Cherish Quote by Sarah Ban Breathnach

There's something really unnatural about losing a child, and there's something unnatural about having to write an elegy for your child, but I felt…

— Edward Hirsch

A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.

— Kin Hubbard

Christmas and Thanksgiving are the two days of the year where we know the spurs are going to stay off the boots because the…

— Ree Drummond

“One day when we feel less embarrassed about it all, the next generation's great poet will write an elegy for the despair you feel…

— Jay Caspian Kang

I want my images to achieve two things in this regard - to be an elegy to a world that is tragically vanishing, to…

— Nick Brandt

“It's really over." He put his arms around her, pulling her to him. "Now just as long as you don't get tangled up with…

— Amanda Hocking

The elegy does the work of mourning; it allows us to experience mortality. It turns loss into remembrance, and it delivers an inheritance.

— Edward Hirsch

Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.

— Jose Rizal

“How the time passed away, slipped into nightfall as if it had never been!”

— Anonymous

When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy.

— Ovid

“We pass and leave you lying. No need for rhetoric, for funeral music, for melancholy bugle-calls. No need for tears now, no need for…

— Richard Aldington

ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's…

— Ambrose Bierce