Top 302 Mourning Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I had lots of opportunities to survive this [popularity] madness. Madame de Staël said, "Glory is the bright mourning of happiness."

The hair is the finest ornament women have. Of old, virgins used to wear it loose, except when they were in mourning.

When we neglect the artist in ourselves, there is a kind of mourning that goes on under the surface of our busy lives.

Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

Repentance lifts a man up. Mourning knocks at heaven's gate. Holy humility opens it.

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

The elegy does the work of mourning; it allows us to experience mortality. It turns loss into remembrance, and it delivers an inheritance.

Many a smiling face hides a mourning heart; but grief alone teaches us what we are.

When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.

Mourning the loss of the phone call is like pining for buggy driving or women in hats or three-martini lunches. They've gone.

My future is about the joy of loving those around me, of being with the people who are still here and not just mourning my loss.

You can't understand Twenties England until you appreciate it was under a cloud of mourning. Nearly everyone was grieving.

I wonder why bereaved people even bother with mourning clothes when the grief itself provides such an unmistakable wardrobe.

The man who follows Christ in solitary mourning is greater than he who praises Christ amid the congregation of men.

After 'Orange' wrapped and my character wrapped, I felt like I went through a bit of a mourning period.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

The last TV show I really indulged in was 'Breaking Bad,' and I was in such a state of mourning when it ended. I've got to choose my next one carefully.

Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent.

Depression is a feeling without a cause. Mourning has a cause.

I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning - organize.

My biggest learning has been understanding that celebrating someone's life is more important than mourning the loss of one.

The olive branch has been consecrated to peace, palm branches to victory, the laurel to conquest and poetry, the myrtle to love and pleasure, the cypress to mourning, and the willow to despondency.

The weeping of the candle is not in mourning for the moth: the dawn is at hand, and it is thinking of its own dark night.

Black was not the universal hue of mourning in Europe. In Castile, white obtained on the death of its princes.

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

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

Coming off the bench behind a fine young center like Alonzo Mourning fits my style.

To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion for mourning.

Someone did us all a grave injustice by implying that mourning has a distinct beginning, middle, and end.

Losing people you love affects you. It is buried inside of you and becomes this big, deep hole of ache. It doesn't magically go away, even when you stop officially mourning.

I stood on the balcony dark with mourning... hoping the earth would spread its wings in my uninhabited love.

It's hard for the Catholic Church to accept change. When the mass was no longer said in Latin, loyalists went into mourning for years.

For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.

That probably greatest of narcissistic wounds -- not to have been loved just as one truly was -- cannot heal without the work of mourning.

To re-live these characters would be wonderful, because I know when the show ends it will be huge mourning process.

It's not sipping wine. It's a mourning wine. You drain it. Like this.

I know the injustice of outliving a child, the pain of a future stolen away, of mourning forever a voice you'll never hear.

Are ye the ghosts of fallen leaves, O flakes of snow, For which, through naked trees, the winds A-mourning go?

A great many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life could make it seem longer if they did a little more work.

Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.

We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

My first novel was called 'Betrayed by F. Scott Fitzgerald,' about the difficulties of graduating from college, the longing and mourning you feel when all your promise seems to float away.

Every time someone in your life dies, you realize you're not invincible and you have to wonder if we're celebrating life or if we're mourning a death.

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.

Naming suffering, exalting it, dissecting it into its smallest components – that is doubtless a way to curb mourning.

I wake up in that state of grief when you can tell you've been mourning even in your sleep.

The blues is a hopeful music. It helps you process something rather than avoid it. It's like mourning, in essence.

'The Babadook,' written and directed by a woman, is a gorgeously told female-focused story of grief, longing, loneliness, and what mourning can become.

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.

My granny was always mourning about the fact I wear dull, stained jeans or don't brush my hair.

What I expect from writers-and from myself as a writer-is to articulate a complex view of things. To incite us to be more compassionate. To orchestrate our mourning. And to celebrate ecstasy.

Home, as far as I'm concerned, is the place you have to leave. And then, if you're like me, spend the rest of your life mourning.

I never relied on my beauty for anything. It was one of those things that was inevitable; you have a bit of philosophy about it. I didn't go into mourning.

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

Isn’t the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language — the amorous language? No more ‘I love you’s.

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

Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black and loving mourners be, Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain. And truly not the morning sun of heaven Better becomes the grey cheeks of the east, Nor that full star that ushers in the even, Doth half that glory to the sober west, As those two mourning eyes become thy face: O! let it then as well beseem thy heart To mourn for me since mourning doth thee grace, And suit thy pity like in every part. Then will I swear beauty herself is black, And all they foul that thy complexion lack

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

I know that 'Tangerine' is getting a lot of attention for pushing the iFilm, but I am really mourning the death of celluloid.

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.