One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.
- Marquis de SadeEvery winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay-- Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.
- Aaron MilesMan is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.
- Agnes DengThe scripture that comes to my mind is `Jesus wept,` ... Jesus weeps today for the loss of life in New Orleans and he weeps that his gospel is being hijacked by the rabid rhetoric of the religious right -- that is in its own way as destructive to our national fabric as Hurricane Katrina has been.
- Barbara LindsayExcess of sorrow laughs, excess of joy weeps.
- William Blake