Wailing Quotes

So I'm at the wailing wall, standing there like a moron, with my harpoon. (Emo Philips)
The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. View quote
William Cullen Bryant
Percy: I thought I'd lost my mom forever, and I was stuck on a hill in a thunderstorm fighting this huge bull dude while Grover was passed out wailing. "Food!” It was terrifying, man. View quote
Rick Riordan
Surfing?” he asked. She laughed, and the sound sent a shock wave through the water. The wailing faded to background noise. Annabeth wondered if anyone had ever laughed in Tartarus before-just a pure, simple laugh of pleasure. She doubted it. View quote
Rick Riordan
'Spectrum' is in part a disco song. But we play it hard, and it's a real euphoric, wailing tune. It's kind of like a total house anthem, in a way, but it seems to be going down really well. We've got all the grunge kids going mad for disco house raves. View quote
Florence Welch
The wailing owl Screams solitary to the mournful moon. View quote
David Mallet
Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy. View quote
Hamlin Garland
I was moaning and grieving as if I lost one of my own children. It was probably one of the most real feelings I ever had on the show. I was just sitting there wailing with no lines. I was beat after that storyline. View quote
Hunter Tylo
When had a slave religion proved anything but an aid to the conqueror? Slaves needed a wailing wall; they went into their temples, prayed to their gods to deliver them from oppression, and came out to work in the fields and factories, relaxed and made harmless by the emotional catharsis of prayer. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
it is a heartBreaking sound, Amir Jan, the Wailing of a mother. I pray to Allah you Never hear it. View quote
Khaled Hosseini
Instead of scurrying into a corner and wailing about what media are doing to us, one should charge straight ahead and kick them in the electrodes. (Marshall McLuhan)
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? - Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons. No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells; Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs, - The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells; And bugles calling for them from sad shires. View quote
Wilfred Owen
I suppose you don't have much time for enjoying music," Clary said, thinking of Simon, for whom music was his entire life, "in your line of work." He shrugged. "Maybe the occasional wailing chorus of the damned. View quote
Cassandra Clare
Her mind lives tidily, apart from cold and noise and pain. And bolts the door against her heart, out wailing in the rain. View quote
Dorothy Parker
Now the entire herd had begun to wheel wider and faster along the bluff and the outermost ranks swung centrifugally over the escarpment row on row wailing and squealing and above this the howls and curses of the drovers that now upreared in the moil of flesh they tended and swept with dust had begun to assume satanic looks with their staves and wild eyes as if they were no true swineheards but disciples of darkness got among these charges to herd them to their doom. View quote
Cormac McCarthy
It is a waste of words to try to impute to the Creator democratic ideas or social virtues; or to think that one can move Him with weeping and wailing, and persuade Him with logic and legal quibbles. Nothing is so pointless as words. View quote
Halldór Laxness
But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover! A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover! And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething, As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing, A mighty fountain momently was forced:. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Saturday night at my house, I often trot out classic movies and force the urchins to watch them. There is much wailing and gnashing of teeth, but I think it's important to teach kids about American culture, and films are certainly a big part of it. View quote
Bill O'Reilly
Sorry to bother you,” Bella said over the wailing. "But she wants her daddy. View quote
J.R. Ward
Having a constant productive anxiety doesn't mean that people are miserable and wailing but that people know they will be held accountable if things do not go right. View quote
Cass Sunstein
.. when the terrible storm and high flood of water raged most fearfully, I went to Schevelinge.... sea and sky seemed to be one [undivided] element; at the height where I stood - because the sea had already washed away dunes and stood up to the village – the view was horrible; the wailing of the inhabitants awful. - when arriving home, I immediately put a sketch of all this on paper - but that sketch represented so little of what I had seen on the spot itself.... [where] no part turned up itself of which I could make a sketch.... [so it] will be necessary for me to return to Scheveningen again and to outline those places where the water has raged most violently.. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek) (Andreas Schelfhout)
After a while, though the grief did not go away from us, it grew quiet. What had seemed a storm wailing through the entire darkness seemed to come in at last and lie down. View quote
Wendell Berry
Have you noticed the people most likely to be up in arms about governments apparently spying on us tend to be the most non-private people you know? The people launching petitions and wailing about Big Brother and data collection are most likely to be the most constant self-presenters. View quote
Russell Smith
Lone upon a mountain, the pine-trees wailing round him, Lone upon a mountain the Grecian youth is laid; Sleep, mystic sleep, for many a year has bound him, Yet his beauty, like a statue's pale and fair, is undecay'd. When will he awaken? View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
O earth, so full of dreary noises O men, with wailing in your voices O delvd gold, the wailers heap O strife, O curse, that o'er it fall God strikes a silence through you all, And giveth his beloved, sleep. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning