Weeping Quotes - Page 12

• From sorrow to sorrow love crosses its islands and establishes roots that are watered by weeping.

  Pablo Neruda

  Roots, Islands, Sorrow

  Pablo Neruda (2007). “100 Love Sonnets”, p.147, Exile Editions, Ltd.

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• Lord! Thou art with Thy people still; they see Thee in the night-watches, and their hearts burn within them as Thou talkest with them by the way. And Thou art near to those that have not known Thee; open their eyes that they may see Thee--see Thee weeping over them, and saying, "Ye will not come unto me that ye might have life"--see Thee hanging on the cross and saying, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do"--see Thee as Thou wilt come again in Thy glory to judge them at the last. Amen.

  George Eliot

  Art, Prayer, Father

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, p.26, George Eliot

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• It was before Deity embodied in a human form walking among men, partaking of their infirmities, leaning on their bosoms, weeping over their graves, slumbering in the manger, bleeding on the cross, that the prejudices of the synagogue, and the doubts of the academy, and the pride of the portico, and the fasces of the lictor, and the swords of thirty legions were humbled in the dust.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Pride, Men, Dust

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• Beware the People weeping When they bare the iron hand.

  Herman Melville

  Hands, Iron, People

  Herman Melville (2006). “Selected Poems (Melville, Herman)”, p.90, Penguin

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• So my reaction to hearing this corny-ass, horrible song ["With Arms Wide Open" by Creed] is violent, uncontrollable, sustained weeping.

  Michael Ian Black

  Song, Fatherhood, Arms

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• When a person realizes he has been deeply heard, his eyes moisten. I think in some real sense he is weeping for joy. It is as though he were saying, "Thank God, somebody heard me. Someone knows what it's like to be me".

  Carl Rogers

  Real, Eye, Thinking

  Carl Rogers (1995). “A Way of Being”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes.

  Isaac Watts

  Fear, Farewell, Eye

  Isaac Watts (1867). “The Penny Watts's Hymns ... Selected and Abridged from Dr. Watts's Hymns”, p.94

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• There was a time-a lonely, lonely time-when salads were a pale and limp affair, relegated to the side of your plate, practically weeping. I think those dark days were also known as the '80s. -p.11

  Isa Chandra Moskowitz

  Lonely, Dark, Thinking

  Isa Chandra Moskowitz (2011). “Appetite for Reduction: 125 Fast and Filling Low-Fat Vegan Recipes”, p.11, Da Capo Press

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• Know all things to be like this: A mirage, a cloud castle, A dream, an apparition, Without essence, but with qualities that can be seen. Know all things to be like this: As the moon in a bright sky In some clear lake reflected, Though to that lake the moon has never moved. Know all things to be like this: As an echo that derives From music, sounds, and weeping, Yet in that echo is no melody. Know all things to be like this: As a magician makes illusions Of horses, oxen, carts and other things, Nothing is as it appears.

  Gautama Buddha

  Dream, Buddhist, Horse

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• But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end

  Anne McCaffrey

  Stories, Ships, My Favorite

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• Oh thrice fools are we who like new-born princes weeping in the cradle know not that there is a kingdom before them then let our Lord's sweet hand square us and hammer us and strike off the knots of pride self-love and world-worship and infidelity that He may make us stones and pillars in His Father's house.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Sweet, Father, Pride

  Samuel Rutherford, Hamilton Smith (2008). “Extracts from the Letters of Samuel Rutherford”, p.49, Scripture Truth

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• God, how pointless and empty the world is! Days filled with cheap and tarnished moments succeed each other, restless and haunted nights follow in bitter routine: the sun shines without brightness, and the moon rises without light. My heart has the taste of ashes, and my throat is tight and weary with weeping. What is a lost soul? It is one that has turned from its true path and is groping in the darkness of remembered ways—

  Malcolm Lowry

  Heart, Moon, Night

  Malcolm Lowry (2015). “The 1940 Under the Volcano: A Critical Edition”, p.306, University of Ottawa Press

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• The really happy man never laughs - seldom - though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension - and the happy are not over strung.

  Francis Aveling

  Happiness, Laughter, Men

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• I love polite people, late September, weeping mortar, and my fantastic fands (fans/friends)

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  People, Fans, September

  Twitter post from Sep 02, 2010

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• The world is going to be less biologically rich for quite some time in the future. We are always weeping that we live in such a diminished world, but we are experiencing a biologically rich world compared to what the future will look like. Bearing witness to that is a beautiful gift.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Beautiful, Looks, World

  Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.

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• Like one who draws the model of a house beyond his power to build it who, half through, gives o'er, and leaves his part-created cost a naked subject to the weeping clouds.

  William Shakespeare

  Clouds, Giving, House

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Henry IV”, p.44, Palgrave Macmillan

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• I ask Thee for a thankful love,
  Through constant watching wise,
  To meet the glad with joyful smiles,
  And to wipe the weeping eyes,
  And a heart at leisure from itself,
  To soothe and sympathize.

  Anna Laetitia Waring

  Sympathy, Wise, Heart

  "Father I know that all my Life, Hymns and Meditations" by Anna Laetitia Waring, (p. 2), 1850.

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• Since you went the sun refuses to shine The sky joins me in weeping for your absence All our pleasure is gone with you ... Silence reigns everywhere ... Oh come back! Already the shepherds and their flocks call for you! Come back soon, or it will be winter in May.

  Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz

  Broken Heart, Winter, Sky

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• The great majority of the Christian world is still weeping at the foot of the cross. The consciousness of man is fixed on the Christ Who died, not the Christ Who LIVES. They are looking back to the Redeemer Who was, not the redeemer who IS.

  John G. Lake

  Christian, Men, Feet

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• I was haunted always by my other life-my drab room in the Bronx, my square foot of the subway, my fixation upon the day's letter from Alabama-would it come and what would it say?-my shabby suits, my poverty, and love. While my friends were launching decently into life I had muscled my inadequate bark into midstream... I was a failure-mediocre at advertising work and unable to get started as a writer. Hating the city, I got roaring, weeping drunk on my last penny and went home.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Hate, Home, Cities

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West (2005). “Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940”, p.108, Cambridge University Press

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• Just as a dancer, turning and turning, may fill the dusty light with the soft swirl of her flying skirts, our weeping willow -- now old and broken , creaking in the breeze -- turns slowly, slowly in the winter sun, sweeping the rusty roof of the barn with the pale blue lacework of her shadow.

  Ted Kooser

  Winter, Light, Blue

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• Yes, there is weeping, even in heaven, but it is for those who are still crawling on the earth.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Heaven, Judgement, Earth

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• It is better to go stumbling, and weeping, and crawling like a worm along the way of love, than to give up and choose some other way.

  Hannah Hurnard

  Giving Up, Way, Crawling

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• Over against the devil and his missionaries, the authors of false doctrines and sects, we ought to be like the Apostle, impatient, and rigorously condemnatory, as parents are with the dog that bites their little one, but the weeping child itself they soothe.

  Martin Luther

  Dog, Children, Parent

  Martin Luther (2007). “Commentary on Galatians”, p.13, Lulu.com

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• Weeping must not hinder worship.

  T. B. Joshua

  Worship, Hinder

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