Mournful Quotes (12 quotes)

“My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain...There was a time when our people covered the land as the waves of a wind-ruffled sea cover its shell-paved floor, but that time long since passed away with the greatness of tribes that are now but a mournful memory.”
― Chief Seattle, Chief Seattle's Speech (1854)

tags: america, genocide, land, memory, mournful, native-americans, people, poignant, sadness

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“We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: agony, anguish, aphorism, aphorisms, aphorist, aphorists, as-happy-as-a-clam, beaming, beatific, bliss, blissful, blissfulness, blithe, blue, broken-hearted, buoyant, carefree, chagrin, cheerful, cheerfulness, cheerless, cheery, chirpy, content, contented, contentment, dejected, dejection, delight, delighted, depressed, depression, desolation, despair, despairing, despondency, despondent, disconsolate, dispirited, distress, doleful, dolefulness, down, down-at-the-mouth, down-in-the-dumps, down-in-the-mouth, downcast, downhearted, ecstasy, ecstatic, elated, elation, enjoyment, euphoria, euphoric, exhilarated, exhilaration, exuberance, exultant, face, faces, forlorn, funny, gaiety, glee, gleeful, gloom, gloominess, gloomy, glum, glumness, good-spirits, gratified, grief, grinning, happiness, happy, heartache, heartbroken, hilarious, hole, holes, humor, humorous, humour, hurting, impression, impressions, in-a-good-mood, in-good-spirits, in-seventh-heaven, jocular, jocund, joke, jokes, jollity, jolly, jovial, joviality, joy, joyful, joyfulness, joyless, joyous, jubilant, jubilation, jumping-for-joy, lighthearted, lightheartedness, long-faced, low-spirits, lugubrious, malaise, melancholy, merriment, merry, miserable, misery, morose, mournful, mournfulness, on-a-high, on-cloud-nine, on-top-of-the-world, opinion, opinions, over-the-moon, overjoyed, pain, pit, pits, pleased, pleasure, quotations, quotes, radiant, rapture, rapturous, sad, sadness, satire, satisfaction, satisfied, smiling, sorrow, sorrowful, suffering, sunny, the-blues, thrilled, tickled-pink, torment, transports-of-delight, tribulation, unhappiness, unhappy, untroubled, walking-on-air, well-being, woe, woebegone, woeful, wretchedness

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“I drag the body out into the snowdrifts, as far away from our shack as I can muster. I put her in a thicket of trees, where the green seems to still have a voice in the branches, and try not to think about the beasts that’ll soon be gathering. There’s no way of burying her; the ground is a solid rock of ice beneath us.

I kneel beside her and want desperately to weep. My throat tightens and my head aches. Everything hurts inside. But I have no way of releasing it. I’m locked up and hard as stone.

“I’m sorry, Mamma,” I whisper to the shell in front of me. I take her hand. It could belong to a glass doll. There’s no life there anymore.

So I gather rocks, one by one, and set them over her, trying my best to protect her from the birds, the beasts, keep her safe as much as I can now. I pile the dark stones gently on her stomach, her arms, and over her face, until she becomes one with the mountain.

I stand and study my work, feeling like the rocks are on me instead, then I leave the body for the forest and ice.”
― Rachel A. Marks, Winter Rose

tags: burned, burry, cold, dead, dead-and-gone, death, frozen, goodbye, goodbyes, ice, mournful, mourning, snow

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“This mournful and restless sound was a fit accompaniment to my meditations.”
― Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

tags: ache, depression, empathy, heart, heartbreak, lost, lost-love, love, mournful, mourning, music, nostalgia, regret, ruminating, sadness, suicide, thinking, tradgedy

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“I want to drown in my tears,
And my tears are my prayers.”
― Luffina Lourduraj

tags: melancholy, miserable, miserable-life, miseries, misery, misery-and-sadness, misery-quotes, mourn, mournful, mourning, prayer, prayer-life, prayer-quotes, prayerful, prayerful-habits, prayers-of-the-heart, praying, sad, sadness, sadness-quotes, sorrow, sorrow-quotes, sorrowful-quotes, sorrows, spiritual-growth, spiritual-insights, spiritual-life, spiritual-quotes, spiritual-wisdom, spiritualism, spirituality-quotes, teardrop, tears, tears-crying, tears-quotes, unhappiness-nothing, unhappiness-quotes, unhappy, unhappy-quotes

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“Look forward. Every regret, every mournful thought, takes so much out of your life.”
― Prentice Mulford, Thoughts Are Things

tags: life, mournful, regret

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“The day arrived,when myriad teary rivers flow and the muted wind faintly died in his tears—an altar for the beloved one's departure,for sister-hood is no more,for her to adore!while pangs the beating world in a lamenting voice;their remembering loss of the 'one' they embrace most and when the crepuscule came like a phantom,the mournful,gathered birds swiftly flew in gloom.”
― Nithin Purple, Venus and Crepuscule

tags: adore, altar, author, author-quotes, beloved, birds, crepuscular, crepuscule, death, embarrassment, embrace, faint, gathering-darkness, gloom, gloominess, gloomy, lament, life, literature, loss, love-lost, mournful, mournfulness, muted, nithin-purple, nithinpurple-quotes, pangs, patience, peace, phantom, poems, poems-on-life, poetry, poetry-quotes, remembered, sister-love, sisterhood, swift, swiftly, tears, teary, world, worldly, writers

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“We do not mourn the memories lost.
We mourn the ones which beset us as loyal friends.”
― Vijay Fafat, The Ninth Pawn of White - A Book of Unwritten Verses

tags: grooks, haiku, loss, memories, mournful, nostalgia, poetry, remembering, shortpoem, verses

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“Losing from Champion is not that much
Mournful,

As Winning from Champion is,
'PROUD AS PEACOCK'.”
― Fahad Rashiq

tags: champion, fahad-rashiq, from, losing, mournful, much, peacock, proud, proud-as-peacock, winning

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“They say there are five stages to grief
What they don’t say is how the lines blur time and time again
And that there comes a time when all you know is pain.”
― Lea Malot, 26

tags: grief, grief-and-loss, heartbreak, loss, mourn, mournful, mourning, pain

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“I am no longer young. And my heart, through weary years of mourning over the dead, is not attuned to mirth. Moreover, the walls of my castle are broken; the shadows are many, and the wind breathes cold through the broken battlements and casements.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

tags: ageing, classics, death, dracula, gothic, horror, loneliness, loss, mournful, sadness

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