“Fate will allow the world Only to glimpse him, then rob it of him quickly.” — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel.” — Benjamin J. Carey Copy Share Image
Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have... — Edwin S. Shneidman Copy Share Image
Doesn't the devil live forever; who ever heard that the devil was dead? Did you ever see any person wearing mourning for… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Through the days of love and celebration and joy, and through the dark days of mourning...the faithful horse has been with us… — Elizabeth Cotten Copy Share Image
“I've sat listening at the feet of enough Black women to know they all deserve to tell their own stories. But here… — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
I did not know the work of mourning Is a labor in the dark We carry inside ourselves — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The blues is a hopeful music. It helps you process something rather than avoid it. It's like mourning, in essence. — Ted Alexandro Copy Share Image
For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“I am crying over the loss of something I never had. How ridiculous. Mourning something that never was – my dashed hopes,… — E.L. James Copy Share Image
People go around mourning the death of God; it's the death of sssin that bothers me. Without ssin, people aren't people any… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Golden bars make no less a prison than a coffin on a hill. And in caged reformation, one wanders aimless still. The… — Craig Froman Copy Share Image
“The world doesn't stop because you are in love or in mourning or in need of time to think. And so when… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“We were a religious sect consisting of two people, and now half the congregation was gone. There would be no closure, no… — James Marcus Copy Share Image
“If I really cared about Matt, I wouldn’t want him to be unhappy. And I was fairly sure that mourning the untimely… — J.L. Merrow Copy Share Image
I look back and cant help but to mourn,how could I have fallen into something such as love,How is it that this… — Emilia Salazar Copy Share Image
Because most of the girls were still in mourning and all of them had lost their textbooks, even pencils and pens, Shaukat… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
“Sunlight’s warmth on my face awoke me in the morning. I didn’t remember falling asleep or how I came to be in… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“I accepted all this counsel politely, with a glassy smile and a glaring sense of unreality. Many adults seemed to interpret this… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
We are repeatedly left, in other words, with no further focus than ourselves, a source from which self-pity naturally flows. Each time… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Holding the knife with the blade against my palm, it became so clear how my life would only contain shadows now. Shadows… — Jennifer Castle Copy Share Image
There are some people who think that they should be always mourning, that they should put a continual constraint upon themselves, and… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black and loving… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“...And yet a knowledge is here that tenses the throat as for song: the inheritance of the ones, alive or once alive,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“I could feel my insides sink. My knees too. So I sat on the ground, against the wall, letting it support me.… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
It's The Mourning Show. Is it true that the theme song is going to be Taps? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I am in the unthinkable situation that people cannot bear to contemplate.” — Sonali Deraniyagala Copy Share Image
“Everyone is “extremely nice”—and yet I feel entirely alone. (“Abandonitis”).” — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
