“Mourning died slowly. It never fully dies for something truly loved.” — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
None mourn more ostentatiously than those who most rejoice at it [a death]. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Mourning is tough. But faith and family are the greatest sources of strength. — Kerry Kennedy Copy Share Image
“The measurement of mourning: eighteen months for mourning a father, a mother.” — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
No farewell words were spoken, no time to say goodbye, you were gone before we knew it, and only God knows why. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When a tsunami hits, you know, on the one hand it's complete destruction, and on the other hand now you have this… — Rachel Goldberg-Polin Copy Share Image
Depression leads him close to his wounds, but only the mourning for what he has missed, missed at the crucial time, can… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
“I felt as though the vessel if my suffering had become empty, as if nothing could interest me now. I had lost… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“I thought maybe we mourned not only for the dead but also for the living. We felt their absence before we knew… — Vaddey Ratner Copy Share Image
“He spent too much time mourning what could have been and questioning what should be.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Until now I had been able only to grieve, not mourn. Grief was passive. Grief happened. Mourning, the act of dealing with… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Isn’t the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language — the amorous language? No more… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
When you awaken in morning's hush, I am the swift uplifting rush, of quiet birds in circle flight, I am soft stars… — Mary Elizabeth Frye Copy Share Image
I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation,… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
Mindful grief means mourning and letting go of the past without expectation, fear, censure, blame, shame, control and so forth. Without such… — David Richo Copy Share Image
“If I believe, truly believe our souls are meant to cross paths, in each and every life, traversing millennia and repeating this… — Abby Rosmarin Copy Share Image
It is always better to avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning. For every one of us, living in this world… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses,… — George Washington Cable Copy Share Image
In this crazy world, there's an enormous distinction between good times and bad, between sorrow and joy. But in the eyes of… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The pleasurable part of public mourning can also lead to a sense of self-sanctification that justifies in advance any war effort, whether… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
For a while, Mirabelle believes there will be a moment when he will cave in and let himself love her, but eventually… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
On a day of burial there is no perspective--for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“Maybe that would be a good thing to do. He wasn't entirely sure, and that bothered him more than anything. How was… — Emily Veinglory Copy Share Image
“To speak of ‘trying again’ while her ghost was still in the room was an insult to both the child gone before… — Anna Spargo-Ryan Copy Share Image
“That small world, like the great one out of doors, had the capacity of easily forgetting its dead; and when the cook… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Everyone keeps telling me that time heals all wounds, but no one can tell me what I'm supposed to do right now.… — Nina Guilbeau Copy Share Image
You know what it's like. Sometimes, you meet a wonderful person, but it's only for a brief instant. Maybe on vacation or… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
Mr Earbrass stands on the terrace at twilight. It is bleak; it is cold; and the virtue has gone out of everything.… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
The only thing lamer than dating Dan Humphrey... is mourning Dan Humphrey. — Blair Waldorf Copy Share Image
“When the source of all my meaning came to die, so did the meaning of death.” — Sean Norris Copy Share Image