Wailing Quotes

Wailing Quote of the day

So loud was the wailing of the women and children that there was not one man among us whose heart did not bleed at the sound.

So I'm at the wailing wall, standing there like a moron, with my harpoon.

A savage place! As holy and enchanted/As e'er beneath the waning moon was haunted/By woman wailing for her Demon Lover!

You know, when I'm playing, I think of myself in front of the Wailing Wall with a saxophone in my hands, and I'm davening, I'm really telling it to the Wall.

Her mind lives tidily, apart from cold and noise and pain. And bolts the door against her heart, out wailing in the rain.

Hungry wailing standeth not aloof.

The agony of lovers burns with the fire of passion. Lovers leave traces of where they've been. The wailing of broken hearts is the doorway to God.

The wailing owl screams solitary to the mournful moon.

The wailing of broken hearts is the doorway to God.

I must confess that waltzes do not move me, I guess I hummed the blues too early, and spent too many midnights out wailing to the rain.

Sorry to bother you,” Bella said over the wailing. “But she wants her daddy.

The waves Of the mysterious death-river moaned; The tramp, the shout, the fearful thunder-roar Of red-breathed cannon, and the wailing cry Of myriad victims, filled the air.

Clouds of black birds rose up wailing and screaming, like the thoughts of my heart.

The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the Year On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying. . . .

the occasional cries of a lost loon, strayed from its flock in northern migration, fill the swamp with sounds of wailing.

Scratch a Jew and you'll find a Wailing Wall.

None can cure their harms by wailing them.

Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of the sweat of their brows or the blood of their hearts.

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

A few melancholy birds were pipping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty silence fell

The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.

I can still hear my mother wailing over some new kitchen crisis, "Oh God," and my father answering cozily from the silo, "Were you calling me, dear?

I felt if I went chronologically, I'd get bogged down in childhood and that's part of our culture of complaint in America. This endless wailing about your childhood.

You yourself are to blame. This weeping and wailing and knocking your heads into corners [against brick walls, as it were] will not do you the least good.

After a while, though the grief did not go away from us, it grew quiet. What had seemed a storm wailing through the entire darkness seemed to come in at last and lie down.