Mourning Quotes

235 quotes by 204 authors

When you get tired of worrying and mourning your horse and trying not to be afraid, tell me and I'll do it for you a… — Shannon Hale
An unchangeable colour rules over the melancholic: his dwelling is a space the colour of mourning. Nothing happens in it. No one intrudes. It is… — Alejandra Pizarnik
Sydney discovers that she minds the loss of her mourning. When she grieved, she felt herself to be intimately connected to Daniel. But with each… — Anita Shreve
Dearest Charles-- I found a box of this paper at the back of a bureau so I must write to you as I am mourning… — Evelyn Waugh
It's not sipping wine. It's a mourning wine. You drain it. Like this. — Neil Gaiman
In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels. — Arthur Rimbaud
But as the scissors snip-snapped through her hair and the razor shaved the rest, she realized with a sudden awful panic that she could no… — Jane Yolen
No, it's not a 'corpse thing.' I feel I lack the emotional capacity to deal with those in mourning... — Jen Lancaster
And oh, god, how could so much regret and so much sweetness and so much sadness all be present in that single moment. I was… — Katherine Applegate
People go around mourning the death of God; it's the death of sssin that bothers me. Without ssin, people aren't people any more, they're just… — John Updike
Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to… — Oscar Wilde
Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his… — Mark Twain
It is said that mourning, by its gradual labour, slowly erases pain; I could not, I cannot believe this; because for me, Time eliminates the… — Roland Barthes
Far from his illness The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays; By mourning tongues The… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Doesn't the devil live forever; who ever heard that the devil was dead? Did you ever see any person wearing mourning for the devil? — Herman Melville
Miles was still mourning the loss of his Romantic Plan. 'There was going to be champagne, and oysters, and you' -- he held out both… — Lauren Willig
Because most of the girls were still in mourning and all of them had lost their textbooks, even pencils and pens, Shaukat Ali began the… — Greg Mortenson
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
Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning… — Elizabeth Gilbert
On a cold, fretful afternoon in early October, 1872, a hansom cab drew up outside the offices of Lockhart and Selby, Shipping Agents, in the… — Philip Pullman

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