Best Mourning Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 23

“Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.”

Ifs Should Heart Soul Body Answers Grief Dying Flower Remains Seeds Grieving Mourning Sympathy Death Of A Loved One Remembrance Bereavement Memorial Mourn Condolences My Sympathy Loss Of A Loved One Inspirational Death Words Of Sympathy Sympathy Condolences Death Grief Sympathy For Loss Death Comfort Grief And Mourning Condolences And Sympathy Death Sympathy Grieving A Death Loss Loved One Inspirational Condolence Message Sympathy Card Death Condolences Words Of Condolence Inspirational Condolences Inspirational Sympathy Sympathy Messages Inspirational Mourning Mourning Loss Loved One Funeral Condolences Funeral Sympathy My Condolences Death Remembrance Loved One Dying Death Memorial Grieving Poems Inspirational Bereavement Mourning Loss Comfort Loss Famous Condolence Death And Mourning Grieving Inspirational Inspirational Grieving Condolences Poems Death Mourning Mourning A Loss Mourning Death

Author:Khalil Gibran

“Tears are God's gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow.”

“In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except with the passing of time.”

World Perfect Sorrow Passing Passings Bitter Mourning Relief Sympathy Agony Grief And Mourning Sad World

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“Woman, thou shouldst ever be clothed in rags and in mourning, appearing only as a penitent, drowned in tears, and expiating thus the sin of having caused the fall of the human race. Woman thou art the gate of the devil. It is thou who hast corrupted those whom Satan dare not attack face to face.”

Humans Art Faces Fall Evil Sin Race Tears Devil Dare Scary Human Race Satan Mourning Gates Face To Face Appearing Rags

Author:Tertullian

“A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of those who have made progress - freedom from anger and patient endurance of injuries; and of the perfect - humility, thirst for dishonors, voluntary craving for involuntary afflictions, non- condemnation of sinners, compassion even beyond one's strength. The first are acceptable, the second laudable; but blessed are those who hunger for hardship and thirst for dishonor, for they shall be filled with the food whereof there can be no satiety.”

Source: The Ladder of Divine Ascent

“Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have... The deep capacity to weep for the loss of a loved one and to continue to treasure the memory of that loss is one of our noblest human traits.”

Humans Memories Loss Grief Capacity Profound Treasure Grieving Mourning Loved Ones Traits Human Experience Griefing Loss Of A Loved One Grief And Mourning Mourning Loss Mourning A Loss Deep Grief

Book:Voices of Death

Source: Voices of Death

“We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of mourning will subside, we also know that we shall remain inconsolable and will never find a substitute. No matter what may fill the gap, even if it be filled completely, it nevertheless remains something else.”

Ifs Knows May Matter Change Loses Loss Grief Stage No Matter What Remains Filled Grieving Mourning Gaps Substitutes Nevertheless Griefing Grief And Mourning Mourning Loss Mourning A Loss

Author:Sigmund Freud

“Repentance lifts a man up. Mourning knocks at heaven's gate. Holy humility opens it.”

Men Heaven Sin Humility Holy Lifts Mourning Gates Repentance

Author:John Climacus

“The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not "get over" the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to.”

“Mourning can go on for years and years. It doesn't end after a year, that's a false fantasy. It usually ends when people realize that they can live again, that they can concentrate their energies on their lives as a whole, and not on their hurt, and guilt and pain.”

People Years Ends Whole Pain Energy Realizing Hurt Fantasy Goes On Guilt Grieving Mourning Grief And Mourning

Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise us and may cut free memories and feelings that we thought had gone to ground long ago. We might, in that indeterminate period they call mourning, be in a submarine, silent on the ocean's bed, aware of the depth charges, now near and now far, buffeting us with recollections.”

May Long Feelings Might Age Parent Memories Gone Cutting Periods Bed Ocean Silent Surprise Depth Reactions Despite Preparation Grieving Mourning Long Ago Recollection Submarines

Author:Joan Didion

“I stood on the balcony dark with mourning... hoping the earth would spread its wings in my uninhabited love.”

Earth Dark Loss Wings Winter Spread Mourning Emptiness Balconies Love Loss

Book:Winter garden

Source: Winter garden

“We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.”

