Quotes about Lament

And they cried out in a loud voice, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You avenge our blood and judge those who dwell upon the earth?”

And the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her, because there is no one left to buy their cargo—

and cry out at the sight of the smoke rising from the fire that consumes her. “What city was ever like this great city?” they will exclaim.

El lamento nos deja sin energÃ

I sit, and moan, Like one who once had wings.

Shake out carols! Solitary here, the night's carols! Carols of lonesome love! death's carols! Carols under that lagging, yellow, waning moon! O under that moon where she droops almost down into the sea! O reckless despairing carols.

I think that's the graveyard of musicians, playing cabaret. I think I'd rather be dead than work in cabaret. It's just so depressing.

Lament is missional because it keeps the world before God, and it draws God into the world — with the longing that God should act, and the faith that he ultimately will.

A beautiful discipline of the soul can become sappy, mindless counsel, if we divorce it from the biblical roots of honesty, grief, lament, and genuine celebration from which it originates. No! If we are to live praising lives, robust lives of affirmation, we must live truly, honestly, and courageously. We cannot take shortcuts to the act of praising. We cannot praise prematurely.

All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it.

Forlorn! the very word is like a bellTo toll me back from thee to my sole self!

He who know most grieves most for wasted time.