„Night is the time to weep,
To wet with unseen tears
Those graves of memory where sleep
The joys of other years.“

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— James Montgomery

The Issues of Life and Death.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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British editor, hymn writer, and poet 1771 - 1854

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„Sleep, sleep, beauty bright,
Dreaming o'er the joys of night.
Sleep, sleep: in thy sleep
Little sorrows sit and weep.“

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— William Blake, A Cradle Song

A Cradle Song, st. 1
1790s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1791-1792)

„leave me in peace, let me sleep one night at least without my pillow being wet with tears, my eyes burning and my head throbbing“

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— Anne Frank victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary 1929 - 1945

Quelle: The Diary of a Young Girl

„The chain of young life is broken,
The journey is ended, the hour has struck, it is time to leave,
Time to go where there is no future,
No past, no eternity, no years;
Where there are no expectations, no passions,
No bitter tears, no fame, no honour;
Where memory sleeps deeply
And the heart in its narrow coffin home
Does not feel the worm gnawing it.“

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— Mikhail Lermontov Russian writer, poet and painter 1814 - 1841

"Death" (1830 or 1831)
Poems

„His shroud was damp, his face was white:
He said,—"I cannot sleep,
Your tears have made my shroud so wet;
Oh, mother, do not weep!"
Oh, love is strong!—the mother's heart
Was filled with tender fears;
Oh, love is strong!—and for her child
Her grief restrained its tears.“

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— Letitia Elizabeth Landon English poet and novelist 1802 - 1838

The Little Shroud from The London Literary Gazette (28th April 1832)
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)

„There is much to weep about. But it is a sin to permit our tears to drown out our song of gratitude and joy in the gift of creation.“

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— Richard John Neuhaus Canadian-American Christian writer 1936 - 2009

"Wild Moralists in the Animal Kingdom" https://www.firstthings.com/article/2003/04/wild-moralists-in-the-animal-kingdom, in First Things (April 2003).

„Ever sits the lady weeping —
Weeping night and day —
One perpetual vigil keeping,
Till life pass away,
And she join the seven who sleep.“

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— Letitia Elizabeth Landon English poet and novelist 1802 - 1838

The Monthly Magazine

„Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes
May weep, but never see,
A night of memories and of sighs
I consecrate to thee.“

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— Walter Savage Landor, Rose Aylmer

Rose Aylmer (1806).

„And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.“

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— John Steinbeck American writer 1902 - 1968

„There was a grave just closed. Not one seemed near,
To pay the tribute of one long—last tear!
How very desolate must that one be,
Whose more than grave has not a memory!“

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— Letitia Elizabeth Landon English poet and novelist 1802 - 1838

Rosalie.
The Improvisatrice (1824)

„There are in this world blessed souls, whose sorrows all spring up into joys for others; whose earthly hopes, laid in the grave with many tears, are the seed from which spring healing flowers and balm for the desolate and the distressed.“

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— Harriet Beecher Stowe, buch Uncle Tom's Cabin

Quelle: Uncle Tom's Cabin

„Oft, in the stilly night,
Ere Slumber's chain has bound me,
Fond Memory brings the light
Of other days around me;
The smiles, the tears,
Of boyhood's years,
The words of love then spoken;
The eyes that shone,
Now dimm'd and gone,
The cheerful hearts now broken!“

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— Thomas Moore Irish poet, singer and songwriter 1779 - 1852

National Airs, Oft in the Stilly Night http://www.james-joyce-music.com/song04_lyrics.html, st. 1 (1815).

„We may speak about a place where there are no tears, no death, no fear, no night; but those are just the benefits of heaven. The beauty of heaven is seeing God.“

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— Max Lucado American clergyman and writer 1955

Quelle: Experiencing the Heart of Jesus: Knowing His Heart, Feeling His Love

„The City is of Night, but not of Sleep;
There sweet sleep is not for the weary brain;
The pitiless hours like years and ages creep,
A night seems termless hell.“

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— James Thomson (B.V.) Scottish writer (1834-1882) 1834 - 1882

Part I
The City of Dreadful Night (1870–74)

„No, I happen to be one of those people whose memory shuts down under pressure. The answers would come to me in the middle of the night in my sleep! Besides, I am a millionaire.“

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— Terry Pratchett English author 1948 - 2015

Response to a question asking if he would appear on Who Wants To Be a Millionaire. ALCS News http://www.alcs.co.uk/News%20Events/ALCS%20News/News%20Stories/TerryPratchettInterview.aspx?template=/printerfriendly/alcs-newspf.aspx (May 2006)
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„Excuse me, Captain. Are you two going to weep salty tears of admiration over a helmet all night, or do we have matters to discuss?“

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— Eoin Colfer Irish author of children's books 1965

Quelle: The Lost Colony

„Words that weep and tears that speak.“

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— Abraham Cowley British writer 1618 - 1667

The Prophet; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn", Thomas Gray, Progress of Poesy, iii. 3, 4.

„What though our eyes with tears be wet?
The sunrise never failed us yet.The blush of dawn may yet restore
Our light and hope and joy once more.“

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— Celia Thaxter American writer 1835 - 1894

"The Sunrise Never Failed Us Yet" in Drift-Weed (1878), p. 64.
Kontext: What though our eyes with tears be wet?
The sunrise never failed us yet.The blush of dawn may yet restore
Our light and hope and joy once more.
Sad soul, take comfort, nor forget
That sunrise never failed us yet!

„I have laid sorrow to sleep;
Love sleeps.
She who oft made me weep
Now weeps.“

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— Arthur Symons British poet 1865 - 1945

Love and Sleep, st. 1.

„Fairy Song
Shed no tear! oh, shed no tear!
The flower will bloom another year.
Weep no more! oh, weep no more!
Young buds sleep in the root’s white core.
Dry your eyes! oh, dry your eyes!
For I was taught in Paradise
To ease my breast of melodies,—
Shed no tear.

Overhead! look overhead!
‘Mong the blossoms white and red—
Look up, look up! I flutter now
On this fresh pomegranate bough.
See me! ’tis this silvery bill
Ever cures the good man’s ill.
Shed no tear! oh, shed no tear!
The flower will bloom another year.
Adieu, adieu—I fly—adieu!
I vanish in the heaven’s blue,—
Adieu, adieu!“

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— John Keats English Romantic poet 1795 - 1821

„where the Gauls stealthily, at the time of night when sleep falls on men, attacked the high citadel and of a sudden stained with blood walls and watchers.“
Qua Galli furtim noctu summa arcis adorti moenia concubia vigilesque repente cruentant.

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— Ennius Roman writer -239 - -169 v.Chr

As quoted by Macrobius in Saturnalia, Book I, Chapter IV (tr. J. Elliott)

„Night is the time to weep,To wet with unseen tearsThose graves of memory where sleepThe joys of other years.“

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„Night is the time to weep,
To wet with unseen tears
Those graves of memory where sleep
The joys of other years.“