Mourning Quotes

In Asia, red is the colour of joy; red is the colour of festivities and of celebration. In Chinese culture, blue is the colour of mourning.

Secret fates Guide our states Both in mirth and mourning.

Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have.

Some grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit.

We see these adolescents mourning for a lost childhood.

In the voice of mirth there may be excitement, but in the tones of mourning there is consolation.

For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.

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 death of the poet was kept from his poems.

The weeping of the candle is not in mourning for the moth: the dawn is at hand, and it is thinking of its own dark night.

Rosalia is dressed in raven clothes forty years too old for her, so that she seems to be in mourning for her life.

When we neglect the artist in ourselves, there is a kind of mourning that goes on under the surface of our busy lives.

My fellow Minnesotans join me in mourning the loss of America's 40th President and celebrating the life of a man who personified both the greatness and goodness of America.

We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest as they lie in death.

Someone did us all a grave injustice by implying that mourning has a distinct beginning, middle, and end.

Do not mourn the dead with the belly.

Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also a door which opens, I hope, to take the reader deep into the book.

The vastest earthly Day Is shrunken small By one Defaulting Face Behind a Pall.

When I am dead, no pageant train shall waste their sorrows at my bier. Nor worthless pomp of homage vain stain it with hypocritic tear.

Let mourning stop when one's grief is fully expressed.

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

See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it

It's time to live with what we have and mourn what we lost.

A great many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life could make it seem longer if they did a little more work.

Mourn if you must, but don't stop fighting.

They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.

Many a smiling face hides a mourning heart; but grief alone teaches us what we are.

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 feet, his eyes, his attitude will convey deception.

I had lots of opportunities to survive this [popularity] madness. Madame de Staël said, "Glory is the bright mourning of happiness."

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 something, and that's okay. That's part of life.

I get inhabited by a character and then you mourn it. There's a period of mourning for me, definitely.

Home, as far as I'm concerned, is the place you have to leave. And then, if you're like me, spend the rest of your life mourning.

When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.

The blues is a hopeful music. It helps you process something rather than avoid it. It's like mourning, in essence.

Today, the world lost a creative icon. Michelle and I join millions of fans from around the world in mourning the sudden death of Prince.

In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself.

O weep for Adonis - He is dead." "Peace. He is not dead he doth not sleep - he hath wakened from the dream of life

He felt the comfort of being part of an eternal cycle symbolized by the gold strips on either side of the black mourning band he wore. Light, dark, light. The dark was just an interval.

You can't love your mother or father if you don't also have the capacity to grieve their deaths and, perhaps even more so, grieve parts of their lives.

I went on spouting bullshit Encouragements as Gus's parents, arm in arm, hugged each other and nodded at every word. Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.

the evil thing is inside, not out.

Losing people you love affects you. It is buried inside of you and becomes this big, deep hole of ache. It doesn't magically go away, even when you stop officially mourning.

Not every loss was confirmed by an officer at the door. Nor a telegram with the power to sink a fleet. Loss, often the worst kind, also arrived through the deafening quiet of an absence.

Mourning has its place but also its limits.

To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion for mourning.

As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse.

I've got to worry about Alonzo Mourning, because a year or two ago there was a chance that Alonzo Mourning wouldn't be standing here talking to you. That's the cold reality of it.

Although I could lament in the language and feelings of David for Absalom, I am constrained to say, peace to his manes. Let us weep for the living, and not for the dead.

I know I'd rather have any amount of time with a dog I love and suffer the mourning than not have the time at all.

If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning coaches.