#lament

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable. ↗

— Charles Kennedy

#equally #lamentable #laughable #many #much

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. ↗

— George Santayana

#experiment #fails #happiness #lamentable #life

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#lament #laugh #life #man #more

Jeremiah has to lament that there are as many altars as towns in Judah. ↗

— Julius Wellhausen

#lament #many #towns

Convinced that the attachment of colonies to the metropolis, depends infinitely more upon moral and religious feeling, than political arrangement, or even commercial advantage, I cannot but lament that more is not done to instill it into the minds of the people. ↗

— John Strachan

#arrangement #attachment #cannot #colonies #commercial

I didn't want normal until I didn't have it anymore ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#maggie-stiefvater #normal #deception

There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened. ↗

— Abu Bakr

#apostle #bear #comes #death #easier

Fro and to in my dreams to you To the haunting tune of the harp For the price I paid when you died that day I paid that day with my heart Fro and to in my dreams to you With the breaking of my heart Ne'er more again will I sing this song Ne'er more will I hear the harp. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#dreams

Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures. ↗

— David K. Shipler

#ages #cultures #delicate #festival #great

Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a stricken lament of terrible beauty. And Harry felt, as he had felt about phoenix song before, that the music was inside him, not without: It was his own grief turned magically to song.. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#grief #phoenix-lament #song #terrible #beauty