Mourning Quotes - Page 12

• Let mourning stop when one's grief is fully expressed.

  Confucius

  Grief

  Chʻu Chai, Confucius, Mencius (1965). “Lun Yü”, New Hyde Park, N.Y. : University Books

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• Grieving, like being blind, is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in mourning, but after the early bursts of tears, after the praises have been spoken, and the good days remembered, and the lament cried, and the grave closed, there is no company in grief. It is a burden borne alone.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Grief, Good Day, Grieving

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• 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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• 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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• My fellow Minnesotans join me in mourning the loss of America's 40th President and celebrating the life of a man who personified both the greatness and goodness of America.

  Jim Ramstad

  Loss, Greatness, Men

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

  Ted Alexandro

  Acceptance, Celebration, Form

  "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.

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• What is the difference between grief and mourning? Mourning has company.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Grief, Differences, Company

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• The air is full of farewells to the dying. And mournings for the dead.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Farewell, Air, Dying

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.133

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• Red was the blood of the siblings massacred in the North, black was for mourning them, green was for the prosperity Biafra would have, and, finally, the half of a yellow sun stood for the glorious future.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Sibling, Blood, Yellow

  FaceBook post by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie from Mar 20, 2011

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• Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.

  Margery Allingham

  Sad, Dust, Ties

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• When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life.

  Anton Chekhov

  Black, Said

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• Despair ... is the only cure for illusion. Without despair we cannot transfer our allegiance to reality - it's a kind of mourning period for our fantasies. Some people do not survive this despair, but no major change within a person can occur without it.

  Philip Slater

  Reality, People, Despair

  Philip Slater (1974). “Earth-walk”

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• My situation is a solemn one: life is offered to me on the condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will contains directions for my funeral, which will be followed, not by mourning coaches, but by oxen, sheep, flocks of poultry, and a small traveling aquarium of live fish, all wearing white scarves in honor of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures. It will be, without the exception of Noah's Ark, the most remarkable thing of its kind ever seen.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Aquariums, White

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

  Kate Braverman

  Historical, Citizens, Prepared

  "In Los Angeles, Kate Braverman starved for culture until S.F. called her back home" by Edward Guthmann, www.sfgate.com. January 30, 2006.

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• We are at last being recognised as the indigenous people of this country whom must share in its future. This is not a day of national mourning for us. We must leave history behind us and look forward.

  Galarrwuy Yunupingu

  Leadership, Country, People

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• I did not know the work of mourning Is a labor in the dark We carry inside ourselves

  Edward Hirsch

  Dark, Labor, Knows

  Edward Hirsch (2014). “Gabriel: A Poem”, p.94, Knopf

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• What counts is art. painting, a kind of painting that is quite different from what everyone makes it out to be. But what kind? Will God or someone else give me the strength to breathe the breath of prayer and mourning into my paintings, the breath of prayer for redemption and resurrection?

  Marc Chagall

  Art, Prayer, Giving

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• If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly. If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me, I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted so that I might share in what I was entitled to share. If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him, I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Friendship, Moving, Doors

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• My coming to England in this way is, as I realize, so unusual that nobody will easily understand it. I was confronted by a very hard decision. I do not think I could have arrived at my final choice unless I had continually kept before my eyes the vision of an endless line of children's coffins with weeping mothers behind them, both English and German, and another line of coffins of mothers with mourning children.

  Rudolf Hess

  Mother, Children, Eye

  "Rudolf Hess: Prisoner of Peace". Book by Ilse Hess, 1982.

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• When we make mistakes, we can use the process of NVC mourning and self-forgiveness to show us where we can grow instead of getting caught up in moralistic self-judgments.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Mistake, Communication, Self

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• Losing people you love affects you. It is buried inside of you and becomes this big, deep hole of ache. It doesn't magically go away, even when you stop officially mourning.

  Carrie Jones

  Loss, People, Going Away

  Carrie Jones (2010). “Captivate”, p.40, A&C Black

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• I will live this day as if it is my last. …I will waste not a moment mourning yesterday’s misfortunes, Yesterday’s defeats, yesterday’s aches of the heart, for why should I throw good after bad?

  Og Mandino

  Heart, Yesterday, Lasts

  Og Mandino (2009). “The Greatest Secret in the World”, p.66, Bantam

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• I'm just a butterfly, a mourning cloak, sealed inside a cocoon with blnd eyes and stiky wings. And suddenly I wonder if the cocoons sometimes do not open, if the butterfly inside is ever simply not strong enough to break through.

  Ally Condie

  Strong, Butterfly, Eye

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• I've got to worry about Alonzo Mourning, because a year or two ago there was a chance that Alonzo Mourning wouldn't be standing here talking to you. That's the cold reality of it.

  Alonzo Mourning

  Reality, Talking, Years

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• Whenever he was out of luck and a little down-hearted, he would fall to mourning over the loss of a wonderful cat he used to own (for where women and children are not, men of kindly impulses take up with pets, for they must love something)

  Mark Twain

  Children, Fall, Cat

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3504, Delphi Classics

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