“ For April sobs while these are so glad, April weeps while these are so gay, - Weeps like a tired child who had, Playing with flowers, lost its way. ”
- Helen Hunt Jackson- Copy
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“ Others may argue about whether the world ends with a bang or a whimper. I just want to make sure mine doesn't end with a whine. ”
- Barbara Gordon- Copy
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“ In this river we saw many Crocodils…His nature is ever when he would have his prey, to cry and sob like a Christian body, to provoke them to come to him, and then he snatcheth at them. ”
- John Hawkins- Copy
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“ Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath! ”
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning- Copy
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“ Recently I've been listening to Mahler; it's beautiful stuff. I just saw a performance of Mahler's Eighth Symphony on television, and it was awesome. The music was so gorgeous I wasn't just crying tears, I was sobbing. ”
- Herbie Hancock- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a low-down dirty deal and whose feelings are all hurt about it… ”
- Zora Neale Hurston- Copy
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“ The sobs and tears of joy he had not foreseen rose with such force within him that his whole body shook and for a long time prevented him from speaking. Falling on his knees by her bed. He held his wife's hand to his lips and kissed it, and her hand responded to his kisses with weak movement of finger… ”
- Leo Tolstoy- Copy
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“ Shall we never have done with that cliche, so stupid that it could only be human, about the sympathy of animals for man when he is unhappy? Animals love happiness almost as much as we do. A fit of crying disturbs them, they'll sometimes imitate sobbing, and for a moment they'll reflect our sadness… ”
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette- Copy
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“ Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling. Reduction, see? Of all feeling. People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile. ”
- Judith Guest- Copy
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