“Fate will allow the world Only to glimpse him, then rob it of him quickly.” — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“Everyone is “extremely nice”—and yet I feel entirely alone. (“Abandonitis”).” — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“I am in the unthinkable situation that people cannot bear to contemplate.” — Sonali Deraniyagala Copy Share Image
He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I was depressed for a year after 'The Pianist,' and I don't suffer from that, generally. It wasn't just a depression; it… — Adrien Brody Copy Share Image
“Don't cry for the dead, for the dead is deaf, dumb, blind, lame, unemotional and dead.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I know I'd rather have any amount of time with a dog I love and suffer the mourning than not have the… — Julie Klam Copy Share Image
“It’s almost as if the dead have no value unless we know that someone they are related to is still alive and… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
The blues is a hopeful music. It helps you process something rather than avoid it. It's like mourning, in essence. — Ted Alexandro Copy Share Image
For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“Death never pierces the heart so much as when it takes someone we love; cleaving the heart they held with their passing.” — Brandon M. Herbert Copy Share Image
“Roz is crying again. What she's mourning is her own good will. She tried so hard, she tried so hard to be… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Like love, mourning affects the world—and the worldly—with unreality, with importunity. I resist the world, I suffer from what it demands of… — Roland Barthes 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
“I am crying over the loss of something I never had. How ridiculous. Mourning something that never was – my dashed hopes,… — E.L. James Copy Share Image
In Egypt: Under no conditions, under threat of death could anyone kill a cat. People were exceuted for even killing a cat… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What counts is art. painting, a kind of painting that is quite different from what everyone makes it out to be. But… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
I still read a lot about teenage angst! Of course, any kind of mourning CAN become pathological and then it 'has to… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
“It preoccupies me until it's time to leave. It seems such the right expression of grief. I am sad, so in whatever… — Jael McHenry (The Kitchen Daughter Copy Share Image
“I remembered that once, as a child, I was filled with wonder, that I had marveled at tri-folded science projects, encyclopedias, and… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Even the most blatant assholes seemed to function in a state of grace when confronted with the brutal loss of a loved… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
We are repeatedly left, in other words, with no further focus than ourselves, a source from which self-pity naturally flows. Each time… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Holding the knife with the blade against my palm, it became so clear how my life would only contain shadows now. Shadows… — Jennifer Castle Copy Share Image
The real irony is that the view of infinity as some forbidden zone or road to insanity - which view was very… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Nathan. I can't believe you would just leave like that. WHY DID YOU HAVE TO DIE. You didn't deserve to be bullied.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“From Orient Point The art of living isn't hard to muster: Enjoy the hour, not what it might portend. When someone makes… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
“He woke one morning tantalized by an idea: if he could catch the orchard trees motionless for one second -- for half… — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
“This mournful and restless sound was a fit accompaniment to my meditations.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die. — Mary Elizabeth Frye Copy Share Image
“Life is not just black and white, there are a million shades in between.” — Hanif Hassan Barbhuiya Copy Share Image
