Top 50 Mourn Quotes

Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain’t got.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

I always make a distinction between nostalgia and sentimentality. Nostalgia is genuine – you mourn things that actually happened.

For people who mourn for old Times Square – hey, there’s a ton of places in the city still like that! Get on the train and go visit them!

Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again.

As they say in the bible, that you’re supposed to rejoice when people die and mourn when they’re born, because it’s one of the most painful acts you go through in life, is being born, and dying.

I worship talents almost. I sinfully dare mourn that I possess them not.

I don’t mourn the dead. I mourn the living.

I can mourn internally, just be quiet about it. I have my moments but I’m not a real, expressive person, especially when it comes to like sadness.

I think you have to know how you feel when you’re sad and it’s healthy to mourn if a relationship ends.

My first time on camera was ‘One Life to Live.’ I mourn for actors coming up that the daytime soap opera is becoming extinct. It’s theater onscreen.

But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space.

Writing the first draft is like hitting the beach on D Day. You don’t stop to mourn the dead or comfort the wounded. You get off the beach because, if you don’t, you’ll die there.

I don’t mourn the old, romantic, dirty Times Square, although it was more unique.

I like writing letters and receiving letters. It’s a shame that we’ve lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that.

We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?

Do not think too much of the dead husk of your friend, or mourn too much over it, but send your thoughts out towards the real soul or self which has escaped – to reach it.

With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn’t feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.

When I designed my loft, I literally framed the World Trade Center as a picture postcard I could see from my bed. I no longer have that image, and I mourn it.

There’s nothing better than to be rootless cosmopolitans who seamlessly merge into whatever society. That’s the greatest thing human beings can aspire to. Whether forced by duress, Jews became perfect modern human beings. After the Holocaust, one doesn’t really mourn for that – it’s too disturbing, seems like a mistake.

Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

I can usually tell when a woman is going through a divorce because they look so gaunt and tired and sad. It’s just a huge sadness. It’s horrible. It’s like death. You mourn, but the person’s still there.

Many Americans don’t mourn in public anymore – we don’t wear black, we don’t beat our chests and wail.

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

And yet, I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was, even if you find your life is better after. You mourn the future that you thought you’d planned.

I was entirely natural and in many ways I have the same attitude now. I don’t mourn the loss of my youth because I believe you should enjoy what you have while you have it.

Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.

Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!

There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.

Postcolonial critics are, I suspect, wrong when they argue that the mass of British people still mourn the loss of empire. But Britain’s politicians – and its Foreign Office – have found it hard to adjust to the loss, not so much of onetime colonies as of the global clout the colonies once afforded.

We need to learn to accept and certainly mourn any harm that comes to any human being on this earth. But we also need to not be vengeful.

I mourn the fact that my beautiful country has deteriorated in every way.

I think illness is a family journey, no matter what the outcome. Everybody has to be allowed to process it and mourn and deal with it in their own way.

Sometimes, I probably do mourn the fact that I no longer make films.

I had lost my son 20 years back, when I was at the peak of my career. I couldn’t really get time to even feel that loss. I used to be continuously busy with work and this would make me feel guilty: I didn’t even have the time to mourn my son’s death.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

I do not mourn the death of the printed letter in a snobby, East Coast, patrician way – ‘Where have our manners gone?’ – but because I love objects, I love paper, and I love something that I can hold to my chest for a moment. Still, I bear no grudge against the e-mail form itself.

When a father climbs a dangerous mountain and dies, we mourn. When a mother does, we question her judgment. How could she?

There is nothing triumphant or boastful in the way we mourn the dead and pay our veterans the respect they deserve.

We have this time to meet and do something, or just be together, and then we lose it and move to another kind of time, another kind of being, I guess. Those left behind must mourn, remember, and live on as we know.

Does anybody like being recognized? I understand that it’s my job. I’m grateful about people who are moved enough by the work to want to say something. But I mourn the loss of anonymity.

And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.

I am not going to be licked by tragedy, as life is a challenge, and we must carry on and work for the living as well as mourn for the dead.

Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.

I get inhabited by a character and then you mourn it. There’s a period of mourning for me, definitely.

I mourn for the kind of dad I didn’t have; I rue my first broken family while taking joy in the one that I’ve made.

We are all born and someday we’ll all die. Most likely to some degree alone. Our aloneness in this world is, maybe not anymore, a thing to mourn.

We don’t help people mourn in our society.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.