter rising above the interminable wail of grief.
Henry Roth
#4. He is gone from mortal haunts: O'Dignam, sun of our morning. Fleet was his foot on the bracken: Patrick of the shaggy brow. Wail, Banba, with your wind: and wail, O ocean, with your whirlwind.
James Joyce
#5. Not a cute little whimper. Not a plaintive little wail. A full-throated, piercing "This Woman Has Kidnapped Me, Call the Cops" scream.
Sophie Kinsella
#6. You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.
Charlie Parker
#7. Then a hundred sad voices lifted a wail,
And a hundred glad voices piped on the gale:
'Time is short, life is short,' they took up the tale:
'Life is sweet, love is sweet, use to-day while you may;
Love is sweet, and to-morrow may fail;
Love is sweet, use to-day.
Christina Rossetti
#8. Silence.
Then the night echoed with Beckett's anguished wail. NOT MY BROTHERS!
Debra Anastasia
#9. Only the long melancholy call to prayer, or the wail of women over the dead, or the barking of dogs, breaks the silence which at sunset falls as a pall over Baghdad.
Isabella Bird
#10. Wail not too wildly for expiring Love: The Love that dies was never quite alive.
Richard B. Garnett
#11. Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sell eternity to get a toy? For one grape who will the vine destroy?
William Shakespeare
#12. The passion you forbade my lips to utter Will not be silenced. You must hear it in The sullen thunders when they roll and mutter: And when the tempest nears, with wail and din, I know your calm forgetfulness is broken, And to your heart you whisper, "He has spoken."
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#13. I actually started singing in church when I was about five years old. I remember looking at the choirs and just hearing all of those great big beautiful voices. And there was this one woman who could just wail. And I remember trying to sing like her when I was like going home.
Kelly Rowland
#14. I remember first seeing Barney Kessel, in the 1940s, standing on the corner of Hollywood and Vine, in his cowboy boots, sun glasses and hipster threads, holding his guitar case man, you just knew that cat could wail!'
Anita O'Day
#15. What do sad people have in common? It seems they have all built a shrine to the past and often go there and do a strange wail and worship. What is the beginning of Happiness? It is to stop being so religious like that.
Hafez
#16. Wise men ne'er sit and wail their woes, but presently prevent the ways to wail.
William Shakespeare
#17. Pigmy Pouters', Malory replied. 'Feisty ones!' Gansey mouthed Blue at Adam. Adam let out a little wail of helpless laughter.
Maggie Stiefvater
#18. It does not matter to God whether you wail He exists or not, what matters to Him is doing what He requires you to do with the life He gave you.
Chukwuka Amu
#19. She wanted to scream her grief to the skies and wail like an animal, but she couldn't.
Jennifer Donnelly
#20. And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail,
And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal;
And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword,
Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord.
George Gordon Byron
#21. Everybody has it wrong way round. Parents don't make children
children make parents. They shape our behavior from the first wail. Mold us into what they need. It can be a pretty rough process, too
Lois McMaster Bujold
#22. Enochian was the wail of dying stars, the whisper of galaxies winging through the void, the gurgle of primordial oceans, the crackle of a cooling planet,
the thunder of creation. And beneath it all , a simmering undercurrent of malevolence.
Ian Tregillis
#23. Say, what is life? 'Tis to be born,
A helpless Babe, to greet the light
With a sharp wail, as if the morn
Foretold a cloudy noon and night;
To weep, to sleep, and weep again,
With sunny smiles between; and then?
John Godfrey Saxe
#24. The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.
Minna Antrim
#25. Outside, the city glowed, the violence and bustle made calm and beautiful by even such a small distance. The wail of the sirens and angry blat of the security alerts became a kind of music there, transformed by the mystical act of passing above waves.
James S.A. Corey
#26. All they knew of religion was the Bean Sidhe, the banshee, who came to wail at the walls of a house where death soon would be, and
Neil Gaiman
#27. Bernie let out the most pitiful wail heard since that god-forsaken day in 1942 when Bambi's mom was shot.
Fred Barnett
#28. I was in touch with great souls who exalted flesh and spirit over dollars and cents, and to whom the thin wail of the starved slum child meant more than all the pomp and circumstance of commercial expansion and world empire.
Jack London
#29. There was a dark aura about him, a hint of caged power in that deceptively casual, sprawled poise. Danger personified.
If this had been a film she would have expected to hear the warning wail of an electric guitar creep over the soft background bustle of the city.
Heather R. Blair
#31. To make wail and lament for one's ill fortune, when one will win a tear from the audience, is well worthwhile.
Aeschylus
#32. P33- the wail of the living had answered the call of universal motherhood within her wild beast which the dead could not still.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#33. We grew up hearing stories about how he has been cheated - out of money, out of reputation, out of a grander fate. We had lost everything, he'd wail, and that was despite the fact that we had each other.
Alison Singh Gee
#34. Two tires fly. Two wail. A bamboo grove, all chopped down From it, warring songs.
