Weeping Quotes
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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed. (Quote by - William Temple)
I hasten to laugh at everything for fear of being obliged to weep at it. (Quote by - Pierre de Beaumarchais)
Thou hast done a deed whereat valour will weep. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either. (Quote by - Golda Meir)
Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were a cause indeed to weep. (Quote by - William C. Bryant)
Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years. (Quote by - Frederick Tennyson)
The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation. (Quote by - Anne Rice)
We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone? (Quote by - Anna Letitia Barbauld)
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. (Quote by - Anne McCaffrey)
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. (Quote by - William Butler Yeats)
However, the thought hit me that this was a pretty pathetic way to kick the bucket - being accidentally poisoned during a photo shoot, of all things - and I started weeping at the idiocy of it all. (Quote by - Lara St. John)
I did a book signing when we were in New York the day before yesterday. A lady came through and she was just weeping, and said, 'I wish this would have been brought out sooner, my sister is in prison for suffocating her child. (Quote by - Marie Osmond)
I suppose and I hope that the young guys who are out there losing their lives at least feel the same way I did. I shouldn't think about this very much because I'm almost weeping when I think about it. (Quote by - Lawrence Halprin)
If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping. (Quote by - Sophocles)
Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe. (Quote by - Anne Bronte)
The English race is the best at weeping and the worst at laughing. (Quote by - Thomas Hearne)
The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise. (Quote by - Publilius Syrus)
The weeping voices rise straight up and strike the clouds. A passer-by at the roadside asks a conscript why, The conscript answers only that drafting happens often. (Quote by - Du Fu)
There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death. (Quote by - Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu)
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers? (Quote by - E. B. Browning)
God listens to our weeping when the occasion itself is beyond our knowledge, but still within His love and power. (Quote by - Daniel A. Poling)
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 gloom of March and April, that bitter blast outraging the honour of May how often has it robbed me of heart and hope? (Quote by - George Gissing)
Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not. (Quote by - Matthew)
There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. (Quote by - Matthew)
Weeping bride, laughing wife; laughing bride, weeping wife. (Quote by - German proverb)
Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. (Quote by - Bible)
When from soft love proceeds the deep distress, ah! why forbid the willing tears to flow? (Quote by - William Cowper)
We weep and laugh, as we see others do. (Quote by - Wentworth Dillon)
Weeping is not alone woman's weapon, but also a specific for transient sorrows. (Quote by - Adelaide Billet Dufresnoy)
Every woman is in the wrong until she cries, and then she is in the right instantly. (Quote by - Thomas Chandler Haliburton)
What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows. What poor, defenceless creatures they would be! (Quote by - Douglas William Jerrold)
My tears are buried in my heart, like cave-locked fountains sleeping. (Quote by - Letitia Elizabeth Landon)
Weep not for him that dieth; for he sleeps, and is at rest. (Quote by - Lady Caroline Sheridan Norton)
There is a certain pleasure in weeping; grief finds in tears both a satisfaction and a cure. (Quote by - Ovid)
In silence weep, and thy convulsive sorrow inward keep. (Quote by - Matthew Prior)
What remains when hope is fled? She answered, "Endless weeping. (Quote by - Samuel Rogers)
Larded all with sweet flowers which bewept to the grave did go, with true-love showers. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The April's in her eyes; it is love's spring, and these the showers to bring it on. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
This heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I'll weep. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Trust not a woman when she weeps, for it is her nature to weep when she wants her will. (Quote by - Socrates)
Do not weep, my dear lady! Your tears are too precious to shed for me; bottle them up, and may the cork never be drawn. (Quote by - Laurence Sterne)
Love, Gratitude, and Pity wept at once. (Quote by - James Thomson (1))
For one drop calls another down, till we are drowned in seas of grief. (Quote by - Isaac Watts)
Then let these useless streams be stayed; wear native courage in your face. (Quote by - Isaac Watts)
Were both the golden Indies mine, I'd give both Indies for a tear. (Quote by - Isaac Watts)
