What affects me most powerfully: mourning in layers—a kind…

“...they had lived, they'd lived intensely. But no matter how deeply you live, it comes to this in the end: one of you will…

— Brian Morton

Nowadays most people wear black most of the time anyway: go to a literary party and one would imagine everyone there was in perpetual…

— Fay Weldon

“I did not know the work of mourning Is like carrying a bag of cement Up a mountain at night The mountaintop is not…

— Edward Hirsch

None mourn more ostentatiously than those who most rejoice at it [a death].

— Tacitus

“It's wrong to give so much time over to mourning, she tells herself. Mourning and brooding. There's nothing to be accomplished by it.”

— Margaret Atwood

You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.

— Antonio Porchia

Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron…

— Lewis Mumford

Remember this-all the sighing, mourning, sobbing, and complaining in the world, does not so undeniably evidence a man to be humble, as his overlooking…

— Thomas Brooks

Mourning your first love is as important as meeting your first love. It's the whole cycle.

— Jane Anderson

“I have more than once tried to analyse this apparently deliberate form of self-torture that seems common to so many people in face of…

— Gavin Maxwell

“In daylight we pick up our tinned rations and hike off, every artery and nerve of us, into the rest of our commemorative lives.”

— Tess Gallagher

Loneliness is something we [all people] go through. We go through mourning and longing. We make some bad choices sometimes because we're desperate for…

— Jennifer Lee

I extend my condolences to those who have lost a loved one by saying, Good mourning.

— Rudy Espinoza

“Why do you always wear black?” "I am mourning for my life.”

— Anton Chekhov

Rosalia is dressed in raven clothes forty years too old for her, so that she seems to be in mourning for her life.

— Penelope Gilliatt