Neal Stephenson
#35. your eclipsed heart will wail for my stars until you realize you need my cosmic grace. chaos
K.Y. Robinson
#36. You would wail for hours, and nothing would quiet you but a woman's teat." "Still true, as it happens.
George R R Martin
#37. Rough wind, the moanest loud Grief too sad for song; Wild wind, when sullen cloud Knells all the night long; Sad storm, whose tears are vain, Bare woods, whose branches strain, Deep caves and dreary main, Wail, for the world's wrong!
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#38. I got to ninth grade and there was wrestling, and I went, 'Wait a minute, this is fun.' Basically, it was a chance for a small kid like me to get a chance to wail on another small kid. I went, 'I love this.' The discipline of it was great. Plus, I really started to be good at it.
Robin Williams
#39. Come to the bridal-chamber, Death!
Come to the mother's, when she feels,
For the first time, her first-born's breath!
Come when the blessed seals
That close the pestilence are broke,
And crowded cities wail its stroke!
Fitz-Greene Halleck
#42. The harmonica is the most voice-like instrument, you can make it wail, feel happy, or cry. It's like singing the blues without words.
Charlie Musselwhite
#43. It howled execration upon the dim camarine world of its nativity wail on wail while he lay there gibbering with palsied jawhasps, his hands putting back the night like some witless Paraclete beleaguered with all limbo's clamor.
Cormac McCarthy
#44. That's Delhi. When life gets too much for you all you need to do is to spend an hour at Nigambodh Ghat,watch the dead being put to flames and hear their kin wail for them. Then come home and down a couple of pegs of whisky. In Delhi, death and drink make life worth living,
Khushwant Singh
#45. Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.
Victoria Woodhull
#46. To wail adamantly that a god exists is to kill that god or turn it into a plastic idol. To say that a god might exist is to vivify it with the meaning of mystery.
Thomas Ligotti
#47. A melancholy sound is in the air,
A deep sigh in the distance, a shrill wail
Around my dwelling. 'Tis the Wind of night.
William C. Bryant
#48. In those few seconds Bonnie screamed, a high shrill wail that haunted the men about to kill her for the rest of their lives.
Jeff Guinn
#50. And the pain is too much it's too much it's too much and my hands are on my head and I'm rearing back and my mouth is open in a never-ending wordless wail of all the blackness that's inside me.
And i fall back into it.
Patrick Ness
#51. I suppose some were born acting, some achieve action, and some have action thrust upon while they wail feebly 'Dear God, no, let me sleep in.' I'm only acting once, and then never again.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#52. He could almost hear the wail of pain that went up from his heart. It was a sharp terrible personal pain the kind of pain that comes only when someone to whom you have never done any harm turns on you and says goodbye goodbye forever without any reason for doing it. Without any reason at all.
Dalton Trumbo
#53. Give me the scorn of the stars and a peak defiant;
Wail of the pines and a wind with the shout of a giant;
Night and a trail unknown and a heart reliant.
Robert W. Service
#54. She knew nothing of the massacre that went on around her, but when she released the wail of a broken hearted mother, one man heard her. The one who took her son's life.
Elizabeth Bourgeret
#55. Few of us will forget the wail of mingled grief, rage and horror which rose from the camp when the Indians returned to it and recognized their slaughtered warriors, women, and children.
John Gibbon
#56. Snowflakes make when they land on water, like the wail of a coyote; the sound reaches a climax and then fades away, all in about one
Craig Johnson
#57. If you see anybody wail and complain, call him a slave, though he be clad in purple.
Epictetus
#58. Winning isn't as sweet if you don't see an enemy cry. But remember, losers wail loud no matter what.
Ymatruz
#59. Vanitas vanitatum has rung in the ears Of gentle and simple for thousands of years; The wail still is heard, yet its notes never scare Either simple or gentle from Vanity Fair.
Frederick Locker-Lampson
#60. Now and then we hear the wilder voices of the wilderness, from animals that in the hours of darkness do not fear the neighborhood of man: the coyotes wail like dismal ventriloquists, or the silence may be broken by the snorting and stamping of a deer.
Theodore Roosevelt
#61. Who could have done this to me?" I wail, pressing my hands to my cheeks. "I can't feel my face. Is my face still my face?
Jenny Han
#62. I wanted a line in a poem to be the hollow ney of the dervish orchestra whose plaintive wail is a call to God. But all I achieved was awkward shrieking. Not even the pure shriek of a reed in the rain.
Anne Michaels
#63. Lots of people have bad stories, and if they wail and sob and tell their story to anyone who'll listen, it's crap. Or half crap, at least.The stuff that really hurts people, the stuff that almost breaks them ... that they won't talk about. Ever.
April Genevieve Tucholke
#64. Some people cannot bear news like that. They think they must live forever, and they cry and wail when they realise that their time is coming. I do not feel that, and I did not weep at that news which the doctor gave me. The only thing that makes me sad is that I shall be leaving Africa when I die.
Alexander McCall Smith
#65. Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame,-nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
John Milton
#66. Scientists say there is a noise that snowflakes make when they land on water, like the wail of a coyote; the sound reaches a climax and then fades away, all in about one ten-thousandth of a second.
