A Quote by Cynthia Ozick

Whoever mourns the dead mourns himself.

Cynthia Ozick

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Dead Himself Whoever

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Cynthia Ozick
American - Novelist
Born: April 17, 1928

The evil-doer mourns in the next; he mourns in both. He mourns and suffers when he sees the evil of his own work.

Max Muller

He mourns the dead who lives as they desire.

Edward Young

With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea.

Laurence Binyon

Well, it is all over now. The battle is lost, and many of us are prisoners, many are dead, many wounded, bleeding and dying. Your Soldier lives and mourns and but for you, my darling, he would rather, a million times rather, be back there with his dead, to sleep for all time in an unknown grave.

George Pickett

Where do we record the passing of wildlife? Who mourns the silent deaths of the small?

O.R. Melling

The holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him.

C. S. Lewis

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

William Wordsworth

All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers; hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.

Alexander Pope

The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.

Irving Stone

Guilt is the most destructive of all emotions. It mourns what has been while playing no part in what may be, now or in the future.

Penelope Leach

Call it not vain: they do not err Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies.

Walter Scott

We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures.

Geraldine Brooks

Whatever mourns when many leave these shores: Whatever shares The eternal reciprocity of tears.

Wilfred Owen

One rational voice is dumb: over a grave The household of Impulse mourns one dearly loved. Sad is Eros, builder of cities, And weeping anarchic Aphrodite.