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“My situation is a solemn one: life is offered to me on the condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will contains directions for my funeral, which will be followed, not by mourning coaches, but by oxen, sheep, flocks of poultry, and a small traveling aquarium of live fish, all wearing white scarves in honor of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures. It will be, without the exception of Noah's Ark, the most remarkable thing of its kind ever seen.”

“Whenever he was out of luck and a little down-hearted, he would fall to mourning over the loss of a wonderful cat he used to own (for where women and children are not, men of kindly impulses take up with pets, for they must love something)”

Men Children Littles Used Fall Loss Wonderful Cat Luck Impulse Mourning Pet Vegetarian Hearted

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

“Ring out your bells! Let mourning show be spread! For Love is dead.”

Love Shows Love Is Spread Rings Mourning Bells

Book:The Miscellaneous Works of Sir Philip Sidney, Knt: With a Life of the Author and Illustrative Notes

Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Sir Philip Sidney, Knt: With a Life of the Author and Illustrative Notes

“The Chinese seemed to be mourning Mao in a heartfelt fashion. But I wondered how many of their tears were genuine. People had practiced acting to such a degree that they confused it with their true feelings.”

People Feelings Acting Fashion Tears Degrees Genuine Chinese Confused Mourning Heartfelt Mao True Feelings

Book:Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

Source: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

“There is a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance.”

“And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.”

Silence Land Shadow Mourning Afternoon Decay Hung Submerged Reptiles Cypresses

Book:The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life

Source: The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life

“It was like a death in the family: You go through the mourning stage, then the rebellion, and then all of a sudden you have to find life by yourself. . . . I loved everything about marriage. I loved having a companion to wake up with and have barbecues with. But things happen and people grow apart. I don't really ever talk about the divorce because it was a heart-wrenching thing to go through.”

People Heart Happens Grows Stage Wake Up Divorce Things Happen Mourning Rebellion Companion Barbecue Heart Wrenching

Author:Jessica Simpson

“We can't live our lives obsessing about the past or mourning the future. We have a responsibility to ourselves and to each other to live every moment of our lives the best we can.”

Moments Past Responsibility Our Lives Mourning Obsessing Live Every Moment

Author:Lisa Mangum

“Remember this-all the sighing, mourning, sobbing, and complaining in the world, does not so undeniably evidence a man to be humble, as his overlooking his own righteousness, and living really and purely upon the righteousness of Christ.”

Men World Doe Remember Christ Evidence Humble Complaining Mourning Righteousness Be Humble Sobbing Overlooking

Book:The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks. Ed

Source: The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks. Ed

“Did you love well what very soon you left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache. Never so full, I never was bereft so utterly. The winter evenings drift dark to the window. Not one work will make you, where you are, turn in your day, or wake from your night toward me. The only gift I got to keep or give is what I've cried, floodgates let down to mourning for the dead chances, for the end of being young, for everyone I loved who really died. I drank our one year out in brine instead of honey from the seasons of your tongue.”

“All Americans mourn the passing of the author of the Declaration of Independence, George Jefferson.”

Funny Independence Passing Passings Comedian Mourning Declaration Mourn Declaration Of Independence Founding Fathers Democracy Funny Political

Author:Andy Borowitz

“The achievement of freedom is hardly possible without the felt mourning. This ability to mourn, i.e, to give up the illusion of a happy childhood, can restore vitality and creativity if a person is able to experience that he was never loved as a child for what he was, but for his achievements, success and good qualities. And that he sacrificed his childhood for this love, this will shake him very deeply.”

“When someone we love dies, we get so busy mourning what died that we ignore what didn't.”

Dies Emotion Died Busy Mourning

Author:Ram Dass

“Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have.”

Humans Grief Profound Mourning Human Experience Griefing Grief And Mourning Mourning Loss Mourning A Loss

Book:Voices of Death

Source: Voices of Death

“After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.”

Ifs Feels My Own Sin Tragedy Committed Mourning Weeping

Author:Oscar Wilde

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

Brands Mourning New Day Brand New Brand New Day

Author:John Edward

“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.”

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Author:Washington Irving

“What is required to face trauma is the ability to mourn, fully and deeply, all that has been taken from us. Only through mourning everything we have lost can we discover that we have in fact survived; that our spirits are indestructible.”

Has Beens Facts Faces Spirit Lost Ability Taken Trauma Mourning Survived Mourn Indestructible

Book:Medicine Stories: History, Culture, and the Politics of Integrity

Source: Medicine Stories: History, Culture, and the Politics of Integrity

“The man who follows Christ in solitary mourning is greater than he who praises Christ amid the congregation of men.”

Men Christian Christ Greater He Man Praise Mourning Orthodox Solitary Orthodox Christian Congregation

Author:Isaac of Nineveh

“Even when your body does nothing, sin can be active in your mind. When your soul inwardly repulses the evil one's attack by means of prayer, attention, remembrance of death, godly sorrow and mourning the body, too, takes its share of holiness, having acquired freedom from evil actions. This is what the Lord meant by saying that someone who cleans the outside of the cup has not cleansed it inside, but clean the inside and the whole cup will be clean”

Source: The homilies

“Now, we have inscribed a new memory alongside those others. It's a memory of tragedy and shock, of loss and mourning. But not only of loss and mourning. It's also a memory of bravery and self-sacrifice, and the love that lays down its life for a friend-even a friend whose name it never knew.”

Self Names Memories Loss Sacrifice Tragedy Bravery Lays Mourning Shock Self Sacrifice

Author:George W. Bush

“In the custom of mourning, the fabric of the night had been ripped, revealing a star at each tiny tear.”

Night Stars Tears Tiny Mourning Customs Fabric Revealing Ripped

Book:Leaving Time (with bonus novella Larger Than Life): A Novel

Source: Leaving Time (with bonus novella Larger Than Life): A Novel

“See, I don’t expect to win a prize for stoic control and dignity at mourning time. Death deserve tantrums. Beating back shocked indignation, kicks in the groin, stones, classified unacceptable, not to be tolerated, not to be wooed, not to be conspired with. Only then can music, dance, movies, plays, rap be about life. Only then can life be cherished and adored.”

Play Life Is Winning Deserve Dignity Stones Rap Kicks Mourning Prize Shocked Indignation Stoic Tantrums

Author:Ruby Dee

“If mourning is denied outlet, the result will be suffering.”

Ifs Suffering Results Mourning Denied Outlets

Author:Geoffrey Gorer

“It is not length of life, but depth of life.”

Source: Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims

“Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.”

Men Stills Death Mouths Let Me Celebrate Grieving Mourning Funeral Memorial Mourn Eulogy Celebrate Life Inspirational Mourning Funeral Memorial

Author:Quintus Ennius

“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.”

Thinking Felt Huge Hair Embrace Casts Mourning Shock Crew Liberated Haircuts

Author:Camilla Belle

“Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.”

Forget Sadness Minutes Sad Valuable Dust Permanent Ties Mourning Undoing

Author:Margery Allingham

“We are repeatedly left, in other words, with no further focus than ourselves, a source from which self-pity naturally flows. Each time this happens I am struck again by the permanent impassibility of the divide. Some people who have lost a husband or a wife report feeling that person's presence, receiving that person's advice. Some report actual sightings, what Freud described in "Mourning and Melancholia" as "a clinging to the object through the medium of a hallucinatory wishful psychosis." Others describe not a visible apparition but just a "very strongly felt presence."”

“It can be said, then, that Everlost is heaven...for the places that deserve a share of forever. Such places are few and far between...The greatest of these stood near Manhattan's southern-most tip: the two gray brothers to the green statue in the bay. The towers had found their heaven...held fast, and held forever by the memories of a mourning world, and by the dignity of the souls who got where they were going on that dark September day.”

World Said Two Soul Found Heaven Memories Dark Forever Share Brother Deserve Dignity Green Mourning Gray Southern Towers September Statues Manhattan

Author:Neal Shusterman

“Several devices he has to draw souls to sin, and several plots he has to keep souls from all holy and heavenly services, and several stratagems he has to keep souls in a mourning, staggering, doubting and questioning condition. He has several devices to destroy the great and honorable, the wise and learned, the blind and ignorant, the rich and the poor, the real and the nominal Christians.”

Real Soul Christian Sin Poor Rich Doubt Wise Conditions Holy Draws Blind Ignorant Mourning Heavenly Plot Devices Questioning Honorable Staggering Stratagem

Author:Thomas Brooks

“The real irony is that the view of infinity as some forbidden zone or road to insanity - which view was very old and powerful and haunted math for 2000+ years - is precisely what Cantor's own work overturned. Saying that infinity drove Cantor mad is sort of like mourning St. George's loss to the dragon: it's not only wrong but insulting.”

Years Real Loss Views Powerful Mad Math Irony Insanity Mourning Zone Dragons Infinity Forbidden Insulting

Author:David Foster Wallace

“Arms are instruments of ill omen.... When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There is no glory in victory, and to glorify it despite this is to exult in the killing of men.... When great numbers of people are killed, one should weep over them with sorrow. When victorious in war, one should observe mourning rites.”

People Men Should War Use Peace Numbers Arms Victory Sorrow Glory Instruments Killing Ill Despite Mourning Compelled Glorify Relish Rite Omen

Author:Laozi

“Mr Earbrass stands on the terrace at twilight. It is bleak; it is cold; and the virtue has gone out of everything. Words drift through his mind: anguish turnips conjunctions illness defeat string parties no parties urns desuetude disaffection claws loss Trebizond napkins shame stones distance fever Antipodes mush glaciers incoherence labels miasma amputation tides deceit mourning elsewards.”

Source: The Unstrung Harp, Or, Mr. Earbrass Writes a Novel

“The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in the facility with which its scheme accommodates itself to the capacity of every human intellect, in the consolation which it bears to the house of mourning, in the light with which it brightens the great mystery of the grave.”

“Mourn if you must, but don't stop fighting.”

Ifs Fighting Mourning Mourn

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced.”

Sorrow Refuse Mourning Cherish Affliction Divorced

Book:The complete works of Washington Irving in one volume with a memoir of the author

Source: The complete works of Washington Irving in one volume with a memoir of the author

“None mourn more ostentatiously over the death of Germanicus than those who most rejoice at it [a death].”

Mourning Rejoice Mourn

Author:Tacitus

“Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.”

Hands Cease Mourning Weeping Mourn Hands Of God

Book:Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus

Source: Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus

“One friend dies and we remain indifferent; another dies, perhaps less intimate, and we see ourselves as dead, and weep, mourn, tear our hair or find ourselves caught up in the madness of the wake, competing with others as to who was closest, now suffers most.”

Suffering Dies Tears Hair Madness Caught Intimate Mourning Closest Indifferent Competing Caught Up Mourn One Friend

Author:Fay Weldon

“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.”

Ends Death Dies Decades Occasions Mourning

Book:HER AT THE NEW YORKER

Source: HER AT THE NEW YORKER

“Depression leads him close to his wounds, but only the mourning for what he has missed, missed at the crucial time, can lead to real healing.”

Real Grief Healing Mourning Crucial

Author:Alice Miller

“When something that occupies a giant space in your life comes to an end, then you have to go through a mourning period. I loved 'The Shield.' It was one of the hardest and one of the greatest experiences of my life. But having said that, I'm always thinking about what's next.”

Thinking Said Ends Next Space Periods Hardest Giants Mourning Shields Always Thinking

Author:Michael Chiklis

“'The Killing' has a really great combination of qualities: Even though it's very sad and deals with mourning and grief, it's still exciting. It's about real people and it doesn't shy from the painful points of life.”

People Stills Real Deals Grief Quality Exciting Killing Painful Combination Mourning Shy Really Great Very Sad

Author:Joel Kinnaman

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