Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were a cause indeed to weep.

Thou hast done a deed whereat valour will weep.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

I never heard weeping like that before or after; not from a child, nor a man wounded in the palm, nor a tortured man, nor a girl dragged off to slavery from a taken city. If you heard the woman you most hate in the world weep so, you would go to comfort her. You would fight your way through fire and spears to reach her. And I knew who wept, and what had been done to her, and who had done it.

The greater are our affections the deeper are our afflictions, and the more we love the more we have to weep.

We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?