Mourning your first love is as important as meeting your first love. It's the whole cycle.

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

I wake up in that state of grief when you can tell you've been mourning even in your sleep.

There is no holier spot of ground than where defeated valor lies by mourning beauty crowned

Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.

My granny was always mourning about the fact I wear dull, stained jeans or don't brush my hair.

As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse.

We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

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

In the voice of mirth there may be excitement, but in the tones of mourning there is consolation.

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

No, it's not a 'corpse thing.' I feel I lack the emotional capacity to deal with those in mourning.

In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.

I get inhabited by a character and then you mourn it. There's a period of mourning for me, definitely.

After 'Orange' wrapped and my character wrapped, I felt like I went through a bit of a mourning period.

In the custom of mourning, the fabric of the night had been ripped, revealing a star at each tiny tear.

None mourn more ostentatiously over the death of Germanicus than those who most rejoice at it [a death].

Someone did us all a grave injustice by implying that mourning has a distinct beginning, middle, and end.

When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.

Black was not the universal hue of mourning in Europe. In Castile, white obtained on the death of its princes.

Inherent in mourning is celebration. Mourning without celebration or some form of acceptance leaves you stuck.

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

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning.

New Orleans taught me that mourning takes many different forms. Where I'm from, mourning is spirited. It is loud.

I know I'd rather have any amount of time with a dog I love and suffer the mourning than not have the time at all.

The blues is a hopeful music. It helps you process something rather than avoid it. It's like mourning, in essence.

The man who follows Christ in solitary mourning is greater than he who praises Christ amid the congregation of men.

To re-live these characters would be wonderful, because I know when the show ends it will be huge mourning process.

If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning coaches.

Naming suffering, exalting it, dissecting it into its smallest components – that is doubtless a way to curb mourning.

The hair is the finest ornament women have. Of old, virgins used to wear it loose, except when they were in mourning.

When we neglect the artist in ourselves, there is a kind of mourning that goes on under the surface of our busy lives.

You can't understand Twenties England until you appreciate it was under a cloud of mourning. Nearly everyone was grieving.

I know the injustice of outliving a child, the pain of a future stolen away, of mourning forever a voice you'll never hear.

To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion for mourning.

I know that 'Tangerine' is getting a lot of attention for pushing the iFilm, but I am really mourning the death of celluloid.

I always thought I'd be the one to go first. The world might be mourning an Everly Brother, but I'm mourning my brother Phil.

Mourning the loss of the phone call is like pining for buggy driving or women in hats or three-martini lunches. They've gone.

Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

My future is about the joy of loving those around me, of being with the people who are still here and not just mourning my loss.

Home, as far as I'm concerned, is the place you have to leave. And then, if you're like me, spend the rest of your life mourning.

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

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?

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.

A great many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life could make it seem longer if they did a little more work.

I had lots of opportunities to survive this [popularity] madness. Madame de Staël said, "Glory is the bright mourning of happiness."

It's hard for the Catholic Church to accept change. When the mass was no longer said in Latin, loyalists went into mourning for years.

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.

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.

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