“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
Depression leads him close to his wounds, but only the mourning for what he has missed, missed at the crucial time, can… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse. — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
Red was the blood of the siblings massacred in the North, black was for mourning them, green was for the prosperity Biafra… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 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
The air is full of farewells to the dying. And mournings for the dead. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Tears are God's gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow. — Rita Schiano Copy Share Image
They which have no hope of a life to come, may extend their griefs for the loss of this, and equal the… — John Pearson Copy Share Image
Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Inherent in mourning is celebration. Mourning without celebration or some form of acceptance leaves you stuck. — Ted Alexandro 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
“The American flag doesn't give her glory on a peaceful, calm day. It's when the winds pick up and become boisterous, do… — Anthony Liccione 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
In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible… — Abraham Lincoln 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
Isn’t the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language — the amorous language? No more… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“...The heart mourns people and places and returns to them in dreams...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Whenever he was out of luck and a little down-hearted, he would fall to mourning over the loss of a wonderful cat… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have... — Edwin S. Shneidman 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 hair is the finest ornament women have. Of old, virgins used to wear it loose, except when they were in mourning. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
