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“Mourning has a pace and rhythm of its own. It cannot be rushed.”

“The free expression of resentment against one's parents represents a great opportunity. It provides access to one's true self, reactivates numbed feelings, opens the way for mourning and - with luck - reconciliation.”

Way Self Feelings Opportunity Parent Family Expression Luck Access Mourning Resentment True Self Reconciliation Great Opportunity Free Expression

Author:Alice Miller

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

Has Beens Wounds Heal Mourning Narcissistic

Book:Prisoners of Childhood

Source: Prisoners of Childhood

“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

“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.”

Thinking Hands Night Dark Dawn Mourning Candle Weeping Moths Dark Night

Author:Saib Tabrizi

“In the voice of mirth there may be excitement, but in the tones of mourning there is consolation.”

May Voice Sorrow Excitement Tone Mourning Consolation Mirth

Author:Willis Gaylord Clark

“In Egypt: Under no conditions, under threat of death could anyone kill a cat. People were exceuted for even killing a cat accidentally. And when a cat died, the whole family, and probably their closest friends, went into mourning, the measure of their personal loss signalled by their shaving off their eyebrows.”

People Whole Loss Conditions Cat Died Threat Killing Mourning Closest Egypt Eyebrows Whole Family Shaving Closest Friends Personal Loss

Author:Roger Caras

“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)

“Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.”

Mourning

Book:The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose

Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose

“Mourning has its place but also its limits.”

Limits Mourning

Book:The Year of Magical Thinking

Source: The Year of Magical Thinking

“Only with gun violence do we respond to repeated tragedies by saying that mourning is acceptable but discussing how to prevent more tragedies is not. But that's unacceptable. As others have observed, talking about how to stop mass shootings in the aftermath of a string of mass shootings isn't 'too soon.' It's much too late.”

Talking Violence Late Mass Gun Tragedy Shooting Mourning Too Late Strings Acceptable Discussing Aftermath Gun Violence Mass Shootings

Author:Ezra Klein

“The funny thing is, last summer we were golfing together, me, him and Alonzo Mourning. I don't know how to golf, but it's an unbelievable opportunity to go out and golf with one of the greats. And he's out there making fun of my swing - I can't hit the ball - and I'm getting frustrated because I'm a competitor. So Alonzo pulled me aside and said, 'Man, you're getting the chance to golf with Bill Russell. How many people can say they've done that?' And I looked at him and said, 'You know what? You're right.'”

People Knows Men Said I Can Done Together Lasts Opportunity Fun Chance Know How Summer Balls Bills Golf Mourning Swings Frustrated Unbelievable Competitors Funny Things Golfing Last Summer

Author:Dwyane Wade

“Think of it! A few more boats, a few more planks of wood nailed together in a particular way at a thrifty cost and all those men and women whom the world can so ill afford to loose would be with us today. There would be no mourning in thousands of homes which now are desolate and these words need not have been written.”

Thinking Men World Way Needs Has Beens Home Would Be Today Together Written Particular Cost Men And Women Ill Woods Boat Mourning Desolate Thrifty

Author:Lawrence Beesley

“Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.”

Despair Bases Boredom Mourning Tedious Symmetry Tedium

Author:Victor Hugo

“good Hobbinoll, what garres thee greete? What! hath some wolfe thy tender lambes ytorne? Or is thy bagpype broke, that soundes so sweete? Or art thou of thy loved lasse forlorne?”

Art Thee Broke Mourning

Book:The Works of Edmund Spenser: With Observations of His Life and Writings

Source: The Works of Edmund Spenser: With Observations of His Life and Writings

“Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate”

Absence Mourning Mates

Book:Spenser's Sonnets

Source: Spenser's Sonnets

“Secret fates Guide our states Both in mirth and mourning.”

States Secret Fate Guides Mourning Mirth

Book:Campion's Work

Source: Campion's Work

“Although I could lament in the language and feelings of David for Absalom, I am constrained to say, peace to his manes. Let us weep for the living, and not for the dead.”

