Zitat des Tages über Weinen / Weep:
Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
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.
Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.
If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
Yes, I have four children. Four children with whom I spend a good part of every day: bathing them, combing their hair, sitting with them while they do their homework, holding them while they weep their tragic tears. But I'm not in love with any of them. I am in love with my husband.
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 neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.
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.
I'm an incredibly emotional person, but I always feel bad about that. The work is therapy... I need to emote wildly while I write. I weep. I'll laugh, get excited, and get up and pace. I try to take the emotional journey with the characters.
I shuddered to think how completely the insane were in the power of their keepers, and how one could weep and plead for release, and all of no avail, if the keepers were so minded.
One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.
Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion that's there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile.
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
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.
I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.
And weep the more, because I weep in vain.
I remember when I took Quentin Tarantino with me to a very private screening of the documentary 'Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired,' which shows some of the legal irregularities of his case. I was involved by the film, and it was an amazing experience to see people weep at the end of it.
A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep.
Do not weep for me.
Perhaps I have written fiction because everything unambiguously expressed seems somehow crass to me; and when the subject is myself, I want to jeer and weep.
Anyone aspiring to literary greatness should read 'New Grub Street' and weep.
He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
I weep at everything.
You can have a laugh in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your attitude towards it.
I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.
Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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.