Mourn Quotes - Page 2

• Sorrow makes us all children again.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Grief, Condolences

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

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• A horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

  Rossiter W. Raymond

  Sympathy, Condolences, Sight

  Attributed in "St. Andrew's Cross" edited by Hubert Carleton, Vol. XXIV, No. 12, (p. 12), September 1910.

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• Grief is not a disorder, a disease or sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve.

  Earl A Grollman

  Love, Inspirational, Death

  Earl A. Grollman (2014). “Straight Talk about Death for Teenagers: How to Cope with Losing Someone You Love”, p.6, Beacon Press

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• There is a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance.

  Solomon

  Bible, Dance, Biblical

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• Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die.

  Mary Elizabeth Frye

  Death, Lost Love, Losing A Loved One

  "Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep" l. 15 (1932).

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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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• Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

  Lord Byron

  Life, Wisdom, Tree

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• Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

  Coco Chanel

  Death, Christian, Grief

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• The only cure for grief is action.

  George Henry Lewes

  Motivational, Self Esteem, Grief

  George Henry Lewes (1846). “The Spanish Drama. Lope de Vega and Calderon”, p.42, London, Knight

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• Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

  Rossiter W. Raymond

  Sympathy, Death, Military

  Attributed in "St. Andrew's Cross" edited by Hubert Carleton, Vol. XXIV, No. 12, (p. 12), September 1910.

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• He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Sympathy, Missing You, Death

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• For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

  William Penn

  Sympathy, Death, Memorial Day

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2008). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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• Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them, do not. Miss them, do not. Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed, that is. Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose

  George Lucas

  Letting Go, Attachment, Greed

  George Lucas (2005). “Revenge of the Sith: Illustrated Screenplay: Star Wars: Episode III”, p.54, Del Rey

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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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• Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

  William Wordsworth

  War, Suffering, Without Hope

  William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.383

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• Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.

  Khalil Gibran

  Sympathy, Flower, Condolences

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• Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Doe, Literature, Dies

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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.

  William Shakespeare

  Sad, Giving, Sullen

  Sonnet 71

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• Where do we record the passing of wildlife? Who mourns the silent deaths of the small?

  O.R. Melling

  Wildlife, Records, Silent

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• Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.

  Josh Billings

  Women, Comedy, Lost

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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• When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Friendship, Death, Sweet

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• Do not mourn the dead with the belly.

  Homer

  Mourning, Belly

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• To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on.

  William Shakespeare

  Past, Gone, Way

  1603-4 Duke to Brabanzio. Othello, act1, sc.3, l.201-4.

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• Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.

  Thomas Moore

  Sympathy, Death, Spiritual

  Thomas Moore (1861). “Poetical works”, p.304

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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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