Mourning/religions and Customs

Famous quotes containing the words mourning, religions and/or customs:

“I’m in mourning for my life.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

“The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)

“The customs of some savage nations might, perchance, be profitably imitated by us, for they at least go through the semblance of casting their slough annually; they have the idea of the thing, whether they have the reality or not.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)