That provisional tomb where the living exile sighs, weeps, fights and succumbs, and is born again, remembering nothing, with the day
That provisional tomb where the living exile sighs, weeps, fights and succumbs, and is born again, remembering nothing, with the day
Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
Who weeps for the pain?
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
When a woman weeps, she is setting traps with her tears. Struit insidias lacrimis cum femina plorat.
She weeps, and says her Henry is depos'd:
He smiles, and says his Edward is install'd;
That she, poor wretch, for grief can speak no more;
Whiles Warwick tells his title, smooths the wrong,
Inferreth arguments of mighty strength,
And in conclusion wins the King from her
With promise of his sister, and what else,
To strengthen and support King Edward's place.
One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.
There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She is coming, my dove, my dear She is coming, my life, my fate, The red rose cries, She is near, she is near'And the white rose weeps, She is late'.
Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
Scarlett tells Mammy 'I'm too young to be a widow.' She weeps to her mother 'My life is over. Nothing will ever happen to me anymore.' Her mother comforts her 'It's only natural to want to look young and be young when you are young.'
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.
The soul of America weeps for the dead youth of this illegal and immoral war. It is time to step up and be heard.
The scripture that comes to my mind is 'Jesus wept,' ... Jesus weeps today for the loss of life in New Orleans and he weeps that his gospel is being hijacked by the rabid rhetoric of the religious right -- that is in its own way as destructive to our national fabric as Hurricane Katrina has been.
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