“In humans as well, it is because your loved one existed that certain neurons fire together and certain proteins are folded in… — Mary-Frances O'Connor Copy Share Image
“And as the wind gusted against those windows, I saw how, in an instant, I lost my shelter. This truth had hardly… — Sonali Deraniyagala Copy Share Image
“For all her culture's attention to the physical, it seemingly has little to salve the creatural anguish of losing someone else's body,… — Michelle Latiolais Copy Share Image
When mothers talk about the depression of the empty nest, they're not mourning the passing of all those wet towels on the… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
“it had been a winter of deadening seriousness, when all the illusions and bright dreams of my early twenties had withered and… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“Grief is by nature the most violent of them all. The ancients tore their hair and rent their clothing to express it.… — Mindy McGinnis Copy Share Image
“Here's the other thing I think about. It makes little sense to try to control what happens to your remains when you… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
An unchangeable colour rules over the melancholic: his dwelling is a space the colour of mourning. Nothing happens in it. No one… — Alejandra Pizarnik Copy Share Image
Even when your body does nothing, sin can be active in your mind. When your soul inwardly repulses the evil one's attack… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
“I was tired of well-meaning folks, telling me it was time I got over being heartbroke. When somebody tells you that, a… — Michael Lee West Copy Share Image
“When my late father died — now I'm in mourning for my late mother — that sense of grief and bereavement suddenly… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
“Time is ungovernable, but grief presents us with a choice: what do we do with the savage energies of bereavement? What do… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
“Adam Kuambiana umerudi nyumbani ulikotoka, ukiongozwa na imani na mwanga wa wale uliowapenda na kuwapoteza. Hatuwezi kukumbuka kwamba umetutoka bila kukumbuka kwamba… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
“My grandmother’s unkindness, for instance, was the result of repressed grief over three deaths: her parents, before she was twelve, and her… — Nancy Cobb Copy Share Image
“…There is some firm place in me which knows that what happened to Wally, whatever it was, whatever it is that death… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
Over the last 10 years, there have been so many incredible albums created in bedrooms by people who never would've gotten an… — Bjork Copy Share Image
“If I were to believe in God enough to call him a murderer, then I might also believe enough that he, as… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
It was like a death in the family: You go through the mourning stage, then the rebellion, and then all of a… — Jessica Simpson Copy Share Image
“We would also have to say goodbye to the joy of watching this next generation soak up the massive quantities of love… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
On a more personal note we in this country we have a very tragic situation occur at one of our universities and,… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
We were impelled to remain loyal for a while to the memory of Penny. It was a form of the old fashioned… — Derek Tangye Copy Share Image
“Any second... now? No. I am a 'mourning person'. Not because anybody close to me has recently passed away, but because I… — Jon Richardson Copy Share Image
During the mourning period after my father passed, his friends and colleagues were saying there was no way the business would survive.… — Julie Smolyansky Copy Share Image
“Grief is a heart-wrenchingly painful problem for the brain to solve, and grieving necessitates learning to live in the world with the… — Mary-Frances O'Connor Copy Share Image
The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“Contrary to what a lot of people believe (or hope), comfort doesn’t take the pain away. Comfort slides in beside the pain,… — Peggy Haymes Copy Share Image
“But when ye come, and all the flowers are dying, If I am dead, as dead I well may be, You'll come… — Frederic Weatherly Copy Share Image
Think of it! A few more boats, a few more planks of wood nailed together in a particular way at a thrifty… — Lawrence Beesley Copy Share Image
“Although we know that after such a loss the acute state of mourning will subside, we also know we shall remain inconsolable… — Carolyn Ambler Walter Copy Share Image
When mourning the loss of our departed friends, I cannot help but think that in every death there is a birth; the… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
“I stood staring to heaven and nothing came from there, no mercy or redemption. Whatever had come had come already and it… — James Robertson Copy Share Image
“Of course he wasn't dead. He could never be dead until she herself had finished feeling and thinking. The kiss of his… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
A very wise dog woman once told me that dogs find owners, not the other way around. They pick you and they… — Julie Klam Copy Share Image
In today's world it is deceptively easy to lose sight of our direction and the things that matter and give us joy.… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
For others the mourning is over. Others would say that whilst one God has died - the God of ontotheology perhaps? -… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
