Mourning Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Intense love always leads to mourning.

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

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

So what do you wear to dump somebody?" she asked me, twirling a lock of hair around one finger. "Black, for mourning? Or something cheerful and colorful, to distract them from their pain? Or maybe you wear some sort of camouflage, something that will help you disappear quickly in case they don't take it well.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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?