Top 151 Lament Quotes & Sayings

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.

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

We are more prone to murmur at the punishment of our faults than to lament them.

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.

I'd like to make a sincere lament for the victims of Sichuan earthquake. I will pray for them with all of my heart.

No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.

When I lament and darken over my diminishments, I accomplish nothing. It's better to sit at the window all day, pleased to watch birds, barns, and flowers.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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?

People in the business world lament economic resources wasted on unsustainable development projects and what they see as activists' naive failure to grasp the importance of building strong economies.

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

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

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.

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.

Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man?

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

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.

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.

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

Every lover's lament has an element of boasting.

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

I don't like the fact that we're not creating jobs the way we used to create jobs in Pennsylvania. I lament the fact that we're not setting the table for really robust economic development, here in Pennsylvania, where we can do that. I lament the fact that our schools are being hollowed out. We need a fresh start. I think we need to go in a different direction. I think we need a new governor.

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.

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

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

I will weep and wail for the mountains and take up a lament concerning the desert pastures. They are desolate and untraveled, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. The birds of the air have fled and the animals are gone.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.

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

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.

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

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

I mean to be too rich to lament or to feel anything of the sort. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.

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.

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

My heart sobbed a lament that was hard to ignore.

A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other

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

I lament that Paris can be a threatening space for Jews, Roma, Africans and Arabs, but the truth is, as a black American, I've never felt safer or less harassed anywhere.

One can always lament, you know — but to laugh in the face of life, that's very hard. And for me the great tragedian should also be a great comedian.

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

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.

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

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

Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.

If religious belief be indeed so necessary to mankind, as we are continually assured that it is, there is great reason to lament, that the intellectual grounds of it should require to be backed by moral bribery or subornation of the understanding.

Adam Smith's 'invisible hand' is not above sudden, disturbing, movements. Since its inception, capitalism has known slumps and recessions, bubble and froth; no one has yet dis-invented the business cycle, and probably no one will; and what Schumpeter famously called the 'gales of creative destruction' still roar mightily from time to time. To lament these things is ultimately to lament the bracing blast of freedom itself.

We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.

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.

And over your unconsecrated head you'll hear the howling wolves lament their fate and yours the livelong year.

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