Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.
Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.
Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.
...it is more civilized to make fun of life than to bewail it.
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.
There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.
He was too well accustomed to suffering, and had suffered too much where he was, to bewail the prospect of change very severely.
The first in fatal charm of national repentance is the encouragement it gives us to turn from the bitter task of repenting our own sins to the congenial one of bewailing – but, first, of denouncing – the conduct of others.
It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going. Not consciously, ...
To understand how that astounding moral blindness was possible, it is helpful to think of the workers of an armament plant who rejoice in the 'stay of execution' of their factory thanks to big new orders, while at the same time honestly bewailing the...
With the passing of time, she would slowly tire of this exercise. She would find it increasingly exhausting to conjure up, to dust off, to resuscitate once again what was long dead. There would come a day, in fact, years later, when [she] would no lo...
