Mourn Quotes - Page 11

• We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.

  C. S. Lewis

  Grief, Blessed, Reality

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• I heed not that my earthly lot Hath - little of Earth in it - That years of love have been forgot In the hatred of a minute: - I mourn not that the desolate Are happier, sweet, than I, But that you sorrow for my fate Who am a passer by.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Sweet, Fate, Years

  Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Ollive Mabbott (1969). “Complete Poems”, p.137, University of Illinois Press

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• There are two men in each one of us: the scientist, he who starts with a clear field and desires to rise to the knowledge of Nature through observations, experimentation and reasoning, and the man of sentiment, the man of belief, the man who mourns his dead children, and who cannot, alas, prove that he will see them again, but who believes that he will, and lives in the hope – the man who will not die like a vibrio, but who feels that the force that is within him cannot die.

  Louis Pasteur

  Children, Believe, Men

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• Take what you can have. Rejoice in what you can save, and do not mourn your losses for too long.

  Robert Jordan

  Long, Rejoice, Loses

  "The Fires of Heaven (The Wheel of Time, Book 5)". Book by Robert Jordan, October 15, 1993.

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• Death always leaves one singer to mourn.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Death, Singers

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.386, Library of America

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• Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black and loving mourners be, Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain. And truly not the morning sun of heaven Better becomes the grey cheeks of the east, Nor that full star that ushers in the even, Doth half that glory to the sober west, As those two mourning eyes become thy face: O! let it then as well beseem thy heart To mourn for me since mourning doth thee grace, And suit thy pity like in every part. Then will I swear beauty herself is black, And all they foul that thy complexion lack

  William Shakespeare

  Morning, Stars, Pain

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.40, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• In our memories, there is a graveyard where we bury our dead. They all lie there together, the loved ones and the ones we hated, friends and foes and kin, with no distinction among them. We have to mourn every one of them, because our memories have made them as much a part of us as our bones or our skin. If we don't, we've no right to remember anything at all.

  Steven Brust

  Memories, Lying, Skins

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• I suspect there will never be a requiem for a dream, simply because it will destroy us before we have the opportunity to mourn it's passing.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  Dream, Opportunity, Passing

  FaceBook post by Hubert Selby, Jr. from Apr 13, 2015

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• And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.

  Oscar Wilde

  Tombstone, Men, Long

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1999). “The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings”, p.185, Oxford University Press, USA

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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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• The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

  William Wordsworth

  Birthday, Wise, Time

  William Wordsworth, “Fountain, The: A Conversation”

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• I like to read Octavia E. Butler's 'Wild Seed' over and over again. And J. California Cooper's 'The Wake of the Wind.' That one makes me cry from joy. I'll mourn - I'll actually mourn - and then I'll cry from joy. She's wonderful.

  Jill Scott

  Wind, California, Joy

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• In the U.S.A., we want to sing along with the chorus and ignore the verses, ignore the blues. . . No one is going to hold up a cigarette lighter in a stadium to the tune of "mourn together, suffer together." City on a hill, though -- that has a backbeat we can dance to. And that's why the citizens of the United States not only elected and reelected Ronald Reagan; that's why we ARE Ronald Reagan.

  Sarah Vowell

  Cities, Suffering, Together

  Sarah Vowell (2008). “The Wordy Shipmates”, p.47, Penguin

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• But to mourn, that's different. To mourn is to be eaten alive with homesickness for the person.

  Olive Ann Burns

  Different, Alive, Homesickness

  Olive Ann Burns (2007). “Cold Sassy Tree”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We mourn the blossoms of May because they are to whither; but we know that May is one day to have its revenge upon November, by the revolution of that solemn circle which never stops - which teaches us in our height of hope, ever to be sober, and in our depth of desolation, never to despair.

  William Peter Blatty

  Life, Revenge, Circles

  "The Exorcist". Book by William Peter Blatty, 1971.

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• I mourn my old life here. We barely scraped by, but I knew where I fit in, I knew what my place was in the tightly interwoven fabric that was our life. I wish I could go back to it because, in retrospect, it seems so secure compared to now, when I am so rich and famous and so hated by the authorities in the capitol.

  Suzanne Collins

  Wish, Fabric, Retrospect

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.494, Scholastic Inc.

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• Would you like to borrow a pair of my panties to wave around at the next Council meeting to get the point across?” His eyes flashed. “Got any to spare?” I could’ve picked somebody rational. But no, I had to fall in love with this arrogant idiot. Come to the Keep with me, be my princess. Mourn me when your crazy dad kills me. Yeah, right.

  Ilona Andrews

  Falling In Love, Dad, Crazy

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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