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• The evil-doer mourns in the next; he mourns in both. He mourns and suffers when he sees the evil of his own work.

  Max Muller

  Evil, Suffering, Doers

  F. Max Muller (2014). “The Dhammapada and Sutta-Nipata”, p.7, Routledge

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• "Should I comfort those who do not mourn?" Some preachers are too quick and too willing to hand out pardons to sinners who do not mourn over their crimes!

  John William Fletcher

  Hands, Religion, Comfort

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• The freedom-lovers of the world mourn the sad demise of Imam Khomeini.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  World, Demise, Lovers

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• Community [is] a group of individuals who have learned how to communicate honestly with each other, whose relationships go deeper than their masks of composure, and who have developed some significant commitment to "rejoice together, mourn together," and to "delight in each other, make others' conditions our own.

  M. Scott Peck

  Commitment, Community, Together

  M. Scott Peck (2010). “The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• Strange friend,' I said,'here is no cause to mourn.' 'None,'said the other,'save the undone years, The hopelessness.Whatever hope is yours Was my life also; I went hunting wild After the wildest beauty in the world.

  Wilfred Owen

  Hunting, Years, World

  'Strange Meeting' (written 1918)

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• Whatever mourns when many leave these shores: Whatever shares The eternal reciprocity of tears.

  Wilfred Owen

  Tears, Share, Reciprocity

  1918 'Insensibility', collected in Poems (published1920).

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• hen we mourn those who die young — those who have been robbed of time — we weep for lost joys. We weep for opportunities and pleasures we ourselves have never known. We feel sure that somehow that young body would have known the yearning delight for which we searched in vain all our lives.

  Josephine Hart

  Believe, Opportunity, Joy

  "Damage: a novel".

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• While I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is taking shape at this very moment, since I have not reached the stage of development at which I would be capable of perceiving it. A few hundred years hence, in this same place, another traveller, as despairing as myself, will mourn the disappearance of what I might have seen, but failed to see.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Past, Reality, Years

  Claude Levi-Strauss (2012). “Tristes Tropiques”, p.49, Penguin

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• There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death. They don't honor their own lives ... their minds are full of cotton. They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.... Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die.

  Charles Bukowski

  Death, Country, Flower

  "The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors have taken over the Ship". Book by Charles Bukowski, 1998.

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• We love a genius for what he leaves and mourn him for what he takes away

  Thomas Gainsborough

  Genius

  Nicola Kalinsky, Thomas Gainsborough (1995). “Gainsborough”, Phaidon Incorporated Limited

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• We mourn; we sorrow for our loved ones that go - our wives, our husbands, our children, our parents; we sorrow for them; and it is well and proper that we should moum for them and shed tears for the loss, for it is our loss; but it is their gain, for it is in the march of progress, advancement and development. It will be all right when our time comes, when we have finished our work and accomplished what the Lord required of us.

  Francis M. Lyman

  Children, Husband, Loss

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• Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this

  Richard Brautigan

  Thinking, Losing, Lost

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• we are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. as we were. as we are no longer. as we will one day not be at all.

  Joan Didion

  Inspirational, Loss, Bereavement

  "The Year of Magical Thinking". Book by Joan Didion, www.theguardian.com. 2005.

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• No longer mourn for me when I am dead than you shall hear the surly sullen bell give warning to the world that I am fled from this vile world with vilest worms to dwell: nay, if you read this line, remember not the hand that writ it, for I love you so, that I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, if thinking on me then should make you woe. O! if, I say, you look upon this verse when I perhaps compounded am with clay, do not so much as my poor name rehearse; but let your love even with my life decay; lest the wise world should look into your moan, and mock you with me after I am gone.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Sweet, Love You

  Sonnet 71

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• You lost your wife, Douglas. My heartbreaks for you, it really does. But I lose my husband every day, all over again. And I don’t even get to mourn.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Husband, Wife, Doe

  Jonathan Tropper (2007). “How to Talk to a Widower”, p.113, Bantam

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• Yes, the world may aspire to vacuousness, lost souls mourn beauty, insignificance surrounds us. Then let us drink a cup of tea. Silence descends, one hears the wind outside, autumn leaves rustle and take flight, the cat sleeps in a warm pool of light. And, with each swallow, time is sublimed.

  Muriel Barbery

  Sleep, Cat, Autumn

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• It's time to live with what we have and mourn what we lost.

  Lev Grossman

  Loss, Lost

  Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.293, Penguin

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• Life only has the value a person gives it. If I killed you here and now, yours would be worthless and no one would mourn you. Is that really what you want? (Sin) I don’t own my life. It means nothing to me. (Kish) Then it means nothing to anyone. But if you had your life again, would it still be worthless? (Sin)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mean, Giving, Would Be

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• I like to think that when I fall, A rain-drop in Death's shoreless sea, This shelf of books along the wall, Beside my bed, will mourn for me.

  Robert W. Service

  Wall, Rain, Book

  Robert William Service, “Bookshelf”

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• Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man's gift and that man's scope I no longer strive to strive towards such things (Why should the aged eagle stretch its wings?) Why should I mourn The vanished power of the usual reign?

  T. S. Eliot

  Hope, Men, Eagles

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.78, Faber & Faber

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• Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born, Relieve my languish and restore the light; With dark forgetting of my care return. And let the day be time enough to mourn The shipwreck of my ill adventured youth: Let waking eyes suffice to wail their scorn Without the torment of the night's untruth.

  Samuel Daniel

  Brother, Time, Sleep

  'Sonnets to Delia' (1592) no. 54

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• He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend:
  Eternity mourns that. 'Tis an ill cure
  For life's worst ills to have no time to feel them.

  Henry Taylor

  Time, Eternity, Cures

  Sir Henry Taylor (1844). “Philip van Artvelde; a dramatic romance ... Second edition”, p.21

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• So mourn'd the dame of Ephesus her love.

  Colley Cibber

  Life, Love Life, Dames

  Colley Cibber (1700). “The Tragical History of King Richard III.: As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal. By C. Cibber”, p.11

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• We all mourn in our own way. I mourn with a great steak.

  Joan Rivers

  Age, Way, Aging

  Dane Cook @DaneCook, twitter.com. September 05, 2014.

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• I count no more my wasted tears;
  They left no echo of their fall;
  I mourn no more my lonesome years;
  This blessed hour atones for all.
  I fear not all that Time or Fate
  May bring to burden heart or brow,-
  Strong in the love that came so late,
  Our souls shall keep it always now!

  Elizabeth Chase Allen

  Famous Love, Strong, Fall

  Elizabeth Akers Allen, “At Last”

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