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If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself.

Horace Mann

This has been a time of tears and a time of laughter, a time of celebration and a time of mourning, a time of story telling and a time of lament.

Jim Short

Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.

Lydia M. Child

I warned a long time ago about the state of the bridge and I fought as much as I could for its replacement. This is a time of mourning.

Paulo Teixeira

This is the only way to mourn their deaths. Our childhood friends are there. Our blood relations are there. But we can't visit each other even at the time of grief.

Lal Din

These were great men that had dedicated their lives to serving the nation. We don't think we need to mourn anymore.

Mwansa Mbulakulima

We are deeply mourning. Rick Husband was a great friend and an excellent pilot.

Valery Tokarev

I don't mourn the dead. I mourn the living.

Stephen Evans

I didn't know anything else but growing up with a blind person in the house. When we found out Andrew was blind, we had 20 minutes of mourning and feeling sorry for ourselves, and then we said, 'Look at my brother.' I knew what was ahead. I knew he was going to be just a regular member of the family.

Jackie Johnson

To give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness.

Bible

We all mourn the work that he won't get to go on and do, but there is consolation in the way his legacy will continue to inform the American experience for generations to come, and the Rep was a part of that.

James Bundy

We ask everybody to respect our privacy and allow us to mourn two most wonderful people.

Heather Mazarakos

Today the FPL family is saddened, and is really mourning.

Mayco Villafana

The wailing owl Screams solitary to the mournful moon.

David Mallet

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

Lord Byron

We decided to do something positive instead of just mourning.

Fekkak Mamdouh

We have been fortunate to have so noted a poet as a resident of our state. We mourn this great loss to our community.

Margaret Hunt

Don't waste any time mourning - organize!

Joe Hill

The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Anna Letitia Barbauld

There's a lot of mourning over the fact that it's gone.

Cal Wettstein

The murmur of the mourning ghost / That keeps the shadowy kine, / `O Keith of Ravelston,/ The sorrows of thy line!'

Sidney Thompson Dobell

We are presenting the emptiness and mourning the Holocaust left behind.

Judit Molnar

For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.

William Gibson

When we lose one, the whole nation's miners mourn.

Bob Friend

We've lost some of our family, and when anyone loses a member of their family it's not something that is taken lightly. We mourn the loss of these Marines.

Curtis Hill

People aren't just saying Mark was a good guy because they're in mourning. When people tell you he was a great guy, they really mean it.

Russell Leach

Women would have fixed a lunch and brought it over, but these men mourn by fixing a tractor.

Gary Straquadine

We mourn the loss of Tom Fox, who combined a lightness of spirit, a firm opposition to all oppression, and the recognition of God in everyone.

Carol Rose

Today is a day of pain and mourning and solidarity with the families who lost loved ones.

Jose Bono

It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting.

Bible

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

Jane Austen

I think illness is a family journey, no matter what the outcome. Everybody has to be allowed to process it and mourn and deal with it in their own way.

Marcia Wallace

I deeply mourn the occasion (the riots).

Somnath Chatterjee

There were no deaths or damage to mourn, ... So we are fortunate.

Ricardo Maduro

This is a time of grief and mourning for the courthouse community. We're going to respect that. There will be plenty of time for us later to lay out our legal arguments, and examine the evidence and search for answers in this case.

Chris Adams

There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.

Ferdinand E. Marcos

Karachi is mourning the death of so many religious leaders and scholars.

Shahid Ghori

It's to mourn the loss of our checkbooks.

Ed Mcintosh

All of our Hawaii joins the Mink ohana (family) in mourning the passing of John Mink.

Ed Case