Weeping Quotes - Page 2

• There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Men, Birth, Should

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• After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mourning, Tragedy, Sin

  1891 Intentions, 'The Critic as Artist'.

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• I was weeping again, drunk on the impossible past.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Past, Drunk, Impossible

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.375, Vintage

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• Laugh till you weep. Weep till there's nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end it's all one.

  Frederick Buechner

  Inspiring, Laughing, Ends

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• There is a certain kind of pleasure in weeping.

  Ovid

  Kind, Pleasure, Certain

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• There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Bible, Lazy People, Tears

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• They who are sad find somehow sweetness in tears.

  Euripides

  Tears, Sweetness

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion”, p.105, University of Chicago Press

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• For one drop calls another down, till we are drowned in seas of grief.

  Isaac Watts

  Grief, Sea

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• Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird's life, it sings away its grief. I believe we could well follow the pattern of our feathered friends.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Believe, Musical

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• Who would recognize the unhappy if grief had no language?

  Publilius Syrus

  Grief, Unhappy, Language

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• Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

  William Butler Yeats

  Children, Hands, Water

  William Butler Yeats (1998). “Fairy Folk Tales of Ireland”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• When from soft love proceeds the deep distress, ah! why forbid the willing tears to flow?

  William Cowper

  Tears, Flow, Distress

  William Cowper (1874). “The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham”, p.10

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• we are nature. We are nature seeing nature. We are nature with a concept of nature. Nature weeping. Nature speaking of nature to nature.

  Susan Griffin

  Nature, Seeing, Concepts

  Susan Griffin (1983). “Made from this earth: an anthology of writings”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• ...you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.

  Daniel Handler

  Feel Better, Long, Cry

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• We weep and laugh, as we see others do.

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Laughing

  Wentworth Dillon (4th earl of Roscommon.) (1749). “The poetical works of ... Wentworth Dillon, earl of Roscommon”, p.157

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• What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows. What poor, defenceless creatures they would be!

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Would Be, Cry, Poor

  Douglas William Jerrold, Blanchard Jerrold (1859). “Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's wit: together with selections, chiefly from his contributions to journals, intended to illustrate his opinions”, p.89

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• Cries of despair, misery, sobbing grief are a kind of wealth.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Grief, Despair, Misery

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• There is some joy in weeping. For our tears
  Fill up the cup, then wash our pain away.

  Ovid

  Pain, Joy, Sorrow

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• In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.

  Robert Jordan

  Land, Laughing, Cruelty

  Robert Jordan (2010). “A Crown of Swords: Book Seven of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.193, Macmillan

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• I have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I'll weep.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Causes, Cry

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 2, sc. 4, l. [279]

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• How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping?

  William Shakespeare

  Happiness, Joy

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 1, sc. 1, l. [27]

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• Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.

  Golda Meir

  Love, Moving On, Break Up

  Interview with Oriana Fallaci, Ms. Magazine, April 1973.

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• The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. One says: “Merry Christmas”-not “Weep and Repent.” And the good will is expressed in a material, earthly form-by giving presents to one's friends, or by sending them cards in token of remembrance . . . .

  Ayn Rand

  Happiness, Happy, Friends

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.91, Penguin

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• There is a certain pleasure in weeping.

  Ovid

  Cry, Pleasure, Certain

  Ovid (1879). “Ovid”

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• A day will come when the civilized world will deny its God, when the Church will doubt as Peter doubted. She will be tempted to believe that man has become God. In our churches, Christians will search in vain for the red lamp where God awaits them. Like Mary Magdalene, weeping before the empty tomb, they will ask, ‘Where have they taken Him?’

  Pope Pius XII

  Christian, Believe, Taken

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