Quotes of Lament - somelinesforyou

“ When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Every tear of sorrow sown by the righteous, springs up a pearl. ”

- Matthew

“ The tears live in an onion that should water this sorrow. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Tears are the badges of sorrow. ”

- Archimedes

“ We are the voices of the wandering wind, Which moan for rest and rest can never find; Lo! as the wind is so is mortal life, A moan, a sigh, a sob, a storm, a strife. ”

- Edwin Arnold

“ If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing. ”

- Marcus Valerius Martial

“ It is better to avenge a friend than to mourn for him. ”

- Arthur Christopher Benson

“ The only things I regret... are the things I didn't do. ”

- Joe Karbo

“ Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof. ”

- Sir Walter Raleigh

“ Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan, Sorrow calls no time that's gone: Violets plucked the sweetest rain Makes not fresh nor grow again. ”

- John Fletcher

“ I have no regrets. If you regret things, you're sort of stepping backwards. I'm a believer in going forwards. ”

- Kate Winslet

“ To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent! ”

- George Crabbe

“ Alas! how easily things go wrong! A sigh too deep, or a kiss too long, And then comes a mist and a weeping rain, And life is never the same again. ”

- George MacDonald

“ The hushed winds wail with feeble moan Like infant charity. ”

- Joanna Baillie

“ The only things you regret are the things you didn't do. ”

- Michael Curtiz

“ When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought And with old woes now wail my dear time's waste. Then can I drown an eye For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, and weep afresh love's long since cancelled woe, and moan the expense of many a vanished sight… ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives. Don't waste yourself in rejection, or bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Once at a potent leader's voice I stayed; Once I went back when a good monarch prayed; Mortals, howe'er we grieve, howe'er deplore, The flying shadow will return no more. ”

- Maurice Maeterlinck

“ Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Oh, that was a good time, when I was unhappy. - credited to Sophie Arnould. ”

- Unknown

“ Our comforts come from God; our sorrows, from ourselves. ”

- Ivan Panin

“ How can you not have any regrets? It's impossible. No regrets? Bulls**t. I don't believe anybody who tells me that. ”

- Chuck Barris

“ Broken words came first, then half-uttered questions and answers, followed by sighs, tears, and groans. ”

- Voltaire

“ Mankind is an unco squad And muckle he may grieve thee. ”

- Robert Burns

“ Do not grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. ”

- Rumi

“ Let those deplore their doom, Whose hope still grovels in this dark sojourn: But lofty souls, who look beyond the tomb, Can smile at Fate, and wonder how they mourn. ”

- James Beattie

“ I have no regrets, I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say. ”

- Ingrid Bergman

“ I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid. ”

- Katharine Hepburn

“ We griev'd, we sigh'd, we wept; we never blushed before. ”

- Abraham Cowley
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