Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“Patroclus, he says, Patroclus. Patroclus. Over and over until it is sound only.” — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“Be sure that your praise songs are numbered higher than your sorrowful dirges and your utmost hope, firmer than your woeful regrets.… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“When all you have left of the people you love are things, then the things become really important.” — J.W. Lynne Copy Share Image
Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent. — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
Only the mourning for what one has missed at the crucial time can lead to real healing. — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Mourning the loss of the phone call is like pining for buggy driving or women in hats or three-martini lunches. They've gone. — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
When you lose someone close, remember that they are in a better place now, and live your life for you and them. — Amber Hope Copy Share Image
January 26 is a day of mourning and remembering for our First Nation people, and there are still some backwards people who… — Madeleine Madden Copy Share Image
I've had some interesting roles along the way, but they tend to be cause-driven. They're always about something. There isn't time for… — Bonnie Bedelia Copy Share Image
There were days I could barely struggle into a size 46 or 48, months of larges and XXLs, and endless rounds of… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
When John Coltrane passed, we were in the church for the memorial. Albert Ayler came walking in playing, real out there. He… — Wayne Shorter Copy Share Image
I like a book. I like to read for four hours at a stretch. I think very few are the young people… — Lee Smith Copy Share Image
“When I wake up I go through an abbreviated process of mourning all over again. Plainly, there’s something within me that’s ready… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The ministry or service of prophets and witnesses, mourning and prophesying in sackcloth, God has directly commissioned and upheld all during the… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
When we make mistakes, we can use the process of NVC mourning and self-forgiveness to show us where we can grow instead… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“Tom thought back to the imposing, empty house: to the silence that deadened every room with a subtly different pitch; to the… — M.L. Stedman Copy Share Image
I was deeply influenced by the sartorial practices of both preachers and jazz musicians and actually Masha in Act One of Anton… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“How could I not go on talking to you? How could I not expect to see you when it's the end of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I am not, anymore, a Christian, but I am lifted and opened by any space with prayer inside it. I didn’t know… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
“ She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
A different kind of pleasure surfaced in the aftermath, the pleasure of seeing the towers fall time and again, the experience of… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“The life-loving, smart, good-hearted dead don't want forty days of mourning or say, "After me the deluge!" Leaving behind some helpful things… — Nâzım Hikmet Copy Share Image
Honor thy Father and thy Mother was once said, but then someone said: What if I don't know your Father? A still… — Bootsy Collins Copy Share Image
Someone did us all a grave injustice by implying that mourning has a distinct beginning, middle, and end. — Hope Edelman Copy Share Image
Mourning your abstinence from junk food is like mourning the loss of an enemy who would happily see you die. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She wished for a moment that they were all children again. It still seemed extraordinary to her, that everything had turned out… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
“Someone dies, there oughta be something. It oughta shake the world! You're not supposed to walk away!” — Lisa Henry Copy Share Image
One rational voice is dumb: over a grave The household of Impulse mourns one dearly loved. Sad is Eros, builder of cities,… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“The force behind the movement of time is a mourning that will not be comforted.” — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Everyone comes to music when they are mourning, when they are happy - for anything. — Kirstin Maldonado Copy Share Image
While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil. — John Taylor Copy Share Image
“The days of mourning are over now. Wipe those tears from your eyes and speak healing to your wounded heart. Choose to… — Gift Gugu Mona Copy Share Image
When someone we love dies, we get so busy mourning what died that we ignore what didn't. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
“We'd all mourn for a while, but at the end of the day we were a tough lot, and we'd survive.” — Suzanne Johnson Copy Share Image
I wake up in that state of grief when you can tell you've been mourning even in your sleep. — Carolyn Parkhurst Copy Share Image
“Dear God," she prayed from the very depth of her soul, "help me not to grieve-to willingly let him return to You… — Thyra Ferré Björn Copy Share Image
All Americans mourn the passing of the author of the Declaration of Independence, George Jefferson. — Andy Borowitz Copy Share Image
“I am either lacerated or ill at ease and occasionally subject to gusts of life” — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
