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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
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
"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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
"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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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