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Quotes about Mourning

The more capable you are of mourning the loss of the old place and letting go of the pain that lies there. You cannot mourn something that has not died.
- Henri Nouwen
For even while we mourn, we do not forget how our life can ultimately join God's larger dance of life and hope.
- Henri Nouwen
I was, for weeks, a poor, broken-hearted mourner, traveling through the darkness and misery of doubts and fears. I finally found that change of heart which comes by "casting all one's care" upon God, and by having faith in Jesus Christ, as the Redeemer, Friend, and Savior of those who diligently seek Him. After
- Frederick Douglass
In the daylight we know what's gone is gone, but at night it's different. Nothing gets finished, not dying, not mourning;
- Margaret Atwood
Blessed be those that mourn, for they shall be comforted. Nobody said when.
- Margaret Atwood
I didn't want to identify the body, or see it at all. If you don't see the body, it's easier to believe nobody's dead.
- Margaret Atwood
Blessed be those that mourn, for they shall be comforted. Nobody said when.
- Margaret Atwood
I agree with you that Gilead ought to fade away-there is too much wrong in it, too much that is false, and too much that is surely contrary to what God intended-but you must permit me some space to mourn the good that will be lost.
- Margaret Atwood
The tolling of yon dismal bell and the loud but solemn discharge of artillery hath announced to the nation the melancholy tidings - Thomas Jefferson no longer lives!
- John Tyler
Since you act as though God is dead, I wanted to join you in the mourning. The reply of Martin Luther's wife, in full funeral regalia, in trying to illustrate the folly of his depressed state.
- Mark Driscoll
Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor; So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed; and yet anon repairs his drooping head, and tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore flames in the forehead of the morning sky. So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high, Through the dear might of him that walk'd the waves.
- John Milton