“It’s almost as if the dead have no value unless we know that someone they are related to is still alive and… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Mourning was its own kind of music—the sound of so many hearts, of so many breaths, of so many standing together.” — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
“I did not know the work of mourning Is like carrying a bag of cement Up a mountain at night” — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The man who follows Christ in solitary mourning is greater than he who praises Christ amid the congregation of men. — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
“I am either lacerated or ill at ease and occasionally subject to gusts of life” — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I know the injustice of outliving a child, the pain of a future stolen away, of mourning forever a voice you'll never… — Jill Biden Copy Share Image
After 'Orange' wrapped and my character wrapped, I felt like I went through a bit of a mourning period. — Madeline Brewer Copy Share Image
“For a moment the man from London and the woman in mourning considered each other in silence, each gauging temperament from the… — Charles Todd Copy Share Image
“Good Madonna, why mournest thou? Good Fool, for my brother's death. I think his soul is in hell, Madonna. I know his… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Lamentation is the intentional process of grieving and mourning so that we can bid an honest farewell to what we’ve lost and… — Russ Ramsey Copy Share Image
Sleep sweetly in your humble graves,Sleep, martyrs of a fallen cause;Though yet no marble column cravesThe pilgrim here to pause.Stoop, angels, hither… — Henry Timrod Copy Share Image
I feel about my dogs now, and all the dogs I had prior to this, the way I feel about children—they are… — Mary Tyler Moore Copy Share Image
I'm mourning with the rest of the world for the talented, gorgeous, funny, intelligent John Forsythe but my heart is broken for… — Cheryl Ladd Copy Share Image
We are at last being recognised as the indigenous people of this country whom must share in its future. This is not… — Galarrwuy Yunupingu Copy Share Image
Great were the lamentation and the cry when the news of this mischance was noised about the city. Such a tumult of… — Marie de France Copy Share Image
“The worst part about a break up isn't the loss of a relationship. It's finding out that the person you once loved… — Mohadesa Najumi Copy Share Image
Did you love well what very soon you left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
My situation is a solemn one: life is offered to me on the condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A different kind of pleasure surfaced in the aftermath, the pleasure of seeing the towers fall time and again, the experience of… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“I am not, anymore, a Christian, but I am lifted and opened by any space with prayer inside it. I didn’t know… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
“ She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“How could I not go on talking to you? How could I not expect to see you when it's the end of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Honor thy Father and thy Mother was once said, but then someone said: What if I don't know your Father? A still… — Bootsy Collins Copy Share Image
When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Not a second passes... When you're not on our minds... Your love we will never forget... The hurt will ease in time... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Dear God," she prayed from the very depth of her soul, "help me not to grieve-to willingly let him return to You… — Thyra Ferré Björn Copy Share Image
I wake up in that state of grief when you can tell you've been mourning even in your sleep. — Carolyn Parkhurst Copy Share Image
“You cannot stop the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can stop them nesting in your hair.” — Eva Ibbotson Copy Share Image
“We'd all mourn for a while, but at the end of the day we were a tough lot, and we'd survive.” — Suzanne Johnson Copy Share Image
All Americans mourn the passing of the author of the Declaration of Independence, George Jefferson. — Andy Borowitz Copy Share Image
The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
When someone we love dies, we get so busy mourning what died that we ignore what didn't. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential… — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
“The days of mourning are over now. Wipe those tears from your eyes and speak healing to your wounded heart. Choose to… — Gift Gugu Mona Copy Share Image
One rational voice is dumb: over a grave The household of Impulse mourns one dearly loved. Sad is Eros, builder of cities,… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“The force behind the movement of time is a mourning that will not be comforted.” — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“She wished for a moment that they were all children again. It still seemed extraordinary to her, that everything had turned out… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
“Someone dies, there oughta be something. It oughta shake the world! You're not supposed to walk away!” — Lisa Henry Copy Share Image
