Mother Jones
Labor Activist
"Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living"
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Mourn
37 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"The holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him."
Oscar Wilde
Writer
"Outcasts always mourn."
Clarice Lispector
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing."
Rabindranath Tagore
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
"The flower fades and dies; but he who wears the flower has not to mourn for it for ever."
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"Take what you can have. Rejoice in what you can save, and do not mourn your losses for too long."
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"Don't mourn, Organise"
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"Mourn for me rather as living than as dead."
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"Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again."
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"Do not mourn the dead with the belly."
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"They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness."
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"It’s not in the nature of the lamb to mourn the lion."
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"He mourns the dead who lives as they desire."
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"We do not die with those we mourn."
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"When a man mourns for someone who has played him false, it is not for love of her, but for his own humiliation at not having deserved her trust."
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"How futile are words in the ears of those who mourn."
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