Quotes About Mourners

#1. No one will sing songs in our memory. We are the last of the Free Companies of Khatovar. Our traditions and memories live only in these Annals. We are our own mourners.

Glen Cook

#2. The dead girl had her glimpse of earthly paradise: littered with designer goods, and celebrities to sneer at, and handsome drivers to joke with, and the yearning for it had brought her to this: seven mourners, and a minister who did not know her name.

Robert Galbraith

#3. Haul up the flag, you mourners, Not half-mast but all the way; The funeral is done and disbanded; The devil's had the final say.

Karl Shapiro

#4. No mourners," Jesper said as he tossed his rifle to Rotty. "No funerals," the rest of the Dregs murmured in reply.

Leigh Bardugo

#5. Faith does help mourners survive their loss, some studies suggest; but I imagine one still struggles.

Meghan O'Rourke

#6. My sister, Judy, has always said that she would like to lie in state, propped up in her coffin with her eyes blared wide open, face fixed in a big grin, and have a taped greeting for all her mourners. Something real upbeat and, well, live-sounding, like: 'He-e-e-ey!Cuteshoestellyomamahi!

Jill Conner Browne

#7. CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager.

Ambrose Bierce

#8. 'I shall have heaven and earth for my coffin and its shell; the sun and moon for my two round symbols of jade, the stars and constellations for my pearls and jewels; and all things assisting as the mourners. Will not the provisions for my funeral be complete? What could you add to them?'

Zhuangzi

#9. Perhaps the mourners learn to look to the blue sky by day, and to the stars by night, and to think that the dead are there, and not in graves

Charles Dickens

#10. That was how troubles arrived, mourners rushing the bar at a wake. Though they came in funereal flocks, they could be dismissed only one at a time, and that was how she would have to proceed.

Michael Chabon

#11. See you in Djerholm harbour," Specht called. "No mourners." "No funerals," the others replied. Strange people.

Leigh Bardugo

#12. I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Robert Tappan Morris

#13. (On vultures
... those false but democratic mourners at every casual bier ...

Beryl Markham

#14. The mourners clustered around the edge of the grave, paralyzed by the horror of this thing, this first discovery of death that was worse than the death itself.

Chris Cleave

#15. No mourners, no funerals. Another way of saying good luck. But it was something more. A dark wink to the fact that there would be no expensive burials for people like them, no marble markers to remember their names, no wreaths of myrtle and rose.

Leigh Bardugo

#16. No mourners. No funerals. Among them, it passed for 'good luck.

Leigh Bardugo

#17. On his day of demobilization a lugubrious one-armed, one-eyed brigadier wished him well and then added, apropos of nothing, Mark my words, Moutier, a great war leaves a country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves.

Lee Child

#18. Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true

Horace

#19. Any eye at all practiced in the signs of a frontier warfare, might easily have traced all those unerring evidences of the ruthless results which attends an Indian vengeance.
Still, the sun rose on the Lenape a nation of mourners.

James Fenimore Cooper

#20. Violence wounds the body and it wounds the soul. Of the predator. Of the prey. Of the mourners. Of collective humanity. It diminishes us all.

Kathy Reichs

#21. And unless one can observe the guilt and regret of the mourners, surely there is nothing satisfactory about being dead?

Truman Capote

#22. Until you finally lose the strength for sarcasm, Locke, I wouldn't hire any mourners.

Scott Lynch

#23. Tell all my mourners
To mourn in red-
Cause there ain't no sense
In my bein' dead.

Langston Hughes

#24. Carve not upon a stone when I am dead, The praises which remorseful mourners give; To women's graves - a tardy recompense, But speak them while I live.

Elizabeth Chase Allen

#25. No Mourners.
No Funerals.

Leigh Bardugo

#26. There are no mourners here. No tourists. No rubberneckers. No one to sideswipe Tommy's car.

Nova Ren Suma

#27. As traditions of mourning wane, women's role as designated mourners has also vanished. In consequence, the woman elegist must summon her own resources as an artist.

Susan Stewart

#28. I don't know what comes next. Mourners please omit flowers, probably, and for all of us. But I don't care.

Stephen King

#29. Tears for the mourners who are left behind
Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.

Lucretius

#30. Everything that happens to the poor, the meek, the desolate, the mourners, the despised, happens to Christ.

Thomas Merton

#31. Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone. Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

W. H. Auden

#32. How the soldiers had lain, slain and forgotten, no marker for their demise, no songs to their name, not even mourners who knew them. That is the end of battle, and once a man has tasted it, how hesitant he is to lift another spoonful to his lips.

R.W. Schmidt

#33. The dead must humor the mourners, he thought, and the sick must comfort the visitors. It was always so.

Walter M. Miller Jr.

#34. Any place, then, can become a cemetery. All it takes is your body. It's not fair, I think, and I get this petulant wish for ugly flowers and mourners, my mother's old familiar grief. Somebody I love to tend my future grave. Probably this is the wrong thing to be wishing for.

Karen Russell

#35. I know when dark-haired evening put on her bright silk at sunset, and, folding the sea sidled under the sheet with her starry laugh, that there'd be no rest, there'd be no forgetting. Is like telling mourners round the graveside about resurrection, they want the dead back.

Derek Walcott

#36. And as the room starts to fill with the first somber-faced neighbors coming to pay their respects, it becomes clear to me that the reason for filling the shiva house with visitors is most likely to prevent the mourners from tearing each other limb from limb.

Jonathan Tropper

#37. And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.

Oscar Wilde

#38. The only thing that walks back from the tomb with the mourners and refuses to be buried is the character of a man. This is true. What a man is survives him. It can never be buried. -J. R. MILLER

John C. Maxwell

#39. Everything blurred the days following Avery's passing. Their home in Georgetown filled with mourners and well-wishers before they even had a chance to make it home from the hospital. Avery had been well-loved and highly-respected by most everyone he came in contact with.

Kindle Alexander