Mourning Quotes - Page 7

• Secret fates
  Guide our states
  Both in mirth and mourning.

  Thomas Campion

  Fate, Secret, Mirth

  Thomas Campion (1909). “Campion's Work”

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• Although I could lament in the language and feelings of David for Absalom, I am constrained to say, peace to his manes. Let us weep for the living, and not for the dead.

  Andrew Jackson

  Feelings, Language, Consolation

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• A woman who'd lost her first son
  consoled us with an angel gone ahead
  to pray for our family--
  gone into that sky
  seeking oxygen,
  gone into autopsy

  Michael S. Harper

  Angel, Son, Oxygen

  Michael S. Harper (1977). “Images of Kin: New and Selected Poems”, p.197, University of Illinois Press

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• Poland remains undzer heym, our home, no matter how bitter the memories, how filled with disappointment and betrayal. Amerike iz goles, America is exile, a foreign land in which I speak a foreign tongue. But I will never live in Poland. I do not want to, though I do not see an end to the mourning.

  Irena Klepfisz

  Memories, Disappointment, Betrayal

  Irena Klepfisz (1990). “Dreams of an Insomniac: Jewish Feminist Essays, Speeches, and Diatribes”

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• Monarchs not only fashion their age, but are fashioned by it, so that they can become a sort of personification of the age. If Elizabeth I, independent, strong, represents the age of Shakespeare's heroines, a woman's heyday, Victoria represents another image of womanhood, predominant in the nineteenth century: a woman who, although queen in her own right, leaned on her husband, looked up to him, and went into perpetual mourning after his death. The feminist movement filled her with shocked horror and outrage.

  Eva Figes

  Fashion, Strong, Queens

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

  Friedrich Schiller

  Grief, Heart, Faces

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• In today's world it is deceptively easy to lose sight of our direction and the things that matter and give us joy. How quickly the days can slip by, the years all gone, and we, at the end of our lives, mourning the life we dreamed of but never lived. Poetry urges us to stand once and for all, and now, in the heart of our own life.

  Roger Housden

  Heart, Years, Sight

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

  Horace Walpole

  Farce, Life Is, Scene

  Horace Walpole, Peter Cunningham (1858). “The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Oxford”, p.452

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

  Jonathan Swift

  Believe, Men, Walks

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1814). “The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellaneous essays”, p.436

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• 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

  Children, Mean, Kids

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• 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

  Narcissistic, Heal, Has Beens

  Alice Miller (1981). “Prisoners of Childhood”, New York : Basic Books

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• The free expression of resentment against one's parents represents a great opportunity. It provides access to one's true self, reactivates numbed feelings, opens the way for mourning and - with luck - reconciliation.

  Alice Miller

  Family, Opportunity, Self

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• Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Blessing, Boredom

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

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

  Christian McEwen

  Grief, Pace, Rhythm

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• People will suffer and so will nature, but life is likely to go on with a great deal of loss and mourning. Human adaptability and resilience will still be alive, and so will that great need and resource of ours called love.

  Dale Jamieson

  Loss, People, Resilience

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The force behind the movement of time is a mourning that will not be comforted. That is why the first event is known to have been an expulsion, and the last is hoped to be a reconciliation and return. So memory pulls us forward, so prophecy is only brilliant memory - there will be a garden where all of us as one child will sleep in our mother Eve, hooped in her ribs and staved by her spine.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Mother, Time, Children

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• Nowadays most people wear black most of the time anyway: go to a literary party and one would imagine everyone there was in perpetual mourning for their lives.

  Fay Weldon

  Party, Clothes, People

  Fay Weldon (2007). “Auto da Fay: A Memoir”, p.194, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Mourning has become unfashionable in the United States. The bereaved are supposed to pull themselves together as quickly as possible and to reweave the torn fabric of life. ... we do not allow ... for the weeks and months during which a loss is realized - a beautiful word that suggests the transmutation of the strange into something that is one's own.

  Margaret Mead

  Beautiful, Grief, Loss

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1970). “A way of seeing”

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• Do not mourn the dead with the belly.

  Homer

  Belly, Mourn

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• 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

  Years, Ravens, Clothes

  Penelope Gilliatt (1980). “Three-Quarter Face: Reports & Reflections”, Coward McCann

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• 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

  Dark, Thinking, Night

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• People are put down in television now, not because they're not qualitative, not because they're not talented - but because there's no room for them, and worse than that, there's nowhere they can find exposure. Their own good talent may die of mourning, just for want of having somebody read what they've written. I don't presume to say how we can best provide platforms for new writers to get read. I don't know. But therein lies the major problem.

  Rod Serling

  Lying, People, Television

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• I still read a lot about teenage angst! Of course, any kind of mourning CAN become pathological and then it 'has to stop', but to move through life untouched by the loss of hopes, beliefs and aspirations once cherished is also questionable.

  George Pattison

  Teenage, Moving, Loss

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• Only with gun violence do we respond to repeated tragedies by saying that mourning is acceptable but discussing how to prevent more tragedies is not. But that's unacceptable. As others have observed, talking about how to stop mass shootings in the aftermath of a string of mass shootings isn't 'too soon.' It's much too late.

  Ezra Klein

  Gun, Mass Shootings, Talking

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• Mourning has its place but also its limits.

  Joan Didion

  Limits

  Joan Didion (2007). “The Year of Magical Thinking”, p.54, Vintage

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