Bewailing Quotes

We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)
The existence of the medieval temple had long been firmly established. There was testimony upon testimony of Hindus bewailing and Muslims boasting of the replacement of the temple with a mosque; and of Hindus under Muslim rule coming as close as possible to the site in order to celebrate Rama's birthday every year in April, in continuation of the practice at the time when the temple stood. None of the written sources, whether Hindu, Muslim or European, contradicted the pre-existence of a Rama temple at the site. View quote
Koenraad Elst
I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others. View quote
Ignatius of Loyola