Mourning Quotes - Page 2

• I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.

  Thomas Lynch

  People, Funeral, Retail

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• It is not length of life, but depth of life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.191, Harvard University Press

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• On a day of burial there is no perspective--for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was--to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Love, Death, Saying Goodbye

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• All Americans mourn the passing of the author of the Declaration of Independence, George Jefferson.

  Andy Borowitz

  Funny, Independence, Comedian

  FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Jul 25, 2012

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• We must delight in each other, make others conditions our own, rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, our community as members of the same body.

  John Winthrop

  Inspirational, Eye, Community

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• There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

  Washington Irving

  Love, Marriage, Sympathy

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  It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

  George S. Patton

  Sympathy, Death, Wisdom

  Speech at the Copley Plaza Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts, on June 07, 1945. "Patton, ordeal and triumph". Book by Ladislas Farago, 1963.

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• Repentance lifts a man up. Mourning knocks at heaven's gate. Holy humility opens it.

  John Climacus

  Humility, Men, Heaven

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• A human life is a story told by God.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Sympathy, Condolences, Grief

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• After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.

  Oscar Wilde

  Tragedy, Sin, Committed

  1891 Intentions, 'The Critic as Artist'.

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• I hate funerals. They aren't for the guy who's dead. They're for the guys who are left alive and enjoy mourning.

  Humphrey Bogart

  Hate, Funeral, Guy

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself.

  Sigmund Freud

  Ego, World, Empty

  Sigmund Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1957). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: On the history of psycho-analytic movement, papers on metapsychology and other works”

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• For a while, Mirabelle believes there will be a moment when he will cave in and let himself love her, but eventually she lets the idea go. She hits bottom. She dwells in the muck for several months, not depressed exactly, but involved in a mourning that at first she thinks is for Ray but soon realizes is for the loss of her old self.

  Steve Martin

  Believe, Loss, Thinking

  Steve Martin (2001). “Shopgirl”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Nobody died. how can you kill an idea? How can you kill the personification of an action?" "Then what died? who are you mourning?" "A point of view.

  Neil Gaiman

  Views, Ideas, Action

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• Isn’t the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language — the amorous language? No more ‘I love you’s.

  Roland Barthes

  Love You, Facts, Language

  Roland Barthes (1990). “A lover's discourse: fragments”, Penguin Books

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• People ask me why I wear veils. I reply, I am mourning. Mourning what? Well I figure something shitty must be going on somewhere.

  Lady Gaga

  People, Veils, Figures

  FaceBook post by Lady Gaga from Mar 24, 2012

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• Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering.

  Roland Barthes

  Suffering, Psychoanalytic

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• If, as a culture, we don’t bear witness to grief, the burden of loss is placed entirely upon the bereaved, while the rest of us avert our eyes and wait for those in mourning to stop being sad, to let go, to move on, to cheer up. And if they don’t — if they have loved too deeply, if they do wake each morning thinking, I cannot continue to live — well, then we pathologize their pain; we call their suffering a disease. We do not help them: we tell them that they need to get help.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Letting Go, Morning, Cheer

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• Sorrow makes us all children again -
  destroys all differences of intellect.
  The wisest know nothing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sad, Children, Condolences

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.277, Harvard University Press

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• One can never be sure,” the Green Wind sighed. “There is always the danger of kisses where sleeping maids are concerned. But you are safe now, and for awhile yet, and why worry about a thing that may never come to pass? Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Sleep, Kissing, Wind

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.273, Macmillan

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• Though lovers be lost love shall not.

  Dylan Thomas

  Love, Broken Heart, Heartbroken

  25 Poems (1936) "And Death Shall Have No Dominion." Cf. Romans 6:9

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• Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Heart, Sadness

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• Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited.

  Jacques Derrida

  Names, Possibility, Surviving

  Jacques Derrida (2003). “The Work of Mourning”, p.1, University of Chicago Press

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• Black for hunting through the night For death and mourning the color's white Gold for a bride in her wedding gown And red to call the enchantment down White silk when our bodies burn Blue banners when the lost return Flame for the birth of a Nephilim And to wash away our sins. Gray for the knowledge best untold Bone for those who don't grow old Saffron lights the victory march Green to mend our broken hearts Silver for the demon towers And bronze to summon wicked powers -Shadowhunter children's rhyme

  Cassandra Clare

  Children, Heart, Hunting

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• To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

  Thomas Campbell

  Sympathy, Death, Memories

  Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1830). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume”, p.169

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