Weep Quotes

And weep the more, because I weep in vain.

If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.

The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.

I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.

Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.

Man appears for a little while to laugh and weep, to work and play, and then to go to make room for those who shall follow him in the never-ending cycle.

Do not weep for me.

I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

I weep at everything.

We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?

I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.

Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.

A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.

It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.

I weep at everything. I love things so much - I just never want to dilute that.

The steel workers have now buried their dead, while the widows weep and watch their orphaned children become objects of public charity. The murder of these unarmed men has never been publicly rebuked by any authoritative officer of the state or federal government.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.