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Lament Quotes

The songs of the dead are the lamentations of the living.

Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.611, Knopf Books for Young Readers

We are more prone to murmur at the punishment of our faults than to lament them.

Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.34

I didn't want normal until I didn't have it anymore

Maggie Stiefvater (2010). “Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception”, p.139, North Star Editions, Inc.

My heart sobbed a lament that was hard to ignore.

Katie Macalister (2006). “Even Vampires Get the Blues”, p.115, Penguin

And over your unconsecrated head you'll hear the howling wolves lament their fate and yours the livelong year.

Charles Baudelaire, Richard Howard (1983). “Les Fleurs Du Mal”, p.72, David R. Godine Publisher