Mourning Quotes

235 quotes by 201 authors

To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion for mourning. — Brendan Gill
I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of… — Adam Michnik
Only the mourning for what one has missed at the crucial time can lead to real healing. — Alice Miller
Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also a… — Helen Dunmore
When something that occupies a giant space in your life comes to an end, then you have to go through a mourning period. I loved… — Michael Chiklis
The Killing' has a really great combination of qualities: Even though it's very sad and deals with mourning and grief, it's still exciting. It's about… — Joel Kinnaman
A very wise dog woman once told me that dogs find owners, not the other way around. They pick you and they choose to stay… — Julie Klam
They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness. — Lord Byron
Modern society includes three types of men who can never think very highly of the world--the priest, the physician, and the attorney-at-law. They all wear… — Honore de Balzac
We see these adolescents mourning for a lost childhood. — David Elkind
Family members have a personal stake in honoring and mourning their dead and objecting to unwarranted public exploitation that, by intruding upon their own grief,… — Anthony Kennedy
The vastest earthly Day Is shrunken small By one Defaulting Face Behind a Pall. — Emily Dickinson
I know I'd rather have any amount of time with a dog I love and suffer the mourning than not have the time at all. — Julie Klam
Someone did us all a grave injustice by implying that mourning has a distinct beginning, middle, and end. — Hope Edelman
By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems. — Wystan Hugh Auden
When a mother dies, a daughterâ€™s mourning never completely ends. — Hope Edelman
Mourning your first love is as important as meeting your first love. It's the whole cycle. — Jane Anderson
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 from the skies!There… — Henry Timrod
For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his… — William Gibson
Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth. — Mason Cooley

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