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By saying "blessed are those who mourn", Jesus does not intend to declare an unfortunate and burdensome condition in life to be happy. Suffering is not a value in itself, but a reality that Jesus teaches us to live with the correct attitude.

Pope Francis

Jesus, Attitude, Blessed

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For sure, the funeral industry seems intensely cynical to me and I don't think it is HELPING people mourn.

Meghan O'Rourke

Thinking, People, Cynical

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But there are so many ways to be needy. There are many who mourn and find no comfort. Many are lonely and find no love. Some feel unneeded and find no opportunities to share with others. Anyone who has an unmet need is needy. We are all needy! And those who have something they can share are rich. We are all rich! All of us can share something that may lift a burden or help in some silent struggle.

Mary Edmunds

Lonely, Struggle, Opportunity

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All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers; hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.

Alexander Pope

Rain, Flower, Sky

Alexander Pope, Pat Rogers (2008). “The Major Works”, p.5, Oxford University Press

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A loss, but who still mourns the breath of one woman, or laments one wife? Though my heart never can forget, how, for one look, she gave up her life.

Anna Akhmatova

Heart, Loss, Wife

"Lot's Wife". Poem by Anna Akhmatova, translated by A.S.Kline,

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Guess what: God created beings not to act in a morality play but to
experience what is unfathomable, to elicit what can become, to descend
into the darkness of creation and reveal it to him, to mourn and celebrate
enigma and possibility. The universe is a whirling dervish, not a hanging
judge in robes.

Richard Grossinger

Play, Judging, Darkness

Richard Grossinger (2012). “On the Integration of Nature: Post-9/11 Biopolitical Notes”, p.78, North Atlantic Books

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Lords, I protest my soul is full of woe
That blood should sprinkle me to make me grow.
Come, mourn with me for what I do lament,
And put sullen black incontinent.
I'll make a voyage to the Holy Land
To wash this blood off from my guilty hand.
March sadly after. Grace my mournings here
In weeping after this untimely bier.

William Shakespeare

Book, Blood, Hands

William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.336, BookCaps Study Guides

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As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as profuse laughter; while, on the other hand, not to mourn at all is insensibility.

Seneca the Younger

Laughter, Fate, Hands

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When people see the terrible scenes of violence on television, when we mourn the death of each and every American man and woman in uniform or a civilian that's killed in Iraq, that it's hard to see the progress that's being made and it's hard to believe that this is all going to come out for the better.

Condoleezza Rice

Believe, Men, People

"Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. August 7, 2006.

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Preacher who says that the sweet life is made from bitter parts is more or less telling those who have come to mourn the teenage suicide that this is just one bitter ingredient in the sweet thing foreordained by the benevolent god. To which I want to shake my fist and say: There is not one sweet thing about it. It is only bitter.

Kyle Minor

Suicide, Sweet, Teenage

"To Rage Against Meaninglessness". Interview with Matt Bell, logger.believermag.com. February 6, 2014.

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To mourn, perhaps, is simply to prolong a posture of astonishment.

Sara Suleri

Grief, Astonishment, Posture

Sara Suleri (2018). “Meatless Days”, p.159, Penguin UK

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We do not die with those we mourn.

Elizabeth Chase Allen

Dies

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I walk where once the grass was green
And mourn the lark that sings no more
What bird could sing whose eyes have seen
Broken blossoms on the field of war?

Tom Springfield

War, Eye, Broken

"Song: 'Broken Blossoms'". 1967.

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When we mourn our parents, we mourn the parents we had as well as the ones we never had. With death, all bets are off: the last chance at reconciliation or change or hope is gone. Whatever relationship we had with our parents, that's it. No more chances for something else.

Joan M. Drury

Parent, Gone, Lasts

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No need to be sentimental to mourn the loss of Paradise.

Mason Cooley

Loss, Needs, Paradise

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On this National Day of Prayer and Remembrance, we ask almighty God to watch over our nation, and grant us patience and resolve in all that is to come. We pray that He will comfort and console those who now walk in sorrow. We thank Him for each life we now must mourn, and the promise of a life to come.

George W. Bush

Prayer, Humor, Remembrance

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

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In this age of censorship, I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will be silenced-writers' voices, teachers' voices, students' voices-and all because of fear.

Judy Blume

Teacher, Book, Loss

"Places I Never Meant to Be". Book by Judy Blume, August 26, 1999.

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When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd / And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, / I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.

Walt Whitman

Stars, Spring, Night

"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" l. 1 (1881)

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in coming to terms with the newly dead, I seem to have agitated the spirits of the long dead. They were stirring uneasily in their graves, demanding to be mourned as I had not mourned them when they were buried. I was plunged into retroactive grief for my father, and could no longer deny, though I still tried, the loss I'd suffered at the death of my mother. ... Was it possible ... that one could mourn over losses that had occurred more than half a century earlier?

Eileen Simpson

Mother, Father, Grief

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The entire Habitat family mourns the loss of our founder, a true giant in the affordable housing movement. Our prayers are with the entire Fuller family.

Jonathan Reckford

Prayer, Loss, Giants

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When a father climbs a dangerous mountain and dies, we mourn. When a mother does, we question her judgment. How could she?

Susan Estrich

Mother, Father, Mountain

"Sarah Palin and the Double Standard" by Susan Estrich, September 03, 2008.

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The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.

Irving Stone

Heart, Joy, Brooding

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From the onset, I saw victims on both ends of the gun. I will mourn my son's death for the rest of my life. Now, however, my grief has been transformed into a powerful commitment to change. Change is urgently needed in a society where children kill children.

Azim Khamisa

Children, Powerful, Grief

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It is one thing to mourn for sin because it exposes us to hell, and another to mourn for it because it is an infinite evil. It is one thing to mourn for it because it is injurious to ourselves; another, to mourn for it because it is offensive to God. It is one thing to be terrified; another, to be humbled.

Gardiner Spring

Evil, Offensive, Sin

Gardiner Spring (1813). “Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character”, p.96

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To mourn deeply for the death of another loosens from myself the petty desire for, and the animal adherence to life. We have gained the end of the philosopher, and view without shrinking the coffin and the pall.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Death, Animal, Views

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