“Mourning died slowly. It never fully dies for something truly loved.” — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
None mourn more ostentatiously than those who most rejoice at it [a death]. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Rosalia is dressed in raven clothes forty years too old for her, so that she seems to be in mourning for her… — Penelope Gilliatt Copy Share Image
“It is said that Time soothes mourning – No, Time makes nothing happen; it merely makes the emotivity of mourning pass.” — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When we neglect the artist in ourselves, there is a kind of mourning that goes on under the surface of our busy… — Pat Schneider Copy Share Image
“Instead of hating, my heart cries mercy! Mercy on me! Mercy on me! Mercy on me!” — Phindiwe Nkosi Copy Share Image
In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels. — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
“Until now I had been able only to grieve, not mourn. Grief was passive. Grief happened. Mourning, the act of dealing with… — Joan Didion 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
When you awaken in morning's hush, I am the swift uplifting rush, of quiet birds in circle flight, I am soft stars… — Mary Elizabeth Frye Copy Share Image
“If I believe, truly believe our souls are meant to cross paths, in each and every life, traversing millennia and repeating this… — Abby Rosmarin Copy Share Image
Mindful grief means mourning and letting go of the past without expectation, fear, censure, blame, shame, control and so forth. Without such… — David Richo Copy Share Image
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
The pleasurable part of public mourning can also lead to a sense of self-sanctification that justifies in advance any war effort, whether… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
It is always better to avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning. For every one of us, living in this world… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses,… — George Washington Cable Copy Share Image
“For some reason, I thought Victor could heal that wound better than anyone else. It's strange to think that this vampire, the… — J.A. London Copy Share Image
“To speak of ‘trying again’ while her ghost was still in the room was an insult to both the child gone before… — Anna Spargo-Ryan Copy Share Image
Everyone keeps telling me that time heals all wounds, but no one can tell me what I'm supposed to do right now.… — Nina Guilbeau Copy Share Image
“That small world, like the great one out of doors, had the capacity of easily forgetting its dead; and when the cook… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
You know what it's like. Sometimes, you meet a wonderful person, but it's only for a brief instant. Maybe on vacation or… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
The force behind the movement of time is a mourning that will not be comforted. That is why the first event is… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of those who… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
“In those seconds, I was mourning everything I'd lost. How I'd never get to see you walk down an aisle toward me,… — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
“Maybe that would be a good thing to do. He wasn't entirely sure, and that bothered him more than anything. How was… — Emily Veinglory Copy Share Image
“When the source of all my meaning came to die, so did the meaning of death.” — Sean Norris Copy Share Image
“You just don't interrupt somebody's mourning with your own problems.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image