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you kill your future by mourning the past — R H Sin

When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life. — Anton Chekhov

Regardless of what you've been through we all process energy differently. — Turcois Ominek

In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels. — Arthur Rimbaud

Oh sweetheart, do you really think if you
seal it up, that the pain's gonna go away? — Alice Sebold

MEDVIEDENKO
Why do you always wear mourning?
MASHA
I dress in black to match my life. I am unhappy. — Anton Chekhov

Grant not my prayers, when they are contrary to Thy will, which at all times must be the best. Oh, hear them not; — Hans Christian Andersen

O weep for Adonis - He is dead."
"Peace. He is not dead he doth not sleep - he hath wakened from the dream of life — Percy Bysshe Shelley

We all live with our losses. We don't want to, but we can — Carrie Jones

I think clapping is how mourn. — Bob Hicok

Every time someone in your life dies, you realize you're not invincible and you have to wonder if we're celebrating life or if we're mourning a death. — Emily Bett Rickards

If it be a sign of mourning," replied Mr. Hooper, "I, perhaps, like most other mortals, have sorrows dark enough to be typified by a black veil. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Tell all my mourners
To mourn in red-
Cause there ain't no sense
In my bein' dead. — Langston Hughes

It's hard for the Catholic Church to accept change. When the mass was no longer said in Latin, loyalists went into mourning for years. — Janine Di Giovanni

Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited. — Jacques Derrida

Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering. — Roland Barthes

People ask me why I wear veils. I reply, I am mourning. Mourning what? Well I figure something shitty must be going on somewhere. — Lady Gaga

I stood on the balcony dark with mourning ... hoping the earth would spread its wings in my uninhabited love. — Pablo Neruda

The grim
egoism (egotism)
of mourning
of suffering — Roland Barthes

I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning. — Maurice Sendak

They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness. — Lord Byron

Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns. — Victor Hugo

Miseries of a birth. — Roland Barthes

There was little point in mourning a thing you'd never had, and so she didn't mourn, most days. — Cecilia Grant

Freud suggested that, in normal mourning, one internalizes the dead. The dead are fully assimilated into the living, a process he called introjection. — Teju Cole

A win is a win, regardless of how you look at it. — Alonzo Mourning

And the thought of relieving my mourning, even slightly, for a moment filled me with a kind of fear. — Ahdaf Soueif

Most people are ennobled by the actual presence of death. But how long do you suppose this nobility will last in him? — Henrik Ibsen

Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease and herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of existence. — Mourning Dove

Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream. — Euripides

A woman protested saying, "Of course it was a righteous war. My son fell in it.". — Kahlil Gibran

I know that all good things must come to an end and I've had an incredible ride. I just want to end it on the right note. — Alonzo Mourning

Are ye the ghosts of fallen leaves,
O flakes of snow,
For which, through naked trees, the winds
A-mourning go? — John B. Tabb

Be sure that your praise songs are numbered higher than your sorrowful dirges and your utmost hope, firmer than your woeful regrets. Be positive. — Israelmore Ayivor

I'm in mourning for my life. — Anton Chekhov

Memory is all I have now — James Patterson

Do not mourn the dead with the belly. — Homer

the evil thing is inside, not out. — Suzanne Collins

If you have ever lost a loved one, then you know exactly how it feels. And if you have not, then you cannot possibly imagine it. — Lemony Snicket

He spent too much time mourning what could have been and questioning what should be. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it — Jodi Picoult

All that spring and summer, there were times when she felt as if she had no joints or muscles, no physical means with which to move about the world. — Julia Glass

I had to develop the mentality and stay positive about making my comeback. — Alonzo Mourning

How odd it is that we so often weep for each other's distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own! — Anne Bronte

I listen to myself, I listen to my body, my mind; I follow my heart. — Alonzo Mourning

Through the days of love and celebration and joy, and through the dark days of mourning ... the faithful horse has been with us always. — Elizabeth Cotten

Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest as they lie in death. — Isaiah

Only Certain offered no enticements, for she knew nothing could ease the pain. Not books or photography or food. Not even love. — Billie Letts

Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning. — Anna Quindlen

Why do you always wear black?"
"I am mourning for my life. — Anton Chekhov

But perhaps it's that Grey is dead. It still feels like the moon fell out of the sky. — Harriet Reuter Hapgood

The blues is a hopeful music. It helps you process something rather than avoid it. It's like mourning, in essence. — Ted Alexandro

In the voice of mirth there may be excitement, but in the tones of mourning there is consolation. — Willis Gaylord Clark

