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  • Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man. -- Plutarch
  • There was much woe and lamentation in the seventies that the game was dying. -- John Thorn
  • If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping. -- Sophocles
  • Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures. -- David K. Shipler
  • Great were the lamentation and the cry when the news of this mischance was noised about the city. Such a tumult of mourning was never before heard, for the whole city was moved. -- Marie de France
  • There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened. -- Abu Bakr
  • There is not any advantage to be won from grim lamentation. -- Homer
  • Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice -- Albert Schweitzer
  • I have never been given these wordsin this way before. This small piece ofgospel, three parts hosanna, two partstestimony, one part lamentation. -- David Levithan
  • When one has lost a friend one's eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation. -- Seneca the Younger
  • What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering. -- Gautama Buddha
  • Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of me. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in his moments of dejection. -- Samuel Johnson
  • Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them [worlds], we have not yet conquered one? -- Alexander the Great
  • This day I ceased to plead. I was no longer capable of lamentation. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused. -- Elie Wiesel
  • on the instant clamorous eaves, A climbing moon upon an empty sky, And all that lamentation of the leaves, Could but compose man's image and his cry. -- William Butler Yeats
  • Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of the sweat of their brows or the blood of their hearts. -- Khalil Gibran
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