Top Mourning Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Mourning quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Kate Braverman
As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse.
- Kate Braverman
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Image of Julia Kristeva
Naming suffering, exalting it, dissecting it into its smallest components – that is doubtless a way to curb mourning.
- Julia Kristeva
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Image of Louise Glück
Intense love always leads to mourning.
- Louise Glück
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Image of Hope Edelman
Someone did us all a grave injustice by implying that mourning has a distinct beginning, middle, and end.
- Hope Edelman
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Image of Horace Walpole
Life is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene.
- Horace Walpole
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Image of Edward Everett
When I am dead, no pageant train shall waste their sorrows at my bier. Nor worthless pomp of homage vain stain it with hypocritic tear.
- Edward Everett
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Image of David Elkind
We see these adolescents mourning for a lost childhood.
- David Elkind
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Image of Geoffrey Gorer
If mourning is denied outlet, the result will be suffering.
- Geoffrey Gorer
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Image of Emily Bett Rickards
Every time someone in your life dies, you realize you're not invincible and you have to wonder if we're celebrating life or if we're mourning a death.
- Emily Bett Rickards
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Image of Tacitus
None mourn more ostentatiously over the death of Germanicus than those who most rejoice at it [a death].
- Tacitus
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Image of Oscar Wilde
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
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Image of Andrew Jackson
Although I could lament in the language and feelings of David for Absalom, I am constrained to say, peace to his manes. Let us weep for the living, and not for the dead.
- Andrew Jackson
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Image of Alice Miller
That probably greatest of narcissistic wounds -- not to have been loved just as one truly was -- cannot heal without the work of mourning.
- Alice Miller
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Image of Catherynne M. Valente
Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.
- Catherynne M. Valente
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Image of Laozi
The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning.
- Laozi
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Image of Lord Byron
They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
- Lord Byron
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Image of Anton Chekhov
When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life.
- Anton Chekhov
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Image of Edmund Burke
The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them.
- Edmund Burke
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Image of Anton Chekhov
I'm in mourning for my life.
- Anton Chekhov
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Image of Emily Dickinson
The vastest earthly Day Is shrunken small By one Defaulting Face Behind a Pall.
- Emily Dickinson
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Image of Ram Dass
When someone we love dies, we get so busy mourning what died that we ignore what didn't.
- Ram Dass
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Image of Joan Didion
Mourning has its place but also its limits.
- Joan Didion
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Image of Sigmund Freud
In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself.
- Sigmund Freud
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Image of W. H. Auden
By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
- W. H. Auden
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Image of Homer
Do not mourn the dead with the belly.
- Homer
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Image of George Herbert
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
- George Herbert
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Image of Washington Irving
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced.
- Washington Irving
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Image of Roland Barthes
Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering.
- Roland Barthes
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Image of Herman Melville
Doesn't the devil live forever; who ever heard that the devil was dead? Did you ever see any person wearing mourning for the devil?
- Herman Melville
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