Mourning Quotes · Page 10

“For I will turn their mourning into joy and will comfort them and give them joy for their sorrow.”

— Anonymous

New Orleans taught me that mourning takes many different forms. Where I'm from, mourning is spirited. It is loud.

— Clint Smith

Nobody died. how can you kill an idea? How can you kill the personification of an action?" "Then what died? who are…

— Neil Gaiman

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

— John Taylor

Everyone comes to music when they are mourning, when they are happy - for anything.

— Kirstin Maldonado

Mourning the loss of the phone call is like pining for buggy driving or women in hats or three-martini lunches. They've gone.

— A. A. Gill

When you lose someone close, remember that they are in a better place now, and live your life for you and them.

— Amber Hope

Only the mourning for what one has missed at the crucial time can lead to real healing.

— Alice Miller

Modern society includes three types of men who can never think very highly of the world--the priest, the physician, and the attorney-at-law.…

— Honore de Balzac

“As I walk through the redwood trees, my sneakers sopping up days of rain, I wonder why bereaved people even bother with…

— Jandy Nelson

Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a…

— Victor Hugo

“I felt like a mouse running through one of those cardboard mazes. I didn't have to think about anything I did. My…

— Alicia K. Leppert

So what do you wear to dump somebody?" she asked me, twirling a lock of hair around one finger. "Black, for mourning?…

— Sarah Dessen

“There is a time when death is an event, an ad-venture, and as such mobilizes, interests, activates, tetanizes. And then one day…

— Roland Barthes

When Princess Diana died, I couldn't understand why people were mourning her death in such an enormous, hysterical way when they didn't…

— Alison Jackson

“This is no time for inactivity or despair. Off with the mourning clothes. Take some chances; take the initiative. You never know…

— Max Lucado

“The life-loving, smart, good-hearted dead don't want forty days of mourning or say, "After me the deluge!" Leaving behind some helpful things…

— Nâzım Hikmet

Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise…

— Joan Didion

“We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of mourning will…

— J. William Worden

I was deeply influenced by the sartorial practices of both preachers and jazz musicians and actually Masha in Act One of Anton…

— Cornel West

“Tom thought back to the imposing, empty house: to the silence that deadened every room with a subtly different pitch; to the…

— M.L. Stedman

“Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it...We might expect that we will be prostrate,…

— Joan Didion

In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible…

— Abraham Lincoln

Black for hunting through the night For death and mourning the color's white Gold for a bride in her wedding gown And…

— Cassandra Clare

Inherent in mourning is celebration. Mourning without celebration or some form of acceptance leaves you stuck.

— Ted Alexandro

Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent.

— Alexander Pushkin

Mourning your abstinence from junk food is like mourning the loss of an enemy who would happily see you die.

— Anonymous

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

— Hope Edelman

I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning; Alas! the gratitude of men Hath oftener left me mourning.

— William Wordsworth

“Be sure that your praise songs are numbered higher than your sorrowful dirges and your utmost hope, firmer than your woeful regrets.…

— Israelmore Ayivor

“Patroclus, he says, Patroclus. Patroclus. Over and over until it is sound only.”

— Madeline Miller

“When all you have left of the people you love are things, then the things become really important.”

— J.W. Lynne

Home, as far as I'm concerned, is the place you have to leave. And then, if you're like me, spend the rest…

— Paulette Alden

“How can it be that there is such a colossal gap between what we think we know about grief and mourning and…

— Jim Beaver

If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning coaches.

— Jonathan Swift

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

— Henry Timrod

Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.

— Sophocles

“There’s something life-giving about children, even in a time of mourning, something that helps people see beyond their immediate losses.”

— J.A. Jance

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.

— William Shakespeare

“show me the city that does not mourn its fallen whose pillars embrace white coffins and freeze time and distort space”

— Hanna Abi Akl