“God's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Mark Twain's Notebook (1935)
Man was Made to Mourn (1786)
“God's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Mark Twain's Notebook (1935)
“Nature's law,
That man was made to mourn.”
Robert Burns (1759–1796) Scottish poet and lyricist
Man Was Made to Mourn, st. 4 (1786)
“A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.”
Montesquieu (1689–1755) French social commentator and political thinker
No. 40. (Usbek writing to Ibben)
Lettres Persanes (Persian Letters, 1721)
“Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.”
Arthur Conan Doyle book The Hound of the Baskervilles
Source: The Hound of the Baskervilles
“Their heavenly harps a lower strain began, and in soft music mourn the fall of man.”
John Dryden (1631–1700) English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
1850s, What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? (1852)
Heath Ledger (1979–2008) Australian actor
Warner Bros., Heath Memorial http://thedarkknight.warnerbros.com/HeathMemorial.html, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., distributor of The Dark Knight
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) English poet
"Spring and Fall", lines 12-15
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
This Business of Living (1935-1950)