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This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren't old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex. -- Poppy Z. Brite
I can go into the wilderness and not see anyone for days and experience a kind of space that hasn't changed for tens of thousands of years. Having that experience was necessary to my perception of how photography can look at the changes humanity has brought about in the landscape. My work does become a kind of lament. -- Edward Burtynsky
Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madam Blaize, Who never wanted a good word From those who spoke her praise. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Don't cry pretty girl. Who you are is why you're so good at everything. You won't let yourself be otherwise. And thats what fascinates me." Duke- Lament -- Maggie Stiefvater
If your everyday life appears to be unworthy subject matter, do not complain to life. Complain to yourself, Lament that you are not poet enough to call up its wealth. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
We beat the drum slowly and played the fife lowly,and bitterly wept as we bore him along.For we all loved our comrade so brave, young and handsome, we all loved our comrade although he'd done wrong."The Cowboy's Lament -- Leif Enger
Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man? -- William Wordsworth
No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand. -- Baruch Spinoza
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Jeremiah has to lament that there are as many altars as towns in Judah. -- Julius Wellhausen
You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded. -- Joseph Stalin
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Cease to lament for that thou canst not help; and study help for that which thou lamentest. -- William Shakespeare
We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information. -- David Ogden Stiers
I sometimes lament the fact that I do not have the benefit of a complete and ailment free body structure. -- Amitabh Bachchan
When thou hast truly thanked the Lord for every blessing sent, But little time will then remain for murmur or lament. -- Hannah More
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
My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul. -- William Shakespeare
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In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of room to abuse each other, which we continue to do. -- Roy Harper
While we lament the apparent injustice of pain and suffering, how often do we forget that every good thing in a fallen world is wholly a gift of God's mercy and grace. -- Matt Chandler
People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways. -- Aasif Mandvi
Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it's like they are holding the baby of you. -- Anne Lamott
The Rilo Kiley song 'A Better Son/Daughter' is my most requested song - especially for people who are at the age I was when I wrote it. It's sort of a mid-twenties lament. -- Jenny Lewis
To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind. -- Edmund Burke
Let not a libation of tears be the only offering at the shrine of Jesus; let us also rejoice with joy unspeakable. If we have need to lament our sin, how much more to rejoice at our pardon! -- Charles Spurgeon
I think as someone who collects beautiful things from the past, the thing that I miss the most about modernism and the things I lament about the past are everyday things that you would use were made more beautifully. -- Dita Von Teese
When Jimmie Johnson goes out early and finishes 35th, as he did Sunday, he can look at the cameras, lament about it being a tough day, and then say, 'We'll just try to get them next week at Darlington.' -- Kurt Busch
Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Convinced that the attachment of colonies to the metropolis, depends infinitely more upon moral and religious feeling, than political arrangement, or even commercial advantage, I cannot but lament that more is not done to instill it into the minds of the people. -- John Strachan
For me, it's always a little sad getting out of bed. Every morning after I get up, I always gaze longingly at my bed and lament, 'You were wonderful last night. I didn't want it to end. I can't wait to see you again. -- Jim Gaffigan
Nothing beats a haunted moonlit night on All Hallows Eve.... And on this fatal night, at this witching time, the starless sky laments black and unmoving. The somber hues of an ominous, dark forest are suddenly illuminated under the emerging face of the full moon. -- Elizabeth Kim
As I grew older, I understood that instructions came with this voice. What were these instructions? The instructions were never to lament casually. And if one is to express the great inevitable defeat that awaits us all, it must be done within the strict confines of dignity and beauty. -- Leonard Cohen
One of the rules of Greek lament poetry is that it mustn't mention the dead by name in case of invoking a ghost. Maybe the 'Iliad,' crowded with names, is more than a poem. Maybe it's a dangerous piece of the brightness of both this world and the next. -- Alice Oswald
She passed these years in a distant corner of her mind. A dry, barren field, out beyond wish and lament, beyond dream and disillusionment. There, the future did not matter. And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and it accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. -- Khaled Hosseini
Lament is a cry of belief in a good God, a God who has His ear to our hearts, a God who transfigures the ugly into beauty. Complaint is the bitter howl of unbelief in any benevolent God in this moment, a distrust in the love-beat of the Father's heart. -- Ann Voskamp
