Mourning The Dead Quotes

Mourning The Dead Quotes & Sayings

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For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms. — William Gibson

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

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

The air is full of farewells to the dying. And mournings for the dead. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I hate funerals. They aren't for the guy who's dead. They're for the guys who are left alive and enjoy mourning. — Humphrey Bogart

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

We met Dr. Hall in such very deep mourning that either his wife, his mother or himself must be dead — Jane Austen

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

I have remembered Who wept for a parting between the living and the dead. — Charles Dickens

The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them. — Edmund Burke

When I am dead, no pageant train shall waste their sorrows at my bier. Nor worthless pomp of homage vain stain it with hypocritic tear. — Edward Everett

To forget is ordinary. Even people in mourning, distracted by some little happiness, forget the dead. — Siri Hustvedt

Don't cry for the dead, for the dead is deaf, dumb, blind, lame, unemotional and dead. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Patroclus, he says, Patroclus. Patroclus. Over and over until it is sound only. — Madeline Miller

Mourning for the living cuz im so damn jealous of the dead. — Cecilia

We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead. — Jane Austen

Doesn't the devil live forever; who ever heard that the devil was dead? Did you ever see any person wearing mourning for the devil? — Herman Melville

But from here on
I want more crazy mourning, more howl, more keening
-from A Woman Dead in Her Forties — Adrienne Rich

Do not waste your life mourning the dead. — Roshani Chokshi

She was mourning all her life - not for her husband, who had released her with his death, but for her own dead heart. — Judith Ortiz Cofer

It's almost as if the dead have no value unless we know that someone they are related to is still alive and mourning them. — Ilona Andrews

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

Do not mourn the dead with the belly. — Homer