Mourning Quotes - Page 5

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.

The pleasurable part of public mourning can also lead to a sense of self-sanctification that justifies in advance any war effort, whether or not the target and destruction are in any way related to the initial event.

A different kind of pleasure surfaced in the aftermath, the pleasure of seeing the towers fall time and again, the experience of being entranced by the visual spectacle, and then also the very graphic forms of public mourning for exemplary citizens (taking place at the same time as the refusal to mourn the undocumented, the foreign, gay and lesbian lives lost there, for example). I am not sure that the guilt over the pleasure re-installed the good citizen.

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

I suppose while we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil; and while he has left us, others are coming into the world at the same time, and probably in this our territory. There is a continuous change, an ingress of beings into the world and an egress out of it.

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

Mourning has its place but also its limits.

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

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

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

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?

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

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

Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.

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

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

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.

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.

... 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.

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

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?

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

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.

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

Around the globe, millions more are mourning the death and celebrating the life of Pope John Paul II .Could any other world leader have drawn so many people to one place?