Mourn Quotes - Page 12

• The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them.

  Edmund Burke

  Mourning, Care, Way

  Edmund Burke “The Correspondence of Edmund Burke”, CUP Archive

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• To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Grief, Failing, Endeavor

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• When winter stern, his gloomy front uprears,
  A sable void the barren earth appears;
  The meads no more their former verdure boast,
  Fast-bound their streams, and all their beauty lost;
  The herds, the flocks, in icy garments mourn, and wildly murmur for the Spring's return;
  From snow-topp'd hills the whirlwinds keenly blow,
  Howl through the woods, and pierce the vales below,
  Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies,
  Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies.

  George Crabbe

  Spring, Winter, Blow

  George Crabbe (1861). “The Life and Poetical Works of the Rev. George Crabbe”, p.8

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• If you kept moving, you never had to mourn what you were leaving behind.

  Lisa Alther

  Moving, Leaving, Behinds

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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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• I walk where once the grass was green
  And mourn the lark that sings no more
  What bird could sing whose eyes have seen
  Broken blossoms on the field of war?

  Tom Springfield

  War, Eye, Broken

  "Song: 'Broken Blossoms'". 1967.

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• To mourn, perhaps, is simply to prolong a posture of astonishment.

  Sara Suleri

  Grief, Astonishment, Posture

  Sara Suleri (2018). “Meatless Days”, p.159, Penguin UK

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• Preacher who says that the sweet life is made from bitter parts is more or less telling those who have come to mourn the teenage suicide that this is just one bitter ingredient in the sweet thing foreordained by the benevolent god. To which I want to shake my fist and say: There is not one sweet thing about it. It is only bitter.

  Kyle Minor

  Suicide, Sweet, Teenage

  "To Rage Against Meaninglessness". Interview with Matt Bell, logger.believermag.com. February 6, 2014.

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• When people see the terrible scenes of violence on television, when we mourn the death of each and every American man and woman in uniform or a civilian that's killed in Iraq, that it's hard to see the progress that's being made and it's hard to believe that this is all going to come out for the better.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Believe, Men, People

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. August 7, 2006.

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• Lords, I protest my soul is full of woe
  That blood should sprinkle me to make me grow.
  Come, mourn with me for what I do lament,
  And put sullen black incontinent.
  I'll make a voyage to the Holy Land
  To wash this blood off from my guilty hand.
  March sadly after. Grace my mournings here
  In weeping after this untimely bier.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Blood, Hands

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.336, BookCaps Study Guides

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• in coming to terms with the newly dead, I seem to have agitated the spirits of the long dead. They were stirring uneasily in their graves, demanding to be mourned as I had not mourned them when they were buried. I was plunged into retroactive grief for my father, and could no longer deny, though I still tried, the loss I'd suffered at the death of my mother. ... Was it possible ... that one could mourn over losses that had occurred more than half a century earlier?

  Eileen Simpson

  Mother, Father, Grief

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• On this National Day of Prayer and Remembrance, we ask almighty God to watch over our nation, and grant us patience and resolve in all that is to come. We pray that He will comfort and console those who now walk in sorrow. We thank Him for each life we now must mourn, and the promise of a life to come.

  George W. Bush

  Prayer, Humor, Remembrance

  Remarks at the National Day of Prayer & Remembrance Service, delivered 14 September 2001, Episcopal National Cathedral

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• I saw in States' rights the only availing check upon the absolutism of the sovereign will, and secession filled me with hope, not as the destruction but as the redemption of Democracy.... Therefore I deemed that you were fighting the battles of our liberty, our progress, and our civilization, and I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo.

  Lord Acton

  Fighting, Rights, Civilization

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• When we mourn our parents, we mourn the parents we had as well as the ones we never had. With death, all bets are off: the last chance at reconciliation or change or hope is gone. Whatever relationship we had with our parents, that's it. No more chances for something else.

  Joan M. Drury

  Parent, Gone, Lasts

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• 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, Loss

  "Places I Never Meant to Be". Book by Judy Blume, August 26, 1999.

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• When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd / And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, / I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.

  Walt Whitman

  Stars, Spring, Night

  "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" l. 1 (1881)

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• The entire Habitat family mourns the loss of our founder, a true giant in the affordable housing movement. Our prayers are with the entire Fuller family.

  Jonathan Reckford

  Prayer, Loss, Giants

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• When a father climbs a dangerous mountain and dies, we mourn. When a mother does, we question her judgment. How could she?

  Susan Estrich

  Mother, Father, Mountain

  "Sarah Palin and the Double Standard" by Susan Estrich, September 03, 2008.

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• Guess what: God created beings not to act in a morality play but to
  experience what is unfathomable, to elicit what can become, to descend
  into the darkness of creation and reveal it to him, to mourn and celebrate
  enigma and possibility. The universe is a whirling dervish, not a hanging
  judge in robes.

  Richard Grossinger

  Play, Judging, Darkness

  Richard Grossinger (2012). “On the Integration of Nature: Post-9/11 Biopolitical Notes”, p.78, North Atlantic Books

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• The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.

  Irving Stone

  Heart, Joy, Brooding

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• From the onset, I saw victims on both ends of the gun. I will mourn my son's death for the rest of my life. Now, however, my grief has been transformed into a powerful commitment to change. Change is urgently needed in a society where children kill children.

  Azim Khamisa

  Children, Powerful, Grief

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• No need to be sentimental to mourn the loss of Paradise.

  Mason Cooley

  Loss, Needs, Paradise

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