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Mourning Quotes by John Climacus
- A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of those who have made progress…
- Repentance lifts a man up. Mourning knocks at heaven's gate. Holy humility opens it.
More Mourning Quotes
- I get inhabited by a character and then you mourn it. There's a period of mourning for me, definitely. — Eric Bana
- In the custom of mourning, the fabric of the night had been ripped, revealing a star at each tiny tear. — Jodi Picoult
- Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have... The deep capacity to weep for the… — Edwin S. Shneidman
- We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of mourning will… — Sigmund Freud
- Ah! sinner, remember this, there is no way on earth effectually to be rid of the guilt, filth, and power of sin,… — Thomas Brooks
- We were impelled to remain loyal for a while to the memory of Penny. It was a form of the old fashioned… — Derek Tangye
- Grieving, like being blind, is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in mourning, but… — Ursula K. Le Guin
- This poem is one of a series, all of them elegiac in intention, and subject to the strange forces of mourning that… — Lyn Hejinian