Mourning Quotes · Page 10

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

— Abraham Lincoln

Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited.

— Jacques Derrida

“Forbid me not to weep; he was my father; And, had you lov'd him half so well as I, You could not…

— Christopher Marlowe

“Enter the house of mourning, my friend, but with kindness and affection for those who love you, and not with hatred for…

— Mary Shelley

To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion…

— Brendan Gill

Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and…

— Margery Allingham

“We met Dr. Hall in such very deep mourning that either his wife, his mother or himself must be dead”

— Jane Austen

He [Will Rogers] was America's most complete human document. One-third humor. One-third humanitarian. One-third heart.

— Damon Runyon

“It’s not just the permanence of the finished product, but the discomfort inherent in the process that draws people in mourning to…

— Kate Sweeney

I thought of you today, but that is nothing new. I thought about you yesterday, and days before that too. I think…

— Anonymous

“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

It was a huge shock. I've never had hair that short in my life! I think the rest of the cast and…

— Camilla Belle

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

— Cornel West

“Although it was autumn and not summer the dark-gold sunlight and the inky shadows, long and slender in the shape of felled…

— John Banville

“From Orient Point The art of living isn't hard to muster: Enjoy the hour, not what it might portend. When someone makes…

— Marilyn Hacker

“He woke one morning tantalized by an idea: if he could catch the orchard trees motionless for one second -- for half…

— David Wroblewski

“Ruth Bowers laid her hand, as she spoke, on Frances's arm and the physical contact was like a burn, distracting her totally.…

— Penelope Lively

“Each death laid a dreadful charge of complicity on the living; each death was incongenerous, its guilt irreducible, its sadness immortal; a…

— John Fowles

“What is dying? I am standing on the seashore. A ship sails to the morning breeze and starts for the ocean. She…

— Charles Henry Brent

Nathan. I can't believe you would just leave like that. WHY DID YOU HAVE TO DIE. You didn't deserve to be bullied.…

— Anonymous

I lost a friend today, and my heart is mourning. If you're feeling alone, depressed & don't know if you can handle…

— Anonymous

“Mourning suits us Spanish women. Tragedy turns us into Antigone - maybe we are bred for the part.”

— Judith Ortiz Cofer

“Why not celebrate what you had had rather than spend your time mourning its passing? There could be joy in things that…

— Ann Brashares

“To whom can I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved…

— Roland Barthes

“...blessing and cursing are born as twins and separated at birth to meet again in mourning”

— Adrienne Rich

I extend my condolences to those who have lost a loved one by saying, Good mourning.

— Rudy Espinoza

When I am dead, no pageant train shall waste their sorrows at my bier. Nor worthless pomp of homage vain stain it…

— Edward Everett

No, it's not a 'corpse thing.' I feel I lack the emotional capacity to deal with those in mourning...

— Jen Lancaster

My granny was always mourning about the fact I wear dull, stained jeans or don't brush my hair.

— Twinkle Khanna

“Sorrow is food swallowed too quickly, caught in the throat, making it nearly impossible to breathe.”

— Jesmyn Ward

“am merely mourning that so many good or lively books are dead so soon, or only imperfectly kept alive in the cheap…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Don't waste time mourning lost opportunites or missed chances. If it was meant for you, it would have happened.

— Anonymous

I wonder why bereaved people even bother with mourning clothes when the grief itself provides such an unmistakable wardrobe.

— Jandy Nelson

“What is it like when you lose someone you love?" Jane asked. "You die, too. And you wait around for your body…

— John Scalzi

A woman who'd lost her first son consoled us with an angel gone ahead to pray for our family-- gone into that…

— Michael S. Harper

“The effects of loss are acute, and unique to each individual. Not everyone mourns in the same way, but everyone mourns.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich