Mourning famous quotes

Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count. We still don't like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died. A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It's not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember. Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there's no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
-- Alan Bennett

#War #People #Mourning

An unchangeable colour rules over the melancholic: his dwelling is a space the colour of mourning. Nothing happens in it. No one intrudes. It is a bare stage where the inert I is assisted by the I suffering from that inertia. The latter wishes to free the former, but all efforts fail, as Theseus would have failed had he been not only himself but also the Minotaur; to kill him then, he would have had to kill himself
-- Alejandra Pizarnik

#Dwelling #Space #Mourning

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

#Mourning #Narcissistic #Heal

Ruins stood for what was lost, and yet there were beautiful-peaceful, historic, intellectual. Not tragic or regrettable. Lena tried to keep hers that way too, and she succeeded to some extent. Why not celebrate what you had rather than spend your time mourning its passing? There could be joy in things that ended.
-- Ann Brashares

#Beautiful #Mourning #Joy

Family members have a personal stake in honoring and mourning their dead and objecting to unwarranted public exploitation that, by intruding upon their own grief, tends to degrade the rites and respect they seek to accord to the deceased person who was once their own.
-- Anthony Kennedy

#Grief #Mourning #Stakes

When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life.
-- Anton Chekhov

#Mourning #Black #Said

I'm in mourning for my life.
-- Anton Chekhov

#Mourning

In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
-- Arthur Rimbaud

#Children #Mourning #Dresses

What is required to face trauma is the ability to mourn, fully and deeply, all that has been taken from us. Only through mourning everything we have lost can we discover that we have in fact survived; that our spirits are indestructible.
-- Aurora Levins Morales

#Taken #Mourning #Faces

Temporary feelings of regret are a normal part of the mourning process. This helps us retrieve our lost dreams. If we hold on to regret, we risk trapping ourselves in a prison of unrealized dreams from which it is difficult to escape.
-- Barbara De Angelis

#Dream #Regret #Mourning

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.
-- Brendan Gill

#Death #Mourning #Ends

It was a huge shock. I've never had hair that short in my life! I think the rest of the cast and crew were mourning my haircut more than I was! But after a while, I felt liberated, I learned to embrace it.
-- Camilla Belle

#Thinking #Hair #Mourning

Faris turned on him. "Why choose to wear black today, of all days? I know why I'm in black. Why are you? Mourning? He looked startled. "One does not wear mourning for a servant." You still don't understand, do you? He was not my servant." He regarded her anger, aghast. "What then? What else could he be? Her empty hands shook as she held them out to him. Her voice shook as she replied, "Glove to my hand." Slowly she closed her fists. "Everything.
-- Caroline Stevermer

#Hands #Voice #Mourning

I wake up in that state of grief when you can tell you've been mourning even in your sleep.
-- Carolyn Parkhurst

#Grief #Sleep #Mourning

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.
-- Carrie Jones

#Loss #People #Mourning

Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.
-- Catherynne M. Valente

#Mourning #Mindfulness #Today

Mourning has a pace and rhythm of its own. It cannot be rushed.
-- Christian McEwen

#Grief #Mourning #Pace

Sentimentalising is anathema, as far as I am concerned. It leads you into ethical problems about violence and killing and eating meat. The whole world becomes topsy-survy if you impose moralities that were evolved within human society on what a blowfly or what a parasite does... there are lots of emotions you can deduce from an animal's behaviour that are correct, but when you start saying it's feeling guilty or thinking or a loved one or mourning, you must be very careful of those feelings.
-- David Attenborough

#Animal #Thinking #Mourning

We see these adolescents mourning for a lost childhood.
-- David Elkind

#Mourning #Childhood #Lost

good Hobbinoll, what garres thee greete? What! hath some wolfe thy tender lambes ytorne? Or is thy bagpype broke, that soundes so sweete? Or art thou of thy loved lasse forlorne?
-- Edmund Spenser

#Art #Mourning #Broke

Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate
-- Edmund Spenser

#Mourning #Absence #Mates

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.
-- Edward Everett

#Mourning #Sorrow #Tears

I did not know the work of mourning Is a labor in the dark We carry inside ourselves
-- Edward Hirsch

#Dark #Mourning #Labor

Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have...
-- Edwin S. Shneidman