Feelings Language Mourning Consolation Lament

Author:Andrew Jackson

“A woman who'd lost her first son consoled us with an angel gone ahead to pray for our family-- gone into that sky seeking oxygen, gone into autopsy”

Firsts Lost Gone Sky Son Praying Angel Seeking Our Family Mourning Oxygen Autopsy

Book:Images of Kin: New and Selected Poems

Source: Images of Kin: New and Selected Poems

“Poland remains undzer heym, our home, no matter how bitter the memories, how filled with disappointment and betrayal. Amerike iz goles, America is exile, a foreign land in which I speak a foreign tongue. But I will never live in Poland. I do not want to, though I do not see an end to the mourning.”

Source: Dreams of an Insomniac: Jewish Feminist Essays, Speeches, and Diatribes

“Monarchs not only fashion their age, but are fashioned by it, so that they can become a sort of personification of the age. If Elizabeth I, independent, strong, represents the age of Shakespeare's heroines, a woman's heyday, Victoria represents another image of womanhood, predominant in the nineteenth century: a woman who, although queen in her own right, leaned on her husband, looked up to him, and went into perpetual mourning after his death. The feminist movement filled her with shocked horror and outrage.”

“Many a smiling face hides a mourning heart; but grief alone teaches us what we are.”

Heart Faces Grief Teach Mourning Smiling Faces

Author:Friedrich Schiller

“One rational voice is dumb: over a grave The household of Impulse mourns one dearly loved. Sad is Eros, builder of cities, And weeping anarchic Aphrodite.”

Death Voice Cities Graves Rational Dumb Impulse Mourning Household Weeping Mourn Builder Eros Aphrodite

Author:W. H. Auden

“The attitude of mourning is a faithless attitude, an ignorant attitude. The more we know, the more fully we shall trust, for we shall feel with utter certainty that we and our dead are alike in the hands of perfect Power and perfect Wisdom, directed by perfect Love.”

Knows Feels Hands Death Perfect Attitude Ignorant Certainty Mourning Perfect Love Faithless

Book:The Other Side of Death: Scientifically Examined and Carefully Described

Source: The Other Side of Death: Scientifically Examined and Carefully Described

“Yet if you should forget me for a while And afterwards remember, do not grieve: For if the darkness and corruption leave A vestige of the thoughts that once I had, Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.”

Ifs Should Remember Forget Darkness Corruption Grieving Mourning Forgetfulness Forget Me Grieving Poems

Author:Christina Rossetti

“There are some people who think that they should be always mourning, that they should put a continual constraint upon themselves, and feel a disgust for those amusements to which they are obliged to submit. For my own part, I confess that I know not how to conform myself to these rigid notions. I prefer something more simple, which I also think would be more pleasing to God.”

People Thinking Knows Feels Should Would Be My Own Simple Notion Mourning Melancholy Submit Disgusting Conform Amusement Obliged Constraints

Author:Francois Fenelon

“Home, as far as I'm concerned, is the place you have to leave. And then, if you're like me, spend the rest of your life mourning.”

Ifs Home Concerned Like Me Mourning Rest Of Your Life

Author:Paulette Alden

“[Non-performing songwriters] climb the mountain the first time, take their successes in stride, and when they tumble down the mountain, they just consider the tumble part of their profession and don't even waste time mourning their slump. They continue to write, make new connections, and move forward toward a new round of success.”

Writing Firsts Moving Mountain Waste First Time Connections Rounds Profession Moving Forward Performing Mourning Climbs Songwriting Wasting Time Songwriters Stride Slumps

Author:Michael Kosser

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

Kind Artist Creativity Goes On Busy Surface Mourning Neglect Busy Life

Book:Writing Alone and with Others

Source: Writing Alone and with Others

“Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green.”

Memories Brother Green Dear Mourning Remembrance Hamlet 2 Mortality In Hamlet Hamlet Death Dear Brother

Author:William Shakespeare

“In Asia, red is the colour of joy; red is the colour of festivities and of celebration. In Chinese culture, blue is the colour of mourning.”

Joy Culture Red Blue Chinese Mourning Colour Celebration Asia Festivities Chinese Culture

Author:Vincent Tan

“I had lots of opportunities to survive this [popularity] madness. Madame de Staël said, "Glory is the bright mourning of happiness."”

