Mourning Quotes

235 quotes by 204 authors

If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but if a friend… — Oscar Wilde
I did not know the work of mourning Is a labor in the dark We carry inside ourselves — Edward Hirsch
As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse. — Kate Braverman
My situation is a solemn one: life is offered to me on the condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will… — George Bernard Shaw
Whenever he was out of luck and a little down-hearted, he would fall to mourning over the loss of a wonderful cat he used to… — Mark Twain
Ring out your bells! Let mourning show be spread! For Love is dead. — Philip Sidney
The Chinese seemed to be mourning Mao in a heartfelt fashion. But I wondered how many of their tears were genuine. People had practiced acting… — Jung Chang
The indescribable innocence and beneficence of Nature-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter-such health, such cheer, they afford forever! and such sympathy… — Henry David Thoreau
And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land… — George Washington Cable
It was like a death in the family: You go through the mourning stage, then the rebellion, and then all of a sudden you have… — Jessica Simpson
We can't live our lives obsessing about the past or mourning the future. We have a responsibility to ourselves and to each other to live… — Lisa Mangum
Remember this-all the sighing, mourning, sobbing, and complaining in the world, does not so undeniably evidence a man to be humble, as his overlooking his… — Thomas Brooks
Did you love well what very soon you left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache.… — Marilyn Hacker
The achievement of freedom is hardly possible without the felt mourning. This ability to mourn, i.e, to give up the illusion of a happy childhood,… — Alice Miller
When someone we love dies, we get so busy mourning what died that we ignore what didn't. — Ram Dass
Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have... — Edwin S. Shneidman
After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not… — Oscar Wilde
When you take the U out of mourning, it's a brand new day! — John Edward
What is required to face trauma is the ability to mourn, fully and deeply, all that has been taken from us. Only through mourning everything… — Aurora Levins Morales
The man who follows Christ in solitary mourning is greater than he who praises Christ amid the congregation of men. — Isaac of Nineveh

Who Wrote These Mourning Quotes

204 authors contributed a total of 235 Mourning Quotes, led by these top contributors: