Top 1200 Mourning Loss Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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

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

I haven't cried since Mom died. I mean, after something like that, what's left to cry about, right? But I let myself cry now. Loss is loss. Doesn't take death to create it. (266)

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

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

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

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

When seasons change in our life, it's difficult. Because it feels like loss and no one likes loss. And I go through, how do you do that? How do you take that transition without losing it in the curve?

One of the grubby truths about a loss is that you don't just mourn the dead person, you mourn the person you got to be when the lost one was alive. This loss might even be what affects you the most.

There's a tremendous amount of language loss. Most of the attention is given to indigenous languages, which makes sense, but some of the most dramatic language loss is in Europe.

A vampire is a flexible metaphor. You know, death, sex, change, stagnation, loss of self, loss of agency, having to keep one's real self secret, the possibility of something lasting forever: love, hate, grief.

Being anonymous is a great luxury. It's a big loss to lose that. Mostly, the loss is the ability to observe others without being observed yourself. And as an actor, that is your key tool.

Every loss which we incur leaves behind it vexation in the memory, save the greatest loss of all, that is, death, which annihilates the memory, together with life.

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

If you learn the language of loss early, I think you seek out others who have experienced the same thing, who speak that same language of loss.

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

The weight loss has been a secondary change to the mental changes I have made. Weight loss does not fix problems; how you view yourself does.

Although biodiversity loss continues globally, many countries are significantly slowing the rate of loss by shoring up protected natural areas and the services they provide, and in expanding national park systems with tighter management and more secure funding.

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.

You can't show somebody what it's like to experience loss, but you can soundtrack it and help them experience their own loss. I am so lucky to have this venue to be able to say and talk about all the stuff I've been through.

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

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

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

In your eyes of mourning the land of dreams begins.

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

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

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

There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.

When I was 12, we moved from New Jersey to Florida. The Gulf of Mexico was literally my backyard. Every day, I could see the ocean. At low tide I went out and played in seagrass meadows that used to come right up to the shore, filled with tiny seahorses, pipefish and soft corals. There was so much life! But then I witnessed the change, the loss of the shoreline, the loss of the mangrove trees, the loss of the seagrass meadows. Shallow bay areas were turned into parking lots.

I was depressed for a year after 'The Pianist,' and I don't suffer from that, generally. It wasn't just a depression; it was a mourning.

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

In life, loss is inevitable. Everyone knows this, yet in the core of most people it remains deeply denied - 'This should not happen to me.' It is for this reason that loss is the most difficult challenge one has to face as a human being.

Persecutors fear loss of control. Rescuers fear loss of purpose. Rescuers need Victims-someone to protect or fix-to bolster their self-esteem.

I remember I had a psychologist that I worked with in Phoenix tell me one time that the loss of a job and the loss of one's wealth is more devastating to most than losing a loved one or getting divorced. And that really hit me.

Almost every person wonders who their soul mate will be or where they will find them and everyone has or will suffer a love loss or the fear of that loss at different points in their lives.

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

I think that public grieving is a good thing. People need to be grieved; loss needs to be acknowledged publicly, because it helps to confer a sense of reality on the loss but also because it makes it known that this was a real life.

The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life actually goes on. When you're faced with a tragedy, a loss so huge that you have no idea how you can live through it, somehow, the world keeps turning, the seconds keep ticking.

So much of my self worth was tied with my position. It felt like I was being enveloped in darkness. It was a sense of loss of enthusiasm, a loss of happiness, a significant decline in self worth.

There really is only one ending to any story. Human life ends in death. Until then, it keeps going and gets complicated and there's loss. Everything involves loss; every relationship ends in one way or another.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Secret fates Guide our states Both in mirth and mourning.

It was one of those times you feel a sense of loss, even though you didn't have something in the first place. I guess that's what disappointment is- a sense of loss for something you never had.

Warren Buffett likes to say that the first rule of investing is "Don't lose money," and the second rule is, "Never forget the first rule." I too believe that avoiding loss should be the primary goal of every investor. This does not mean that investors should never incur the risk of any loss at all. Rather "don't lose money" means that over several years an investment portfolio should not be exposed to appreciable loss of principal.

If you are truly merciful, then when what is yours is unjustly taken, don't be sad inside, and do not tell of our loss to your neighbor. Let a better loss, inflicted by those who insult you, be absorbed by your mercy.

As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse.

There is a big difference to someone being born with vision loss, to a kid having vision loss, to a senior having macular degeneration and losing their sight.

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

Loss of meaning is often part of the suffering that comes with physical loss, but it can also happen to people who have gained everything the world has to offer - who have made it in the eyes of the world - and suddenly find that their success or possessions are empty and unfulfilling.

When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life.

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

It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.

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

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

I'm always curious to see how a fighter responds after suffering a first loss. I'm especially curious when that first loss is via knockout.