Mourned Quotes
41 quotes by 38 authors
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Make them do as you want them to," she said. "I can’t," mourned Anne. "Averil is such an unmanageable heroine. She will do and say…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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If thou hadst thy will what wouldst thou reserve?" said Manwe. "Of all thy realm what dost thou hold dearest?" All have their worth," said…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Even the best weapon is an unhappy tool, hateful to living things. So the follower of the Way stays away from it. Weapons are unhappy…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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(He) mourned mankind, and the blindness of men, who thought that the Kosmos had rules and limits that would shelter them from their own freedom.…
— Bruce Sterling
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The earth will never be the same again Rock, water, tree, iron, share this greif As distant stars participate in the pain. A candle snuffed,…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Living to an extraordinary age, she mourned them all equally as she buried her husband and, one by one, her children. In this suffering she…
— Martine Leavitt
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For my omniscience paid I toll In infinite remorse of soul. All sin was of my sinning, all Atoning mine, and mine the gall Of…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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No, but it’s what I need to know the answer to. (Sin) Yes, Sin. I missed you. I’ve mourned for you. I’ve hated you. I’ve…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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The Violins waltzed. The Cellos and Basses provided accompaniment. The Violas mourned their fate, while the Concertmaster showed off. The Flutes did bird imitations…repeatedly, and…
— Daniel Handler
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Her heart felt as if it were breaking in her breast, bleeding and bleeding, young and fierce. From grief over the warm and ardent love…
— Sigrid Undset
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He had mourned each of those great trains as, one by one, they were pulled off the lines and left to rust in some yard,…
— Fannie Flagg
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That night as I lay in bed, I thought of several things I could have said and mourned the fact that my wit usually bloomed…
— Siri Hustvedt
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The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone.
— James Frey
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Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found…
— Robert Frost
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It is tragic and sad and chaotic and lovely. All life is the same, as citizens of the human State: the animating limits are within,…
— David Foster Wallace
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Antoine St. Exupery once mourned the loss of a man and the secret treasures that he held inside him. I loved Exupery; I will read…
— Sylvia Plath
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Lena always described how she dreaded and mourned things before they even happened. Carmen was beginning to suspect that she was permitting herself to mourn…
— Ann Brashares
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Our break-up had been a resounding anti-climax. I wanted to be wept over, bitterly. I wanted to be fought for. Mourned, or regretted just a…
— Catherine Anderson
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A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.
— Charles de Secondat
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Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib: and when he came…
— Bible
Who Wrote These Mourned Quotes
38 authors contributed a total of 41 Mourned Quotes, led by these top contributors: