Mourning Quotes

Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.

— William Congreve

Mourning is not forbidden, you know.

— Simin Daneshvar

“We never stopped being each other.”

— Alicen Grey

Sorrow makes us all children again.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not mourn the dead with the belly.

— Homer

I'm in mourning for my life.

— Anton Chekhov

Intense love always leads to mourning.

— Louise Glück

“I think clapping is how mourn.”

— Bob Hicok

“During the prayers of the day, there was one less “amen”.”

— Phindiwe Nkosi

“The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning.” “I”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Maurice Sendak

But even the death of a stranger seems like something worth mourning.

— Skyrim

“The mourning process can feel like going through a carwash without a car.”

— Jodi Livon

“Remember me when I am dead and simplify me when I'm dead.”

— Anonymous

The house, death to see that there are trusting mourning

— Mak_786

The hair is the finest ornament women have. Of old, virgins used to wear it loose, except when they were in mourning.

— Martin Luther

“I think I should be in mourning. Many brain cells were lost in the creation of that orgasm." Trixie chuckled. "I appreciate…

— Jocelynn Drake

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

— Kate Braverman

Nowadays most people wear black most of the time anyway: go to a literary party and one would imagine everyone there was…

— Fay Weldon

Many a smiling face hides a mourning heart; but grief alone teaches us what we are.

— Friedrich Schiller

Rosalia is dressed in raven clothes forty years too old for her, so that she seems to be in mourning for her…

— Penelope Gilliatt

“It is said that Time soothes mourning – No, Time makes nothing happen; it merely makes the emotivity of mourning pass.”

— Roland Barthes

After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies…

— Oscar Wilde

“Wandering is better than place sometimes, than home, than destination. Sometimes she can eke out the idea that wandering is possibility, chance,…

— Michelle Latiolais

There has been a marvelous joyous carnival of mourning for Edith Piaf and Jean Coctaeau, and it was real! They died as…

— Katherine Anne Porter

When you get tired of worrying and mourning your horse and trying not to be afraid, tell me and I'll do it…

— Shannon Hale

Mourning doesn't always mean zen, mourning doesn't always mean somber, mourning can just be a celebration of a life of people. It's…

— Bob the Drag Queen

“Then again, maybe knowing that life will only get duller, sadder, less hopeful afterward would inject melancholy into that moment. You’d miss…

— Anita Bartholomew

“In those seconds, I was mourning everything I’d lost. How I’d never get to see you walk down an aisle toward me,…

— Kiera Cass

good Hobbinoll, what garres thee greete? What! hath some wolfe thy tender lambes ytorne? Or is thy bagpype broke, that soundes so…

— Edmund Spenser

“Raw anguish slithers through my brittle bones as the deathly call rots the air. Who murdered you old friend? The forest has…

— H.S. Crow

I think what is probably hard for people to imagine is how wrapped up the 17 years' work on Harry Potter is…

— J. K. Rowling

“Andrei rested on a bench directly in front of a grave that belonged to: 'A father, hard worker, and beloved friend.' He…

— Karl Kristian Flores

Ah! sinner, remember this, there is no way on earth effectually to be rid of the guilt, filth, and power of sin,…

— Thomas Brooks

“The death of a parent, he wrote, 'Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions…

— Joan Didion

It is said that mourning, by its gradual labour, slowly erases pain; I could not, I cannot believe this; because for me,…

— Roland Barthes

“Seriously protecting yourself calls for the annihilation of ties with society, ties that most people need the way they need oxygen. You…

— Barry Eisler

The indescribable innocence and beneficence of Nature-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter-such health, such cheer, they afford forever!…

— Henry David Thoreau

After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies…

— Oscar Wilde