Mourning Quotes

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?

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

One bitter time of mourning, I remember, When day, and night, my sad heart did complain, My life, I said, was one cold, bleak December, And all its pleasures, were but whited pain.

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.

Nowadays most people wear black most of the time anyway: go to a literary party and one would imagine everyone there was in perpetual mourning for their lives.

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

If mourning is denied outlet, the result will be suffering.

Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.

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

The air is full of farewells to the dying. And mournings for the dead.

Doesn't the devil live forever; who ever heard that the devil was dead? Did you ever see any person wearing mourning for the devil?

Life is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene.

I wonder why bereaved people even bother with mourning clothes when the grief itself provides such an unmistakable wardrobe.

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

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

Mourning has its place but also its limits.

In the custom of mourning, the fabric of the night had been ripped, revealing a star at each tiny tear.

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

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.

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

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.

The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of 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.

The hair is the finest ornament women have. Of old, virgins used to wear it loose, except when they were in mourning.

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.

I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning.

It's not sipping wine. It's a mourning wine. You drain it. Like this.

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

Says the girl dressed up in formal Goth mourning," Shane said. "Seriously, who buys a black lace veil? You keep that on hand for special occasions, like prom and kid's birthdays?

What is the difference between grief and mourning? Mourning has company.

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

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

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

By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.

Hung be the heavens with black! Yield, day, to night!

I have remembered Who wept for a parting between the living and the dead.

What I am mourning is perhaps not worth saving, but I regret its loss nevertheless.

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...

At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel.

There is a period for hope and one for mourning.

As soon as someone dies, frenzied construction of the future (shifting furniture, etc.): futuromania.

How do you mourn endless numbers of people in endless numbers of places? Is there a form for it, a requisite time and place for mourning? Is there ever an end to it? Can there ever be an end to it?

The world is groaning and mourning in pain and ignorance, because the people do not know much about the principles of God

A woman protested saying, "Of course it was a righteous war. My son fell in it.".

It's all rather political, mourning is.

Some things happen for a reason, Others just come with the season.

Raw anguish slithers through my brittle bones as the deathly call rots the air. Who murdered you old friend? The forest has no words to identify the hand, only erratic echo.

He needs a looser association. He needs something that implies a man who wants the ice shard to remain in his chest, who's learned to love the sensation of being pierced.

I guess it's the same way trees grow around the very vines that are killing them, so they're strangled and sustained all at once. After a long time, even pain can be a comfort.

Only Certain offered no enticements, for she knew nothing could ease the pain. Not books or photography or food. Not even love.