Said Opportunity Glory Madness Mourning Popularity

Author:Brigitte Bardot

“One bitter time of mourning, I remember, When day, and night, my sad heart did complain, My life, I said, was one cold, bleak December, And all its pleasures, were but whited pain.”

Heart Said Pain Remember Night Pleasure Sadness Cold Sad Complaining Bitter Mourning Remember When Day And Night December Bleak Sad Heart

Book:Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

“I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Decoration Day. I have rather felt that the flag should be at the peak, because those whose dying we commemorate rejoiced in seeing it where their valor placed it. We honor them in a joyous, thankful, triumphant commemoration of what they did.”

Source: Public Papers and Addresses of Benjamin Harrison, Twenty-third President of the United States. March 4, 1889, to March 4, 1893

“Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.”

Hell Mourning Chocolate Scorn Fury Scorned Misquoting Medea Last Stand Hell Hath No Fury

Author:William Congreve

“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

“Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest as they lie in death.”

Lying Walks Mourning Death Of A Loved One Rest In Peace Loss Of A Loved One Death Comfort Loss Loved One Inspirational Mourning Loss Loved One Comforting Death Mourning Loss Comfort Loss Loved Ones Who Died Death And Mourning Death Mourning Mourning A Loss Mourning Death

Author:Isaiah

“I suppose while we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil; and while he has left us, others are coming into the world at the same time, and probably in this our territory. There is a continuous change, an ingress of beings into the world and an egress out of it.”

World Left Friendship Loss Behinds Mourning Territory Rejoice Veils Continuous Change

Author:John Taylor

“A great many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life could make it seem longer if they did a little more work.”

People Ifs Littles Seems Work Mourning Great Men Brevity Brevity Of Life

Book:Archy does his part

Source: Archy does his part

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

Political Dies Politics Waste Blue Mourning Rebel Organize Blue Eyes

Author:Joe Hill

“The blues is a hopeful music. It helps you process something rather than avoid it. It's like mourning, in essence.”

Helping Process Essence Mourning Hopeful

Author:Ted Alexandro

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

Form Acceptance Stuck Mourning Celebration Inherent

Author:Ted Alexandro

“There has been a marvelous joyous carnival of mourning for Edith Piaf and Jean Coctaeau, and it was real! They died as they had lived, with style and grace and their proper eccentricity; and Paris loves anybody who can live anarchically and be delightful entertainment at the same time. So do I.”

Has Beens Real Grace Style Died Entertainment Paris Mourning Marvelous Delightful Joyous Eccentricity Carnivals

Author:Katherine Anne Porter

“Loneliness is something we [all people] go through. We go through mourning and longing. We make some bad choices sometimes because we're desperate for something, and that's okay. That's part of life.”

People Sometimes Choices Loneliness Okay Longing Mourning Desperate Parts Of Life Bad Choices

Author:Jennifer Lee

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

Ends Violence Mankind Weapons Misery Triumph Mourning Festivals

Author:Laozi

“Every time someone in your life dies, you realize you're not invincible and you have to wonder if we're celebrating life or if we're mourning a death.”

Ifs Dies Realizing Wonder Celebrate Mourning Invincible Celebrate Life

Author:Emily Bett Rickards

“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.”

People Thinking Should Persons Hands Might Dies Ability Wonderful Share Teaching Century Messages Glory Mouths Mere Lips Mourning Brilliance

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“What I expect from writers-and from myself as a writer-is to articulate a complex view of things. To incite us to be more compassionate. To orchestrate our mourning. And to celebrate ecstasy.”

Views Complexes Celebrate Mourning Ecstasy Compassionate

Author:Susan Sontag

“In today's world it is deceptively easy to lose sight of our direction and the things that matter and give us joy. How quickly the days can slip by, the years all gone, and we, at the end of our lives, mourning the life we dreamed of but never lived. Poetry urges us to stand once and for all, and now, in the heart of our own life.”

World Giving Years Heart Ends Matter Today Joy Easy Loses Gone Our Lives Sight Mourning Urges Slips Things That Matter Today's World

Author:Roger Housden

“Life is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene.”

Should Ends Life Is Scene Mourning Farce

Book:The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Oxford

Source: The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Oxford

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