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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.
Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
We may thank God that we can feel pain and know sadness, for these are the human sentiments that constitute our glory as well as our grief.
If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life.
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned, till Pity's self be dead.
Some of us only meet in the most fleeting moments; some of us never meet, but still hear about one another and therefore cherish what we know from what we've heard, and mourn the loss, even though we're spared what the close-loved ones must endure - the ongoing pain of an empty place in the heart for the rest of life.
Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.