Lucretius compares the time before we were born to that after we die – no one laments that they felt nothing before they arrived on the Earth, so why should they worry about a similar situation when they depart it?
No one laments restructuring of underperforming schools.
And yet no one laments loudly enough the absence of a next generation of inspired musical theater librettists; Terrence McNally isn't going to live forever.
While no one laments Saddam's passing and violence is down from peak war levels, the country is fragile, with grave tensions between Sunnis and Shiites and Arabs and Kurds that could yet erupt into civil war or tear the state apart.
Rest assured though, I'm not at home alone at night tucking into a lonely microwave frozen ready meal for one, lamenting what could have been.
In November, he greeted hundreds of people in wheelchairs one by one, lamenting that society tends to "hide physical fragility".
Judging from the young audience that surrounded her, eager to hear about the good old days, it seems she isn't the only one lamenting recent changes and romanticising the New York art world's storied past.
Judging from the young audience that surrounded her, eager to hear about the good old days, it seems she isn't the only one lamenting recent changes and romanticizing the New York art world's storied past.
Yet one laments lost opportunities.
One lamented a shortage of "Sharia Garcia" ice cream.