Every lover's lament has an element of boasting. -- Mason Cooley
My heart sobbed a lament that was hard to ignore. -- Katie MacAlister
Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided 'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear. -- William Shakespeare
My age I will not once lament, / But sing, my time so near is spent. -- Anne Bradstreet
The often heard lament, 'I have so little time,' gives the lie to the -- Kathleen Norris
Thou wilt lament Hereafter, when the evil shall be done And shall admit no cure. -- Homer
A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility -- Tom Brokaw
Everyone performs bad actions... A bad person is someone who does not lament his bad actions. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
Too much to lament a misery is the next way to draw on a remediless mischief. -- Roger Chamberlain
We are more prone to murmur at the punishment of our faults than to lament them. -- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Its a sign of weakness to lament about things which you entirely have no control over. -- Auliq Ice
All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it. -- Margaret Atwood
We whine about things we have little control over; we lament what we believe ought to be changed. -- Philip Yancey
and over your unconsecrated head you'll hear the howling wolves lament their fate and yours the livelong year; -- Charles Baudelaire
I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene -- David McCullough
Hast thou fallen? Do not groan and lament: rather be thankful for the opportunity given thee to rise once more. -- Ivan Panin
To make wail and lament for one's ill fortune, when one will win a tear from the audience, is well worthwhile. -- Aeschylus
Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds â?? across shallow swamps. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her. -- William Wordsworth
...secretly I lament the hundreds [of fish] we never caught because we forever persisted in fishing only the likliest holding water. -- Tom Sutcliffe
A little time, and thou shalt close thy eyes; and him who has attended thee to thy grave, another soon will lament. -- Marcus Aurelius
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
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
Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a stricken lament of terrible beauty. -- J. K. Rowling
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
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
The Jaguar's Children is a beautifully rendered lament for an imperiled culture and the brave lives that would preserve it. You should read it. -- John Burnham Schwartz
Neither rejoice nor lament prematurely; for whatever may happen, all will be well if we only have health; for happiness exists--merely in the imagination. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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
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
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
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
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In these sad and ominous days of mad fortune chasing, every patriotic, thoughtful citizen, whether he fishes or not, should lament that we have not among our countrymen more fishermen. -- Grover Cleveland
We lament, too, the destruction of purity among women and young girls as is evidenced by the increasing immodesty of their dress and conversation and by their participation in shameful dances. -- Pope Pius XI
Whiffle [whine and wheeze and snuff and sniffle]: The annoying scratchy sound made by weepy feminists as they lament the sufferings of women and, houndlike, sniff out evidence of male oppression. -- Camille Paglia
We feel something like respect for consistency even in error. We lament the virtue that is debauched into a vice; but the vice that affects a virtue becomes the more detestable. -- Thomas Paine
A superb and dreadfully moving account of the glory and subsequent murder by the Romanians of the Jewish city in Odessa. . . . Odessa is both celebration and lament and equally impressive as both. -- Harold Bloom
This civilization is rapidly passing away, however. Let us rejoice or else lament the fact as much as everyone of us likes; but do not let us shut our eyes to it. -- Joseph A. Schumpeter
Do not vainly lament, but do wonder at the rule of transiency and learn from it the emptiness of human life. Do not cherish to unworthy desire that the changeable might become unchanging. -- Gautama Buddha
And the heart sounds like a sour conch,calls, oh sea, oh lament, oh molten panic,scattered in the unlucky and disheveled waves:the sea reports sonorouslyon its languid shadows, its green poppies. -- Pablo Neruda
Although I could lament in the language and feelings of David for Absalom, I am constrained to say, peace to his manes. Let us weep for the living, and not for the dead. -- Andrew Jackson
Human nature is divided; it contains both darkness and light. You can choose to accept the darkness and lament it, or you can choose to expand the light until the darkness no longer dominates. -- Deepak Chopra
With childhood comes a brief grace period of ignorant bliss -- when you're not aware of the pain around you. That is the most special, truly unique time. It is the core of adult lament. -- Barry Privett
The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth. In many parts of the planet, the elderly lament that once beautiful landscapes are now covered with rubbish. -- Pope Francis

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