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Not without hope we suffer and we mourn. -- William Wordsworth
Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn! -- Robert Burns
Mourn for me rather as living than as dead. -- Aeschylus
Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead. -- Friedrich Durrenmatt
Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again. -- Morrie Schwartz
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. -- George S. Patton
To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble. -- Aeschylus
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. -- Lord Byron
I can mourn internally, just be quiet about it. I have my moments but I'm not a real, expressive person, especially when it comes to like sadness. -- Faith Evans
When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die! -- Anna Letitia Barbauld
I think illness is a family journey, no matter what the outcome. Everybody has to be allowed to process it and mourn and deal with it in their own way. -- Marcia Wallace
And yet, I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was, even if you find your life is better after. You mourn the future that you thought you'd planned. -- Lynn Redgrave
One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf. -- Baruch Spinoza
Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them, do not. Miss them, do not. Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed, that is. Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose -- George Lucas
We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned? -- A. B. Yehoshua
Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight, out of mind.' But when you walk outside and see them on a billboard or on TV or on the cover of a magazine, it reopens the wound. It's a high-class problem, but it's real. -- Hank Azaria
Mourn with those are sorrowful. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Mourn if you must, but don't stop fighting. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living -- Mother Jones
Celebrate small victories often. Mourn failures quickly. Do what's necessary without fanfare. -- Chris Brogan
Mourn with those who are sorrowful.Be happy with those who are joyful. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Feel guilty. Mourn this. But move on. Don't let it destroy you. Forgive yourself. -- Richelle Mead
Run first,' Shane said. 'Mourn later.'It was the perfect motto for Morganville. -- Rachel Caine
Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic, throng the coward and the meek who see the world's great anguish and its wrong, and dare not speak. -- Ralph Chaplin
Do not mourn the dead with the belly. -- Homer
Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got. -- Josh Billings
This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn. -- Frederick Douglass
To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on. -- William Shakespeare
I get inhabited by a character and then you mourn it. There's a period of mourning for me, definitely. -- Eric Bana
We should not clap our hands and mourn, for he is out of trouble. You are still in it. -- David Ruffin
There is a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance. -- Solomon
I think you have to know how you feel when you're sad and it's healthy to mourn if a relationship ends. -- Leighton Meester
There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them. -- Ferdinand Marcos
There are many things we do not want in this world. Let us not just mourn them; let us change them -- Ferdinand Marcos
I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that. -- Elizabeth McGovern
We are all born and someday we'll all die. Most likely to some degree alone. Our aloneness in this world is, maybe not anymore, a thing to mourn. -- Rachel Corrie
And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up. -- Nigella Lawson
No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell. -- William Shakespeare
Do not think too much of the dead husk of your friend, or mourn too much over it, but send your thoughts out towards the real soul or self which has escaped - to reach it. -- Edward Carpenter
As they say in the bible, that you're supposed to rejoice when people die and mourn when they're born, because it's one of the most painful acts you go through in life, is being born, and dying. -- Gregg Allman
The BBC is part of the glue which binds the United Kingdom together. At those times of national moment - of joy or sadness, in the UK or around the world, at times when the nation wants to celebrate, mourn or just enjoy itself people turn to the BBC. -- Gavyn Davies
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The Internet rewards scale; by trading higher up-front costs for lower marginal cost, market leaders can invest in better technology and service. As a result, there is nothing online that is both great in quality and small in scale. Amazon wasn't originally a better bookstore than the small shops we mourn, but it is now. -- John Katzman
I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate, adding deeper darkness to a night that is already void of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Some of us only meet in the most fleeting moments; some of us never meet, but still hear about one another and therefore cherish what we know from what we've heard, and mourn the loss, even though we're spared what the close-loved ones must endure - the ongoing pain of an empty place in the heart for the rest of life. -- Mimi Kennedy
Outcasts always mourn. -- Oscar Wilde
Don't mourn, Organise -- Joe Hill
A person doesn't mourn forever. -- Junot Diaz
Death always leaves one singer to mourn. -- Katherine Anne Porter
We do not die with those we mourn. -- Elizabeth Chase Allen
So mourn'd the dame of Ephesus her love. -- Colley Cibber
They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness. -- Lord Byron
No need to be sentimental to mourn the loss of Paradise. -- Mason Cooley
To mourn, perhaps, is simply to prolong a posture of astonishment ... -- Sara Suleri
How do you mourn something that never really belonged to you? -- Rebecca Serle
Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return. -- Homer
Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing. -- Clarice Lispector
How futile are words in the ears of those who mourn. -- Helen Keller
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing. -- Martial
It's not in the nature of the lamb to mourn the lion. -- Peter Watts
