Quotes about mourn

Robin Hobb - Fool's Assassin

I lived my grief I slept mourning and ate sorrow and drank tears. I ignored all else.

William Wordsworth -

Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes

You cannot be responsible for some things that happen on earth. You may attempt to act, God alone will decide. Some things are mysteries!

Cynthia Bourgeault - The Wisdom Jesus: Transforming Heart and Mind

To mourn is to touch directly the substance of divine compassion.

Israelmore Ayivor -

All you have is today. Never mourn for tomorrow that is past and gone. You don’t deserve to starve today of its pleasure and treasure. Feel happy!

Israelmore Ayivor - Leaders' Watchwords

The kind of death you should mourn over is the one that happen when you abort your potentials prematurely! Life without purpose is a tragedy!

Israelmore Ayivor -

Be sure that your praise songs are numbered higher than your sorrowful dirges and your utmost hope, firmer than your woeful regrets. Be positive.

Michael Bassey Johnson -

Don't cry for the dead, for the dead is deaf, dumb, blind, lame, unemotional and dead.

Mitch Albom - Tuesdays with Morrie

There are some mornings when I cry and cry and mourn for myself. Some mornings, I'm so angry and bitter. But it doesn't last too long. Then I get up and say, 'I want to live..' 'So far, I've been able to do it. Will I be able to continue? I don't know. But I'm betting on myself I will.' Koppel seemed extremely taken with Morrie. He asked about the humility that death induced.

Morrie Schwartz -

Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again.

Josh Billings -

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

House of Cards -

To mourn is not to fear

Patti Roberts -

Excerpt: Paradox – Bound By Blood. The hands on a clock never falter, not for a second. One day ends; and a new begins. If there was one thing on this earth that could be counted on, it was that. Time never paused to mourn the dead. That particular privilege is allotted to the living. It is for the survivor to mourn, bury the dead, and leave the rest to the earth. That is the way of it – the way of death - and the misery it leaves behind.

Gena Showalter - The Harder You Fall

If I died, I’d expect my guy to mourn me forever, and if he tried to hook up with someone else, I’d haunt him till he ended up in a crazy house. Then I’d haunt the girl.

John Green - The Fault in Our Stars

The book was turned to the page with Anne Frank's name, but what got me about it was the fact that right beneath her name there were four Aron Franks. FOUR. Four Aron Franks without museums, without historical markers, without anyone to mourn them. I silently resolved to remember and pray for the four Aron Franks as long as I was around.

Samantha Young - Slumber

Might there come a timeWhen we stand over a graveAnd mourn ourselves?Mourn the past, a previous life?Shall we weep for the passing of time?Shall we grieve for unfulfilled dreams?In my naivety; in my beliefIn immortal youth, I sleep walk through life.Someone... wake me up.Please.Wake me up.

J.R.R. Tolkien - The Silmarillion

Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankless sea

Lailah Gifty Akita -

It is better to be sorrowful than sad.

Rebecca Serle - When You Were Mine

How do you mourn something that never really belonged to you?

Robin Hobb - Fool's Assassin

If one bad thing befell me, I immediately linked it to every bad thing that had happened in the last week or might happen in the coming week. And when I became sad, I was prone to wallow in grief, piling up my woes and sprawling on them like a dragon on a hoard.

Munia Khan -

There lives a weeperin each of us-a silent mourner honoring our despairwhen our willingness slain by helplessness continues to resurrect to be slaughtered again

Luffina Lourduraj -

I want to drown in my tears,And my tears are my prayers.

Phindiwe Nkosi - Behind the Hospital

During the prayers of the day, there was one less “amen”.

Robin Hobb - Fool's Assassin

There are endings. There are beginnings. Sometimes they coincide, with the ending of one thing marking the beginning of another. But sometimes there is simply a long space after an ending, a time when it seems everything else has ended and nothing else can ever begin.

Francesca Lia Block - Wasteland

She wasn’t crying at all. This was what scared him the most. Where had she locked up the things he’d seen her feeling that day when she heard? She wasn’t that big a girl to hold all of it—to hold her brother’s life and his death inside of her. To hold all his long-limbed raging tidal motion and all the loss of that.

Rebecca McNutt - Bittersweet Symphony

I’ve been alive a long time, long enough to know that the more baggage you carry in life, the more unstable you’ll be, until eventually you get sick of carrying it, and then you just fall down.

Richelle E. Goodrich - Making Wishes

The effects of loss are acute, and unique to each individual. Not everyone mourns in the same way, but everyone mourns.

Lois Lowry - A Summer to Die

Dying is a very solitary thing. The only thing we can do it be there when she wants us there.

J.K. Rowling - The Casual Vacancy

Everything had shattered. The fact that it was all still there — the walls and the chairs and the children’s pictures on the walls — meant nothing. Every atom of it had been blasted apart and reconstituted in an instant, and its appearance of permanence and solidity was laughable; it would dissolve at a touch, for everything was suddenly tissue-thin and friable.

nickiesha reid -

Be careful of broken people. Their sharp edges may cut you.

Anthony T. Hincks -

If I have to mourn for only ONE person,Then I choose EVERYONE.

Israelmore Ayivor - Daily Drive 365

The tragedy in life to mourn over is the death of what lies within a person who is still alive. The death of a potential is a mess of destiny!

Jovan Dučić -

Women do not admit to the past, they mourn for past even less. They grab from each moment anything they can reach.

Jonathan Dunne - Hearts Anonymous

Seeing his daughter slowly die, coupled with his infinite sadness and misery, the clockmaker becomes a recluse to the tower of the castle and begins to build something behind closed doors, not even his daughter knows what he’s up to. For five years, she only sees him briefly at meal-times before locking himself up in the tower once again...""...Did he have a bathroom in the tower?""Yes, Jack. A big one! En-suite! Power-shower and spa! Where was I!?

Christina Engela - For Love of Leelah

Is there any good left in the world/ And if there is, can you still find it in the places that matter? Why is it that the only places i see it now, is in the graves of the victims, and the tears of those who mourn them?

Scott Spencer - Endless Love

The only things I regret, and the only things I'll ever regret are things I didn't do. In the end, that's what we mourn. The paths we didn't take. The people we didn't touch.