Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again.
For sure, the funeral industry seems intensely cynical to me and I don't think it is HELPING people mourn.
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.
Let us not mourn that such men died, but rejoice that such men lived.
To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress.
Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.
We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones.
Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living
No need to be sentimental to mourn the loss of Paradise.
No benefit comes from a just man's prayer if he who asks for it finds more pleasure in sin than in virtue. For Samuel mourned over Saul when he sinned, but he was not able to obtain God's mercy, for his grief was not supported by the necessary change of life on the part of the sinner. Hence God put an end to the pointless grief of His servant, saying to him, 'How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel?' (I Sam. 16:1).
The holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him.
There are many things we do not want in this world. Let us not just mourn them; let us change them
We do not die with those we mourn.
If you are called as a missionary—a “sent-out one”—then you are called to comfort those who mourn. You are called to love the broken until they understand God’s love—a love that never dies—through you.
Mourn if you must, but don't stop fighting.
Life only has the value a person gives it. If I killed you here and now, yours would be worthless and no one would mourn you. Is that really what you want? (Sin) I don’t own my life. It means nothing to me. (Kish) Then it means nothing to anyone. But if you had your life again, would it still be worthless? (Sin)
Some people, they can't just move on, you know, mourn and cry and be done with it. Or at least seem to be. But for me. . . I don't know. I didn't want to fix it, to forget. It wasn't something that was broken. It's just. . . something that happened. And like that hole, I'm just finding ways, every day, of working around it. Respecting and remembering and getting on at the same time.
Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.
He mourns the dead who lives as they desire.
The English language lacks the words 'to mourn an absence. ' For the loss of a parent, grandparent, spouse, child or friend we have all manner of words and phrases, some helpful, some not. Still, we are conditioned to say something, even if it is only 'I am sorry for your loss. ' But for an absence, for someone who was never there at all, we are wordless to capture that particular emptiness. For those who deeply want children and are denied them, those missing babies hover like silent, ephemeral shadows over their lives. Who can describe the feel of a tiny hand that is never held?