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Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist. -- Franz Liszt
Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other. -- Jean Baudrillard
Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream? For these red lips, with all their mournful pride, Mournful that no new wonder may betide, Troy passed away in one high funeral gleam, And Usna's children died. -- William Butler Yeats
Many years ago in a period commonly know as Next Friday Afternoon, there lived a King who was very Gloomy on Tuesday mornings because he was so Sad thinking about how Unhappy he had been on Monday and how completely Mournful he would be on Wednesday ... -- Walt Kelly
The wailing owl Screams solitary to the mournful moon. -- David Mallet
And all around is the desert; a corner of the mournful kingdom of sand. -- Pierre Loti
When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood. -- Georg Trakl
In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield. -- Douglas MacArthur
Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face. -- Lydia M. Child
Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures. -- David K. Shipler
Throughout his career, W.G. Sebald wrote poems that were strikingly similar to his prose. His tone, in both genres, was always understated but possessed of a mournful grandeur. -- Teju Cole
I write every day, including weekends. For writers, there are no weekends. It's just that your family is around, looking mournful, wondering when you're going to pay attention to them. -- Janet Fitch
I'm not very popular, because they're bleak and they're mournful and all the rest of it and I get censorious reviews. But I'm only writing fiction. I'm not making munitions, so I think it's acceptable. -- Anita Brookner
People tell me I look mournful. They say, 'Cheer up, Dan, it's not that bad!' Sometimes I just look into space, which freaks people out. If I was ever required to do anything other than look haunted, I could. I'm a happy person. -- Daniel Radcliffe
My grandfather played a mandolin, so I got my hands on that. Then on down to a banjo, and I found I couldn't play any kind of soft or mournful music with that so I took up the fiddle in my late 20s or early 30s - and that was far too late. But it keeps me off the streets. It has been a love of mine since I was 17 maybe. -- Brendan Gleeson
Sing it not in mournful numbers. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I hear the mournful wail of millions! -- Frederick Douglass
The wailing owl screams solitary to the mournful moon..... -- David Mallet
Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed. -- Samuel Johnson
The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene. -- John Dryden
Besides what endless brawls by wives are bred,The curtain lecture makes a mournful bed. -- Juvenal
The music was so mournful and emotional that it seemed like the only suitable thing to play. -- Deborah Curtis
I can't feel a thing; All mournful petal storms are dancing inside the very private spring of my head. -- Franz Kafka
Every regret, every mournful thought, takes so much out of your life. It is force used to pile on more misery. -- Prentice Mulford
Seungri sounds mournful while T.O.P has a masculine and husky voice. My voice is thin, just like when I talk -- G-Dragon
This is a mournful discovery. 1)Those who agree with you are insane 2)Those who do not agree with you are in power. -- Philip K. Dick
I know that something dies when i give up my books, and that my memory keeps going back to them with mournful nostalgia. -- Alberto Manguel
A true religious instinct never deprived man of one single joy; mournful faces and a sombre aspect are the conventional affectations of the weak-minded. -- Hosea Ballou
The tune was wailing and mournful, almost flagrantly so, and the total effect was of a heartbroken piccolo being parted forever from its bagpipe lover. -- Peter S. Beagle
This afternoon held that special quality of mournful emptiness I've connected with late Sunday afternoons ever since childhood: the feeling of having nothing to do. -- Margaret Atwood
In vain would I seek to discover Why sad and mournful am I, My thoughts without ceasing brood over A tale of the time gone by. -- Heinrich Heine
Who ne'er his bread in sorrow ate, Who ne'er the mournful midnight hours Weeping upon his bed has sate, He knows you not, ye Heavenly Powers. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The tragic solemnity of existence strikes us with terrible force on that morning when we wake to find the mournful words "too late" ringing in our ears. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
It is a mournful thing to know that you are utterly isolated among millions of human beings; that not a drop of your blood flows in any other veins. -- Augusta Jane Evans
Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play! -- John Greenleaf Whittier
Nothing is dead: men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals and mournful obituaries, and there they stand looking out ofthe window, sound and well, in some new and strange disguise. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He went in, lean and deadly, and ended the creature with a lightning-fast spike of his blade. It shrieked, likely altering the rest. The death call carried like a mournful song. -- Ann Aguirre
Now get some clothes on before the women around here are driven into a frenzy." He gave me a mournful look. "I'm afraid that'll happen with or without clothes, my dear. -- Richelle Mead
My silks and fine array, My smiles and languished air, By love are driv'n away And mournful lean Despair Brings me yew to deck my grave: Such end true lovers have. -- William Blake
Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale. -- Oliver Goldsmith
That ignorant confidence in one's self and one's future, which comes in life's first dawn, has a sort of mournful charm in experienced eyes, who know how much it all amounts to. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Let me set my mournful ditty To a merry measure; Thou wilt never come for pity, Thou wilt come for pleasure; Pity then will cut away Those cruel wings, and thou wilt stay. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after those who worked the desolation are but atoms of earth themselves. -- Charles Dickens
I would rather have this life of combat than the moral calm and mournful stupor of these last years. God give me struggle, enemies, howling crowds, all the combot of which I am capable. -- Romain Rolland
What did I hope for, what did I expect, what rich future did I foresee, when the phantom of my first love, rising up for an instant, barely called forth one sigh, one mournful sentiment? -- Ivan Turgenev
A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools. -- John Sterling
I feel a strong immortal hope, which bears my mournful spirit up beneath its mountain load; redeemed from death, and grief, and pain, I soon shall find my [child] again within the arms of God. -- Charles Wesley
The sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain. This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means that only the simplest animals perceive the universe as it is. -- Annie Dillard

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