{"quotes":[{"text":"Anyone who has learned the Quran and holds it lovingly in his heart will 'value his nights when people are asleep, his days when people are given to excess, his grief when people are joyful, his weeping when people laugh, his silence when people chatter and his humility when people are arrogant'. In other words every moment of life will be precious to him, and he should therefore be 'gentle', never harsh nor quarrelsome, 'nor one who makes a clamour in the market nor one who is quick to anger'.","author":"Ibn Mas'ud","tags":["anger","chatter","god","grief","islam","joy","laugh","night","people","quarrelsome","quran","silence","sleep","weeping"],"id":20187,"author_id":"Ibn+Mas%27ud"},{"text":"Weeping for other people's pain isn't true weeping if it doesn't come from deep down your heart.","author":"Auliq Ice","tags":["betrayal","mockery","mocking","sympathy","weeping"],"id":21816,"author_id":"Auliq+Ice"},{"text":"And now, for something completely the same:Wasted time and wasted breath,'s what I'll make, until my death.Helping people 'd be as good,but I wouldn't, if I could.For the few that help deserve,have no need, or not the nerve,help from strangers to accept,plus from mine a few have wept.Wept from joy, or from despair,or just from my vengeful stare.Ways I have, to look at stupid,make them see I am not Cupid.Make them see they are in error,for of truth I am a bearer.Most decide I'm just a bear,mauling at them, - like I care.","author":"Will Advise","tags":["acceptance","bear","bears","breath","breathing","caring","cupid","deciding","decision","decisions","deserve","deserving","despair","difference","different","erroneous","error","errors","good","helping","joy","mauling","mistake","mistakes","nerve","nerves","nothing","others","people","poem","poems","refusal","strange","stranger","strangers","stupid","tears","truth","vengeance","vengeful","waste","wasted","wasted-time","weeping"],"id":22661,"author_id":"Will+Advise"},{"text":"Some say the ocean roars,I hear it ever weeping.Weep, ocean, weep for those gone before.Weep, O sea, for the open graves that fill your shore.","author":"Craig Froman","tags":["ocean","pain","roars","weep","weeping"],"id":46882,"author_id":"Craig+Froman"},{"text":"Achilles weeps. He cradles me, and will not eat, nor speak a word other than my name.","author":"Madeline Miller","tags":["achilles","dead","name","patrochilles","patroclus","weeping"],"id":51562,"author_id":"Madeline+Miller"},{"text":"Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.","author":"Elinor Burkett","tags":["happiness","heart","joy","laughter","sadness","weeping"],"id":56918,"author_id":"Elinor+Burkett"},{"text":"If the Pentateuch is inspired, the civilization of of our day is a mistake and crime. There should be no political liberty. Heresy should be trodden out beneath the bigot's brutal feet. Husbands should divorce their wives at will, and make the mothers of their children houseless and weeping wanderers. Polygamy ought to be practiced; women should become slaves; we should buy the sons and daughters of the heathen and make them bondmen and bondwomen forever. We should sell our own flesh and blood, and have the right to kill our slaves. Men and women should be stoned to death for laboring on the seventh day. 'Mediums,' such as have familiar spirits, should be burned with fire. Every vestige of mental liberty should be destroyed, and reason's holy torch extinguished in the martyr's blood.","author":"Robert G. Ingersoll","tags":["bible","bigot","brutal","burning","christianity","civilization","crime","death-penalty","divorce","forever","heathen","heresy","holy","husbands","inspired","judaism","kill","liberty","martyr","mental","mistake","mothers","murder","pentateuch","politics","polygamy","sabbath","sell","slaves","spirits","stoning","the-bible","torth","wander","weeping"],"id":64294,"author_id":"Robert+G.+Ingersoll"},{"text":"Why do we weep once we know that everything will be alright? We weep because the only way everything could ever be alright is in fiction. We weep because what we've seen can't be true, no matter how badly we wish it were. We weep at the truth.","author":"Adam Levin","tags":["fiction","truth","weep","weeping"],"id":66469,"author_id":"Adam+Levin"},{"text":"Soon I was weeping---for the reservists who put their entire lives on hold when called to duty, for the military mothers who had to keep their families together all alone, for the parents, spouses, sons, and daughters who were beset with worry, for Mike, and for the soldiers who would never come home. I only meant to buy a shower curtain, and now, quite unexpectedly, right when I least wanted it, months of pent-up loneliness, fear, and frustration were pouring out in an endless churn of hot, silent tears.","author":"Lily Burana","tags":["military","spouses","weeping"],"id":84013,"author_id":"Lily+Burana"},{"text":"Weeping is terrible for the complexion,' said Leonie, holding Shayndel close, 'but it is very good for the heart.","author":"Anita Diamant","tags":["anita-diamant","day-after-night","grief","weeping"],"id":94281,"author_id":"Anita+Diamant"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":52,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}