“We met Dr. Hall in such very deep mourning that either his wife, his mother or himself must be dead” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
He [Will Rogers] was America's most complete human document. One-third humor. One-third humanitarian. One-third heart. — Damon Runyon Copy Share Image
“And that was part of the tragedy: I had just started to know her. I was mourning the relationship that could have… — Sy Montgomery Copy Share Image
I lost a friend today, and my heart is mourning. If you're feeling alone, depressed & don't know if you can handle… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Mourning suits us Spanish women. Tragedy turns us into Antigone - maybe we are bred for the part.” — Judith Ortiz Cofer Copy Share Image
“Why not celebrate what you had had rather than spend your time mourning its passing? There could be joy in things that… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“To whom can I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“...blessing and cursing are born as twins and separated at birth to meet again in mourning” — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I thought of you today, but that is nothing new. I thought about you yesterday, and days before that too. I think… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I felt like a mouse running through one of those cardboard mazes. I didn't have to think about anything I did. My… — Alicia K. Leppert Copy Share Image
So what do you wear to dump somebody?" she asked me, twirling a lock of hair around one finger. "Black, for mourning?… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“There is a time when death is an event, an ad-venture, and as such mobilizes, interests, activates, tetanizes. And then one day… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
When Princess Diana died, I couldn't understand why people were mourning her death in such an enormous, hysterical way when they didn't… — Alison Jackson Copy Share Image
“This is no time for inactivity or despair. Off with the mourning clothes. Take some chances; take the initiative. You never know… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
It was a huge shock. I've never had hair that short in my life! I think the rest of the cast and… — Camilla Belle Copy Share Image
“You had a good life and a good home. You loved me and I loved you. I'll let your ashes go in… — Delicious Tacos Copy Share Image
“Ruth Bowers laid her hand, as she spoke, on Frances's arm and the physical contact was like a burn, distracting her totally.… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“Each death laid a dreadful charge of complicity on the living; each death was incongenerous, its guilt irreducible, its sadness immortal; a… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“What is dying? I am standing on the seashore. A ship sails to the morning breeze and starts for the ocean. She… — Charles Henry Brent Copy Share Image
Nathan. I can't believe you would just leave like that. WHY DID YOU HAVE TO DIE. You didn't deserve to be bullied.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The real irony is that the view of infinity as some forbidden zone or road to insanity - which view was very… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Great winds and storms help fruit-bearing trees. So also do corruptions and temptations help the fruitfulness of grace and holiness. The storm… — John Owen Copy Share Image
“He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Axsem would say nothing more to any of them. No sooner had Fallon released him than he fled deep into the trees,… — S.R. Ford Copy Share Image
I extend my condolences to those who have lost a loved one by saying, Good mourning. — Rudy Espinoza Copy Share Image
When I am dead, no pageant train shall waste their sorrows at my bier. Nor worthless pomp of homage vain stain it… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
No, it's not a 'corpse thing.' I feel I lack the emotional capacity to deal with those in mourning... — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
My granny was always mourning about the fact I wear dull, stained jeans or don't brush my hair. — Twinkle Khanna Copy Share Image
“Sorrow is food swallowed too quickly, caught in the throat, making it nearly impossible to breathe.” — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“am merely mourning that so many good or lively books are dead so soon, or only imperfectly kept alive in the cheap… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Don't waste time mourning lost opportunites or missed chances. If it was meant for you, it would have happened. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wonder why bereaved people even bother with mourning clothes when the grief itself provides such an unmistakable wardrobe. — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“What is it like when you lose someone you love?" Jane asked. "You die, too. And you wait around for your body… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
A woman who'd lost her first son consoled us with an angel gone ahead to pray for our family-- gone into that… — Michael S. Harper Copy Share Image
“The effects of loss are acute, and unique to each individual. Not everyone mourns in the same way, but everyone mourns.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives.” — Rob Liano Copy Share Image
A great many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life could make it seem longer if they did… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
I had lots of opportunities to survive this [popularity] madness. Madame de Staël said, "Glory is the bright mourning of happiness." — Brigitte Bardot Copy Share Image
The elegy does the work of mourning; it allows us to experience mortality. It turns loss into remembrance, and it delivers an… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“This is who I am. This is who I have always been. I am in pain. I am always in pain. But… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image