#weep

In the broad and sweeping sense which the use of the term generally implies, I am not a free-trader. ↗

— John Griffin Carlisle

#broad #generally #i #i am #implies

He needed so much to weep. All the distrust of life which misfortunes had brought to the little Värmland boy needed tears to wash it away. Distrust that love and joy, beauty and strength blossomed on the earth, distrust in himself, all must go, all did go, for it was Easter; the dead lived and the Spirit of Fasting would never again come into power. ↗

— Selma Lagerlöf

#trust #weeping #beauty

Do not weep for me. ↗

— Thomas Starr King

#weep

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#bad man #every #every time #good #man

But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end. ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

#cannot #end #favorite #folks #i

The secret to it all is just to enjoy what you're doing. This is not working at the coal face, this is not sweeping behind a restaurant. It's work, but it's not work. It gives me a different type of energy. I'm grateful for that. ↗

— LL Cool J

#coal #different #doing #energy #enjoy

However, the thought hit me that this was a pretty pathetic way to kick the bucket - being accidentally poisoned during a photo shoot, of all things - and I started weeping at the idiocy of it all. ↗

— Lara St. John

#all things #being #bucket #during #hit

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you. ↗

— Stephen King

#been #cannot #done #else #force

The autumn wind is a pirate. Blustering in from sea with a rollicking song he sweeps along swaggering boisterously. His face is weather beaten, he wears a hooded sash with a silver hat about his head... The autumn wind is a Raider, pillaging just for fun. ↗

— Steve Sabol

#along #autumn #beaten #face #fun

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#life #like #off #onion #peel