“Trees raised their naked, mottled branches to the sky like mourners stilled in attitudes of grief.” — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“It's wrong to give so much time over to mourning, she tells herself. Mourning and brooding. There's nothing to be accomplished by… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one. — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Grieving is a necessary passage and a difficult transition to finally letting go of sorrow - it is not a permanent rest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the voice of mirth there may be excitement, but in the tones of mourning there is consolation. — Willis Gaylord Clark Copy Share Image
Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro… — Quintus Ennius Copy Share Image
“When they need to mourn longer, collect nests and sew one big enough for them to weep in.” — Aimee Herman Copy Share Image
When you're around someone so much, for so long, they become a part of you, and when they go away, you don't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger. You learn how glib… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
John [Lennon] as a singer - the way he sings on "Twist and Shout" and the way he sings on "Strawberry Fields… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
Because most of the girls were still in mourning and all of them had lost their textbooks, even pencils and pens, Shaukat… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
I look back and cant help but to mourn,how could I have fallen into something such as love,How is it that this… — Emilia Salazar Copy Share Image
I will live this day as if it is my last. …I will waste not a moment mourning yesterday’s misfortunes, Yesterday’s defeats,… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
“Mourning. At the death of the loved being, acute phase of narcissism: one emerges from sickness, from servitude. Then, gradually, freedom takes… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“He held onto his grief as a way to hold on to who he was grieving. He felt that his pain was… — Sean Norris Copy Share Image
I'm just a butterfly, a mourning cloak, sealed inside a cocoon with blnd eyes and stiky wings. And suddenly I wonder if… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Each death laid a dreadful charge of complicity on the living; each death was incongenerous, its guilt irreducible, its sadness immortal; a… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Axsem would say nothing more to any of them. No sooner had Fallon released him than he fled deep into the trees,… — S.R. Ford Copy Share Image
See, I don’t expect to win a prize for stoic control and dignity at mourning time. Death deserve tantrums. Beating back shocked… — Ruby Dee Copy Share Image
“History-note: Wednesday 23 July 2014. A national day of mourning in the majestic land of windmills, wooden shoes and tulips. Today the… — Nynke Visser Copy Share Image
“The light in that room was a glow; I seem to remember the color green, or perhaps flowers. A pale green sheet… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
Black for hunting through the night For death and mourning the color's white Gold for a bride in her wedding gown And… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it...We might expect that we will be prostrate,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.” — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
What is the difference between grief and mourning? Mourning has company. — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
In the custom of mourning, the fabric of the night had been ripped, revealing a star at each tiny tear. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“and the thought of relieving my mourning, even slightly, for a moment filled me with a kind of fear.” — Ahdaf Soueif Copy Share Image
“Lady Moon rose an' gazed o'er my busted'n'beautsome Valleys with silv'ry'n'sorryin' eyes, an' the dingos mourned for the died uns.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“We’re all carrying our coffins with us every day.” Or “We are all constantly cheating death.” — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Today, the world lost a creative icon. Michelle and I join millions of fans from around the world in mourning the sudden… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“MEDVIEDENKO Why do you always wear mourning? MASHA I dress in black to match my life. I am unhappy.” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image