Mourning Quotes - Page 3

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

We see these adolescents mourning for a lost childhood.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.

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.

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

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

Yet if you should forget me for a while And afterwards remember, do not grieve: For if the darkness and corruption leave A vestige of the thoughts that once I had, Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.

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

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