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A little time, and thou shalt close thy eyes; and him who has attended thee to thy grave, another soon will lament. — Marcus Aurelius

Go, go, magic clover. — Maggie Stiefvater

Thou wilt lament
Hereafter, when the evil shall be done
And shall admit no cure. — Homer

Lament invoked love.
Woe invoked wonder.
Grief invoked grace.
Cry invoked celebration.
(Page 80) — Neena Verma

She took a moment to lament her lack of parasol. Every time she left the house, she felt keenly the absence of her heretofore ubiquitous accessory. — Gail Carriger

It had barely registered, the lament was so commonplace. But I felt it now. — Gillian Flynn

You throw a torch into a pile of buildings, and when they are consumed, you sit among the ruins and lament the fall. — Mary Shelley

I care about my brother.
I care about wilderness.
To care is to lament.
My brother is a wilderness, unknowable. — Terry Tempest Williams

I have sincerely tried not to deride the action of men, not to lament nor to abhor them. I have done all in my might to understand them.- Spinoza — Lion Feuchtwanger

We whine about things we have little control over; we lament what we believe ought to be changed. — Philip Yancey

but I could feel the jealous eyes of the steexin hangers-on still in line, and I lament to report that it boosted my spirits some), he — Alena Graedon

Most women lament not the death of their lovers so much out of real affection for them, as because they would appear worthy of love. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I thank thee, king, For thy great bounty, that not only givest Me cause to wail but teachest me the way How to lament the cause. — William Shakespeare

I didn't want normal until I didn't have it anymore — Maggie Stiefvater

Cease to lament for that thou canst not help; and study help for that which thou lamentest. — William Shakespeare

The often heard lament, 'I have so little time,' gives the lie to the
delusion that the daily is of little significance. — Kathleen Norris

When the habit of seeing things as they are turns into a mania, we lament the madman we have been and are no longer. — Emil Cioran

Hands that never touch. Lips that never meet. The Almost Lovers, never to be. — Rae Hachton

My heart sobbed a lament that was hard to ignore. — Katie MacAlister

Don't lament over your lost misfortunes. Move on. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The two duties are to lament or praise. — Theodore Roethke

Even as he who glories while he gains will, when the time has come to tally loss, lament with every thought and turn despondent, — Dante Alighieri

My age I will not once lament, / But sing, my time so near is spent. — Anne Bradstreet

Funny thing about regrets. I don't lament what I've done, but rather, what I didn't do. — J.A. Konrath

All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it. — Margaret Atwood

When we are stirred to lament the loss of the gods, it is more than likely the gods who are doing the stirring. — J.M. Coetzee

Those who aren't afraid to cry are the dreamers, and those who aren't afraid to lament are the lovers. The rest are just miserable. — Gregor Collins

I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene — David McCullough

Secretly I lament the hundreds [of fish] we never caught because we forever persisted in fishing only the likliest holding water. — Tom Sutcliffe

To make wail and lament for one's ill fortune, when one will win a tear from the audience, is well worthwhile. — Aeschylus

A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility — Tom Brokaw

I will roar argon into chlorine, xenon into fluorine, all the noble gases into reactive ones My lament will terrify even the stars. — Jessica Stern

Its a sign of weakness to lament about things which you entirely have no control over. — Auliq Ice

Don't fall in love with me. I hold within me a hundred prayers. My soul sings the lament of the damned. I am my own purgatory. I design my own hell. — Nessie Q.

Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madam Blaize, Who never wanted a good word From those who spoke her praise. — Oliver Goldsmith

If they are gods, why do you lament them? If you lament them, you must no longer regard them as gods. — Heraclitus

Too much to lament a misery is the next way to draw on a remediless mischief. — Roger Chamberlain

Hast thou fallen? Do not groan and lament: rather be thankful for the opportunity given thee to rise once more. — Ivan Panin

When you weep and lament, you will struggle to achieve and rejoice. — Auliq Ice

What we should lament is not the loss of houses or of land, but the loss of men's lives. Men come first; the rest is the fruit of their labour. — Thucydides

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Clearly, this is at bottom the same ancient lament that the masses seek distraction whereas art demands concentration from the spectator. — Walter Benjamin

Now all the gang's dead except for me and Russell. — James Carlos Blake

How often do I rage rather than lament? — Russell D. Moore

Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation. — Dorothy Parker

Lightly from fair to fair he flew, And loved to plead, lament, and sue; Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain, For monarchs seldom sigh in vain. — Walter Scott

Adults spend $500 billion on games and leisure activity each year, and some adults lament that kids get $15 billion for toys. — Brian Sutton-Smith

Surely common sense as well as anthropological evidence documents the universal need to pray, to hope, and to lament or carouse through song. — Russell Sherman

The word "to grieve" or "lament" in Japanese is actually made up of two different kanji characters - "sadness" and "resentment. — Takashi Hiraide

Times i think u were the most cherished trophy i had, but sometimes i think i was the game that you played. — Paul Auster

Every lover's lament has an element of boasting. — Mason Cooley

I am glad I will be leaving Italy. It costs too much to lover her.[The emigrant's lament] — Maria Martin

It was all right to be sad. It was all right to lament. It was all right to feel anger. But [is] not all right to run away. — Miyuki Miyabe

She taught me that life goes on, and that I had a choice. To lament what I no longer had or be grateful for what remained. — Louise Penny

Nothing feels better than listening to the lament of your own heart- so unanimous in its own little world. — Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal

You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded. — Joseph Stalin

Be here now is the daydreamer's lament. — Kyle Pivarnik

(Later, I'l learn that's the structure of an elegy: lament, consolation; bad news, followed by good news.) — Mary Karr

Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided
'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear. — William Shakespeare

If you think you control things that are in the control of others, you will lament. You will be disturbed and you will blame both gods and men. — Epictetus

We are more prone to murmur at the punishment of our faults than to lament them. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

I sometimes lament the fact that I do not have the benefit of a complete and ailment free body structure. — Amitabh Bachchan

I certainly have a lot to lament, as do we all, everybody has their griefs. But the griefs we can fix, shouldn't we go around fixing them? — Elizabeth Edwards

When thou hast truly thanked the Lord for every blessing sent, But little time will then remain for murmur or lament. — Hannah More

Everyone performs bad actions ... A bad person is someone who does not lament his bad actions. — Jonathan Safran Foer

And over your unconsecrated head
you'll hear the howling wolves
lament their fate and yours the livelong year; — Charles Baudelaire

Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her. — William Wordsworth

No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand. — Baruch Spinoza

We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information. — David Ogden Stiers

MENTAL LAMENT
Anagram depicting life sentence for materialists
Kamil Ali — Kamil Ali

Personally, sometimes I'll lament the journey of an Asian-American actor, walking into audition rooms in 1999. — Kelvin Yu

I cannot lament the loss of a love or a friendship without meditating that one loses only what one really never had. — Jorge Luis Borges

Boy, why are you crying? — J.M. Barrie

I have tried sedulously not to laugh at the acts of man, nor to lament them, nor to detest them, but to understand them. — Baruch Spinoza

I think you're really nice"
"I'm nothing special." it's not a lament. More a statement. — Elise Valmorbida

My problem with country music is that I try to avoid the very situations the lyrics lament. — Sue Grafton

I do not condemn the cult of pleasure; I lament the general vulgarity. — Octavio Paz

It is our daily lament that we cannot love enough. Would that our hearts were capable of holding more, and reaching further. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Gurion would lament: What is the good of trying to do justice if God will kill me and my family whether or not I do justice? — Adam Levin

Jeremiah has to lament that there are as many altars as towns in Judah. — Julius Wellhausen