Mourning tendeth to mending. [ Proverb ]

Marry a widow before she leaves mourning. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Dogs never go into mourning when a horse dies. [ Proverb ]

Glory can be for a woman but the brilliant mourning of happiness. [ Mme. de Stael ]

Mourning only lasts till morning with the children of the morning. [ Saying ]

Heavy sorrow is silent, and the deepest mourning is the most solitary. [ Charles Buxton ]

Many a smiling face hides a mourning heart; but grief alone teaches us what we are. [ Schiller ]

The tear of joy is a pearl of the first water; the mourning tear, only of the second. [ Jean Paul ]

Of permanent mourning there is none; no cloud remains fixed. The sun will shine tomorrow. [ Richter ]

Hope! hope, you miserable! There is no infinite mourning, no incurable evils, no eternal hell! [ Victor Hugo ]

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth. [ Bible ]

Excess of grief for the deceased is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not. [ Xenophon ]

The hair is the finest ornament women have. Of old, virgins used to wear it loose, except when they were in mourning. [ Luther ]

The most heaven-like spots I have ever visited have been certain rooms in which Christ's disciples were awaiting the summons of death. So far from being a house of mourning, I have often found such a house to be a vestibule of glory. [ T. L. Cuyler ]