It is abundantly evident that, however natural it may be for us to feel sorrow at the death of our relatives, that sorrow is an error and an evil, and we ought to overcome it. There is no need to sorrow for them, for they have passed into a far wider and happier life. If we sorrow for our own fancied separation from them, we are in the first place weeping over an illusion, for in truth they are not separated from us; and secondly, we are acting selfishly, because we are thinking more of our own apparent loss than of their great and real gain.
Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.
Learn weeping, and thou shalt gain laughing.
For one drop calls another down, till we are drowned in seas of grief.
He does not weep who does not see.
Beware the People weeping When they bare the iron hand.
Start trying to work out who deserves what, and before long you'll spend the rest of your days weeping for each and every person in the world.
She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its origins.
Thank you for this, Peter. For dry eyes and silent weeping. You taught me how to hide anything i felt. More than ever, i need that now.
Rejoice with those who rejoice. " I have found that difficult too often. I was much better at weeping with those who weep.
To me, the stories that have always intrigued me are the stories of people leaving my movies and being affected by them. They walk home 20 blocks the wrong way. Or they lock themselves in their office. Or they find themselves weeping when in the shower after the film. And those intrigue me, because I know I've touched something inside them.
And still, laughter is akin to weeping.
Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
What makes the voice pathetic is that it doesn't know what kind of people it's reaching. Us. No one hears it, except us. This Age wanted heroes. It got us instead: carefully constructed, but immobile. Subtle but, unfit to take up the burden of the times. It happens. A whole generation of washouts. History says stand up, and we totter and collapse, weeping, moved, but not sufficient.
Weeping must not hinder worship.
There is a certain pleasure in weeping.
There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.
Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels. All of these have music woven through and around them. Tunes for dancing or for weeping, for battle or for love.
Beyond the smiling and the weeping, I shall be soon; Beyond the waking and the sleeping, Beyond the sowing and the reaping, I shall be soon! Love, rest, and home-- Sweet hope! Lord, tarry not, but come!