Death Quote by W. H. Auden

Far from his illness The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays; By mourning tongues…

— Anonymous

For some odd reason, the expression 'death of a poet' always sounds somewhat more concrete than 'life of a poet.'

— Joseph Brodsky

I extend my condolences to those who have lost a loved one by saying, Good mourning.

— Rudy Espinoza

Loneliness is something we [all people] go through. We go through mourning and longing. We make some bad choices sometimes because we're desperate for…

— Jennifer Lee

“In daylight we pick up our tinned rations and hike off, every artery and nerve of us, into the rest of our commemorative lives.”

— Tess Gallagher

“I have more than once tried to analyse this apparently deliberate form of self-torture that seems common to so many people in face of…

— Gavin Maxwell

Mourning your first love is as important as meeting your first love. It's the whole cycle.

— Jane Anderson

Remember this-all the sighing, mourning, sobbing, and complaining in the world, does not so undeniably evidence a man to be humble, as his overlooking…

— Thomas Brooks

Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron…

— Lewis Mumford

You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.

— Antonio Porchia

“It's wrong to give so much time over to mourning, she tells herself. Mourning and brooding. There's nothing to be accomplished by it.”

— Margaret Atwood

None mourn more ostentatiously than those who most rejoice at it [a death].

— Tacitus