A Quote by Sara Suleri

To mourn, perhaps, is simply to prolong a posture of astonishment.

Sara Suleri

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Sara Suleri
American - Author
Born: 1953

This is perhaps the best feeling in the world. I love going to sleep at night and wondering what weird and wonderful dreams I'm going to have however I always prolong sleep as long as possible, immeasurably happy simply listening to the sound of my fiancees breathing and feeling his arms around me. It's when you fall in love with these little things that you know you're truly in love.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

It is one thing to mourn for sin because it exposes us to hell, and another to mourn for it because it is an infinite evil. It is one thing to mourn for it because it is injurious to ourselves; another, to mourn for it because it is offensive to God. It is one thing to be terrified; another, to be humbled.

Gardiner Spring

To prolong doubt was to prolong hope.

Charlotte Bronte

Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.

Charles Caleb Colton

Gordon Way's astonishment at being suddenly shot dead was nothing compared to his astonishment at what happened next.

Douglas Adams

It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.

Bill Vaughan

I've had chronic back pain since I was a preteen - like, 12. I have really funny posture. I developed this funny posture where I hunch my back a little bit when I'm playing, and I overuse my back muscles instead of my abs. My posture has put a lot of strain on my lower back.

Christen Press

Fortunately, good posture - like poor posture - is habit forming.

Denise Austin

Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this

Richard Brautigan

To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress.

Ellen Glasgow

But I guess that's the way it is. When you lose something irreplaceable, you don't mourn for the thing you lost. you mourn for yourself.

Harpo Marx

We all mourn in our own way. I mourn with a great steak.

Joan Rivers

But to mourn, that's different. To mourn is to be eaten alive with homesickness for the person.

Olive Ann Burns

For us, the death of Osama bin Laden is a time of profound reflection. With his death, we remember and mourn all the lives lost on September 11. We remember and mourn all the lives lost in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan. We remember and mourn the death of our soldiers.