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mourning quotes

  • Wemet†Dr Hall insuchverydeep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

    -Jane Austen
      Letter to Cassandra  Austen,17 May.

  •    Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Psalms 30:11.

  • : Why do you wear black all the time? : I'm in mourning for my life.

    - Anton Chekhov
         MEDVEDENKOMASHA1896  The Seagull, act1.

  • 'Mourning is a hard business,'Cesare said.'If people knew there'd be less death.'

    - Bernard Malamud
      Idiot's First,'Life Is Better Than Death'.

  • Mourning Becomes Electra.

    - Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
      Title of play.

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