Weeping Quotes - Page 8

• Here's flowers for you; Hot lavender, mints, savoury, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun And with him rises weeping: these are flowers Of middle summer, and I think they are given To men of middle age.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Flower, Men

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.7584, BookCaps Study Guides

  134 Copy quote

  Show source

• To her bier Comes the year Not with weeping and distress, as mortals do, But, to guide her way to it, All the trees have torches lit; Blazing red the maples shine the woodlands through.

  Lucy Larcom

  Autumn, Years, Shining

  Lucy Larcom (1869). “Poems”, p.115

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.

  Seneca the Younger

  Laughter, Causes, All Things

  14 Copy quote

• Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the calendar's promise, that weeping loom of March and April, that bitter blast outraging the honor of May - how often has it robbed me of heart and hope.

  George Gissing

  Heart, Winter, Long

  7 Copy quote

• Rain scatters plum petals; Weeping stains the earth. One can only take shelter And wait for clearing.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Rain, Rivers, Water

  27 Copy quote

• And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth's only furrow.

  Pablo Neruda

  Grieving, Life And Death, Sorrow

  10 Copy quote

• What can be said in New Year rhymes, That's not been said a thousand times? The new years come, the old years go, We know we dream, we dream we know. We rise up laughing with the light, We lie down weeping with the night. We hug the world until it stings, We curse it then and sigh for wings. We live, we love, we woo, we wed, We wreathe our prides, we sheet our dead. We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear, And that's the burden of a year.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  New Year, Dream, Lying

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1454, Delphi Classics

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Unless you have been very, very lucky, you have undoubtedly experienced events in your life that have made you cry. So unless you have been very, very lucky, 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

  Love, Feel Better, Long

  "The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 1)". Book by Lemony Snicket (pen name of Daniel Handler), September 30, 1999.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Let me come in when you are weeping, friend, and let me take your hand. I, who have known a sorrow such as yours, can understand.

  Grace Noll Crowell

  Grief, Grieving, Hands

  Grace Noll Crowell, “To One In Sorrow”

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• Imagine, [Kriezler] said, that you enter a large, somewhat crumbling hall that echoes with the sounds of people mumbling and talking repetitively to themselves. All around you these people fall into prostrate positions, some of them weeping. Where are you? Sara’s answer was immediate: in an asylum. Perhaps, Kreizler answered, but you could also be in a church. In the one place the behavior would be considered mad; in the other, not only sane, but as respectable as any human activity can be.

  Caleb Carr

  Fall, Echoes, Talking

  Caleb Carr (2006). “The Alienist: A Novel”, p.157, Random House

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• No one can tell if I’m laughing or weeping. I wonder myself.

  Rumi

  Laughing, Wonder, Ifs

  5 Copy quote

• She let him finish, scratching his head with the tips of her fingers, and without his having revealed that he was weeping from love, she recognized immediately the oldest sobs in the history of man.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Men, Fingers

  4 Copy quote

• I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. I see her, an old woman, weeping for me on the anniversary of this day. I see her and her husband, their course done, lying side by side in their last earthly bed, and I know that each was not more honoured and held sacred in the other's soul, than I was in the souls of both.

  Charles Dickens

  Husband, Lying, Heart

  Charles Dickens (2016). “A Tale of Two Cities”, p.348, Xist Publishing

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I feel like cotton candy: sugar and air. Squeeze me and I’d turn into a small sickly damp wad of weeping pinky-red.

  Margaret Atwood

  Air, Cotton Candy, Sugar

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.138, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears.

  Oscar Wilde

  Past, Mourning, Ignorant

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.343, University of Chicago Press

  39 Copy quote

  Show source

• Strange indeed is human nature. Here were these men, to whom murder was familiar, who again and again had struck down the father of the family, some man against whom they had no personal feeling, without one thought of compunction or of compassion for his weeping wife or helpless children, and yet the tender or pathetic in music could move them to tears.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Children, Father, Moving

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes - The Novels: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Valley of Fear”, p.356, BoD - Books on Demand

  59 Copy quote

  Show source

• What makes the voice pathetic is that it doesn't know what kind of people it's reaching. Us. No one hears it, except us. This Age wanted heroes. It got us instead: carefully constructed, but immobile. Subtle but, unfit to take up the burden of the times. It happens. A whole generation of washouts. History says stand up, and we totter and collapse, weeping, moved, but not sufficient.

  Tony Kushner

  Hero, Voice, People

  Tony Kushner (1994). “A Bright Room Called Day”, p.67, Theatre Communications Group

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun, and with him rise weeping.

  William Shakespeare

  Vegetables, Hot, Herbs

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 3, l. 103

  243 Copy quote

  Show source

• Learn weeping, and thou shalt laugh gaining.

  George Herbert

  Laughing, Sorrow, Gains

  "The Works of George Herbert: In Prose and Verse".

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• [Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it an excellent poem but it hurt me. She did not say jungle fear. She did not say jungle hatred wild jungle weeping chop it back chop it. She said self-government she said end of the road. She did not say humming in the middle of the air what you came for chop.

  Anne Carson

  Mother, Hurt, Government

  18 Copy quote

• And so I'm me again, Leo. Thanks to the example of a five-year-old. I'm hoping you wouldn't want it any other way. Not that you weren't flattered, right? I mean, to have a girl two thousand miles away going to pieces over you, weeping at the mere memory of you, losing her appetite, losing herself and self-respect - well, that's trophy enough for any guy's ego, huh?

  Jerry Spinelli

  Girl, Memories, Mean

  4 Copy quote

• The weeping of the guitar begins. The goblets of dawn are smashed. The weeping of the guitar begins. Useless to silence it. Impossible to silence it. It weeps monotonously as water weeps as the wind weeps over snowfields. Impossible to silence it. It weeps for distant things. Hot southern sands yearning for white camellias. Weeps arrow without target evening without morning and the first dead bird on the branch. Oh, guitar! Heart mortally wounded by five swords.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Morning, Heart, Guitar

  Federico García Lorca, “The Guitar”

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• The three girls were sitting and lying beside her, holding one another, weeping, their arms and legs and hair tangled like the roots of close trees, sobs shaking them like leaves in a high wind.

  Shannon Hale

  Girl, Lying, Hair

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Forest Born”, p.147, A&C Black

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was a newborn vampire, weeping at the beauty of the night.

  Anne Rice

  Night, Vampire, Newborn

  "Fictional character: Louis". "Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles", www.imdb.com. 1994.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• NOOOO!" On the screen, a woman's eyes bugged almost out of her head, and I tried not to scream. Tried not to scream in exasperation, I mean. The serial killer was right in front of her, wide open! Clearly, instead of weeping like a moron, she could be lunging forward and administering a swift uppercut to the chin. Then this entire pointless ordeal would be over with, and I could go home.

  James Patterson

  Home, Mean, Eye

  4 Copy quote