Weeping Quotations

At the age of five, of six, at the age of seven, I used to begin weeping sometimes without warning, simply for the sake of weeping, my eyes open wide to the sun, to the flowers... I wanted to feel an immense grief inside me, and it came.

I'm interested in existential films: I love movies that console you in the same way that a person consoles a weeping child.

However, the thought hit me that this was a pretty pathetic way to kick the bucket - being accidentally poisoned during a photo shoot, of all things - and I started weeping at the idiocy of it all.

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.

I wept not, so to stone within I grew.

A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

I guess I don't want to get too much in detail. But I was just picturing in my mind and weeping with all the people that were left in the city and the experiences they had. Many of those experiences I've heard, many of them I can only dream about. . . . To think of that chaos and the way in which people died and the way in which people potentially are still dying, I allowed myself to really think of that and to weep for them this morning.

One morning I woke up ... it was 5:30 a.m. and I was just weeping for our city and for the people they haven't found. I don't know that I've been angry. I've been very sad.

I got my kids off the school bus and every other kid on the bus was weeping and crying because they came though the fire and smoke.

Since multinational giants couldn't have little pictures of red barns or weeping clowns in the lobbies of their Bauhaus buildings, Abstract Expressionism emerged as the world's most overrated form of interior decoration.

Maureen and I started weeping when we saw the Rodrigo boots. We're the criers in the bunch, and pretty soon everyone had tears in her eyes.

I have a theory that great things will find their way into the world. Women were weeping at screenings. That was a real wake-up call.

I was just blessing God. As a mother, I was terrified. But now, instead of weeping and thinking that could have been my daughter, now I'm weeping to thank God she's with me and praying for the others.

Here on this bend, the house was burning. Families lived there, ... This child was looking back to his residence, the mother was weeping and the father was shaking his head, asking, 'How could this be? How could this be?'

If the church could catch a vision for using video technology to present an authentic presentation of the life of the church - not rehearsed videos, but spontaneous records of conversations, laughing with one another, weeping with one another, people sharing their lives, etc. - the average person might take notice,

The rains in Washington on the day that Pope John Paul II died were unusually ferocious, as if the heavens were weeping with uncontrollable sadness.

I saw a bloodied corpse weeping body fluids onto the street.

People here, they get a pair of socks, a new pair of underwear, and they cry. They start weeping over the simplest thing, that we take for granted, because they're absolutely devastated. They've lost everything, ... Being able to meet such a simple need and to see the gratitude on their faces is the greatest reward you can ever have.

It breaks my heart to think about a family weeping over the loss of a loved one,

You didn't use up a whole box of Kleenex, weeping for the job like Frances did. And, you don't have a rich uncle.

Two walking baths; two weeping motions;/ Portable, and compendious oceans.

Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.

When I die, I have arranged to have a microchip in my tombstone, which will be solar- powered. It will play the noise of dozens of people weeping and moaning over me.

We start out weeping in lawn chairs; by the end we are actually wearing the landscape, joyfully at one with it.

Earlier in my life, I would've tried to bury my emotions. Now I wake up at 5 or 5:30 in the morning and find myself weeping for my city.

Every cradle asks us, "Whence?" and every coffin, "Whither?" The poor barbarian, weeping above his dead, can answer these questions as intelligently as the robed priest of the most authentic creed

I've been sympathetic to the mayor. I heard the entire interview. ... My heart goes out to Ray Nagin. He was weeping for the same people I've wept for.

I started writing about the Florida Legislature, and there are two possibilities for response to the Florida Legislature. One is weeping uncontrollably and jumping off a tall building, and the other is to laugh. So you might as well laugh.

What can be said in New Year rhymes,That's not been said a thousand times?The new years come, the old years go,We know we dream, we dream we know.We rise up laughing with the light,We lie down weeping with the night.We hug the world until it stings,We curse it then and sigh for wings.We live, we love, we woo, we wed,We wreathe our prides, we sheet our dead.We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear,And that's the burden of a year.

Those who have forgotten the True One are miserable - they depart weeping and wailing.

Said 'I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.' He just kept saying that over and over and was weeping quite profusely.

There's just hundreds of kids just weeping right now for Peter and all he stood for.

Why does God permit us whom he loves to die? And you know what I say, where was God at the World Trade Center? He was there weeping for his fractured children. That's not a direct answer to the question but it's the best I could do. God suffers with us.

They were knocked off their feet. People were clapping and cheering for them. There was weeping and hugging, all this emotion. There wasn't a dry eye in the place.

They are not long, the weeping and the laughter, / Love and desire and hate: / I think they have no portion in us after / We pass the gate.

For one drop calls another down, till we are drowned in seas of grief.

There was an over-under bet on how many times Nancy would cry during the week. I think I beat her. I was weeping all week.

It was a bittersweet time. I was struck by the words of one prayer, Hail Holy Queen, which talks about 'mourning and weeping in this valley of tears.' There was plenty of that. We're thrilled about the baby, but it was a very difficult day.

She let him finish, scratching his head with the tips of her fingers, and without his having revealed that he was weeping from love, she recognized immediately the oldest sobs in the history of man.

And then there's always the crying and the weeping that we hear-children, women, even men. And these images and these sounds are always with me.

I took the screenplay to the pub with me one Sunday afternoon and started reading it. By about page 60 I was weeping into my pint of lager. I was very moved by it and laughing out loud as well.

This weeping is totally in vain, the world forgets the Lord, and weeps for the sake of Maya.

Come, fair repentance, daughter of the skies! Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue; The weeping messenger of grace from heaven.

I do know that detachment is important. A surgeon can't be weeping into the open wound.

Radomosity, thought Artemis. And he felt like weeping.

Laugh till you weep. Weep till there's nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end it's all one.

I'm always weeping at something or other.

And still, laughter is akin to weeping.

Everyone has a family tree; the Dawsons have one, it's a weeping willow.

Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.

we are nature. We are nature seeing nature. We are nature with a concept of nature. Nature weeping. Nature speaking of nature to nature.

one of Mr. [Thomas] Hardy's ancestors must have married a weeping willow. There are pages and pages in his collected poems which are simply plain narratives in ballad form of how an unenjoyable time was had by all.

Who never ate his bread in sorrow, who never sat the sorrowful nights weeping on his bed, he knows you not, you heavenly Powers.

How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping?

They who are sad find somehow sweetness in tears.

Trust not a woman when she weeps, for it is her nature to weep when she wants her will.

He does not weep who does not see.

No one can tell if I’m laughing or weeping. I wonder myself.

I went inside my heart to see how it was. Something there makes me hear the whole world weeping.