cry quotes

Por todos los senderos de la noche han venido a llorar en mi lecho. ‚Fueron tantos, son tantos! Yo no se¤   cua¤  les viven, yo no se¤   cua¤  l ha muerto. Me llorare¤   a m |¤ misma para llorarlos todos. They have come from all of night's pathways to cry in my bed. They were so many, they are so many! I don't know who lives, I don't know who has died. I'll cry for myself so that I can cry for all.

-Agustini, Delmira
  El rosario de Eros,'Mis amores' ('My lovers').

Je me presse de rire de tout, de peur d'e"  tre oblige¤   d'en pleurer. I am quick to laugh at everything so as not to be obliged to cry.

-Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de
  Le Barbier de Se¤  ville, act1, sc.2.

And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there wasnot a house wherethere wasnot one dead.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Exodus12:30.

I waited patiently for the L, and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDPsalms 40:1^2.

Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the L hand double for all her sins. The voice of himthat crieth in the wilderness,Prepare ye the way of the L, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valleyshall be exalted,and everymountainand hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: And the glory of the L shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the L hath spoken it. The voicesaid,Cry. And hesaid,What shall Icry? All flesh isgrass, and all thegoodlinessthereof isastheflowerof the field: The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the L bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORD'SORDORDORDORDIsaiah 40:1^8.

Gin a body meet a body Comin thro'the rye, Gin a body kiss a body Need a body cry?

-Burns, Robert
  'Comin thro' the rye', stanza 2.

   Consider anything, only don't cry!

-Dodgson
Through the Looking-Glass, ch.5,'Wool and Water'.

He would answer to'Hi!'or to any loud cry, Such as 'Fry me!'or 'Fritter-my-wig!'

-Dodgson
  The Hunting of the Snark,'Fit the First: The Landing'.

If something makes you cry, you have to do something about it.That'sthe difference betweenpolitics and guilt.

-Clinton, Bill (William)
On what makes a liberal. Quoted in Meredith Oakley On the Make (1994).

He cried inawhisperat some image, at some visionöhe cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath: 'The horror! The horror!'

-Korzeniowski
  Kurtz's final words. Heart of Darkness, pt.3 (first published in Blackwood's Magazine, collected in Youth:  A Narrative, and Two Other Stories,1902).

As in a month you've got to die If Ko-Ko tells us true, 'Twere empty compliment to cry 'Long life to Nanki-Poo!' But as one month you have to live As fellow-citizen, This toast with three times three we'll giveö 'Long life to youötill then!'

-Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)
  Pooh-Bah's solo, The Mikado, act1.

Lone, lone, and lone I stand, With none to hear my cry, As the black feet of the night Go walking down the sky.

-Gilmore, Dame MaryJean ne¤  e Mary Jean Cameron
  Under the Wilgas,'The Myall in Prison'.

O that thou shouldst give dust a tongue To cry to thee, And then not hear it crying!

-Herbert, George
'Denial', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously,1633).

   Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee; Not untwistöslack they may beöthese last strands of man In me or, most weary, cry I can no more. I can; Cansomething, hope, wish daycome, not choose not to be.

-Gerard Manley Hopkins
  'Carrion Comfort'.

My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry.

-Kazantzakis, Nikos
  Report to Greco.

Ki qu'en plurt ne ki qu'en chant, le dreit estuet aler avant. Whether it makes one cry or sing, justice must be carried out.

-Maria¤ t egui,Jose¤   Carlos
c.1170  Lanval, l.437^8.

On finirait par devenir fou, ou par mourir, si on ne pouvait pas pleurer. We would end by becoming crazy or by dying, if we could not cry.

-Maupassant, Guy de
  Fort comme la mort, bk.2, ch.1.

Cry, the Beloved Country.

-Paton, Alan
  Title of book.

Love set you going like a fat gold watch. The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry Took its place among the elements.

-Plath, Sylvia
  'Morning Song', published posthumously byTed Hughes (Ariel,1965).

J'aimais jusqu'a'   ses pleurs que je faisais couler. I loved even the tears which I made her cry.

-Racine,Jean
  Britannicus, act 2, sc.2.

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