Mother Wife Mets Motherhood Mourning Halls Drs

Author:Jane Austen

“Great winds and storms help fruit-bearing trees. So also do corruptions and temptations help the fruitfulness of grace and holiness. The storm loosens the earth round its roots so the tree is able to get its roots deeper into the earth, where it receives fresh supplies of nourishment. But only much later will it be seen to bring forth better fruit. So corruptions and temptations develop the roots of humility, self-abasement and mourning in a deeper search for that grace by which holiness grows strong. But only later will there be visible fruits of increased holiness.”

“Ah! sinner, remember this, there is no way on earth effectually to be rid of the guilt, filth, and power of sin, but by believing in a Saviour. It is not resolving, it is not complaining, it is not mourning, but believing, that will make thee divinely victorious over that body of sin that to this day is too strong for thee, and that will certainly be thy ruin, if it be not ruined by a hand of faith.”

Ifs Way Believe Body Hands Earth Remember Strong Sin Guilt Complaining Ruins Thee Mourning Sinner This Day Ruined Saviour Sanctification Filth

Author:Thomas Brooks

“The tears into his eyes were brought, And thanks and praises seemed to run So fast out of his heart, I thought They never would have done. -I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning; Alas! the gratitude of men Hath oftener left me mourning.”

Men Heart Kind Stills Done Eye Running Left Heard Tears Gratitude Praise Deeds Thanks Mourning His Eyes Alas Unkind Coldness Kind Deeds

Author:William Wordsworth

“Through the days of love and celebration and joy, and through the dark days of mourning...the faithful horse has been with us always.”

Has Beens Joy Dark Horse Faithful Mourning Celebration Dark Days Equine

Author:Elizabeth Cotten

“From the great trees the locusts cry In quavering ecstatic duo-a boy Shouts a wild call-a mourning dove In the blue distance sobs-the wind Wanders by, heavy with odors Of corn and wheat and melon vines; The trees tremble with delirious joy as the breeze Greets them, one by one-now the oak Now the great sycamore, now the elm.”

Joy Boys Tree Cry Wind Summer Blue Distance Heavy Wander Mourning Breeze Corn August Oaks Dove Wheat Vines Ecstatic Odor Melons Delirious Duos

Book:Boy Life on the Prairie

Source: Boy Life on the Prairie

“Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die.”

“Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron frame of the hearth, the black cooking pots and pans and stoves. Was it a mourning? Was it protective coloration? Was it mere depression of the senses? No matter what the original color of the paleotechnic milieu might be it was soon reduced by reason of the soot and cinders that accompanied its activities, to its characteristic tones, grey, dirty-brown, black.”

Source: Technics and Civilization

“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.”

People Looks Country Lasts Leadership Behinds Share Mourning Indigenous Indigenous People

Author:Galarrwuy Yunupingu

“We were impelled to remain loyal for a while to the memory of Penny. It was a form of the old fashioned custom of going into mourning. It is not a question of going around with a long face. It is just a question of having a pause between the old and the new. No haste to find a substitute for the one who has given you love for years. Wait, and let fate provide the answer.”

Years Long Faces Form Given Waiting Memories Answers Fate Mourning Pet Customs Substitutes Loyal Pauses Old Fashioned Pennies Haste

Author:Derek Tangye

“When mourning the loss of our departed friends, I cannot help but think that in every death there is a birth; the spirit leaves the body dead to us, and passes to the other side of the veil alive to that great and noble company that are also working for the accomplishment of the purpose of God, in the redemption and salvation of a fallen world.”

Source: The Discourses of Wilford Woodruff

“Sorrow makes us all children again.”

Children Grief Sorrow Mourning Grief And Loss Bereavement Mourn Condolences Griefing Deceased Grief Loss Grief And Mourning Grief Comfort Help With Grief Losing Love Our Condolences Deep Grief

Book:Emerson in His Journals

Source: Emerson in His Journals

“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.”

Has Beens Grief Company Tears Strange Praise Blind Burden Graves Remembered Grieving Mourning Cried Good Day Lament

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

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

Grief Mourning

Book:Lun Yü

Source: Lun Yü

“Are ye the ghosts of fallen leaves, O flakes of snow, For which, through naked trees, the winds A-mourning go?”

Tree Wind Winter Ghost Snow Naked Fallen Mourning Flakes Fallen Leaves

Book:Poems by John B Tabb

Source: Poems by John B Tabb

“I’m mourning with the rest of the world for the talented, gorgeous, funny, intelligent John Forsythe but my heart is broken for the loss of my dear, dear friend and neighbor. I will miss him terribly.”

World Heart Loss Missing Broken My Heart Intelligent Dear Neighbor Mourning Gorgeous Dear Friend My Heart Is Broken

Author:Cheryl Ladd

“Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.”

Age Literature Lost Middle Youth Mourning Birthday Middle Ages Lost Youth

Author:Mason Cooley

“This poem is one of a series, all of them elegiac in intention, and subject to the strange forces of mourning that let loose illogical developments, into impossible configurations of thought. The poem is built of non-sequiturs, because that's what's left in the wake of the death. We cannot follow the dead, whether they are persons or ideas. Instead we remain, but in a situation that, in their absence, makes no sense.”

Persons Ideas Left Force Situation Impossible Subjects Strange Development Built Series Intention Absence Mourning Illogical Configuration

Author:Lyn Hejinian

“Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom.”

Wisdom Suffering Hell Terrible Blessing Despair Boredom Mourning Symmetry Stifling Quintessence

Book:Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning.”

States House Grew Grew Up Constant Mourning

Author:Maurice Sendak

“We must delight in each other, make others conditions our own, rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, our community as members of the same body.”

“Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent.”

Trying Years Two Country Forgotten Mourning Decent Two Years Cynical

Author:Alexander Pushkin

“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.”

“Mindful grief means mourning and letting go of the past without expectation, fear, censure, blame, shame, control and so forth. Without such mindful grief, neither past nor person can be laid to rest.”

Mean Persons Past Grief Letting Go Expectations Shame Blame Grieving Mourning Censure

Book:How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving

Source: How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving

“Grieving is a journey that teaches us how to love in a new way now that our loved one is no longer with us. Consciously remembering those who have died is the key that opens the hearts, that allows us to love them in new ways.”

“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.”

Men America President Loss Greatness Goodness Fellows Celebrate Mourning Minnesotans

Author:Jim Ramstad

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

Differences Grief Company Mourning Grief And Mourning

Author:Roger Rosenblatt

“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?”

Giving Kind Art Different Prayer Painting Give Me Breaths Breathe Redemption Mourning Resurrection Give Me Strength

Author:Marc Chagall

“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.”

Thinking Way Children Hard Eye Mother Choices Realizing Lines Decision Behinds Vision England Finals Endless Mourning Unusual Weeping Coffins Hard Decision

Author:Rudolf Hess

“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.”

Self Use Shows Grows Process Mistake Communication Judgment Caught Mourning Making Mistakes Caught Up Nonviolent Communication We Make Mistakes Self Forgiveness

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“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?”

Ifs Should Heart Moments Lasts Waste Defeat Yesterday Mourning This Day Misfortunes Should I Ache

Book:The Greatest Secret In The World

Source: The Greatest Secret In The World

“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.”

Ifs Sometimes Enough Eye Strong Wonder Break Wings Mourning Butterfly Strong Enough Cloaks Break Through Cocoons Not Strong Not Strong Enough

Author:Ally Condie

“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.”

Years Two Reality Chance Talking Worry Cold Standing Mourning

Author:Alonzo Mourning

“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.”

People Kind Persons Reality Fantasy Periods Despair Majors Illusion Cures Mourning Allegiance Transfers Major Change

Book:Earth-walk

Source: Earth-walk

“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.”

People Bigs Loss Losing Holes Mourning Going Away Buried Ache

Book:Captivate

Source: Captivate

“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.”

Ifs Feels Should Mind Might Moving House Bits Friendship Doors Share Mines Sorrow Mourning Bitterness Invites Again And Again Entitled Humiliation Unworthy Back Again Poignant

Author:Oscar Wilde

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

Knows Dark Labor Mourning

Book:Gabriel: A Poem

Source: Gabriel: A Poem

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

Citizens Historical Prepared Variety Posts Mourning

Author:Kate Braverman

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