Mournful Quotes

The wailing owl Screams solitary to the mournful moon.

Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.

My grandfather played a mandolin, so I got my hands on that. Then on down to a banjo, and I found I couldn't play any kind of soft or mournful music with that so I took up the fiddle in my late 20s or early 30s - and that was far too late. But it keeps me off the streets. It has been a love of mine since I was 17 maybe.

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.

Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

And all around is the desert; a corner of the mournful kingdom of sand.

When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood.