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weeps

«Every Winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables»
«One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.»
Author: Marquis De Sade (Novelist) | Keywords: kings, save, tyrants, weeps
«She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps, / And lovers are round her, sighing:/ But coldly she turns from their gaze, and weeps, / For her heart in his grave is lying.»
«Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.»
«I do not want a friend who smiles when I smile, who weeps when I weep; for my shadow in the pool can do better than that.»
Author: Confucius | About: Friends | Keywords: can-do, pool, pooled, shadow, smile, smiles, weep, weeps
«He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.»
«When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.»
Author: Proverb | Keywords: bank account, sings, weeps
«A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.»
Author: Proverb | Keywords: weeps
«Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they might have been.»
Author: William Hazlitt (Writer) | About: Men | Keywords: weeps