We've enshrined the purity, sanctity, value, and importance of bringing children into the world, yet we don't discuss death. There used to… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are… — Adam Michnik Copy Share Image
Says the girl dressed up in formal Goth mourning," Shane said. "Seriously, who buys a black lace veil? You keep that on… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
“His wife...always dressed in mourning for the children who died in infancy and squeezed breathless by the pressure of her corset, her… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“As Tom wandered back to Mrs Mewett’s, he thought about the little relics at the lighthouse – Docherty’s knitting, his wife’s jar… — M.L. Stedman Copy Share Image
“I wished that my own bones were unbound, I wished they were mingling, picked clean by fish, with the bones of another… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t every day that I got to see him, but when I did I knew I was on the right path… — Jonathan Kuiper Copy Share Image
I always thought I'd be the one to go first. ... The world might be mourning an Everly Brother, but I'm mourning… — Don Everly Copy Share Image
“And they will pause just for an instant, and give a sigh to me, and think, "Poor girl!" believing they do great… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“In one blow, that dream died as they dragged me—him—away. A tear slid down my cheek. I wasn't the only one mourning… — Kimberly Kinrade Copy Share Image
The nature of most Covid-19 deaths, in hospital or a care home away from family and friends, has made it worse for… — Luciana Berger 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
“If you wear black, then kindly, irritating strangers will touch your arm consolingly and inform you that the world keeps on turning.… — Alan Moore 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
Dearest Charles-- I found a box of this paper at the back of a bureau so I must write to you as… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I know few Christians so convinced of the splendor of the rooms in their Father's house, as to be happier when their… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“...of course those fridges don't get cold: they're more like coffins that way. But coffins are also just fancy boxes made to… — Mariana Enríquez Copy Share Image
The attitude of mourning is a faithless attitude, an ignorant attitude. The more we know, the more fully we shall trust, for… — Charles Webster Leadbeater Copy Share Image
“The size and height of the tree determines how heavily the ground will shake when it falls. The cassava tree falls and… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
When you have a big life change, it takes a long time to get used to either the new format or the… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
People will suffer and so will nature, but life is likely to go on with a great deal of loss and mourning.… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Paradoxically (since people say: Work, amuse yourself, see friends) it’s when we’re busy, distracted, sought out, exteriorized, that we suffer most. Inwardness,… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Far from his illness The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays; By… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'll never forget the way you held me in your arms or the way you rescued me when my back was against… — Lydia Samuels Copy Share Image
“The living mourn the dead for a time but they forget about them as days pass. The living are so selfish, so… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
I suppose while we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil; and while… — John Taylor Copy Share Image
“ His work was so great that it cannot be compassed in a few words. His death is one of the greatest… — Joseph John Thomson Copy Share Image
If you're mourning, cry, scream and purge whatever is going on inside you emotionally. That's part of the process. And keep those… — Eric Benet Copy Share Image
We can't live our lives obsessing about the past or mourning the future. We have a responsibility to ourselves and to each… — Lisa Mangum Copy Share Image
“You always forget that it's impossible to grieve every minute of the day. You always forget that a mourning period can include… — Katie Heaney 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
“ Music, When Soft Voices Die Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Look, everyone mourns at their own pace. Maybe you're just a little bit ahead of her, but she'll get to you eventually.… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
One friend dies and we remain indifferent; another dies, perhaps less intimate, and we see ourselves as dead, and weep, mourn, tear… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
“The reason he could do none of the necessary things to take care of himself, on the few occasions when he thought… — Peter Pouncey Copy Share Image
“Rain is a lullaby heard through a thick, isolating blanket of clouds. It is the tinkling harp of water droplets; a moist… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“ Good had defeated evil, people proclaimed, a justification for atrocities best left forgotten. They would cling to this oversimplified truth while… — Kristina McMorris Copy Share Image
“Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it. Praise in due order; of Him as… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Death abides by no one's rules...it takes what pleases it without consciousness to its decisions. It destroys what it will. It took… — Cassandra Giovanni Copy Share Image
“I asked Morrie if he felt sorry for himself. "Sometimes, in the mornings," he said. "That's when I mourn. I feel around… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
