Mourn Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as profuse laughter; while, on the other hand, not to mourn at all is insensibility.

  Seneca the Younger

  Laughter, Fate, Hands

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• We do not die with those we mourn.

  Elizabeth Chase Allen

  Dies

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• To mourn deeply for the death of another loosens from myself the petty desire for, and the animal adherence to life. We have gained the end of the philosopher, and view without shrinking the coffin and the pall.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Death, Animal, Views

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• One rational voice is dumb: over a grave
  The household of Impulse mourns one dearly loved.
  Sad is Eros, builder of cities,
  And weeping anarchic Aphrodite.

  W. H. Auden

  Death, Cities, Voice

  "In Memory of Sigmund Freud" l. 109 (1939)

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• Whoever mourns the dead mourns himself.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Death, Grief

  Cynthia Ozick (1996). “A Cynthia Ozick Reader”, p.45, Indiana University Press

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• He mourns the dead who lives as they desire.

  Edward Young

  Life, Desire

  Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1793). “Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job”, p.20

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• The cold, the changed, perchance the dead, anew, The mourn'd, the loved, the lost,-too many, yet how few!

  Lord Byron

  Love, Losing, Cold

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.136, Cambridge University Press

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• Come o'er the eastern hills, and let our winds Kiss thy perfumed garments; let us taste Thy morn and evening breath; scatter thy pearls Upon our love-sick land that mourns for thee.

  William Blake

  Kissing, Land, Wind

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.4, Pearson Education

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• To lose a friend is the greatest of all evils, but endeavour rather to rejoice that you possessed him than to mourn his loss.

  Seneca the Younger

  Loss, Evil, Endeavour

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• At times of crisis or distress, it's poems that people turn to. (Poetry) still has a power to speak to people's feelings, maybe in a way that fiction, because it works in a longer way, can't. There's a little bit of your brain that mourns and grieves that you're not writing poetry, but actually as long as I'm writing something, I'm happy.

  Blake Morrison

  Writing, Grieving, Long

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• By saying "blessed are those who mourn", Jesus does not intend to declare an unfortunate and burdensome condition in life to be happy. Suffering is not a value in itself, but a reality that Jesus teaches us to live with the correct attitude.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Attitude, Blessed

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• For sure, the funeral industry seems intensely cynical to me and I don't think it is HELPING people mourn.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Thinking, People, Cynical

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• When people sing together, community is created. Together we rejoice, we celebrate, we mourn and we comfort each other. Through music, we reach each others hearts and souls. Music allows us to find a connection.

  Peter Yarrow

  Heart, People, Community

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• But there are so many ways to be needy. There are many who mourn and find no comfort. Many are lonely and find no love. Some feel unneeded and find no opportunities to share with others. Anyone who has an unmet need is needy. We are all needy! And those who have something they can share are rich. We are all rich! All of us can share something that may lift a burden or help in some silent struggle.

  Mary Edmunds

  Lonely, Struggle, Opportunity

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• Today the heart of God is an open wound of love. He aches over our distance and preoccupation. He mourns that we do not draw near to Him. He grieves that we have forgotten Him. He weeps over our obsession with muchness and manyness. He longs for our presence.

  Richard J. Foster

  Distance, Heart, Grieving

  Richard J. Foster (2009). “Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart's True Home”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• I get very nostalgic for times and places and experiences, but I have a wonderful group of core friends and family who I love and adore, so I don't mourn the loss of any particular friendship. I think they're all part of a path, and the ones that really mean something are still important in my life.

  Katie Aselton

  Mean, Loss, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• This is a lifetime of good-byes. In our time, we will say good-bye to cherished people, things, and ideas. Eventually, we say good-bye to life itself with our death. Learn to say a good good-bye. Allow yourself to mourn each loss. As with a physical wound, the body has its own schedule for healing. It will tell you when it has healed.

  Peter McWilliams

  Healing, Loss, Ideas

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• I can usually tell when a woman is going through a divorce because they look so gaunt and tired and sad. It's just a huge sadness. It's horrible. It's like death. You mourn, but the person's still there.

  Andie MacDowell

  Tired, Sadness, Divorce

  "Actress Andie MacDowell is happy out of the spotlight" by Luaine Lee, www.washingtonpost.com. August 10, 2013.

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