Weep Quotes

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool. (George Santayana)
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either. View quote
Golda Meir
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death. View quote
Montesquieu
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
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. View quote
Golda Meir
You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization. View quote
Victor Hugo
If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself. (Horace)
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. View quote
Jean Cocteau
But one cannot weep for the entire world. It is beyond human strength. One must choose. View quote
Jean Anouilh
I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. View quote
Zora Neale Hurston
Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and shew'd how fields were won. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors. View quote
Adrienne Rich
And weep the more, because I weep in vain. View quote
Thomas Gray
Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me 'Pipe a song about a Lamb.' So I piped with merry cheer 'Piper, pipe that song again.' So I piped he wept to hear. View quote
William Blake
When my mother died, I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry 'weep 'weep 'weep 'weep' So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep. View quote
William Blake
Sleep, sleep, beauty bright, Dreaming in the joys of night Sleep, sleep in thy sleep Little sorrows sit and weep. View quote
William Blake
Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep. (William Cullen Bryant)
But, true, I've wept too much! Dawns break hearts./ Every moon is brutal, every sun bitter. View quote
Arthur Rimbaud
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep. View quote
Lord Byron
His lies were so exquisite I almost wept. View quote
Dave Eggers
I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep. View quote
Pierre Beaumarchais