MOURNING

Related Subjects: Complaining, Death, Funeral, Grief, Sigh, Sorrow, Woe

1. Ah, surely nothing dies but something mourns.—BYRON, Don Juan
   

2. The air is full of farewells to the dying,
   And mournings for the dead.—LONGFELLOW, Resignation
   

3. What we call mourning for our dead is perhaps not so much grief at not being able to call them back as it is grief at not being able to want to do so.—THOMAS MANN, The Magic Mountain
   

4. Too innocent for coquetry, too fond for idle scorning—
   O friend, I fear the lightest heart makes sometimes heaviest mourning.—CAROLINE NORTON, Bingen on the Rhine
   

5. A dirge for her, the doubly dead in that she died so young.—POE, Lenore
   

6. Absent thee from felicity awhile.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
   

7. I count it crime
   To mourn for any overmuch.—TENNYSON, In Memoriam
   

8. He mourns the dead who lives as they desire.—EDWARD YOUNG, Night Thoughts