Mourning Quotes

Mourning Quote of the day

Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.

I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning - organize.

And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed.

When you take the U out of mourning, it's a brand new day!

Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited.

To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness

I have lived with you and loved you, and now you are gone. Gone where I cannot follow, until I have finished all of my days.

Repentance lifts a man up. Mourning knocks at heaven's gate. Holy humility opens it.

When someone we love dies, we get so busy mourning what died that we ignore what didn't.

In your eyes of mourning the land of dreams begins.

Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankless sea

Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent.

Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.

That probably greatest of narcissistic wounds -- not to have been loved just as one truly was -- cannot heal without the work of mourning.

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 my own.

Naming suffering, exalting it, dissecting it into its smallest components – that is doubtless a way to curb mourning.

Intense love always leads to mourning.

Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.

The man who follows Christ in solitary mourning is greater than he who praises Christ amid the congregation of men.

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 and your heart was broken, but your life was changing.

Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering.

All Americans mourn the passing of the author of the Declaration of Independence, George Jefferson.

Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.

Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom.

People ask me why I wear veils. I reply, I am mourning. Mourning what? Well I figure something shitty must be going on somewhere.

When a mother dies, a daughter’s mourning never completely ends.

How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?

The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love.

I hate funerals. They aren't for the guy who's dead. They're for the guys who are left alive and enjoy mourning.

To whom could I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought...?

I stood on the balcony dark with mourning... hoping the earth would spread its wings in my uninhabited love.

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced.

And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.

Depression leads him close to his wounds, but only the mourning for what he has missed, missed at the crucial time, can lead to real healing.

When we make mistakes, we can use the process of NVC mourning and self-forgiveness to show us where we can grow instead of getting caught up in moralistic self-judgments.

Through the days of love and celebration and joy, and through the dark days of mourning...the faithful horse has been with us always.

The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.

In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.

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 ssoul-less sheep.

We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.

I'm in mourning for my life.

The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them.

Every time someone in your life dies, you realize you're not invincible and you have to wonder if we're celebrating life or if we're mourning a death.

Nobody died. how can you kill an idea? How can you kill the personification of an action?" "Then what died? who are you mourning?" "A point of view.

Farewell is said by the living, in life, every day. It is said with love and friendship, with the affirmation that the memories are lasting if the flesh is not.

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

What I expect from writers-and from myself as a writer-is to articulate a complex view of things. To incite us to be more compassionate. To orchestrate our mourning. And to celebrate ecstasy.

Isn’t the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language — the amorous language? No more ‘I love you’s.

Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning.