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Quotes About Mourner

We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.
~ Jane Austen
There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.
~ Jean Paul
There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.
~ Jean Paul Richter
and motioned me toward a spot next to a middle-aged Moroi in a very formal and very designer black suit. The suit screamed, I'm sorry the queen is dead, and I'm going to look fashionable while showing my grief
~ Richelle Mead
He had the hypocrisy to represent a mourner: and previous to following with Hareton, he lifted the unfortunate child on to the table and muttered, with peculiar gusto, 'Now, my bonny lad, you are mine! And we'll see if one tree won't grow as crooked as another, with the same wind to twist it!
~ Emily Bronte
In her heart she is a mourner for those who have not survived. In her soul she is a warrior for those who are now as she was then. In her life she is both celebrant and proof of women's capacity and will to survive, to become, to act, to change self and society. And each year she is stronger and there are more of her.
~ Andrea Dworkin
There lives a weeperin each of us-a silent mourner honoring our despairwhen our willingness slain by helplessness continues to resurrect to be slaughtered again
~ Munia Khan
I, the half-mad mourner of buried days
~ Anna Akhmatova
Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes.
~ Anonymous
And although the mourners well hid their irritation, it was inevitable that there were some who were impatient. If you are dead, stay dead, someone muttered.
~ Louise Erdrich
In her heart she is a mourner for those who have not survived. In her soul she is a warrior for those who are now as she was then. In her life she is both celebrant and proof of women's capacity and will to survive, to become, to act, to change self and society. And each year she is stronger and there are more of her.
~ Andrea Dworkin
Death is the privilege of human nature And life without it were not worth our taking Thither the poor, the unfortunate, and Mourner Fly for relief & lay their burdens down.
~ Elizabeth Fama
They told me the first mourner to come was the dog. He came uninvited, and stood up on his hind legs and rested his fore paws upon the trestle, and took a last long look at the face that was so dear to him, then went his way as silently as he had come. HE KNOWS.
~ Mark Twain
At Mom's funeral, mourner after mourner spoke about what a wonderful teacher she was. She was certainly devoted to her students.
~ Max Boot
Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.
~ Richard Miller
Then spoke at length the warder maid, With hands upraised and sore afraid: "My Lord and King, the queen has sought The mourner's cell with rage distraught.
~ V?lm?ki
Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.
~ Victor Hugo
The amount of 'new goods' added much to the cost of a funeral. Kid gloves, scarves, hatbands, most of which were retained by the mourners, had to be bought new.
~ Catharine Arnold
What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.
~ James Russell Lowell
Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.
~ Charles Dickens
Grief, she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.
~ Orson Scott Card
Grief, she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.
~ Orson Scott Card
The light wraps you in its mortal flame. Abstracted pale mourner, standing that way Against the old propellers of the twilight That revolves around you. Speechless, my friend, Alone in the loneliness of this hour of the dead And filled with the lives of fire, Pure heir of the ruined day.
~ Pablo Neruda
The mourners clustered around the edge of the grave, paralyzed by the horror of this thing, this first discovery of death that was worse than the death itself.
~ Chris Cleave