Mourners

Famous quotes containing the word mourners:

“For his mourners will be outcast men,
And outcasts always mourn.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“A woman who writes feels too much,
those trances and portents!
As if cycles and children and islands
weren’t enough; as if mourners and gossips
and vegetables were never enough.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“And desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets.”
—Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes 12:5.