Top 302 Mourning Quotes & Sayings

In your eyes of mourning the land of dreams begins.

Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.

I always thought I'd be the one to go first. ... The world might be mourning an Everly Brother, but I'm mourning my brother Phil Everly. My wife Adela and I are touched by all the tributes we're seeing for Phil and we thank you for allowing us to grieve in private at this incredibly difficult time.

Everyone comes to music when they are mourning, when they are happy - for anything.

Doctor MacKenzie says "Sometimes I think the Victorians had the right idea. When you lost a family member back then you were suppose to be in full mourning, dress in nothing but black, for a whole year. Then you went into something they called 'half mourning' for another full year, adn during those two years, you were pretty much expected to have emotional breakdowns, you could do it whenever you felt you needed to, and everybody would support you. Now?, A month after a tragedy, maybe two, and you're expected to be all better-or down pills so you can pretend you are.

New Orleans taught me that mourning takes many different forms. Where I'm from, mourning is spirited. It is loud.

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

The most important part of the process of mourning is regularly reciting kaddish in a synagogue. Kaddish is a doxology, which Jewish tradition has mandated children to recite daily in a synagogue during the year of mourning for a deceased parent and then on the anniversary of his or her death thereafter.

I think the demise of a marriage is like a death, and there is a mourning that goes with it. It's devastating.

By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.

I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning.

When John Coltrane passed, we were in the church for the memorial. Albert Ayler came walking in playing, real out there. He was actually mourning through his horn. Mourning, but it was also like a call to wake up. Wake up!

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

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

Secret fates Guide our states Both in mirth and mourning.

I'm in mourning for my life.

Mourning is tough. But faith and family are the greatest sources of strength.

Mourning never ends for those who've faced unimaginable losses.

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

Now, we have inscribed a new memory alongside those others. It's a memory of tragedy and shock, of loss and mourning. But not only of loss and mourning. It's also a memory of bravery and self-sacrifice, and the love that lays down its life for a friend-even a friend whose name it never knew.

The gospel of Jesus Christ is not a religion of mourning and gloom.

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

I've got to worry about Alonzo Mourning, because a year or two ago there was a chance that Alonzo Mourning wouldn't be standing here talking to you. That's the cold reality of it.

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

Inherent in mourning is celebration. Mourning without celebration or some form of acceptance leaves you stuck.

Mourning doesn't always mean zen, mourning doesn't always mean somber, mourning can just be a celebration of a life of people. It's not always about wearing black and listening to a Sarah McLachlan song.

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

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.

I think what is probably hard for people to imagine is how wrapped up the 17 years' work on Harry Potter is with what was going on in my life at the time. I was mourning the loss of this world that I had written for so long and loved so much. I was also mourning the retreat it had been from - from ordinary life, which it has been. And it forced me to look back at 17 years of my life and remember things.

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

Faris turned on him. "Why choose to wear black today, of all days? I know why I'm in black. Why are you? Mourning? He looked startled. "One does not wear mourning for a servant." You still don't understand, do you? He was not my servant." He regarded her anger, aghast. "What then? What else could he be? Her empty hands shook as she held them out to him. Her voice shook as she replied, "Glove to my hand." Slowly she closed her fists. "Everything.

Mourning has its place but also its limits.

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

We see these adolescents mourning for a lost childhood.

Intense love always leads to mourning.

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.

Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.

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

You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.

Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.

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

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

Ring out your bells! Let mourning show be spread! For Love is dead.

What is the difference between grief and mourning? Mourning has company.

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

I always thought I'd be the one to go first. The world might be mourning an Everly Brother, but I'm mourning my brother Phil.

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

In the voice of mirth there may be excitement, but in the tones of mourning there is consolation.

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

John [Lennon] as a singer - the way he sings on "Twist and Shout" and the way he sings on "Strawberry Fields Forever" - is a very odd voice, in the sense that it seems to be celebrating but almost mourning at the same time. There's a quality of mourning to his voice, which is very enigmatic.

Nothing says "deeply in mourning" like canapés and free beer.

Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have.

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.

There's a little mourning process when you leave a show.

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

There is nothing to be compared to this, 'cause we lost our brother, our hero. The world is mourning. We are mourning. The fans are mourning. It is unreal. Unbelievable.

The Black Lives Matter movement can be read as an attempt to keep mourning an open dynamic in our culture because black lives exist in a state of precariousness. Mourning then bears both the vulnerability inherent in black lives and the instability regarding a future for those lives.

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

Mourning is not forbidden, you know.

Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.