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  • Por todos los senderos de la noche han venido a llorar en mi lecho. ‚Fueron tantos, son tantos! Yo no se   cua  les viven, yo no se   cua  l ha muerto. Me llorare   a m | misma para llorarlos todos. They have come from all of night's pathways to cry in my bed. They were so many, they are so many! I don't know who lives, I don't know who has died. I'll cry for myself so that I can cry for all.

    - Delmira Agustini
      El rosario de Eros,'Mis amores' ('My lovers').

  • Je me presse de rire de tout, de peur d'e"  tre oblige   d'en pleurer. I am quick to laugh at everything so as not to be obliged to cry.

    - Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
      Le Barbier de Se  ville, act1, sc.2.

  • And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there wasnot a house wherethere wasnot one dead.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Exodus12:30.

  • I waited patiently for the L, and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDPsalms 40:1^2.

  • Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the L hand double for all her sins. The voice of himthat crieth in the wilderness,Prepare ye the way of the L, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valleyshall be exalted,and everymountainand hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: And the glory of the L shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the L hath spoken it. The voicesaid,Cry. And hesaid,What shall Icry? All flesh isgrass, and all thegoodlinessthereof isastheflowerof the field: The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the L bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORD'SORDORDORDORDIsaiah 40:1^8.

  • Gin a body meet a body Comin thro'the rye, Gin a body kiss a body Need a body cry?

    - Robert Burns
      'Comin thro' the rye', stanza 2.

  •    Consider anything, only don't cry!

    -Dodgson
    Through the Looking-Glass, ch.5,'Wool and Water'.

  • He would answer to'Hi!'or to any loud cry, Such as 'Fry me!'or 'Fritter-my-wig!'

    -Dodgson
      The Hunting of the Snark,'Fit the First: The Landing'.

  • If something makes you cry, you have to do something about it.That'sthe difference betweenpolitics and guilt.

    - Bill (William) Clinton
    On what makes a liberal. Quoted in Meredith Oakley On the Make (1994).

  • He cried inawhisperat some image, at some visionhe cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath: 'The horror! The horror!'

    -Korzeniowski
      Kurtz's final words. Heart of Darkness, pt.3 (first published in Blackwood's Magazine, collected in Youth:  A Narrative, and Two Other Stories,1902).

  • As in a month you've got to die If Ko-Ko tells us true, 'Twere empty compliment to cry 'Long life to Nanki-Poo!' But as one month you have to live As fellow-citizen, This toast with three times three we'll give 'Long life to youtill then!'

    - Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) Gilbert
      Pooh-Bah's solo, The Mikado, act1.

  • Lone, lone, and lone I stand, With none to hear my cry, As the black feet of the night Go walking down the sky.

    - Dame MaryJean ne  e Mary Jean Cameron Gilmore
      Under the Wilgas,'The Myall in Prison'.

  • O that thou shouldst give dust a tongue To cry to thee, And then not hear it crying!

    - George Herbert
    'Denial', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously,1633).

  •    Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee; Not untwistslack they may bethese last strands of man In me or, most weary, cry I can no more. I can; Cansomething, hope, wish daycome, not choose not to be.

    -Gerard Manley Hopkins
      'Carrion Comfort'.

  • My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry.

    - Nikos Kazantzakis
      Report to Greco.

  • Ki qu'en plurt ne ki qu'en chant, le dreit estuet aler avant. Whether it makes one cry or sing, justice must be carried out.

    -Jose   Carlos Maria t egui
    c.1170  Lanval, l.437^8.

  • On finirait par devenir fou, ou par mourir, si on ne pouvait pas pleurer. We would end by becoming crazy or by dying, if we could not cry.

    - Guy de Maupassant
      Fort comme la mort, bk.2, ch.1.

  • Cry, the Beloved Country.

    - Alan Paton
      Title of book.

  • Love set you going like a fat gold watch. The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry Took its place among the elements.

    - Sylvia Plath
      'Morning Song', published posthumously byTed Hughes (Ariel,1965).

  • J'aimais jusqu'a'   ses pleurs que je faisais couler. I loved even the tears which I made her cry.

    -Jean Racine
      Britannicus, act 2, sc.2.

  • Two evils, monstrous either one apart, Possessed me, and were long and loath at going: A cry of Absence, Absence, in the heart, And in the wood the furious winter blowing.

    -John Crowe Ransom
      Chills and Fever,'Winter Remembered'.

  •    Merry it is in the good greenwood, When the mavis and merle are singing, When the deer sweeps by, and the hounds are in cry, And the hunter's horn is ringing.

    - Sir Walter Scott
      The Lady of the Lake, canto 4, stanza12,'Alice Brand'.

  • He gives direction to the town, To cry it up, or run it down.

    -Jonathan Swift
      'On Poetry', l.269^70.

  •   Home they brought her warrior dead. She nor swooned, nor uttered cry: All her maidens, watching said, 'She must weep or she will die.'

    -Tennyson
      The Princess, pt.6, added song, stanza1.

  • Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At lastfar offat last, to all, And every winter change to spring. So runs my dream: but what am I? An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry.

    -Tennyson
      In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 54, l.13^20.

  • Clothed with his breath, and looking, as he walked, Larger than human on the frozen hills. He heard the deep behind him, and a cry Before.

    -Tennyson
      Idylls of the King,'The Passing of Arthur', l.350^3.

  •   The crowd laughswithyoualwaysbut it will cry withyou for onlya day.

    - King Wallis Vidor
      The Crowd (withJohnVA Weaver and Harry Behn).

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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