The freedom-lovers of the world mourn the sad demise of Imam Khomeini. -- Ruhollah Khomeini
We all mourn in our own way. I mourn with a great steak. -- Joan Rivers
Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
It's time to live with what we have and mourn what we lost. -- Lev Grossman
Don't mourn over your bad decisions. Just start overcoming them with good ones. -- Joyce Meyer
I worship talents almost. I sinfully dare mourn that I possess them not. -- Dorothea Dix
None mourn more ostentatiously than those who most rejoice at it [a death]. -- Tacitus
We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones. -- Paul Eldridge
Let us not mourn that such men died, but rejoice that such men lived. -- George S. Patton
If you kept moving, you never had to mourn what you were leaving behind. -- Lisa Alther
A thick rivulet of lost blood reflects a city that will mourn but never die. -- Carla H. Krueger
It is those who make the least display of their sorrow who mourn the deepest. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
I mourn the loss of the gigantic screen, but I guess you can't have everything. -- Warren Beatty
All Americans mourn the passing of the author of the Declaration of Independence, George Jefferson. -- Andy Borowitz
We mourn the future because it's easier than admitting that we're miserable in the present. -- Robyn Schneider
We love a genius for what he leaves and mourn him for what he takes away -- Thomas Gainsborough
Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankless sea -- J. R. R. Tolkien
For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun. -- Aldo Leopold
Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this -- Richard Brautigan
I don't mourn the loss of my childhood; I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost. -- Fernando Pessoa
But to mourn, that's different. To mourn is to be eaten alive with homesickness for the person. -- Olive Ann Burns
In chains and darkness, wherefore should I stay, And mourn in prison, while I keep the key. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
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Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there. -- Wendell Berry
Let no one mourn that he has fallen again and again; for forgiveness has risen from the grave. -- Saint John Chrysostom
Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God. -- Sophocles
I mourn in grey, grey as the sleeted wind the bled shades of twilight, gunmetal, battleships, industrial paint. -- Marge Piercy
The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them. -- Edmund Burke
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We can mourn and grieve and will face innumerable sunsets without him. But we will still face the sunsets. -- Thomm Quackenbush
The cold, the changed, perchance the dead, anew, The mourn'd, the loved, the lost,-too many, yet how few! -- Lord Byron
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death. -- Baron de Montesquieu
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While friends and lovers mourn your silly grave, I have other uses for you, darling. I love the dead. -- Alice Cooper
The flower fades and dies; but he who wears the flower has not to mourn for it for ever. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Enemies are, to me, as important as friends in my life, and when they die I mourn their passing. -- Jessica Mitford
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived. -- George S. Patton Jr.
Take what you can have. Rejoice in what you can save, and do not mourn your loses for too long. -- Robert Jordan
Whenever I see Tom [ Cavanagh] - we're good friends - we just mourn that we didn't get a longer shot. -- Eric McCormack
Even the jerks earn some of our affection. We can be glad they're gone and yet still mourn the good parts. -- Shannon Hale
The nearer a man lives to God, the more intensely has he to mourn over his own evil heart." -Charles Spurgeon -- Charles Spurgeon
When a father climbs a dangerous mountain and dies, we mourn. When a mother does, we question her judgment. How could she? -- Susan Estrich
I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo, -- Lord Acton
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Lord Jesus, bring comfort to all those who mourn and peace of heart to those under pressure and tension, in Jesus Christ's name -- T. B. Joshua
And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn. -- Oscar Wilde
Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Lead such a life, that, when you die, the people may mourn you, and while you are alive they long for your company. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
Joys as winged dreams fly fast, / Why should sadness longer last? / Grief is but a wound to woe; / Gentlest fair, mourn, mourn no moe. -- John Fletcher
To lose a friend is the greatest of all evils, but endeavour rather to rejoice that you possessed him than to mourn his loss. -- Seneca the Younger
Perhaps the most dehumanizing thing in Gaza is people there don't have the time to properly mourn the dead before strikes kill even more -- Yousef Munayyer
When your cup is empty, you do not mourn what is gone. Because if you do, you will miss the opportunity to fill it again. -- Sarah Addison Allen
If one lied, or put you down, don't mourn don't grieve, for why do you care, you don't want to be friends with the mean. -- Zoe Rosenberg
I've never, nor shall I ever, mourn the loss of a fool. Losing a fool, is the same as gaining, retaining, and reaffirming my intelligence. -- Justin K. McFarlane Beau
When he can render no further aid, the physician alone can mourn as a man with his incurable patient. This is the physician's sad lot. -- Aretaeus of Cappadocia
Nobody will ever know I existed. Nothing to leave behind me. Nothing to pass on. Nobody to mourn me. That's the bitterest blow of all. -- Tony Hancock
The kind of death you should mourn over is the one that happen when you abort your potentials prematurely! Life without purpose is a tragedy! -- Israelmore Ayivor
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
Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower of such a death. -- Silas Weir Mitchell
Why should we feel sad when the Hindu brothers choose to leave our country? Do we mourn when we have indigestion and materials leave our bodies? -- Delwar Hossain Sayeedi

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