“and the thought of relieving my mourning, even slightly, for a moment filled me with a kind of fear.” — Ahdaf Soueif Copy Share Image
In the custom of mourning, the fabric of the night had been ripped, revealing a star at each tiny tear. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Trying my hardest not to cry. I still miss you so much, you were such an amazing man. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We’re all carrying our coffins with us every day.” Or “We are all constantly cheating death.” — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Today, the world lost a creative icon. Michelle and I join millions of fans from around the world in mourning the sudden… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“When they need to mourn longer, collect nests and sew one big enough for them to weep in.” — Aimee Herman Copy Share Image
“Let roots grow where love was lost. Honor the life that they had, even though it was short.” — Laura C. Reden Copy Share Image
“Remember that mourning is both biblical and healing. Doing anything that might repress a person's need to grieve is both uncaring and… — Amy Fenton Lee Copy Share Image
“She had filled her days mourning that shadow life, and it had no more meaning than the chattering of monkeys. Instead, these… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Woman, thou shouldst ever be clothed in rags and in mourning, appearing only as a penitent, drowned in tears, and expiating thus… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
Loneliness is something we [all people] go through. We go through mourning and longing. We make some bad choices sometimes because we're… — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
“He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the… — Scotty Smith Copy Share Image
“I am not the first nor the last one to mourn, but this is my way of mourning. It’s my way to… — Bernard Jan Copy Share Image
“There is freedom in mourning as long as we are surrendering ourselves to be changed into the image of Christ in the… — Natasha Metzler Copy Share Image
Remember this-all the sighing, mourning, sobbing, and complaining in the world, does not so undeniably evidence a man to be humble, as… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Listen to me. Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This poem is one of a series, all of them elegiac in intention, and subject to the strange forces of mourning that… — Lyn Hejinian Copy Share Image
“To each of the mourners outside in the lane, I would be no more than a pale face glimpsed for a moment… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Now there is one thing I can tell you: you will enjoy certain pleasures you would not fathom now. When you still… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I have more than once tried to analyse this apparently deliberate form of self-torture that seems common to so many people in… — Gavin Maxwell Copy Share Image
“It is regret for the absence of his loved one which causes a mourner to grieve: yet it is clear that this… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“I did not know the work of mourning Is like carrying a bag of cement Up a mountain at night The mountaintop… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Every mourning when you wake up, U should give god thanks because he did'nt had to wake U up. — Damian Copy Share Image
Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro… — Quintus Ennius Copy Share Image
In the voice of mirth there may be excitement, but in the tones of mourning there is consolation. — Willis Gaylord Clark Copy Share Image
Grieving is a necessary passage and a difficult transition to finally letting go of sorrow - it is not a permanent rest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you're around someone so much, for so long, they become a part of you, and when they go away, you don't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“People can act so nice, bringing you food and all, but in the end they are nothing but buzzards. Waiting to pick… — Lee Smith Copy Share Image
“Trees raised their naked, mottled branches to the sky like mourners stilled in attitudes of grief.” — Arundhati Roy 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
“Death never pierces the heart so much as when it takes someone we love; cleaving the heart they held with their passing.” — Brandon M. Herbert Copy Share Image
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one. — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
“but from here on I want more crazy mourning, more howl, more keening -from "A Woman Dead in Her Forties” — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The weeping of the candle is not in mourning for the moth: the dawn is at hand, and it is thinking of… — Saib Tabrizi Copy Share Image
“It's wrong to give so much time over to mourning, she tells herself. Mourning and brooding. There's nothing to be accomplished by… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Naming suffering, exalting it, dissecting it into its smallest components – that is doubtless a way to curb mourning. — Julia Kristeva Copy Share Image
You can't understand Twenties England until you appreciate it was under a cloud of mourning. Nearly everyone was grieving. — Ian Hislop Copy Share Image