Mourning Quotes

235 quotes by 204 authors

Even when your body does nothing, sin can be active in your mind. When your soul inwardly repulses the evil one's attack by means of… — Gregory Palamas
Now, we have inscribed a new memory alongside those others. It's a memory of tragedy and shock, of loss and mourning. But not only of… — George W. Bush
In the custom of mourning, the fabric of the night had been ripped, revealing a star at each tiny tear. — Jodi Picoult
See, I donâ€™t expect to win a prize for stoic control and dignity at mourning time. Death deserve tantrums. Beating back shocked indignation, kicks in… — Ruby Dee
If mourning is denied outlet, the result will be suffering, — Geoffrey Gorer
It was a huge shock. I've never had hair that short in my life! I think the rest of the cast and crew were mourning… — Camilla Belle
Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the… — Margery Allingham
We are repeatedly left, in other words, with no further focus than ourselves, a source from which self-pity naturally flows. Each time this happens I… — Joan Didion
It can be said, then, that Everlost is heaven...for the places that deserve a share of forever. Such places are few and far between...The greatest… — Neal Shusterman
Several devices he has to draw souls to sin, and several plots he has to keep souls from all holy and heavenly services, and several… — Thomas Brooks
The real irony is that the view of infinity as some forbidden zone or road to insanity - which view was very old and powerful… — David Foster Wallace
Arms are instruments of ill omen.... When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There is no glory… — Laozi
Mr Earbrass stands on the terrace at twilight. It is bleak; it is cold; and the virtue has gone out of everything. Words drift through… — Edward Gorey
There is no holier spot of ground than where defeated valor lies by mourning beauty crowned — Henry Timrod
The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in the facility with… — Thomas B. Macaulay
Mourn if you must, but don't stop fighting. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. — Washington Irving
None mourn more ostentatiously than those who most rejoice at it [a death]. — Tacitus
Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God. — Sophocles
One friend dies and we remain indifferent; another dies, perhaps less intimate, and we see ourselves as dead, and weep, mourn, tear our hair or… — Fay Weldon

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