In this crazy world, there's an enormous distinction between good times and bad, between sorrow and joy. But in the eyes of… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“When a tsunami hits, you know, on the one hand it's complete destruction, and on the other hand now you have this… — Rachel Goldberg-Polin Copy Share Image
Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have... The deep capacity to weep for the… — Edwin S. Shneidman Copy Share Image
I like a book. I like to read for four hours at a stretch. I think very few are the young people… — Lee Smith Copy Share Image
“The beeches deep in snow, I walk the dark woods In sorrow, sorrow. Your hand, where is your hand? - In the… — Nâzım Hikmet Copy Share Image
We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of mourning will… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
But as the scissors snip-snapped through her hair and the razor shaved the rest, she realized with a sudden awful panic that… — Jane Yolen 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
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
From the great trees the locusts cry In quavering ecstatic duo-a boy Shouts a wild call-a mourning dove In the blue distance… — Hamlin Garland Copy Share Image
“As soon as someone dies, frenzied construction of the future (shifting furniture, etc.): futuromania.” — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Love can be mysterious. You have to find it in your heart, but be careful, it can fall apart. The tears fall… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And no one ever told me about the laziness of grief. Except at my job--where the machine seems to run on much… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Like the good spirit, ready to convict us, knowing is looking right at us, waiting for our inner space to surrender ourselves… — Tabitha Biel Luak 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
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
“Acknowledge that some moments are just plain awful―desperate and gloomy and painful and miserable and nothing at all but anguish. No truthful,… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
The indescribable innocence and beneficence of Nature-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter-such health, such cheer, they afford forever!… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
