Joe Hill
Labor Activist, Songwriter
"I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning - organize."
Mourning quotes
Mourning
133 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Erich Fromm
Psychologist, Philosopher
"To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness"
Jacques Derrida
Philosopher, Linguist
"Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited."
Ram Dass
Spiritual Teacher, Author
"When someone we love dies, we get so busy mourning what died that we ignore what didn't."
Oscar Wilde
Writer
"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. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears."
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"Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns."
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"That probably greatest of narcissistic wounds -- not to have been loved just as one truly was -- cannot heal without the work of mourning."
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"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."
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"When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life."
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"People ask me why I wear veils. I reply, I am mourning. Mourning what? Well I figure something shitty must be going on somewhere."
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"The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced."
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"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."
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"I'm in mourning for my life."
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"The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them."
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"Nobody died. how can you kill an idea? How can you kill the personification of an action?" "Then what died? who are you mourning?" "A point of view."
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"The ministry or service of prophets and witnesses, mourning and prophesying in sackcloth, God has directly commissioned and upheld all during the reign of the beast and antichrist of Rome. This witness is probably near finished, and the bloody storm of slaughter is yet to be expected and prepared for."
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"What I expect from writers-and from myself as a writer-is to articulate a complex view of things. To incite us to be more compassionate. To orchestrate our mourning. And to celebrate ecstasy."
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"The vastest earthly Day Is shrunken small By one Defaulting Face Behind a Pall."
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"Let mourning stop when one's grief is fully expressed."
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"Family members have a personal stake in honoring and mourning their dead and objecting to unwarranted public exploitation that, by intruding upon their own grief, tends to degrade the rites and respect they seek to accord to the deceased person who was once their own."
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"We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead."
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"Do not mourn the dead with the belly."
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"Many a smiling face hides a mourning heart; but grief alone teaches us what we are."
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"They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness."
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"Today, the world lost a creative icon. Michelle and I join millions of fans from around the world in mourning the sudden death of Prince."
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