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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. -- Margery Allingham
Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have... -- Edwin S. Shneidman
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. -- Thomas Lynch
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. -- Quintus Ennius
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also a door which opens, I hope, to take the reader deep into the book. -- Helen Dunmore
I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and other well-established foundations. I kick out a lot of time and money wherever I can. -- Queen Latifah
Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have... The deep capacity to weep for the loss of a loved one and to continue to treasure the memory of that loss is one of our noblest human traits. -- Edwin S. Shneidman
Mourning is not forbidden, you know. -- Simin Daneshvar
Mourning has its place but also its limits. -- Joan Didion
What is the difference between grief and mourning? Mourning has company. -- Roger Rosenblatt
Mourning has a pace and rhythm of its own. It cannot be rushed. -- Christian McEwen
Repentance lifts a man up. Mourning knocks at heaven's gate. Holy humility opens it. -- John Climacus
Mourning your first love is as important as meeting your first love. It's the whole cycle. -- Jane Anderson
Inherent in mourning is celebration. Mourning without celebration or some form of acceptance leaves you stuck. -- Ted Alexandro
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one. -- Frederick William Robertson
People ask me why I wear veils. I reply, I am mourning. Mourning what? Well I figure something shitty must be going on somewhere. -- Lady Gaga
I saw Roland Barthes's 'Mourning Diary' at a bookshop, and I felt it was like I was destined to see the book. I read it all in one go while I was in the shop. The book was mind-blowing. -- Go Ah-sung
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. -- Alonzo Mourning
I'm in mourning for my life. -- Anton Chekhov
When you take the U out of mourning, it's a brand new day! -- John Edward
The vastest earthly Day Is shrunken small By one Defaulting Face Behind a Pall. -- Emily Dickinson
I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning - organize. -- Joe Hill
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own. -- Antonio Porchia
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. -- Washington Irving
When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life. -- Anton Chekhov
The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them. -- Edmund Burke
We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead. -- Jane Austen
To re-live these characters would be wonderful, because I know when the show ends it will be huge mourning process. -- Gillian Anderson
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. -- Don Everly
When I am dead, no pageant train shall waste their sorrows at my bier. Nor worthless pomp of homage vain stain it with hypocritic tear. -- Edward Everett
In Asia, red is the colour of joy; red is the colour of festivities and of celebration. In Chinese culture, blue is the colour of mourning. -- Vincent Tan
When Princess Diana died, I couldn't understand why people were mourning her death in such an enormous, hysterical way when they didn't actually know her for real. -- Alison Jackson
After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. -- Oscar Wilde
My fellow Minnesotans join me in mourning the loss of America's 40th President and celebrating the life of a man who personified both the greatness and goodness of America. -- Jim Ramstad
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. -- Jermaine Jackson
And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay. -- George Washington Cable
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. -- William Gibson
Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing... -- Elizabeth Gilbert
I'm mourning with the rest of the world for the talented, gorgeous, funny, intelligent John Forsythe but my heart is broken for the loss of my dear, dear friend and neighbor. I will miss him terribly. -- Cheryl Ladd
Red was the blood of the siblings massacred in the North, black was for mourning them, green was for the prosperity Biafra would have, and, finally, the half of a yellow sun stood for the glorious future. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Chinese seemed to be mourning Mao in a heartfelt fashion. But I wondered how many of their tears were genuine. People had practiced acting to such a degree that they confused it with their true feelings. -- Jung Chang
Remember this-all the sighing, mourning, sobbing, and complaining in the world, does not so undeniably evidence a man to be humble, as his overlooking his own righteousness, and living really and purely upon the righteousness of Christ. -- Thomas Brooks
I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11. -- Adam Michnik
It was a huge shock. I've never had hair that short in my life! I think the rest of the cast and crew were mourning my haircut more than I was! But after a while, I felt liberated, I learned to embrace it. -- Camilla Belle
When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot. -- Maggie Stiefvater
After that I could never pass a dead man without stopping to gaze on his face, stripped by death of that earthly patina which masks the living soul. And I would ask, who were you? Where was your home? Who is mourning for you now? -- Ernst Toller
We've enshrined the purity, sanctity, value, and importance of bringing children into the world, yet we don't discuss death. There used to be an enshrined period where mourning was a necessary part of going through the process of grieving; death wasn't considered morbid or antisocial. But that's totally gone. -- Cate Blanchett
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. -- David Novak
We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of mourning will subside, we also know that we shall remain inconsolable and will never find a substitute. No matter what may fill the gap, even if it be filled completely, it nevertheless remains something else. -- Sigmund Freud
There were days I could barely struggle into a size 46 or 48, months of larges and XXLs, and endless rounds of leggings with the elastic at the waist stretched to its limit and beyond - topped with the fashion equivalent of a tea cozy. And always black, because I was in mourning for my slimmer self. -- Carrie Fisher
When someone died in the wilderness of frontier America, that person's physical remains were buried and the handcarts continued west, but the mourning survivors had hope for their loved one's eternal soul. However, when someone dies spiritually in the wilderness of sin, hope may be replaced by dread and fear for the loved one's eternal welfare. -- James E. Faust
Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise in a world where nothing lasts, where all that we have loved or shall love must die? Is death, then, the secret of life? The gloom of an eternal mourning enwraps, more or less closely, every serious and thoughtful soul, as night enwraps the universe. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
Intense love always leads to mourning. -- Louise Gluck
Intense love always leads to mourning. -- Louise Gluck
Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow. -- Catherynne M. Valente
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning. -- George Herbert
Let mourning stop when one's grief is fully expressed. -- Confucius
We see these adolescents mourning for a lost childhood. -- David Elkind
In your eyes of mourning the land of dreams begins. -- Pablo Neruda
When a mother dies, a daughter's mourning never completely ends. -- Hope Edelman
If mourning is denied outlet, the result will be suffering, -- Geoffrey Gorer
Secret fates Guide our states Both in mirth and mourning. -- Thomas Campion
Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night. -- Victor Hugo
Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering. -- Roland Barthes
Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth. -- Mason Cooley
Life is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene. -- Horace Walpole
By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems. -- W. H. Auden
The gospel of Jesus Christ is not a religion of mourning and gloom. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Ring out your bells! Let mourning show be spread! For Love is dead. -- Philip Sidney
It's not sipping wine. It's a mourning wine. You drain it. Like this. -- Neil Gaiman
Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns. -- Victor Hugo
In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels. -- Arthur Rimbaud
I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning. -- Maurice Sendak
There is no holier spot of ground than where defeated valor lies by mourning beauty crowned -- Henry Timrod
Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate -- Edmund Spenser
Many a smiling face hides a mourning heart; but grief alone teaches us what we are. -- Friedrich Schiller
As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse. -- Kate Braverman
Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited. -- Jacques Derrida
When someone we love dies, we get so busy mourning what died that we ignore what didn't. -- Ram Dass
Only the mourning for what one has missed at the crucial time can lead to real healing. -- Alice Miller
In the voice of mirth there may be excitement, but in the tones of mourning there is consolation. -- Willis Gaylord Clark
I did not know the work of mourning Is a labor in the dark We carry inside ourselves -- Edward Hirsch
Someone did us all a grave injustice by implying that mourning has a distinct beginning, middle, and end. -- Hope Edelman
I wake up in that state of grief when you can tell you've been mourning even in your sleep. -- Carolyn Parkhurst
In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself. -- Sigmund Freud
I wonder why bereaved people even bother with mourning clothes when the grief itself provides such an unmistakable wardrobe. -- Jandy Nelson
I get inhabited by a character and then you mourn it. There's a period of mourning for me, definitely. -- Eric Bana
I stood on the balcony dark with mourning... hoping the earth would spread its wings in my uninhabited love. -- Pablo Neruda
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The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning. -- Laozi
The man who follows Christ in solitary mourning is greater than he who praises Christ amid the congregation of men. -- Isaac of Nineveh
The blues is a hopeful music. It helps you process something rather than avoid it. It's like mourning, in essence. -- Ted Alexandro
Are ye the ghosts of fallen leaves, O flakes of snow, For which, through naked trees, the winds A-mourning go? -- John B. Tabb
In the custom of mourning, the fabric of the night had been ripped, revealing a star at each tiny tear. -- Jodi Picoult
Are ye the ghosts of fallen leaves, O flakes of snow, For which, through naked trees, the winds A-mourning go~? -- John B. Tabb
When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on. -- Gloria Steinem
No, it's not a 'corpse thing.' I feel I lack the emotional capacity to deal with those in mourning... -- Jen Lancaster
I hate funerals. They aren't for the guy who's dead. They're for the guys who are left alive and enjoy mourning. -- Humphrey Bogart
If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning coaches. -- Jonathan Swift
Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent. -- Alexander Pushkin
The hair is the finest ornament women have. Of old, virgins used to wear it loose, except when they were in mourning. -- Martin Luther
I had lots of opportunities to survive this [popularity] madness. Madame de StaÃ«l said, "Glory is the bright mourning of happiness." -- Brigitte Bardot
We're seeing people in the streets because this last week [since November 8, 2016] was a week of grief and mourning and despair for many. -- Katrina vanden Heuvel
Rosalia is dressed in raven clothes forty years too old for her, so that she seems to be in mourning for her life ... -- Penelope Gilliatt
When we neglect the artist in ourselves, there is a kind of mourning that goes on under the surface of our busy lives. -- Pat Schneider
Doesn't the devil live forever; who ever heard that the devil was dead? Did you ever see any person wearing mourning for the devil? -- Herman Melville
Meditation is a spiritual human activity like mourning, fasting, or praying, and is not limited to one religious group while remaining unavailable to others. (103) -- David Brazzeal
Through the days of love and celebration and joy, and through the dark days of mourning...the faithful horse has been with us always. -- Elizabeth Cotten
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. -- Janine di Giovanni
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. -- Brendan Gill
That probably greatest of narcissistic wounds -- not to have been loved just as one truly was -- cannot heal without the work of mourning. -- Alice Miller
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. -- Julie Klam
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. -- Roland Barthes
Today, the world lost a creative icon. Michelle and I join millions of fans from around the world in mourning the sudden death of Prince. -- Barack Obama
As traditions of mourning wane, women's role as designated mourners has also vanished. In consequence, the woman elegist must summon her own resources as an artist. -- Susan Stewart
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. -- Saib Tabrizi
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. -- Don Marquis
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. -- Paulette Alden

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