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“Modern society includes three types of men who can never think very highly of the world--the priest, the physician, and the attorney-at-law. They all wear black, too, for are they not in mourning for every virtue and every illusion?”

Thinking Men World Law Three Black Virtue Modern Type Illusion Mourning Priests Physicians Attorney Modern Society

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Nowadays most people wear black most of the time anyway: go to a literary party and one would imagine everyone there was in perpetual mourning for their lives.”

People Black Party Imagine Clothes Mourning Perpetual

Book:Auto da Fay: A Memoir

Source: Auto da Fay: A Memoir

“When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.”

Mean Children Said Kids Black Modern Mourning Riot Modern Society

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“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.”

Source: Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)

“He felt the comfort of being part of an eternal cycle symbolized by the gold strips on either side of the black mourning band he wore. Light, dark, light. The dark was just an interval.”

Light Felt Sides Black Dark Comfort Band Eternal Gold Patience Mourning Cycles Intervals Light Dark

Book:The Lost Fleet: Relentless

Source: The Lost Fleet: Relentless