#weeping

If you have walked into a museum recently - whether you did so to attend an art exhibition or to escape from the police - you may have noticed a type of painting known as a triptych. A triptych has three panels, with something different painted on each of the panels. For instance, my friend Professor Reed made a triptych for me, and he painted fire on one panel, a typewriter on another, and the face of a beautiful, intelligent woman on the third. The triptych is entitled What Happened to Beatrice and I cannot look upon it without weeping. I am a writer, and not a painter, but if I were to try and paint a triptych entitled The Baudelaire Orphans' Miserable Experiences at Prufrock Prep, I would paint Mr. Remora on one panel, Mrs. Brass on another, and a box of staples on the third, and the results would make me so sad that between the Beatrice triptych and the Baudelaire triptych I would scarcely stop weeping all da ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#painting #triptych #weeping #art

I drive around the streets an inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality and possible love. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#sentimentality #weep #weeping #love

You would think there's a natural limit to tears: only so much the body can give at one sitting before it runs dry. ↗

— Janice Galloway

#tears #weeping #nature

God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#children #god #him #patient #really

On the same day I was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada, I announced the most sweeping reform ever undertaken in the structure of our federal government. ↗

— Kim Campbell

#canada #day #ever #federal #federal government

The weeping voices rise straight up and strike the clouds. A passer-by at the roadside asks a conscript why, The conscript answers only that drafting happens often. ↗

— Du Fu

#asks #clouds #drafting #happens #often

There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death. ↗

— Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu

#death #his #man #should #weeping

I did a book signing when we were in New York the day before yesterday. A lady came through and she was just weeping, and said, 'I wish this would have been brought out sooner, my sister is in prison for suffocating her child.' ↗

— Marie Osmond

#before #book #brought #came #child

When there's a terrible illness like AIDS sweeping through, you help people. ↗

— Bernadette Peters

#help #help people #illness #like #people

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