I didn't want normal until I didn't have it anymore
We are more prone to murmur at the punishment of our faults than to lament them.
When we are stirred to lament the loss of the gods, it is more than likely the gods who are doing the stirring.
There are two responses to really awful things. One is to lament and say, "Oh my God, oh lord. " And the other is to laugh at it a little bit, try your best to deal with it and, if you can, forget about it as soon as possible.
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.
Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man?
Surely common sense as well as anthropological evidence documents the universal need to pray, to hope, and to lament or carouse through song.
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.
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.
And over your unconsecrated head you'll hear the howling wolves lament their fate and yours the livelong year.
Hast thou fallen? Do not groan and lament: rather be thankful for the opportunity given thee to rise once more.
My heart sobbed a lament that was hard to ignore.
I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?
To make wail and lament for one's ill fortune, when one will win a tear from the audience, is well worthwhile.
Every lover's lament has an element of boasting.
We whine about things we have little control over; we lament what we believe ought to be changed.
The often heard lament, 'I have so little time,' gives the lie to the delusion that the daily is of little significance.
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.
Everyone performs bad actions. . . A bad person is someone who does not lament his bad actions.
Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madam Blaize, Who never wanted a good word From those who spoke her praise.
