Lament Quotes
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Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided 'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear.
William Shakespeare -
I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.
Sean O'Casey
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If you think you control things that are in the control of others, you will lament. You will be disturbed and you will blame both gods and men.
Epictetus -
You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded.
Joseph Stalin -
No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.
Baruch Spinoza -
I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?
Epictetus -
If religious belief be indeed so necessary to mankind, as we are continually assured that it is, there is great reason to lament, that the intellectual grounds of it should require to be backed by moral bribery or subornation of the understanding.
John Stuart Mill -
I certainly have a lot to lament, as do we all, everybody has their griefs. But the griefs we can fix, shouldn't we go around fixing them?
Elizabeth Edwards
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Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other
Sean O'Casey -
Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man?
William Wordsworth -
Especially look to those sins to which your crosses have some reference and respect. Are you crossed in your goods? Think if you did not over-love them and get them unjustly, or if in your children, see if you did not over-love them and cocker them, and so in all things of like kind. In what God smites vou, see if you have not in that sinned against Him, and so frame to lament your sins and to seek help against them.
William Whately