(70 quotes found)
“While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight; while children go hungry, as they do now I'll fight; while men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I'll fight; while there is a drunkard left, while there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, while there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight, I'll fight to the very end!”
William Booth
“He that is thy friend indeed,He will help thee in thy need:If thou sorrow, he will weep;If thou wake, he cannot sleep:Thus of every grief in heartHe with thee does bear a part.These are certain signs to knowFaithful friend from flattering foe.”
William Shakespeare
“We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.”
Charles de Montesquieu
“Thou has done a deed whereat valour will weep.”
“I have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I'll weep.”
“Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.”
William Blake
“Sleep, sleep, beauty bright,Dreaming in the joys of night;Sleep, sleep; in thy sleepLittle sorrows sit and weep.”
“One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.”
Marquis De Sade
“Fair daffodils, we weep to see / You haste away so soon: / As yet the early-rising sun / Has not attained his noon.”
Robert Herrick