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• Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Leader, Gentleman, Luck

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• Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Death, Fashion, Husband

  "The Women", Aphorism 79,

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• Some will protest that in a world with so much human suffering, it is something between eccentric and obscene to mourn a dog. I think not. After all, it is perfectly normal—indeed, deeply human—to be moved when nature presents us with a vision of great beauty. Should we not be moved when it produces a vision—a creature—of the purest sweetness?

  Charles Krauthammer

  Dog, Thinking, Perfectly Normal

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• Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie... But rather mourn the apathetic throng -
  The cowed and the meek -
  Who see the world's great anguish and its
  wrong
  And dare not speak!

  Ralph Chaplin

  Honesty, Lying, Integrity

  "Bars and Shadows: The Prison Poems of Ralph Chaplin". Book by Ralph Chaplin, 1922.

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• When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and we stand, and pity, and wonder. If we receive news, that a hundred thousand dollars had been left them by some one dying, we should be thrown into an ecstasy of rejoicing; but when they have gone home to God, we stand, and mourn, and pine, and wonder at the mystery of Providence.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Children, Home, Grieving

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 52, 1895.

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• If we die, do not mourn for us. This is a risky business we're in, and we accept those risks. The space program is too valuable to this country to be halted for too long if a disaster should ever happen.

  Gus Grissom

  Country, Business, Acceptance

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• If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

  Martial

  Funny, Money, Want

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• Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.

  Sophocles

  Hands, Mourning, Weeping

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.224, University of Chicago Press

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• One friend dies and we remain indifferent; another dies, perhaps less intimate, and we see ourselves as dead, and weep, mourn, tear our hair or find ourselves caught up in the madness of the wake, competing with others as to who was closest, now suffers most.

  Fay Weldon

  Hair, Mourning, Suffering

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• Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end, and the Lord of life holds all who die and all who mourn.

  George W. Bush

  Forgiveness, Grief, Remembrance

  Remarks at the National Day of Prayer & Remembrance Service, delivered 14 September 2001, Episcopal National Cathedral

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• To mourn is to be extraordinarily vulnerable. It is to be at the mercy of inside feelings and outside events in a way most of us have not been since early childhood.

  Christian McEwen

  Grief, Childhood, Feelings

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• While friends and lovers mourn your silly grave, I have other uses for you, darling. I love the dead.

  Alice Cooper

  Silly, Use, Lovers

  Song: I Love The Dead, Album: Billion Dollar Babies

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• To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's also to feel, quite powerfully, that you're not allowed to descend into the deepest fathom of your grief - that to do so would be taboo somehow.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Grief, Over You, Faces

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• Many Americans don't mourn in public anymore - we don't wear black, we don't beat our chests and wail.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Black, Beats, Chests

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• No benefit comes from a just man's prayer if he who asks for it finds more pleasure in sin than in virtue. For Samuel mourned over Saul when he sinned, but he was not able to obtain God's mercy, for his grief was not supported by the necessary change of life on the part of the sinner. Hence God put an end to the pointless grief of His servant, saying to him, 'How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel?' (I Sam. 16:1).

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Prayer, Life Changing

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• She knew the intensity of adolescence, and knew no cure for it except growing up. And then one has age and experience, and mourns the loss of intensity. Maybe it's why musicians and mathmaticians are said to peak young-poetry needs the fire of an unbounded universe.

  Sara Paretsky

  Growing Up, Writing, Loss

  Sara Paretsky (2008). “Bleeding Kansas”, p.240, Penguin

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• Why should we feel sad when the Hindu brothers choose to leave our country? Do we mourn when we have indigestion and materials leave our bodies?

  Delwar Hossain Sayeedi

  Country, Brother, Body

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• A person likes to think of himself in a certain way, and when something happens that makes that no longer possible, you mourn the old self. The person you thought you were.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Thinking, Self, Way

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2005). “Incubus Dreams: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.310, Penguin

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• We love a genius for what he leaves and mourn him for what he takes away

  Thomas Gainsborough

  Genius

  Nicola Kalinsky, Thomas Gainsborough (1995). “Gainsborough”, Phaidon Incorporated Limited

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• The Internet rewards scale; by trading higher up-front costs for lower marginal cost, market leaders can invest in better technology and service. As a result, there is nothing online that is both great in quality and small in scale. Amazon wasn't originally a better bookstore than the small shops we mourn, but it is now.

  John Katzman

  Technology, Market Leaders, Quality

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• Before I published my first book, I worked for a while as a documentary and wedding/bar mitzvah videographer, and a part of me still mourns the lost filmmaker I'll never be. Working on a documentary is nearly the opposite artistic process to writing: as a writer you are always trying to fill out a world to fit your story, but as a documentarian your work is to carve a story out of the world. Sometimes, when I'm feeling particularly blocked at my computer, I miss the days when I could just point my camera at something interesting and wait to see what happens.

  Stefan Merrill Block

  Book, Writing, Interesting

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• There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death. They don't honor their own lives ... their minds are full of cotton. They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.... Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die.

  Charles Bukowski

  Death, Country, Flower

  "The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors have taken over the Ship". Book by Charles Bukowski, 1998.

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• While I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is taking shape at this very moment, since I have not reached the stage of development at which I would be capable of perceiving it. A few hundred years hence, in this same place, another traveller, as despairing as myself, will mourn the disappearance of what I might have seen, but failed to see.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Past, Reality, Years

  Claude Levi-Strauss (2012). “Tristes Tropiques”, p.49, Penguin

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• Strange friend,' I said,'here is no cause to mourn.' 'None,'said the other,'save the undone years, The hopelessness.Whatever hope is yours Was my life also; I went hunting wild After the wildest beauty in the world.

  Wilfred Owen

  Hunting, Years, World

  'Strange Meeting' (written 1918)

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• Outcasts always mourn.

  Oscar Wilde

  Outcast

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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