Top 337 Weeping Quotes & Sayings

There is no laughter except that it is eventually followed up with weeping.

I was a newborn vampire, weeping at the beauty of the night.

A baby was sleeping, Its mother was weeping.

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

I was weeping again, drunk on the impossible past.

A man met a lad weeping. "What do you weep for?" he asked. "I am weeping for my sins," said the lad. "You must have little to do," said the man. The next day, they met again. Once more the lad was weeping. "Why do you weep now?" asked the man. "I am weeping because I have nothing to eat," said the lad. "I thought it would come to that," said the man.

There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.

A weeping woman is a bucket with no bottom.

Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs.

Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.

We have wept enough. No more weeping, but stand on feet and be men.

There is a certain pleasure in weeping.

One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed.

weeping...betraying a sense of loss so huge and irreparable that the mind balks at taking its measure.

There's no use in weeping, Though we are condemned to part: There's such a thing as keeping, A remembrance in one's heart.

I'm always weeping at something or other.

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

Yes, there is weeping, even in heaven, but it is for those who are still crawling on the earth.

Weeping is terrible for the complexion" said Leonie, holding Shayndel close, "but it is very good for the soul.

Weeping must not hinder worship.

Learn weeping, and thou shalt laugh gaining.

A painting is what you make of it, besides which, 'Moon, Weeping' has a better ring to it than 'Paintbrush, Dripping.

The weeping of the guitar begins. The goblets of dawn are smashed. The weeping of the guitar begins. Useless to silence it. Impossible to silence it. It weeps monotonously as water weeps as the wind weeps over snowfields. Impossible to silence it. It weeps for distant things. Hot southern sands yearning for white camellias. Weeps arrow without target evening without morning and the first dead bird on the branch. Oh, guitar! Heart mortally wounded by five swords.

He was weeping. Although 'weeping' really is to small a word for the activity the kind had undertaken. Tears were cascading from his eyes. A small puddle had formed at his feet. I am not exaggerating. The king, it seemed, was intent on crying himself a river.

I soon began to dream. ... I heard subdued sobs, as if a number of people were weeping. ... I left my bed and wandered downstairs. ... There I met with a sickening surprise. Before me was a catafalque, on which rested a corpse wrapped in funeral vestments. Around it were stationed soldiers who were acting as guards; and there was a throng of people, gazing mournfully upon the corpse, whose face was covered, others weeping pitifully. 'Who is dead in the White House?' I demanded of one of the soldiers, 'The President,' was his answer; 'he was killed by an assassin.''

I saw 'Joy Luck Club' when it came out, so that was early mid-'90s, and I remember seeing it with my long-time collaborator, Mina Shum. We'd just done 'Double Happiness,' and we saw this movie, and we were weeping. Like, shuddering weeping. Weeping more than really the film deserved.

Beware the People weeping When they bare the iron hand.

There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

And still, laughter is akin to weeping.

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

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

Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers?

Tears are at times as eloquent as words. [Weeping hath a voice.]

I literally found myself weeping when I was reading 'After You.'

Why are you weeping ? Did you imagine that I was immortal ?

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

For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

I’m alone with the ghost of the swamp, somewhere near the weeping willows.

Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.

I remember weeping silently in bed after watching 'Titanic.'

The weeping of the candle is not in mourning for the moth: the dawn is at hand, and it is thinking of its own dark night.

I have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I'll weep.

I drive around the streets an inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality and possible love.

The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.

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 tore off my mask so as not to lose one of her tears... and she did not run away!...and she did not die!... She remained alive, weeping over me, weeping with me. We cried together! I have tasted all the happiness the world can offer.

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

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

In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.

There is a certain kind of pleasure in weeping.

The graceful tear that streams for others' Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest.

The waterwheel accepts water and turns and gives it away, weeping.

Radomosity, thought Artemis. And he felt like weeping.

You can't just sit in a corner weeping or you'll die.

I'm almost weeping when I'm painting my daughter. I've been thinking she won't be little for much longer.

POET If not in a place, where are the People weeping? LIBERAL They creep weeping in the face, not place. POET Is it something with which we may cope The weeping, the creeping, the peepee-ing, the peeping?

The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.

Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride/ You will not die, its not poison -Tombstone Blues

All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.

There is a certain pleasure in weeping; grief finds in tears both a satisfaction and a cure.