Quotes about Mourning

A tale out of season [is as] music in mourning.

Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them?

How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow!

There was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead.

When someone died in the wilderness of frontier America, that person's physical remains were buried and the handcarts continued west, but the mourning survivors had hope for their loved one's eternal soul. However, when someone dies spiritually in the wilderness of sin, hope may be replaced by dread and fear for the loved one's eternal welfare.

Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

Yet though these ways be lost, thou hast left one, Which is, immoderate grief that she is gone. But we may 'scape that sin, yet weep as much; Our tears are due because we are not such. Some tears, that knot of friends, her death must cost, Because the chain is broke, but no link lost.

When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.

I was with him, coincidentally, on the evening in 1979 when they had buried John Wayne. My father cried like a baby when he went to see the Duke.

Since the death of his daughter, a consumptive, he had not thrashed a woman; he lived alone.

To live is to betray the dead. We hasten to bury and forget them because we are ashamed; we feel guilty towards them.

Most people's initial reaction to sad people is to try to cheer them up, to tell them not to look at things so grimly, to look at the bright side of life. This cheering-up reaction is often an expression of that person's own needs and that person's own inability to tolerate a long face over an extended period. A mourner should be allowed to experience his sorrow, and he will be grateful for those who can sit with him without telling him not to be sad.