Weeping Quotes - Page 10

• And then theres always the crying and the weeping that we hear-children, women, even men. And these images and these sounds are always with me.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Children, Men, Sound

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• When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow? If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad, Threatening the welkin with his big-swoln face? And wilt thou have a reason for this coil? I am the sea; hark, how her sighs do blow! She is the weeping welkin, I the earth: Then must my sea be moved with her sighs; Then must my earth with her continual tears Become a deluge, overflow'd and drown'd: For why my bowels cannot hide her woes, But like a drunkard must I vomit them. Then give me leave, for losers will have leave To ease their stomachs with their bitter tongues.

  William Shakespeare

  Blow, Wind, Sea

  "The Works of William Shakespeare". Volume VI,

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• I had to stop traveling alone because I missed so many planes. When somebody runs up to you in the airport and begins to tell you their life story, you can't say, 'Excuse me, boo,' as they're weeping on your bosom.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Running, Airports, Up To You

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• You know that you've healed an issue when you can talk about it and you're not weeping, when you can speak to it and identify the lesson. You know that you've healed an issue when, having gone through that, has a benefit that you live today.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Issues, Live For Today, Gone

  "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. May 25, 2011.

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• God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.

  Desmond Tutu

  Children, Want, Patient

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• Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a vast outspread handkerchief, embroidered with God's eternal name, on which we may dry alike our tears of sorrow and of joy; she turns weeping into ecstasy, and fills our hearts with speechless, quiet reverence and resignation.

  Robert Schumann

  Heart, Names, Joy

  Robert Schumann (1907). “The Letters of Robert Schumann”

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• I spent my childhood outdoors on my grandparents' farm. I learned to ride a motorbike when I was about six, a little PeeWee 50. I'd climb trees - there was a big weeping willow.

  Miranda Kerr

  Grandparent, Childhood, Tree

  "Miranda Kerr: face of a goddess, figure of an Angel, wife of an elf". Interview with Miranda Collinge, www.esquire.com. May 1, 2013.

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• If I was to direct Ron Howard, I guarantee you, I would put him through a living hell every day. I would demand so much of him. We wouldn't quit until he leaves the set crying. Weeping! Spent!

  Tom Hanks

  Guarantees, Demand, Quitting

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• I went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard someone cry, thinking I myself was weeping, and I felt my face and it was dry. Then I looked at the window and thought: Why, yes, it's just the rain, the rain, always the rain, and turned over, sadder still, and fumbled about for my dripping sleep and tried to slip it back on.

  Ray Bradbury

  Rain, Sleep, Night

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• Every cradle asks us, Whence? and every coffin, Whither? The poor barbarian, weeping above his dead, can answer these questions as intelligently as the robed priest of the most authentic creed.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Coffins, Answers, Barbarians

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1883). “Popular edition of col. Ingersoll's lectures. (Freethought publ. co.'s ed.).”

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• Emma hears me come up the stairs and asks me to watch a movie with her. I stick Band-Aids on my weeping cuts, put on pink pajamas so we match, and snuggle with her under her rainbow comforter. She arranges all of her stuffed animals around us in a circle, everyone facing the TV, then presses play...Ghosts dare not enter here.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Cutting, Animal, Play

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• In this mob of I's inside, which one is me? Hear me out. I know I'm wandering, but don't start putting a lid on this racket. No telling what I'll do then. Every moment I'm thrown by your story. One moment it's happy, and I'm singing. One moment it's sad, and I'm weeping. It turns bitter, and I pull away. But then you spill a little grace, and just like that, I'm all light. It's not so bad, this arrangement, actually.

  Rumi

  Light, Grace, Singing

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• Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk.

  Michael J. Fox

  Teenager, Parent, Risk

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• God uses people. God uses people to perform His work. He does not send angels. Angels weep over it, but God does not use angels to accomplish His purposes. He uses burdened broken-hearted weeping men and women.

  David Wilkerson

  Angel, Men, People

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• On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep.

  William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell

  Children, Sleep, Long

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• She was made up of more, too. She was the books she read in the library. She was the flower in the brown bowl. Part of her life was made from the tree growing rankly in the yard. She was the bitter quarrels she had with her brother whom she loved dearly. She was Katie's secret, despairing weeping. She was the shame of her father stumbling home drunk. She was all of these things and of something more...It was what God or whatever is His equivalent puts into each soul that is given life - the one different thing such as that which makes no two fingerprints on the face of the earth alike.

  Betty Smith

  Brother, Father, Flower

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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• Bad stories are written about me because the press knows they can make me into a weeping dog and few people will object.

  Yoko Ono

  Dog, People, Stories

  "Yoko Ono, a Decade After the 'Horrible Thing' : John Lennon's widow still lives under a shadow, but, she says, 'It's not a bad time'". Interview with Glenn Plaskin, articles.latimes.com. May 06, 1990.

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• What is it about tears that should be so terrifying? the touch of God is marked by tears...deep, soul-shaking tears, weeping...it comes when that last barrier is down and you surrender yourself to health and wholeness

  David Wilkerson

  Soul, Tears, Down And

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• Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride/ You will not die, its not poison -Tombstone Blues

  Bob Dylan

  Tombstone, Pride, Poison

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• She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its origins.

  Tom Robbins

  Water, Tears, Velocity

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.6, Bantam

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• I drive around the streets an inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality and possible love.

  Charles Bukowski

  Possible Love, Inches, Ashamed

  Charles Bukowski (2016). “On Love”, p.113, Canongate Books

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• I have a face like a washrag. I sing love songs and carry steel. I would rather die than cry. I can't stand hounds can't live without them. I hang my head against the white refrigerator and want to scream like the last weeping of life forever but I am bigger than the mountains.

  Charles Bukowski

  Song, White, Forever

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• Time does not bring relief; you all have lied Who told me time would ease me of my pain! I miss him in the weeping of the rain; I want him at the shrinking of the tide; The old snows melt from every mountain-side, And last year's leaves are smoke in every lane; But last year's bitter loving must remain Heaped on my heart, and my old thoughts abide! There are a hundred places where I fear To go,--so with his memory they brim! And entering with relief some quiet place Where never fell his foot or shone his face I say, 'There is no memory of him here!' And so stand stricken, so remembering him!

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Pain, Memories, Rain

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2014). “Millay: Poems”, p.56, Everyman's Library

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• Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.

  Simone Weil

  Thinking, Doe, God Love

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.15, Psychology Press

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• I wept in my dreams. I dreamed you lay in the grave; I awoke, and the tears still poured down my cheeks. I wept in my dreams, I dreamed you had left me; I awoke and I went on weeping long and bitterly. I wept in my dreams, I dreamed you were still kind to me; I awoke, and still the flow of my tears streams on.

  Heinrich Heine

  Dream, Long, Tears

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