Mourning Quotes · Page 5

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.

— Mason Cooley

The vastest earthly Day Is shrunken small By one Defaulting Face Behind a Pall.

— Emily Dickinson

Depression is a feeling without a cause. Mourning has a cause.

— Edward Hirsch

“You had to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change.”

— Joan Didion

Ring out your bells! Let mourning show be spread! For Love is dead.

— Philip Sidney

“ Would've, should've, could've. Hindsight is such a bitch.”

— Ashley Poston

“Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.”

— Dylan Thomas

“In mourning the plumage, he forgot the dying bird”

— thomas paine

What we call mourning for our dead is perhaps not so much grief at not being able to call them back; as…

— Thomas Mann

We're seeing people in the streets because this last week [since November 8, 2016] was a week of grief and mourning and…

— Katrina vanden Heuvel

“ While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil. -John Taylor ”

— Jack Canfield

I think the demise of a marriage is like a death, and there is a mourning that goes with it. It's devastating.

— Shanna Moakler

I stood on the balcony dark with mourning... hoping the earth would spread its wings in my uninhabited love.

— Pablo Neruda

None mourn more ostentatiously over the death of Germanicus than those who most rejoice at it [a death].

— Tacitus

He's a very good to me, We never keep secret from eachother. Except that he failed to inform me that he will…

— Usman Ismaheel

“There is no way to bring back what is lost, but maybe telling a tale of beauty is a form of mourning.”

— Stephen Kiernan

“He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the…

— Scotty Smith

“I am not the first nor the last one to mourn, but this is my way of mourning. It’s my way to…

— Bernard Jan

Remember this-all the sighing, mourning, sobbing, and complaining in the world, does not so undeniably evidence a man to be humble, as…

— Thomas Brooks

“There is freedom in mourning as long as we are surrendering ourselves to be changed into the image of Christ in the…

— Natasha Metzler

Woman, thou shouldst ever be clothed in rags and in mourning, appearing only as a penitent, drowned in tears, and expiating thus…

— Tertullian

Loneliness is something we [all people] go through. We go through mourning and longing. We make some bad choices sometimes because we're…

— Jennifer Lee

Sleep sweetly in your humble graves,Sleep, martyrs of a fallen cause;Though yet no marble column cravesThe pilgrim here to pause.Stoop, angels, hither…

— Henry Timrod

“Lamentation is the intentional process of grieving and mourning so that we can bid an honest farewell to what we’ve lost and…

— Russ Ramsey

This poem is one of a series, all of them elegiac in intention, and subject to the strange forces of mourning that…

— Lyn Hejinian

“To each of the mourners outside in the lane, I would be no more than a pale face glimpsed for a moment…

— Alan Bradley

If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but…

— Oscar Wilde

“In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes…

— Abraham Lincoln

Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count. We still don't like to admit the war was…

— Alan Bennett

“You looked inhuman when you were dying, Doc, your eyes glistened like dimming stars, you were wasting away and life was leaving…

— Rabih Alameddine

“Can you remember another time when your chest felt like this?” My fingers splayed across my aching chest as I carefully pondered…

— Mary Potter Kenyon

“The worst part about a break up isn't the loss of a relationship. It's finding out that the person you once loved…

— Mohadesa Najumi

What is the difference between grief and mourning? Mourning has company.

— Roger Rosenblatt

Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.

— Victor Hugo

I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning

— Joe Hil

“But bad news came at night, as if the sun were already in mourning.”

— Karen White

“You mean to tell me you're mourning the loss of someone who never existed?”

— Taylor Nadeau

Mourn if you must, but don't stop fighting.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.

— George Herbert

In the eyes of mourning the land of dreams begins.

— Pablo Neruda