Mourning Quotes
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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
— Arthur Rimbaud
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
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
I stood on the balcony dark with mourning ... hoping the earth would spread its wings in my uninhabited love.
— Pablo Neruda
The grimegoism (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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I'm writing to hold on to you.
— Henriikka Tavi
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 knewWhat 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
Why not celebrate what you had had rather than spend your time mourning its passing? Therecould be joy in things that ended. — Ann Brashares
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
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
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
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
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
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
