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  • 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.

    "As nature bleeds, Edward Burtynsky gets the big picture" by Kenneth Baker, www.sfgate.com. July 06, 2005.
  • 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.

    Jobs   School   Thinking  
    FaceBook post by Tom Wolf from Sep 23, 2014
  • 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.

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

    Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.34
  • 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.

    Sex   Hot   Passionate  
  • But God has the most fun with artists and writers: he inflames them with the desire to rival his own creations, then douses their overheated ambitions with a cold spray from the garden hose of reality. If they persist, he slams them to the ground and tweaks them on the proboscis for good measure. A fortunate few break free and prosper; the others lament the day they didn't become bank clerks.

    Fun   Ambition   Garden  
  • 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.

    Lying   Grief   Silence  
    William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.410, Cengage Learning EMEA
  • The often heard lament, 'I have so little time,' gives the lie to the delusion that the daily is of little significance.

    Lying   Giving   Littles  
    Kathleen Norris (1998). “The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy, and "women's Work"”, p.16, Paulist Press
  • It is an evil world. The fires of hatred and violence burn fiercely. Evil is powerful, the devil covers a darkened earth with hisblack wings. And soon the end of the world is expected. But mankind does not repent, the church struggles, and the preachers and poets warn and lament in vain.

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

    Song   Ears   Enchanting  
    E. H. Mikhail, Sean O'Casey, John O'Riordan (1974). “The sting and the twinkle: conversations with Sean O'Casey”
  • In European and American society, many pundits started to lament the death of literature; looking at youth who were getting more and more attracted to sitcoms - hard, adventure films and said, our children are no longer reading, or else they're reading cartoons.

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

    Loss   Stirring   Lament  
  • She kindly laments that I am not of the party, and to be sure I honour great ladies, and I admire great wits, but I am of the same opinion in regard to assemblies that is held concerning oysters, that they are never good in a month that has not the letter R in it.

    Party   Oysters   Letters  
  • I once picked up a woman from a garbage dump and she was burning with fever; she was in her last days and her only lament was: My son did this to me. I begged her: You must forgive your son. In a moment of madness, when he was not himself, he did a thing he regrets. Be a mother to him, forgive him. It took me a long time to make her say: I forgive my son. Just before she died in my arms, she was able to say that with a real forgiveness. She was not concerned that she was dying. The breaking of the heart was that her son did not want her. This is something you and I can understand.

    Mother   Regret   Real  
  • Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a stricken lament of terrible beauty. And Harry felt, as he had felt about phoenix song before, that the music was inside him, not without: It was his own grief turned magically to song.

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

    Eye   Littles   Graves  
    Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.116, Enhanced Media Publishing
  • 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.

    Father   Heart   Ears  
    Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.175, Zondervan
  • Too much to lament a misery is the next way to draw on a remediless mischief.

    Too Much   Way   Next  
  • Grieving, like being blind, is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in mourning, but after the early bursts of tears, after the praises have been spoken, and the good days remembered, and the lament cried, and the grave closed, there is no company in grief. It is a burden borne alone.

  • 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.

    Animal   Air   Bird  
  • 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.

    Past   Age   Complaining  
    'Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents' (1770) p. 4
  • Preserve your peace of mind. There is not much time; all things end in death. Do not lament the past too much, or fear the future too acutely, ot waste too much energy on other peoples' woes, in case the present dissolves altogether.

    Past   Mind   Energy  
    Fay Weldon (2012). “The President’s Child”, p.19, HarperCollins UK
  • I've built many doorways and set out traps so that no one will be able to reach this place. That's what the angel said. This is a castle of darkness for the angel and I alone. Only within this yielding gloom can I lament the misfortune that has rained down all around me, only here am I permitted to scorn and pity the ugliness, the filthiness of how I smile and pretend at being pure in the light of day.

    Angel   Light   Darkness  
  • Cuba laments and expresses its profound sadness for the loss of so many innocent lives and expresses our absolute rejection of acts of terrorism, wherever they may come from.

    Sadness   Loss   Profound  
    "World mourns attack victims", www.cnn.com. September 12, 2001.
  • 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.

    Mean   Turkeys   Myrtle  
    'Mansfield Park' (1814) ch. 22
  • 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.

  • Living sites are only as good as today's update. If the words are dull, nobody will read them, and nobody will come back. If the words are wrong, people will be misled, disappointed, infuriated. If the words aren't there, people will shake their heads and lament your untimely demise.

    People   Demise   Dull  
  • I didn't want normal until I didn't have it anymore

    Want   Normal   Lament  
    Maggie Stiefvater (2010). “Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception”, p.139, North Star Editions, Inc.
  • Hast thou fallen? Do not groan and lament: rather be thankful for the opportunity given thee to rise once more.

  • 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.

    Real   Lovers   Affection  
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