#lament

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. ↗

— Sophocles

#dead #evils #gold #lamentation #less

Despite this lamentable lack of balance in our education I do not believe that either children or adults in my country are permeated by a widespread hostility to Germany. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#believe #children #country #despite #education

We whine about things we have little control over; we lament what we believe ought to be changed. ↗

— Philip Yancey

#whine #change

This day I ceased to plead. I was no longer capable of lamentation. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#faith #god #lamentation #night #religion

Everything good in life is either immoral, illegal or fattening. ↗

— Nicole Richie

#illegal #immorality #lament #life #true

it was his own grief turned magically to song ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#grief

Go, go, magic clover. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#deception

There was much woe and lamentation in the seventies that the game was dying. ↗

— John Thorn

#game #lamentation #much #seventies #woe

This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren't old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#anything #because #being #could #enough

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#begs #bespeaks #bread #daily #daily bread