#Mourning Quotes

“To this urn let those repairThat are either true or fair;For these dead birds sigh a prayer.”

“No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell.”

“Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off ... Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust.”

“When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd / And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, / I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.”

“O captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done. The ship has weather'd every wrack The prize we sought is won The port is near, the bells I hear The people all exulting While follow eyes, the steady keel The vessel grim and daring But Heart! Heart! Heart! O the bleeding drops of red Where on the deck my captain lies Fallen cold and dead.”

“Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.”

“We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.”

“Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankless sea”

“Let us not mourn that such men died, but rejoice that such men lived.”

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

“Let mourning stop when one's grief is fully expressed.”