Definition of Mourn

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Definition of Mourn

Mourn

To express or to feel grief or sorrow; to grieve; to be sorrowful; to lament; to be in a state of grief or sadness.

To wear the customary garb of a mourner.

To grieve for; to lament; to deplore; to bemoan; to bewail.

To utter in a mournful manner or voice.

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Mourn Quotations

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Buddha

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
George S. Patton

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
Lord Byron

Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.
William Wordsworth

Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.
Josh Billings

Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.
Aeschylus

To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.
Aeschylus

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.
Baruch Spinoza

But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space.
John Donne

Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again.
Morrie Schwartz

Mourn Translations

mourn in Danish is beklage
mourn in Dutch is rouwen
mourn in German is trauern
mourn in Latin is plango planxi planctum

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