Lamenting A Death Quotes & Sayings

I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment? — Epictetus

You are a Chosen Man. You are Parmenion, the Death of Nations. A hundred thousand souls will you
send to the dark river, screaming and wailing, lamenting their fate. It is right and just that you
should know your choices. — David Gemmell

Self-reliance brings a certain freedom in which you discover; and that freedom is denied to you when you are comparing. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

When we can't piece together the puzzle of our own lives, remember the best view of a puzzle is from above. Let Him help put you together. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must embrace a new agenda based on inclusiveness; a commitment to reconnecting the social and the economic; a relinking of the latter to a plausible redistributive system; and a determination to ensure that everyone has access to justice. All these things are within our reach. — Noreena Hertz

What did we do well, that if we don't discuss we might forget? What did we learn? What should we do differently next time? What still puzzles us? — Anonymous

When people bitch about the death of the vinyl LP as a medium (and lord knows they bitch) what they're mostly lamenting is the death of this kind of listening. Music as a concerted sonic experience, rather than the backing track to a flashing screen. What — Steve Almond

The sky's the limit for all Americans if we have the right kind of leadership. — Rudy Giuliani

If there is no happy ending. Make one out of cookie dough. — Cooper Edens

God willing, we shall this day meet that old enemy
Who has give us so many a good beating.
Thank God we have a cause worth fighting for,
And a cause worth losing and a good song to sing. — John Gould Fletcher

Without doing injustice to the living, it may safely be asserted that our loss is irreparable; and that among the shining hosts of the great and good who now cluster around the banner of the country, there exists no purer spirit, no more heroic soul, than that of the illustrious man whose death I join you in lamenting. — Jefferson Davis

When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal. — Salman Rushdie