Midnight Cry

Famous quotes containing the words midnight and/or cry:

    “I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless;
    That only men incredulous of despair,
    Half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air
    Beat upward to God’s throne in loud access
    Of shrieking and reproach. Full desertness,
    In souls as countries, lieth silent-bare
    Under the blanching, vertical eye-glare
    Of the absolute Heavens.”
    —Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)

    “The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.”
    —Norman Mailer (b. 1923)