#Profound #Mourning #Human Experience

... You are the closest I will ever come to heaven, either here on Earth or in the afterlife, and I will not regret it, not even at the cost of your tears. So I go to my grave an unrepentant sinner, I’m afraid. There is no use in mourning one such as I, dearest... -Simon to Lucy in a letter before the last duel.
-- Elizabeth Hoyt

#Regret #Afterlife #Mourning

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

#Character #Mourning #Periods

Only with gun violence do we respond to repeated tragedies by saying that mourning is acceptable but discussing how to prevent more tragedies is not. But that's unacceptable. As others have observed, talking about how to stop mass shootings in the aftermath of a string of mass shootings isn't 'too soon.' It's much too late.
-- Ezra Klein

#Gun #Talking #Mourning

One friend dies and we remain indifferent; another dies, perhaps less intimate, and we see ourselves as dead, and weep, mourn, tear our hair or find ourselves caught up in the madness of the wake, competing with others as to who was closest, now suffers most.
-- Fay Weldon

#Hair #Mourning #Suffering

Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
-- Frederick William Robertson

#Strong #Mourning #Evidence

If mourning is denied outlet, the result will be suffering,
-- Geoffrey Gorer

#Mourning #Suffering #Results

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.
-- George Washington Cable

#Land #Silence #Mourning

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.
-- Helen Dunmore

#Book #Doors #Mourning

There is no holier spot of ground than where defeated valor lies by mourning beauty crowned
-- Henry Timrod

#Lying #Mourning #Defeated

Do not mourn the dead with the belly.
-- Homer

#Mourning #Belly #Mourn

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

#Mourning #Injustice #Ends

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

#Daughter #Mother #Mourning

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

#Christian #Men #Mourning

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

#Names #Mourning #Possibility

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

#First Love #Love Is #Mourning

No, it's not a 'corpse thing.' I feel I lack the emotional capacity to deal with those in mourning...
-- Jen Lancaster

#Emotional #Mourning #Capacity

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

#Blue #Mourning #Political

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

#New Day #Mourning #Brand New Day

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

#Mourning #Suffering #Way

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.
-- Julie Klam

#Dog #Mourning #Suffering

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

#Mourning #Historical #Citizens

And oh, god, how could so much regret and so much sweetness and so much sadness all be present in that single moment. I was already dead and missing my unlived life. I was already dead and Tobias was mourning. I tried to smile. For him.
-- Katherine Applegate

#Regret #Sadness #Mourning

We can't live our lives obsessing about the past or mourning the future. We have a responsibility to ourselves and to each other to live every moment of our lives the best we can.
-- Lisa Mangum

#Responsibility #Past #Mourning

Intense love always leads to mourning.
-- Louise Glück

#Mourning #Intense #Intense Love

This poem is one of a series, all of them elegiac in intention, and subject to the strange forces of mourning that let loose illogical developments, into impossible configurations of thought. The poem is built of non-sequiturs, because that's what's left in the wake of the death. We cannot follow the dead, whether they are persons or ideas. Instead we remain, but in a situation that, in their absence, makes no sense.
-- Lyn Hejinian

#Ideas #Mourning #Development

Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.
-- Margery Allingham

#Dust #Ties #Mourning

You know what it's like. Sometimes, you meet a wonderful person, but it's only for a brief instant. Maybe on vacation or on a train or maybe even in a bus line. And they touch your life for a moment, but in a special way. And instead of mourning because they can't be with you for longer, or because you don't get the chance to know them better, isn't it better to be glad that you met them at all?
-- Marian Keyes

#Vacation #Mourning #Special

When something that occupies a giant space in your life comes to an end, then you have to go through a mourning period. I loved 'The Shield.' It was one of the hardest and one of the greatest experiences of my life. But having said that, I'm always thinking about what's next.
-- Michael Chiklis

#Thinking #Space #Mourning

Nothing says "deeply in mourning" like canapés and free beer.
-- Mira Grant

#Beer #Mourning

I will live this day as if it is my last. …I will waste not a moment mourning yesterday’s misfortunes, Yesterday’s defeats, yesterday’s aches of the heart, for why should I throw good after bad?
-- Og Mandino

#Heart #Yesterday #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.
-- Oscar Wilde

