Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“You never hear widows voice the sentiment, but I could stave off companionship indefinitely. Sex, not so much.” — Abby Fabiaschi Copy Share Image
“show me the city that does not mourn its fallen whose pillars embrace white coffins and freeze time and distort space” — Hanna Abi Akl Copy Share Image
The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning. — Laozi Copy Share Image
In Asia, red is the colour of joy; red is the colour of festivities and of celebration. In Chinese culture, blue is… — Vincent Tan Copy Share Image
“Suppose it was painful," she whispers. "All that broken skin." She has been so steely I can almost forget she's in mourning.” — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
I never relied on my beauty for anything. It was one of those things that was inevitable; you have a bit of… — Diana Rigg Copy Share Image
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The ministry or service of prophets and witnesses, mourning and prophesying in sackcloth, God has directly commissioned and upheld all during the… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
When we make mistakes, we can use the process of NVC mourning and self-forgiveness to show us where we can grow instead… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Losing people you love affects you. It is buried inside of you and becomes this big, deep hole of ache. It doesn't… — Carrie Jones Copy Share Image
“It’s not just the permanence of the finished product, but the discomfort inherent in the process that draws people in mourning to… — Kate Sweeney 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
“Although it was autumn and not summer the dark-gold sunlight and the inky shadows, long and slender in the shape of felled… — John Banville Copy Share Image
“From Orient Point The art of living isn't hard to muster: Enjoy the hour, not what it might portend. When someone makes… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
“He woke one morning tantalized by an idea: if he could catch the orchard trees motionless for one second -- for half… — David Wroblewski 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
Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited. — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“Forbid me not to weep; he was my father; And, had you lov'd him half so well as I, You could not… — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
“Enter the house of mourning, my friend, but with kindness and affection for those who love you, and not with hatred for… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion… — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
“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
“What affects me most powerfully: mourning in layers—a kind of sclerosis. [Which means: no depth. Layers of surface—or rather, each layer: a… — Roland Barthes 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
“That’s it. I’m asking you, I’m really asking you—how is it possible that we aren’t in a permanent state of mourning?” — Peter Orner 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 extend my condolences to those who have lost a loved one by saying, Good mourning. — Rudy Espinoza Copy Share Image