Mourners Quotes

21 Mourners quotes by 21 unique authors

• All who ask receive, those who seek find, and to those who knock it shall be opened. Therefore, let us knock at the beautiful garden… — John of Damascus
• Any place, then, can become a cemetery. All it takes is your body. It's not fair, I think, and I get this petulant wish for… — Karen Russell
• The only thing that walks back from the tomb with the mourners and refuses to be buried is the character of a man. This is… — J.R. Miller
• CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager. — Ambrose Bierce
• Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true — Horace
• 'I shall have heaven and earth for my coffin and its shell; the sun and moon for my two round symbols of jade, the stars… — Zhuangzi
• Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. They will leave consolation to the mourners, as the rich leave money… — Henry David Thoreau
• I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in… — Robert Tappan Morris
• I felt a funeral in my brain, and mourners to and fro kept treading, treading till I felt that sense was breaking through. And when… — Andrew Solomon
• Carve not upon a stone when I am dead, The praises which remorseful mourners give; To women's graves - a tardy recompense, But speak them… — Elizabeth Chase Allen
• Haul up the flag, you mourners, Not half-mast but all the way; The funeral is done and disbanded; The devil's had the final say. — Karl Shapiro
• Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone. Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring… — Wystan Hugh Auden
• And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn. — Oscar Wilde
• Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black and loving mourners be, Looking… — William Shakespeare
• I know when dark-haired evening put on her bright silk at sunset, and, folding the sea sidled under the sheet with her starry laugh, that… — Derek Walcott
• He saw merchants trading, princes hunting, mourners wailing for their dead, whores offering themselves, physicians trying to help the sick, priests determining the most suitable… — Hermann Hesse
• Some things are too terrible to grasp at once. Other things - naked, sputtering, indelible in their horror - are too terrible to really grasp… — Donna Tartt
• The funeral is a quiet one, despite the number of mourners present. There are no sobs or flailing handkerchiefs. There is a smattering of color… — Erin Morgenstern
• I did some research on this a couple years ago," Augustus continued. "I was wondering if everybody could be remembered. Like, if we got organized,… — John Green
• A great war leaves the country with three armies - an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves — German Proverb
• The mourners are all singing as they drag you by your feet, but the hangman isn't hanging so they put you on the street. — Steely Dan

Who Wrote These Mourners Quotes

21 authors contributed a total of 21 Mourners Quotes as follows:

• 1 Mourners Quote by Zhuangzi
• 1 Mourners Quote by Wystan Hugh Auden
• 1 Mourners Quote by William Shakespeare
• 1 Mourners Quote by Steely Dan
• 1 Mourners Quote by Robert Tappan Morris
• 1 Mourners Quote by Oscar Wilde
• 1 Mourners Quote by Karl Shapiro
• 1 Mourners Quote by Karen Russell
• 1 Mourners Quote by John of Damascus
• 1 Mourners Quote by John Green
• 1 Mourners Quote by J.R. Miller
• 1 Mourners Quote by Horace
• 1 Mourners Quote by Hermann Hesse
• 1 Mourners Quote by Henry David Thoreau
• 1 Mourners Quote by German Proverb
• 1 Mourners Quote by Erin Morgenstern
• 1 Mourners Quote by Elizabeth Chase Allen
• 1 Mourners Quote by Donna Tartt
• 1 Mourners Quote by Derek Walcott
• 1 Mourners Quote by Andrew Solomon
• 1 Mourners Quote by Ambrose Bierce