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Letter "L" » lament
«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.»
Author: Sean O'Casey
(Playwright)
| Keywords:
enchanting, enjoyable, in one ear, lament, sometime, terrifying
«Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.»
«In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.»
«Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together.»
«Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him, and said unto them, Do ye enquire among yourselves of that I said, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me? / Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.»
«Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.»
«It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it»
«The fire of hatred that was burning in them was cooled; and darkness gave place to the dawn of wisdom. The sky showered raindrops to soften the earth and lay down dust. How can the lament operate against the Divine Will?»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
burning in, cooled, cool down, lament, lay down, raindrop, raindrops, showered
«In this age of crowds in which I have determined to be a solitary, perhaps the greatest sin would be to lament the presence of people on the threshold of my solitude»
Author: Thomas Merton
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age of, crowds, determined, lament, lamenting, solitary, threshold, thresholds
«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»
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