Craig Johnson
#67. Summary riposte
To the dreary wail
There's no knowing what
Love is all about.
Poets know a lot.
Robert Frost
#68. Like blood out of a wound, a keening wail rose from the bottom of my heart and ripped through the graveyard. I lowered my face to Hadassah's shoulder and went quietly and thoroughly to pieces.
Angela Elwell Hunt
#69. I just finished an episode of a new show called 'Century City.' It's like 'Law & Order' set in the future, and I have a very dramatic role in that. I have to sob and weep and wail. It was very hard. When it was done, I was like, 'OK, time to watch 'SpongeBob!'
Cayden Boyd
#70. You are that moment before falling, the falling,
a whir of falling, a wail of falling, the sweet
thud.
Sandra Beasley
#71. Liir held Chistery in his lap and sobbed into his scalp. Chistery said, "Well, we'll wail while woe'll wheel," and he cried along with Liir.
Gregory Maguire
#72. 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
#73. Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.
William Shakespeare
#74. The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.
Michael J. Fox
#75. Kavita's arms are still outstretched, but they hold nothing. After the metal gate clangs shut behind them, Kavita can still hear Usha's piercing wail echoing inside.
Shilpi Somaya Gowda
#76. I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this is what is lacking, definitely lacking in music today.
Buddy Rich
#77. Its a bit mad. Too bad, I mean, that getting to know each just for a fleeting second
Must be replaced by unperfect knowledge of the featureless whole
Like some pocket history of the world, so general
As to constitute a sob or wail
John Ashbery
#78. So, there on the front step, he decided to go with total hysteria. He started breathing hard, pumping up some tears, got a good whimpering sob going, then opened the door with a dieseling back sniffle. He fell onto the welcome mat and let loose with a full fire-truck-siren wail.
Christopher Moore
#79. May Ye All Wail, for the Destroyer of Nations is upon us. Your lands shall they trample and divide with rope. Your cities razed shall be, their dwellers expelled. The bat, owl and raven your homes shall infest, and the serpent will therein make its nest . . . Aen Ithlinnespeath The
Andrzej Sapkowski
#80. The whistle of the old steam trains ... could conjure up visions of bleak distances with one solitary wail.
M.C. Beaton
#81. A dream of favours, a favourable dream. They know how they believe that they believe that they know. Wherefore they wail.
James Joyce
#82. Jacqueline and Jillian, who were crying for some of the many reasons that babies cry - they were cold, they were distressed, they were offended by the existence of gravity - continued to wail.
Seanan McGuire
#83. I want someone to hold me in the dark beneath the blankets as I wail, saying nothing, only holding me tightly to their chest.
A.M. Caine
#84. My lord, wise men ne'er wail their present woes, But presently prevent the ways to wail.174
William Shakespeare
#85. In a society that prates about, but seldom practices, communication, the craving to be listened to, heard, understood - which originates with the first terrified wail, the circling arms, the breast, the consolatory murmur - is hard to assuage.
Nancy Mairs
#86. I knew then and there only that pretty young little things are like monsoon lilies; transient trams. Catch them if you can, but if you miss them, do not wail, a next one would be whistling round the corner, about to enter the La Gurre of your heart
Aporva Kala
#87. If I could have put what I was feeling into words, the words would have been an infant's wail: I don't want to be alone. I want someone to want me. I'm lonely. I'm scared. I need to be loved, to be touched, to be held.
Olivia Laing
#88. We wail, batten, sport, clip, clasp, sunder, dwindle, die:
James Joyce
#89. The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
Matthew Arnold
#90. Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away.
V.C. Andrews
#91. In the windowless tomb of a blind mother, in the dead of the night, under feeble rays of a lamp in an alabaster globe, a girl came into the darkness with a wail.
George MacDonald
#92. I will weep and wail for the mountains and take up a lament concerning the desert pastures. They are desolate and untraveled, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. The birds of the air have fled and the animals are gone.
Jeremiah
#93. Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help.
William Booth
#94. Occasionally I sense an insane wail deep down in the pit, the echo alone reaching me, striking without warning, a child weeping uninhibitedly, imprisoned forever.
Ingmar Bergman
#95. The pain in her body came first, an intense surge of fire that raged like lava through her veins.
But it could not compare with what followed after.
A wail rose up from her depths. It left her as an inhuman cry.
Finally, she remembered everything.
Kelly Creagh
#96. Change is inevitable, and when it happens, the wisest response is not to wail or whine but to suck it up and deal with it.
Daniel H. Pink
#97. The nights were comfortless and chill, and they did not dare to sing or talk too loud, for the echoes were uncanny, and the silence seemed to dislike being broken - except by the noise of water and the wail of wind and the crack of stone.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#98. Many Americans don't mourn in public anymore - we don't wear black, we don't beat our chests and wail.
Meghan O'Rourke
#99. The myriads that raise the cry of hunger wail in the greatest empire in the world
Jack London
#100. It's then that I scream. Loudly. A real, honest-to-god, banshee-like wail. I mean, I didn't even know my voice could hit an octave that high.
Julie Johnson
