(163 quotes found)
“We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ''Blessed are they that mourn.''”
C.S. Lewis
“Medvienko: Why do you always wear black? Masha: I am in mourning for my life. I am unhappy.”
Anton Chekhov
“The winner persistently programs his pluses; the loser mournfully magnifies his minuses.”
William Arthur Ward
“No longer mourn for me when I am deadThan you shall hear the surly sullen bellGive warning to the world that I am fledFrom this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell.”
William Shakespeare
“Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men”
Quintus Ennius
“We see these adolescents mourning for a lost childhood.”
David Elkind
“While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.”
John Taylor
“Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness; / To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.”
Bible
“Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.”
“We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.”
Jane Austen
