Think not that I have come in quest of common flowers; but rather to bemoan the loss of one whose scent has vanished from the air. Murasaki Shikibu
Think not that I have come in quest of common flowers; but rather to bemoan the loss of one whose scent has vanished from the air. Arthur Waley
Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor but they grope ever upward towards consciousness the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground. Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's plenty of time to bemoan bad fortune once it arrives. Yiddish Proverb