Famous quotes containing the words weeping and/or philosopher:
“And weeping fast as she had breath
Janet implored us, ‘Wake her from her sleep!’
And would not be instructed in how deep
Was the forgetful kingdom of death.”
—John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)
“When the situation is, what we would wish, nothing is so ill- timed as to hint at the circumstances which make it so: you thank Fortune ... you had reason—the heart knew it, and was satisfied; and who but an English philosopher would have sent notices of it to the brain to reverse the judgment?”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)