Until now I had been able only to grieve, not mourn. Grief was passive. Grief happened. Mourning, the act of dealing with grief, required attention. — Joan Didion

I'm writing to hold on to you. — Henriikka Tavi

No, the sadness will soften, its edges will become less rough. In time missing him will be the way you love him. — M.J. Rose

Those who do not care, escape the anguish of mourning but never know the delights of love. The meaning of life forever eludes them. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

Mourning the old glad days before they knew
What evil things the heart of man could dream, and dreaming do. — Oscar Wilde

I think in every lesson there's a blessing, and there's so many blessings from all the lessons I've had to go through in life. — Alonzo Mourning

When the Grim Reaper comes to call, words fail- they're just too small. — Dixie Lyle

After several hours, he realized he had been so lost in remembering and mourning the past, he had wasted two miles heading in the wrong direction. — Rachel Joyce

Why not celebrate what you had had rather than spend your time mourning its passing? There
could be joy in things that ended. — Ann Brashares

The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning. — Laozi

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth. — Mason Cooley

In the custom of mourning, the fabric of the night had been ripped, revealing a star at each tiny tear. — Jodi Picoult

Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air. — Pablo Neruda

Someone did us all a grave injustice by implying that mourning has a distinct beginning, middle, and end. — Hope Edelman

The force behind the movement of time is a mourning that will not be comforted. — Marilynne Robinson

The gospel of Jesus Christ is not a religion of mourning and gloom. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

For if someone died at an old age, or of natural causes, a funeral was a time of celebration rather than mourning. — Sheng-Shih Lin

Now it is over," he said sadly. "Now the great times are done. Thy friends will mourn, but nothing will come of their mourning." Danny — John Steinbeck

Loss alone is but the wounding of a heart; it is memory that makes it our ruin. — Brian Ruckley

Mourning is like virginity. You should give it to the one who deserves it most. — Elif Shafak

As he wished always to appear in mourning, he clothed himself with the night. — Victor Hugo

I think I should be in mourning. Many brain cells were lost in the creation of that orgasm."
Trixie chuckled. "I appreciate their sacrifice. — Jocelynn Drake

I thought maybe we mourned not only for the dead but also for the living. We felt their absence before we knew for sure they were gone. — Vaddey Ratner

Why do you always wear black?"
She delighted me with her answer, the correct, the only, answer. "I'm in mourning for my life. I'm unhappy. — Barbara Vine

While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil. — John Taylor

As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse. — Kate Braverman

Leave the mourning to the doves because we will never die. — John Lack

A great love carries within it a mourning for love. — Edmond Jabes

Pak Karman hugged his wife's gravestone tightly. "You left without saying farewell!" The whole of the graveyard was ablaze with light. — Mohamed Latiff Mohamed

A flight to Philly, then took the train west through hills and valleys where people sat mourning the loss of steel and wondering what came next. — Ron Currie Jr.

Throw off your grief,' doubters imply, 'and we can all go back to pretending death doesn't exist, or at least is comfortably far away. — Julian Barnes

In mourning the plumage, he forgot the dying bird — Thomas Paine

The weeping of the candle is not in mourning for the moth: the dawn is at hand, and it is thinking of its own dark night. — Saib Tabrizi

Everything was a broken line for me in those days. I was slipped into the empty spaces between words. — Betsy Cornwell

The world is groaning and mourning in pain and ignorance, because the people do not know much about the principles of God — Sunday Adelaja

It's all rather political, mourning is. — Melina Marchetta

As the sun starts to rise, I watch as Raffaele bends over Enzo's body, the two of us mourning the prince we both loved. — Marie Lu

Lady Moon rose an' gazed o'er my busted'n'beautsome Valleys with silv'ry'n'sorryin' eyes, an' the dingos mourned for the died uns. — David Mitchell

Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering. — Roland Barthes

Kobe Bryant is the most talented player in the game today; he could do anything. — Alonzo Mourning

Who breathes must suffer, and who thinks must mourn; And he alone is bless'd who ne'er was born. — Matthew Prior

We see these adolescents mourning for a lost childhood. — David Elkind

What no one told me about grief is how lonely it is. No matter who else is mourning, you're in your own little cell. — Jodi Picoult

That probably greatest of narcissistic wounds
not to have been loved just as one truly was
cannot heal without the work of mourning. — Alice Miller

There is no holier spot of ground than where defeated valor lies by mourning beauty crowned — Henry Timrod

Forbid me not to weep; he was my father;
And, had you lov'd him half so well as I,
You could not bear his death thus patiently. — Christopher Marlowe

We'd all mourn for a while, but at the end of the day we were a tough lot, and we'd survive. — Suzanne Johnson