laments

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There is something impure in the laments about the dangers of our time, as if they could serve to excuse our personal failure. Elias Canetti

Everyone who is grieved at anything, or discontented, is like a pig for sacrifice, kicking and squealing. Like a dove for sacrifice is he who laments in silence. Our one distinction is that it is given to us to consent, if we will, to the necessity imposed upon us. Gene Wolfe

She kindly laments that I am not of the party, and to be sure I honour great ladies, and I admire great wits, but I am of the same opinion in regard to assemblies that is held concerning oysters, that they are never good in a month that has not the letter R in it. Elizabeth Montagu

"The thunderbolt, ay, where the thunderbolt?" Apollo laments. Statius

Already darkening night had quenched all rays of daylight, and made truce, in mere oblivion of all care and fright, with tears and with laments. Torquato Tasso

A man who continually laments is not heeded. Kenyan Proverb