Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't mourn the dead. I mourn the living.
A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.
One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
I wanted to acknowledge that life goes on but that death goes on, too. A person who is dead is a long, long story.
They which have no hope of a life to come, may extend their griefs for the loss of this, and equal the days of their mourning with the years of the life of man.
Those who live, live off the dead.
Sometimes a person has to be dead a while before people can appreciate what they did when they were alive.
I get inhabited by a character and then you mourn it. There's a period of mourning for me, definitely.
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