#Mourning #Tragedy #Sin

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. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears.
-- Oscar Wilde

#Past #Mourning #Ignorant

Ring out your bells! Let mourning show be spread! For Love is dead.
-- Philip Sidney

#Love #Mourning #Bells

Despair ... is the only cure for illusion. Without despair we cannot transfer our allegiance to reality - it's a kind of mourning period for our fantasies. Some people do not survive this despair, but no major change within a person can occur without it.
-- Philip Slater

#Reality #People #Mourning

Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
-- Sophocles

#Hands #Mourning #Mourn

The most heaven-like spots I have ever visited, have been certain rooms in which Christ's disciples were awaiting the summons of death. So far from being a "house of mourning," I have often found such a house to be a vestibule of glory.
-- Theodore L. Cuyler

#Death #House #Mourning

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 his own righteousness, and living really and purely upon the righteousness of Christ.
-- Thomas Brooks

#Humble #Men #Mourning

Secret fates Guide our states Both in mirth and mourning.
-- Thomas Campion

#Fate #Mourning #Secret

I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.
-- Thomas Lynch

#People #Mourning #Funeral

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.
-- Victor Hugo

#Blessing #Boredom #Mourning

Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.
-- Victor Hugo

#Night #Mourning

By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
-- W. H. Auden

#Mourning #Tongue #Poet

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.
-- W. H. Auden

#Rivers #Mourning #Tongue

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

#Mourning #Sorrow #Divorced

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

#Voice #Mourning #Sorrow

John [Lennon] as a singer - the way he sings on "Twist and Shout" and the way he sings on "Strawberry Fields Forever" - is a very odd voice, in the sense that it seems to be celebrating but almost mourning at the same time. There's a quality of mourning to his voice, which is very enigmatic.
-- Alasdair MacLean

#Voice #Forever #Mourning

People will suffer and so will nature, but life is likely to go on with a great deal of loss and mourning. Human adaptability and resilience will still be alive, and so will that great need and resource of ours called love.
-- Dale Jamieson

#Loss #People #Mourning

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.
-- Emily Bett Rickards

#Mourning #Wonder #Realizing

If you're mourning, cry, scream and purge whatever is going on inside you emotionally. That's part of the process. And keep those that love you very close as you go through it.
-- Eric Benet

#Love You #Mourning #Cry

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

#Rest In Peace #Lying #Mourning

During the mourning period after my father passed, his friends and colleagues were saying there was no way the business would survive. There was no way that a 27-year-old woman could run a company. I was so pissed that this was a conversation during a mourning period, and that a woman who was educated and working at a high level at the company wasn't considered for leadership. This was my father's life work, something I was completely connected to, and I knew I could take the reins.
-- Julie Smolyansky

#Running #Father #Mourning

When the fat lady comes out to sing, we don't know how she feels that day. We don't know if she's suffering from a cold or is mourning a death or falling in love. We don't know. But so all of that chance is the performance.
-- Kehinde Wiley

#Falling In Love #Mourning #Suffering

[Non-performing songwriters] climb the mountain the first time, take their successes in stride, and when they tumble down the mountain, they just consider the tumble part of their profession and don't even waste time mourning their slump. They continue to write, make new connections, and move forward toward a new round of success.
-- Michael Kosser

#Moving #Writing #Mourning

That's why it's hard, I think, to rejoice with those who rejoice and mourn with those who mourn. I love that line from the Bible, but it's so incredibly difficult sometimes, because when you've got reason to rejoice, you forget what it's like to mourn, even if you swear you never will. And because when you're mourning, the fact that someone close to you is rejoicing seems like a personal affront.
-- Shauna Niequist

#Thinking #Mourning #Facts

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

#Creativity #Artist #Mourning

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.
-- Paulette Alden

#Home #Mourning #Rest Of Your Life

Inherent in mourning is celebration. Mourning without celebration or some form of acceptance leaves you stuck.
-- Ted Alexandro

#Acceptance #Mourning #Celebration

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

#Essence #Hopeful #Mourning

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.
-- Vincent Tan

#Blue #Mourning #Joy

We're seeing people in the streets because this last week [since November 8, 2016] was a week of grief and mourning and despair for many.
-- Katrina vanden Heuvel

#Grief #People #Mourning