Mourn Quotes - Page 11

• We do not want to lose our grief, because our grief is bound up with our love and we could not cease to mourn without being robbed of our affections.

  Phillips Brooks

  Grief, Our Love, Want

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• What is required to face trauma is the ability to mourn, fully and deeply, all that has been taken from us. Only through mourning everything we have lost can we discover that we have in fact survived; that our spirits are indestructible.

  Aurora Levins Morales

  Taken, Mourning, Faces

  Aurora Levins Morales (1998). “Medicine Stories: History, Culture, and the Politics of Integrity”, p.19, South End Press

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• To expiate the pain of losing her firstborn son in the Iraq war, Cindy Sheehan decided to cheer herself up by engaging in Stalinist agitprop outside President Bush's Crawford ranch, ... It's the strangest method of grieving I've seen since Paul Wellstone's funeral. Someone needs to teach these liberals how to mourn.

  Ann Coulter

  Cheer, Pain, War

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• As we mourn President Mandela’s passing we must ask ourselves the fundamental question - what shall we do to respond to the tasks of building a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist and prosperous South Africa, a people-centred society free of hunger, poverty, disease and inequality, as well as Africa’s renaissance, to whose attainment President Nelson Mandela dedicated his whole life?

  Thabo Mbeki

  Hunger Poverty, People, President

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• The real artist has no pride. Unfortunately he sees that his art has no limits. He feels obscurely how far he is from the goal.
  While he is perhaps being admired by others, he mourns the fact that he has not yet reached the point to which his better genius, like a distant sun, ever beckons to him.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Art, Real, Pride

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• Call it not vain: they do not err Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies.

  Walter Scott

  Nature, Poet, Celebrate

  Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott (1841). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart”, p.30

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• It’s not in the nature of the lamb to mourn the lion.

  Peter Watts

  Lions, Lambs

  Peter Watts (2014). “Firefall”, p.263, Head of Zeus

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• 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

  Science, Men, Physicians

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• I will not dwell on, nor mourn over, our untimely decay, nor reproach my paleface brothers with hastening it, as we too may have been somewhat to blame.

  Chief Seattle

  Brother, Decay, May

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• Remember, too, every day, and whenever you can, repeat to yourself, Lord, have mercy on all who appear before Thee today. For every hour and every moment thousands of men leave life on this earth, and their souls appear before God. And how many of them depart in solitude, unknown, sad, dejected that no one mourns for them or even knows whether they have lived or not!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Soul, Solitude

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.484, First Avenue Editions

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• Animals, like us, are living souls. They are not things. They are not objects. Neither are they human. Yet they mourn. They love. They dance. They suffer. They know the peaks and chasms of being.

  Gary A. Kowalski

  Animal, Soul, Suffering

  Gary Kowalski (2007). “The Souls of Animals”, p.85, New World Library

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• If no one speaks out for [young readers], if they don’t speak out for themselves, all they’ll get for required reading will be the most bland books available. Instead of finding the information they need at the library, instead of finding novels that illuminate life, they will find only those materials to which nobody could possibly object... In this age of censorship I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will be silenced — writers’ voices, teachers’ voices, students’ voices — and all because of fear.

  Judy Blume

  Teacher, Book, Reading

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• Among our neighbors of Central and Southern America, we see the Caucasian mingled with the Indian and the African. They have the forms of free government, because they have copied them. To
  its benefits they have not attained, because that standard of civilization is above their race. Revolution succeeds Revolution, and the country mourns that some petty chief may triumph, and
  through a sixty days' government ape the rulers of the earth.

  Jefferson Davis

  Country, America, Race

  Jefferson Davis' speech, 1858.

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• You mourn, for it is proper to mourn. But your grief serves you; you do not become a slave to grief. You bid the dead farewell, and you continue.

  Neil Gaiman

  Philosophy, Grief, Farewell

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• So it is with life. Those thorns, the prickly problems of life, cause us to strive to rise above them and then, as we do, we learn. We learn to exercise true compassion, true kindness - or the thorns, if we let them, cause us to brood, to mourn over our trials. Then we plant the seeds of bitterness, hate, and ruin - weeds. We may reach up for the rose or down to the weeds...the weeds in life that tangle us, strangle us, and cause us to lose hope.

  James Michael

  Weed, Kindness, Hate

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• Oh! weep not that our beauty wears Beneath the wings of Time; That age o'erclouds the brow with cares That once was raised sublime... But mourn the inward wreck we feel As hoary years depart, And Time's effacing fingers steal Young feelings from the heart!

  Robert Montgomery

  Heart, Years, Wings

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• My body has taught me many things, all of them filled with soul: how to dance and make love, mourn and make music; now it is teaching me how to heal. I am learning to heed the shifting currents of my body-the subtle changes in temperature, muscle tension, thought and mood-the way a sailor rides the wind by reading the ripples on the water.

  Kat Duff

  Reading, Teaching, Wind

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• The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case?

  Zhuangzi

  Death, Men, Return

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• Mourn if you must, but don't stop fighting.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Fighting, Mourning, Ifs

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• None mourn more ostentatiously over the death of Germanicus than those who most rejoice at it [a death].

  Tacitus

  Mourning, Rejoice

  "The Annals & The Histories".

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• I am a woman and a woman of Africa. I am a daughter of Nigeria and if she is in shame, I shall stayand mourn with her in shame.

  Buchi Emecheta

  Daughter, Shame, Ifs

  1982 Destination Biafra.

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• Enemies are, to me, as important as friends in my life, and when they die I mourn their passing.

  Jessica Mitford

  Enemy, Important, Passing

  Jessica Mitford (2012). “Poison Penmanship: The Gentle Art of Muckraking”, p.219, New York Review of Books

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• Guilt is the most destructive of all emotions. It mourns what has been while playing no part in what may be, now or in the future.

  Penelope Leach

  Guilt, May, Emotion

  Penelope Leach (2013). “Your Baby and Child”, p.12, Knopf

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• With the Lincoln assassination, the South didnt feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.

  Candice Millard

  Slave Owners, People, Parent

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• It is one thing to mourn for sin because it exposes us to hell, and another to mourn for it because it is an infinite evil. It is one thing to mourn for it because it is injurious to ourselves; another, to mourn for it because it is offensive to God. It is one thing to be terrified; another, to be humbled.

  Gardiner Spring

  Evil, Offensive, Sin

  Gardiner Spring (1813). “Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character”, p.96

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