Quotes about bewailing (2 Quotes)

We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.

I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager.