Top 100 Mourn Quotes
#1. Perhaps the most dehumanizing thing in Gaza is people there don't have the time to properly mourn the dead before strikes kill even more
Yousef Munayyer
#2. She could almost feel him prodding her; urging her to go on. As the wails of pain and torment assulted her ears, she knew that's exactly what she would do until the war was over and she could crawl into a quiet, dark corner and mourn for the part of her that had died with him.
Jaclyn A. Wilson
#3. Do not mourn me, friends
I fall as a shooting star
Into the next life
John Scalzi
#4. In my daughters I see her every day, her joy, her capacity for wonder. I won't try to describe how deeply I mourn her passing still. I know that she was the kindest, most generous spirit I have ever known, and that what is best in me I owe to her.
Barack Obama
#5. When Larten heard that Alicia had married, he felt both jealousy and delight. A selfish part of him had hoped she'd mourn for him the rest of her life. But mostly he was happy that she'd found someone who could give her all that he had failed to provide.
Darren Shan
#6. We should not clap our hands and mourn, for he is out of trouble. You are still in it.
David Ruffin
#7. I was the worst kind of fool. When I look back on that August night, changed forever by all my wounds and all my suffering, that undamaged Odd Thomas seems like a different human being from me, immeasurably more confident than I am now, still able to hope, but not as wise, and I mourn for him.
Dean Koontz
#8. When we mourn, it should be the loss of love that makes us grieve, not the guilt that we did something wrong.
Sherwin B. Nuland
#9. Why should we feel sad when the Hindu brothers choose to leave our country? Do we mourn when we have indigestion and materials leave our bodies?
Delwar Hossain Sayeedi
#10. It was a saying about noble figures in old Irish poems - he would give his hawk to any man that asked for it, yet he loved his hawk better than men nowadays love their bride of tomorrow. He would mourn a dog with more grief than men nowadays mourn their fathers.
Ted Hughes
#11. We do not mourn the loss of those who die fulfilling their destinies.
Margaret Weis
#12. When your cup is empty, you do not mourn what is gone. Because if you do, you will miss the opportunity to fill it again.
Sarah Addison Allen
#13. Let no one mourn that he has fallen again and again; for forgiveness has risen from the grave.
Saint John Chrysostom
#14. You learn not to mourn every little thing out here, or you'd never, ever stop grieving.
Alexandra Fuller
#15. It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.
George S. Patton Jr.
#16. I watch, and wait. And mourn, for what I must now do to save Jessamine's life makes me unworthy of her love. Whether she lives or dies, I know I have lost her.
I have lost her, forever.
Maryrose Wood
#17. I see it as my job to mourn him until the day I die.
Sarah Ruhl
#18. How do you mourn something that never really belonged to you?
Rebecca Serle
#19. 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?
Christina Engela
#20. What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we've never met.
David Levithan
#21. I turn and run, watching my feet trample a massacre of weeds. I mourn them. The only thing that grows is dandelions in the cracks of the sidewalk and we always end up killing them.
Ellie Lieberman
#22. Then I will pour out a spirit A, g of grace and prayer on the house of David and the residents of Jerusalem, and they will look at B Me whom they pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child and weep bitterly for Him as one weeps for a firstborn. h 11
Anonymous
#23. How can you treat death so lightly?" she asks.
"Because it happens," he replies. "It is inevitable. I do not mourn the falling of a leaf or the breaking of a wave. I do not sorrow for a shooting star as it burns itself up in the atmosphere. Why should I?
Roger Zelazny
#24. To lose a friend is the greatest of all evils, but endeavour rather to rejoice that you possessed him than to mourn his loss.
Seneca The Younger
#25. 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!
Israelmore Ayivor
#26. The tragedy of Dionysus: Wear a black robe at night, and white you'll wear by morning; but wear a purple robe to the midnight feast, and when you wake you'll dress in black to mourn your soul deceased.
Roman Payne
#27. It's not in the nature of the lamb to mourn the lion.
Peter Watts
#28. Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
Sophocles
#29. She could not mourn. She could no longer weep grasping the essence of annihilation, she wished only to cease, to be no more, as if sunk in some profound sleep devoid of wakening.
Tanith Lee
#30. Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end, and the Lord of life holds all who die and all who mourn.
George W. Bush
#31. I don't know. I don't know why. I don't know what I did to make him hate me as much as this. Why we couldn't go as brothers to mourn - - our father - 'You
C.S. Pacat
#32. Celebrate small victories often. Mourn failures quickly. Do what's necessary without fanfare.
Chris Brogan
#33. 3God blesses those who are poor and realize their need for him,* for the Kingdom of Heaven is theirs. 4God blesses those who mourn, for they will be comforted. 5God blesses those who are humble, for they will inherit the whole earth.
Anonymous
#34. Remember play the games, and don't let on that you know... mourn me even if you still feel me.
Nicole Tetterton
#35. It was possible, I found, to both mourn a loss and yet be grateful it happened.
Jennifer S. Brown
#36. What a puzzle you are to me, Jander Sunstar! You feed upon lifeblood, yet mourn the life you take. You are a being of shadow and night, yet you yearn to be surrounded by beauty. You are dead, but you cannot bear decay. What exactly are you? You can hardly be a vampire!
Christie Golden
#37. Goodbye is never easy, no matter what side we are on.
Whether you are the one leaving or being left, we mourn the love that is now gone.
Natalie Ducey
#38. I feel that's one of the central questions of fantasy. What did we lose when we entered the 20th and 21st century, and how can we mourn what we lost, and what can we replace it with? We're still asking those questions in an urgent way.
Lev Grossman
#39. The BBC is part of the glue which binds the United Kingdom together. At those times of national moment - of joy or sadness, in the UK or around the world, at times when the nation wants to celebrate, mourn or just enjoy itself people turn to the BBC.
Gavyn Davies
#40. Lead such a life, that, when you die, the people may mourn you, and while you are alive they long for your company.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#41. However much grief I carried, I liked the way my life was tending, these bright new directions. It's only human, to mourn and to reach toward forwardness at once.
Mark Doty
#42. The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them.
Edmund Burke
#43. Like humans, birds mourn the loss of fledglings and mates. There are a thousand variant weeping songs to sing. I had to sign mine and get on with it. That is what I did
Michele Young-Stone
#45. 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.
Fay Weldon
#46. We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones.
Paul Eldridge
#47. Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
George Gordon Byron
#48. We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.
C.S. Lewis
#49. I can only miss the true and I can only mourn the brave. Cowards make it easy to let go because you're not losing anything worth having.
Donna Lynn Hope
#50. it's possible to miss what you've never had, to mourn for it.
Paula Hawkins
#52. One of the grubby truths about a loss is that you don't just mourn the dead person, you mourn the person you got to be when the lost one was alive. This loss might even be what affects you the most.
Meghan O'Rourke
#53. I grieve for you, how I mourn for you, who are so very dear to me, but again I can rejoice within my heart, not for nothing have I labored, neither has my exile been in vain.
Saint Patrick
#54. When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!
Anna Letitia Barbauld
#55. I always make a distinction between nostalgia and sentimentality. Nostalgia is genuine - you mourn things that actually happened.
Pete Hamill
#56. Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.
Henry Ward Beecher
#57. At ten, I couldn't articulate much but I got the message: to be a true historian, you had to mourn amply and well. (spoken by narrator Ava Bigtree in Swamplandia!)
Karen Russell
#58. Surely, if there could be regrets in heaven, the saints might mourn that they did not live longer here to do more good.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#59. If one lied, or put you down, don't mourn don't grieve, for why do you care, you don't want to be friends with the mean.
Zoe Rosenberg
#60. Were I still the man Eo knew, I would have stood frozen in horror. But that man is gone. I mourn his passing every day. Forgetting more and more of who I was, what dreams I held, what things I loved. The sadness now is numb. And I carry on despite the shadow it casts over me. The
Pierce Brown
#61. But it does make me sad that we've forgotten our names. Out of everything, this seems to me the most tragic. I miss my own and I mourn for everyone else's, because I'd like to love them, but I don't know who they are.
Isaac Marion
#62. Mourn for Ophelia, if you like. Put ashes on your head because Cordelia was strangled. Cry out against Heaven because the daughter of Brabantio died. But don't waste your tears over Sibyl Vane. She was less real than they are.
Oscar Wilde
#63. There is a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance.
Solomon
#64. But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space.
John Donne
#65. Witches did not mourn, because witches did not love enough to allow it to break them. Even if Asterin, now taking up her place by the Blackbeak Matron's Second, had proved otherwise.
Sarah J. Maas
#66. When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
W. Cleon Skousen
#67. From the onset, I saw victims on both ends of the gun. I will mourn my son's death for the rest of my life. Now, however, my grief has been transformed into a powerful commitment to change. Change is urgently needed in a society where children kill children.
Azim Khamisa
#68. The King had been a good friend of the government and the people of South Africa and we all mourn his passing with our brothers and sisters in Saudi Arabia.
Thabo Mbeki
#69. I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even the enemy
Jessica Dovey
#70. We should not mourn for men of high ideals. Rather we should rejoice that we had the privilege of having had them with us, to inspire us by their radiant personalities.
Indira Gandhi
#71. We all mourn in our own way. I mourn with a great steak.
Joan Rivers
#72. He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend:
Eternity mourns that. 'Tis an ill cure
For life's worst ills to have no time to feel them.
Henry Taylor
#73. Shelby watched the books burn. She wonders if words are pouring down on other people's houses,sad words, like beast and mourn and sorrow and mother.
Alice Hoffman
#74. Deeply saddened by the news of the terrorist attacks in central London, the Holy Father offers his fervent prayers for the victims and for all those who mourn.
Pope Benedict XVI
#75. What I will tell you is that you cannot force yourself to mourn. Sometimes, the best way to honour the dead is to simply keep living.
Samantha Shannon
#76. As a warrior, she won't have allowed herself to mourn. But women can't make themselves as detached as men. Our hearts are bigger. We feel loss in a way men don't. Orna has the body and mind of a warrior but her heart is like mine, and I know inside she's weeping.
Darren Shan
#77. In this age of censorship, I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will be silenced-writers' voices, teachers' voices, students' voices-and all because of fear.
Judy Blume
#78. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them, do not. Miss them, do not. Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed, that is. Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose
George Lucas
#79. (Much of my callousness and invulnerability has come from my refusal to mourn the loss of a soft word and a tender embrace.) Blessed are those who weep and mourn.
Brennan Manning
#80. You know not what you are capable of doing; you cannot sound the ocean of thought within you. You must labor, keep at it, and dig deep and long before you will begin to realize much. Be inactive - mourn because you were not created a giant in intellect, and you will die a fool.
L.G. Abell
#81. Summer Islanders. That's how they mourn. They answer death with life.
George R R Martin
#82. Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth, the Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.
George Gordon Byron
#83. For us, the death of Osama bin Laden is a time of profound reflection. With his death, we remember and mourn all the lives lost on September 11. We remember and mourn all the lives lost in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan. We remember and mourn the death of our soldiers.
Jodie Evans
#84. Let go, gatito. Mourn and then move on. Your life is not over. Not by any means. So let the tears fall for the past and then we will speak of the future.
Laura Baumbach
#85. It's like the Boss always says: they're just meat wrapped around a blazing star. We don't mourn the wrapping once it's discarded, we celebrate the freeing of the star.
Stephen Kelman
#86. The flower fades and dies; but he who wears the flower has not to mourn for it for ever.
Rabindranath Tagore
#87. There was little point in mourning a thing you'd never had, and so she didn't mourn, most days.
Cecilia Grant
#88. We aren't taught to mourn. We're told to forget.
D.R. Hedge
#89. Finding a way to move on from him would be hard. I might never accomplish it. I wouldn't chase him, but I would mourn him. As if he were dead, my heart would weaken, and I'd embrace the pain and sadness. Until Gannon, I'd never been truly happy. No one had made me feel complete or like I belonged.
Abbi Glines
#90. For people who mourn for old Times Square - hey, there's a ton of places in the city still like that! Get on the train and go visit them!
Kurt Braunohler
#91. Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
[Matt 5:4]
Anonymous
#92. We mourn His suffering when, instead, we should mourn the reason He suffered.
Sigmund Brouwer
#93. Mourn not for the vanished ages with their grand, heroic men, who dwell in history's pages and live in the poets pen for the grandest times are before us and the world is yet to see the noblest work of this old earth in the men that are to be.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#94. Those who wake at this hour feel a lonely separation from everyone but night birds and ghost crabs, never imagining the legion of kindred souls scattered in the darkness, who stare at ceilings and pace floors and look out windows and covet and worry and mourn.
Kathy Hepinstall
#96. Flow my tears, fall from your springs!
Exiled forever let me mourn;
Where night's black bird her sad infamy sings,
There let me live forlorn.
Philip K. Dick
#97. I mourn my sword, but that's alright. Grandmother gave me another one.
Ilona Andrews
#98. I walk where once the grass was green And mourn the lark that sings no more What bird could sing whose eyes have seen Broken blossoms on the field of war?
Tom Springfield
#99. With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.
Candice Millard
#100. If things far away don't concern you, you'll soon mourn things close at hand.
Confucius
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