70 Lament Quotes
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Thou wilt lament Hereafter, when the evil shall be done And shall admit no cure. — Homer
We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones. — Paul Eldridge
Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankless sea — J. R. R. Tolkien
To regret deeply is to live afresh. — Henry David Thoreau
We all mourn in our own way. I mourn with a great steak. — Joan Rivers
My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul. — William Shakespeare
The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone. — James Frey
In grief, words are a poor consolation - silence and agonizing tears are all that is left the sufferer. — Mary Todd Lincoln
Sorrow is easy to express and so hard to tell. — Joni Mitchell
Sorrow makes us children again. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. — Lord Byron
Sing Me no songs tell me no tales cry me no tears, but remember me kindly. — Danielle Steel
The origin of sorrow is this: to wish for something that does not come to pass. — Epictetus
What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder? — Henry David Thoreau
Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano. — Frederic Chopin
Short Lament Quotes
- You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded. — Joseph Stalin
- It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it. — Seneca The Elder
- It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it. — Seneca
- Cease to lament for that thou canst not help; and study help for that which thou lamentest. — William Shakespeare
- A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other — Sean O'Casey
- It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. — Voltaire
- I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. — Patrick Henry
- A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility — Tom Brokaw
- So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, Which sucks two souls, and vapors both away. — John Donne
- Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man? — William Wordsworth
People Writing About Lament
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
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 Henry David Thoreau |
2697 | 19655 |
 William Shakespeare |
4052 | 36000 |
 Homer |
508 | 2784 |
 Paul Eldridge |
22 | 327 |
 J. R. R. Tolkien |
752 | 8835 |
 Joan Rivers |
326 | 1744 |
More Lament Quotes
Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it's like they are holding the baby of you. — Anne Lamott
Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days... What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I still don't know what leads to success. But I know what leads to insuccess: a temperament of complaint, the mentality of permanent victimhood, and the collective and individual propensity for lamentation. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them [worlds], we have not yet conquered one? — Alexander The Great
Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures. — David K. Shipler
Nothing beats a haunted moonlit night on All Hallows Eve.... And on this fatal night, at this witching time, the starless sky laments black and unmoving. The somber hues of an ominous, dark forest are suddenly illuminated under the emerging face of the full moon. — Elizabeth Kim
Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water. — Albert Schweitzer
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
It's terrible to have to say this. World population must be stabilized and to do that we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. This is so horrible to contemplate that we shouldn't even say it. But the general situation in which we are involved is lamentable. — Jacques Yves Cousteau
This tribe of black gentry work more effectually against us, than the enemy's arms. They are a hundred times more dangerous to our liberties, and the great cause we are engaged in. It is much to be lamented that each State, long ere this, has not hunted them down as pests to society, and the greatest enemies we have to the happiness of America. — George Washington
The utter folly of our time is lamentable, that men should think to assist God with human help and to protect the Church of Christ by worldly ambition. — Hilary of Poitiers
I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other. — Sean O'Casey
Do not underestimate the human being, who sometimes appears so simple. Even with sight as sharp as an eagle, a mind as sharp as a razor, senses more powerful than gods, hearing that can catch the music and the lamentations of life, your knowledge of humanity will never be total. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer
A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being. — Agnes Repplier
I sometimes lament the fact that I do not have the benefit of a complete and ailment free body structure. — Amitabh Bachchan
From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations — Hippocrates
You can sit there forever, lamenting about how bad you've been, feeling guilty until you die, and not one tiny slice of that guilt will do anything to change a single thing in the past. Forgive yourself, then MOVE ON! — Wayne Dyer
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
Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more. Such grief does not desire consolation. It feeds on the sense of its hopelessness. Lamentations spring only from the constant craving to re-open the wound. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
And it is very much lamented,... That you have no such mirrors as will turn Your hidden worthiness into your eye That you might see your shadow. — William Shakespeare
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. — George Santayana
No one sex can govern alone. I believe that one of the reasons why civilization has failed so lamentably is that is had one-sided government. — Nancy Astor
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
When thou hast truly thanked the Lord for every blessing sent, But little time will then remain for murmur or lament. — Hannah More
Can there be a more lamentable picture than that of a Chancellor of the Exchequer seated on an empty chest by a pool of bottomless deficiency fishing for a budget? — Robert Peel
It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application. — Samuel Smiles
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
God grant that by my persevering labours I may bring a little stone to the frail and ill-assured edifice of our knowledge of those deep mysteries of Life and Death where all our intellects have so lamentably failed. — Louis Pasteur
Labor, like Israel, has many sorrows. Its women weep for their fallen and they lament for the future of the children of the race. It ill behooves one who has supped at labor's table and who has been sheltered in labor's house to curse with equal fervor and fine impartiality both labor and its adversaries when they become locked in deadly embrace. — John L. Lewis
Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight. — Muhammad Iqbal
I turn away with fright and horror from the lamentable evil of functions which do not have derivatives. — Charles Hermite
-….when things seem to have reached that stage, merely say “I won’t play any longer”, and take your departure; but if you stay, stop lamenting. — Epictetus
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
Refraining from all evil, not clinging to birth and death, working in deep compassion for all sentient beings, respecting those over you and pitying those below you, without any detesting or desiring, worrying or lamentation - this is what is called Buddha. Do not search beyond it. — Dogen
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
Lament is a cry of belief in a good God, a God who has His ear to our hearts, a God who transfigures the ugly into beauty. Complaint is the bitter howl of unbelief in any benevolent God in this moment, a distrust in the love-beat of the Father's heart. — Ann Voskamp
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