Famous quotes containing the words mourning and/or period:
“Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)