Too surely, every setting day,
Some lost delight we mourn. [ Keble ]

Even thou who mourn'st the daisy's fate,
That fate is thine - no distant date;
Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives elate
Full on thy bloom,
Till crush'd beneath the farrow's weight
Shall be thy doom. [ Burns ]

And fondly mourn the dear delusions gone. [ Prior ]

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. [ William Shakespeare ]

Grief should be the instructor of the wise;
Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most
Must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth,
The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life. [ Byron ]

They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness. [ Baron ]

Let those who hope for brighter shores no more,
Not mourn, but turning inland, bravely seek
What hidden wealth redeems the shapeless shore. [ Eugene Lee Hamilton ]

He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend.
Eternity mourns that. 'Tis an ill cure
For life's worst ills to have no time to feel them. [ Sir Henry Taylor ]

Who breathes must suffer; and who thinks, must mourn;
And he alone is bless'd, who never was born. [ Prior ]

Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted. [ Bible ]

It is those who make the least display of their sorrow who mourn the deepest. [ Chapin ]

The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them. [ Burke ]

The gods from heaven survey the fatal strife, and mourn the miseries of human life. [ Dryden ]

To be impatient at the death of a person concerning whom it was certain he must die is to mourn because thy friend was not born an angel. [ Jeremy Taylor ]