#weep

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

Another night, I dreamed I saw my father sweeping out the barn floor clean, and would not suffer the wheat to be brought in the barn. He appeared to me to be in anger. ↗

— Joanna Southcott

#another #appeared #barn #brought #clean

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#indignant #understand #wax #weep

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#hate #human #human actions #i #laugh

When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#boulder #expect #him #man #must

You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#falls #land #might #niagara #our

And weep the more, because I weep in vain. ↗

— Thomas Gray

#i #more #vain #weep

We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone? ↗

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

#laugh #neither #nor #pray #should

Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men. ↗

— Quintus Ennius

#celebrate #funeral #i #live #me

What do I geek out about? What am I? Hmmm. I love movies. I watch movies. I like big, sweeping epics, like Ed Zwick stuff: 'The Last Samurai,' 'Legends of the Fall,' 'Blood Diamond,' 'Glory.' ↗

— Chris Evans

#am #big #blood #diamond #ed