Quotes About Mourning

People ask me why I wear veils. I reply, I am mourning. Mourning what? Well I figure something shitty must be going on somewhere.

Faris turned on him. "Why choose to wear black today, of all days? I know why I'm in black. Why are you? Mourning? He looked startled. "One does not wear mourning for a servant." You still don't understand, do you? He was not my servant." He regarded her anger, aghast. "What then? What else could he be? Her empty hands shook as she held them out to him. Her voice shook as she replied, "Glove to my hand." Slowly she closed her fists. "Everything.

Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering.

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

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

In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself.

An unchangeable colour rules over the melancholic: his dwelling is a space the colour of mourning. Nothing happens in it. No one intrudes. It is a bare stage where the inert I is assisted by the I suffering from that inertia. The latter wishes to free the former, but all efforts fail, as Theseus would have failed had he been not only himself but also the Minotaur; to kill him then, he would have had to kill himself

When we neglect the artist in ourselves, there is a kind of mourning that goes on under the surface of our busy lives.

If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning coaches.

I am content to live and die as the mere repeater of Scriptural teaching - as a person who has thought out nothing and invented nothing - but who concluded that he was to take the message from the lips of God to the best of his ability and simply to be a mouth for God to the people. - mourning much that anything of his own should come between - but never thinking that he was somehow to refine the message or to adapt it to the brilliance of this wonderful century and then to hand it out as being so much his own that he might take some share of the glory of it.

There is no holier spot of ground than where defeated valor lies by mourning beauty crowned

I've grieved enough for his life cut short and for mine for running on for so long with so little in it. It's weakness now, but I suppose I am crying out of a general sense of loss. Maybe I am mourning for the human condition.

In fact, with Michael Jackson, I think those mourning people... They aren't even waking Michael, they're waking the Michael Jackson of '84. They never were given a chance to give their respects to the death of the guy they loved back in '84.

The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning.

I hate funerals. They aren't for the guy who's dead. They're for the guys who are left alive and enjoy mourning.

That probably greatest of narcissistic wounds -- not to have been loved just as one truly was -- cannot heal without the work of mourning.

When mothers talk about the depression of the empty nest, they're not mourning the passing of all those wet towels on the floor, or the music that numbs your teeth, or even the bottle of capless shampoo dribbling down the shower drain. They're upset because they've gone from supervisor of a child's life to a spectator. It's like being the vice president of the United States.

The weeping of the candle is not in mourning for the moth: the dawn is at hand, and it is thinking of its own dark night.

When the fat lady comes out to sing, we don't know how she feels that day. We don't know if she's suffering from a cold or is mourning a death or falling in love. We don't know. But so all of that chance is the performance.

You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.

I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning - organize.

The pleasurable part of public mourning can also lead to a sense of self-sanctification that justifies in advance any war effort, whether or not the target and destruction are in any way related to the initial event.

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.

It was a huge shock. I've never had hair that short in my life! I think the rest of the cast and crew were mourning my haircut more than I was! But after a while, I felt liberated, I learned to embrace it.

Intense love always leads to mourning.

When you take the U out of mourning, it's a brand new day!

To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion for mourning.