Wailing Quotes

In fact all country music - with its wailing hearts, tearful angst, and neatly trimmed facial hair - is a little too gay for its own good. — Wallace Godfrey

Sorry to bother you," Bella said over the wailing. "But she wants her daddy. — J.R. Ward

So much time weeping and wailing and shaking our fists, creating enemies that really don't exist. — Don Henley

A savage place! as holy and enchanted
As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon-lover! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Yet moaning and wailing was not my way. I had never complained, for who cares for complaints? If something is wrong, one does something. — Louis L'Amour

And in all of Babylonia there was wailing and gnashing of teeth, 'til the prophets bade the multitudes get a grip on themselves and shape up. — Woody Allen

we'd all go mad if we had to experience what life throws at you every day with the same shock and wailing intensity of just-born emotions. — Amy Conner

Clouds of black birds rose up wailing and screaming, like the thoughts of my heart. — Mary Renault

It is a heartBreaking sound, Amir Jan, the Wailing of a mother. I pray to Allah you Never hear it. — Khaled Hosseini

Hungry wailing standeth not aloof. — Aeschylus

So I'm at the wailing wall, standing there like a moron, with my harpoon. — Emo Philips

In birth all things are kindred, the sounds me make universal to any species. We enter wailing of a lost world. — Thomas Maltman

Scratch a Jew and you'll find a Wailing Wall. — Eve Merriam

Strength is wearing a smile even when you are wailing inside! — Deeba Salim Irfan

The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear. — William C. Bryant

Kona was in tears, wailing like Bob Marley in a bear trap
inconsolable. — Christopher Moore

Bubba showed it to his mother. Then he played the tape. It was about ten minutes of moaning, wailing, and some chains rattling. — C.L. Bevill

I can still hear my mother wailing over some new kitchen crisis, "Oh God," and my father answering cozily from the silo, "Were you calling me, dear? — Peter De Vries

The wailing owl Screams solitary to the mournful moon. — David Mallet

The most haunting time at which to see them is at the turn of the moon, when they utter strange wailing cries; but the lagoon is dangerous for mortals — J.M. Barrie

Out in the distance I could hear an animal wailing as though the air curled around the sound and flipped it around. — Denise Baer

I must confess that waltzes do not move me, I guess I hummed the blues too early, and spent too many midnights out wailing to the rain. — Assata Shakur

The wailing of broken hearts
is the doorway to God. — Rumi

Opera? Dear God why?' That was the last thing I needed. A bunch of fat and painted idiots wailing at me from a stage for several hours. 'Just — Mark Lawrence

Then Mal let out a loud wailing noise. I hate it when mommy and daddy fight! — Kylie Scott

So loud was the wailing of the women and children that there was not one man among us whose heart did not bleed at the sound ... — Hernando Cortes

A few melancholy birds were pipping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty silence fell — J.R.R. Tolkien

Her mind lives tidily, apart from cold and noise and pain. And bolts the door against her heart, out wailing in the rain. — Dorothy Parker

None can cure their harms by wailing them. — William Shakespeare

The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead. — Lucretius