#weeping

I suppose and I hope that the young guys who are out there losing their lives at least feel the same way I did. I shouldn't think about this very much because I'm almost weeping when I think about it. ↗

— Lawrence Halprin

#almost #because #did #feel #guys

Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#because #brain #enough #evaluate #formed

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

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

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

The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#heir #laughter #weeping

Cats are like walking brooms you can actually comfortably cuddle with.  ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#cat #cats #clean #floor #funny

Love is sweeping the country. ↗

— Ira Gershwin

#love #love is #sweeping

When you hear a large symphony orchestra. for instance, in a concert hall, there's a big, sweeping sound that just doesn't get on to a record. ↗