Mournful Quotes

Sing it not in mournful numbers.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The words sounded like a mournful incantation.”

— Dan Simmons

Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

— Franz Liszt

“I went outside mournful, and I hit pure air.”

— Ali Smith

I hear the mournful wail of millions!

— Frederick Douglass

“How mournful can be the words of an artist, concealed among the beggars and the roses?”

— Joso Skarica

“The music was so mournful and emotional that it seemed like the only suitable thing to play.”

— Deborah Curtis

Seungri sounds mournful while T.O.P has a masculine and husky voice. My voice is thin, just like when I talk

— G-Dragon

“The door is open, but judging from the slow, mournful melody, I don't think he wants to talk.”

— Lyn Miller-Lachmann

Every regret, every mournful thought, takes so much out of your life. It is force used to pile on more misery.

— Prentice Mulford

In vain would I seek to discover Why sad and mournful am I, My thoughts without ceasing brood over A tale of…

— Heinrich Heine

The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“[...]and her voice was mournful and sweet and drenched in pain, like an otherworldly fado.”

— Laini Taylor

I feel a strong immortal hope, which bears my mournful spirit up beneath its mountain load; redeemed from death, and grief, and…

— Charles Wesley

Always say a kind word if you can, if only that it may come in, perhaps, with singular opportuneness, entering some mournful…

— Arthur Helps

It is a mournful thing to know that you are utterly isolated among millions of human beings; that not a drop of…

— Augusta Jane Evans

“The man knows he's a target. He's very careful. The'll find the guns.' Kolya responded with a mournful fart, low and solemn…

— David Benioff

My silks and fine array, My smiles and languished air, By love are driv'n away And mournful lean Despair Brings me yew…

— William Blake

“I thought about that as we waited for the ghouls to pass. I pretended not to see Annabeth wipe a tear from…

— Rick Riordan

People tell me I look mournful. They say, 'Cheer up, Dan, it's not that bad!' Sometimes I just look into space, which…

— Daniel Radcliffe

Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst, Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest, With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd, And wander'd…

— Alexander Pope

But then to part! to part when Time Has wreathed his tireless wing with flowers, And spread the richness of a clime…

— Benjamin

“And yet from thought of death, my friends, I shrink; I want to live - to suffer and to think, To taste…

— Anonymous

“The day arrived,when myriad teary rivers flow and the muted wind faintly died in his tears—an altar for the beloved one's departure,for…

— Nithin Purple

People tell me I look mournful. They say, 'Cheer up, Dan, it's not that bad!' Sometimes I just look into space, which…

— Daniel Radcliffe

Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.…

— Lydia M. Child

I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead. The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever…

— Mark Twain

“My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain...There was a time when our people covered the land…

— Chief Seattle

I stood checked for a moment - awe, not fear, fell upon me - and whist I stood, a solemn wind began…

— Thomas de Quincey

“I drag the body out into the snowdrifts, as far away from our shack as I can muster. I put her in…

— Rachel A. Marks

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.

— Samuel Johnson

“This mournful and restless sound was a fit accompaniment to my meditations.”

— Joseph Conrad

“Because 'tis always mournful not to be wanted, even if at the same time 'tis convenient.”

— Thomas Hardy

“She laughed. I closed my eyes. It sounded damn mournful, that laugh of hers echoing off the square.”

— Esi Edugyan

“We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Look forward. Every regret, every mournful thought, takes so much out of your life.”

— Prentice Mulford

I can't feel a thing; All mournful petal storms are dancing inside the very private spring of my head.

— Franz Kafka

“XXI Potpourri This wreck of a body – a wilted mournful rose I still have a softness and a sweetness Press me…

— Michael Bee