“How do you mourn endless numbers of people in endless numbers of places? Is there a form for it, a requisite time… — Rosario Morales Copy Share Image
“There are endings. There are beginnings. Sometimes they coincide, with the ending of one thing marking the beginning of another. But sometimes… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
One bitter time of mourning, I remember, When day, and night, my sad heart did complain, My life, I said, was one… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
The loss of my father marked my life. I'm 88 years old and I'm still mourning him because it's such a drama… — Frank Lowy Copy Share Image
Now, we have inscribed a new memory alongside those others. It's a memory of tragedy and shock, of loss and mourning. But… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Here was a whole life Beth had missed, a hole where a life should have been. But then, he thought, the universe… — Lydia Millet Copy Share Image
“Death moved in the night, in search for blood, and when it found Life, it passed on by, like a cloud that… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
Family members have a personal stake in honoring and mourning their dead and objecting to unwarranted public exploitation that, by intruding upon… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
If, as a culture, we don’t bear witness to grief, the burden of loss is placed entirely upon the bereaved, while the… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
When someone died in the wilderness of frontier America, that person's physical remains were buried and the handcarts continued west, but the… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
“When we lose certain people, or when we are dispossessed from a place, or a community, we may simply feel that we… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Well, when Eleanor Roosevelt's mother dies, she goes to live with her Grandmother Hall. And her Grandmother Hall is in mourning. She's… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
“I'm not a fool, I knew from the beginning what couldn't happen. What couldn't happen didn't. The enterprise is abandoned. But half… — Frank Bidart Copy Share Image
Only with gun violence do we respond to repeated tragedies by saying that mourning is acceptable but discussing how to prevent more… — Ezra Klein Copy Share Image
“The Staging In the weeks after my mother's death, I sleep Four or five hours a night, often interrupted By dreams, and… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
People are put down in television now, not because they're not qualitative, not because they're not talented - but because there's no… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
In fact, with Michael Jackson, I think those mourning people... They aren't even waking Michael, they're waking the Michael Jackson of '84.… — Bobcat Goldthwait Copy Share Image
“...they had lived, they'd lived intensely. But no matter how deeply you live, it comes to this in the end: one of… — Brian Morton Copy Share Image
Social media reactions to celebrity death have taken on a predictable pattern: an outpouring of shock with expressions of grief, followed by… — Jennifer Armintrout Copy Share Image
After that I could never pass a dead man without stopping to gaze on his face, stripped by death of that earthly… — Ernst Toller Copy Share Image
What is required to face trauma is the ability to mourn, fully and deeply, all that has been taken from us. Only… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
Miles was still mourning the loss of his Romantic Plan. 'There was going to be champagne, and oysters, and you' -- he… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
“For one of the odd things about death, Trudy has discovered, is that in its wake one must go about business as… — Jenna Blum Copy Share Image
You don't get over it, you just get through it. You don't get by it, because you cant get around it. It… — Wendy Feireisen Copy Share Image
Although I could lament in the language and feelings of David for Absalom, I am constrained to say, peace to his manes.… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
“Still others, like Kavita, just sit and sit, sometimes for hours. They are the ones, she now understands, who are mourning. Like… — Shilpi Somaya Gowda Copy Share Image
Poland remains undzer heym, our home, no matter how bitter the memories, how filled with disappointment and betrayal. Amerike iz goles, America… — Irena Klepfisz Copy Share Image
“There's no such thing as simple mourning for anyone, really, except that as writers our grief becomes woven into the fabric of… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Whether I'm writing a novel about a guy mourning the death of his father or whether I'm writing a show about people… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
Despair ... is the only cure for illusion. Without despair we cannot transfer our allegiance to reality - it's a kind of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When he asked if he was mine, tears in his eyes, I think he knew what he would do, what he would… — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
“Just walk fearlessly into the house of mourning, for grief is just love squaring up to its oldest enemy. And after all… — Catherine Burns Copy Share Image
One can never be sure,” the Green Wind sighed. “There is always the danger of kisses where sleeping maids are concerned. But… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
When someone we love dies, we never get to see them again but we will always feel them, because they live on… — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
tried to focus on a particular aspect of this historical moment: the failure of mourning. This is something I haven't seen a… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I've grieved enough for his life cut short and for mine for running on for so long with so little in it.… — Rosie Thomas Copy Share Image
“Understand there’s no right or wrong way to grieve, including anticipatory grief. It’s like the ocean. It ebbs and it flows. There… — Dana Arcuri Copy Share Image
There is nothing to be compared to this, 'cause we lost our brother, our hero. The world is mourning. We are mourning.… — Jermaine Jackson Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's not easy to forget things which irritated our mind it's because our feelings are connected to our mind which causes… — Jehan Fostanes Nayga Copy Share Image
“The mourning of a loved one never ends with a funeral. It comes back every so often, like a stage performer eager… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
