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
When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Not a second passes... When you're not on our minds... Your love we will never forget... The hurt will ease in time... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I did not know the work of mourning Is like carrying a bag of cement Up a mountain at night” — Edward Hirsch 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
Losing people you love affects you. It is buried inside of you and becomes this big, deep hole of ache. It doesn't… — Carrie Jones Copy Share Image
“It’s not just the permanence of the finished product, but the discomfort inherent in the process that draws people in mourning to… — Kate Sweeney Copy Share Image
I thought of you today, but that is nothing new. I thought about you yesterday, and days before that too. I think… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There were two types of mourning. There was the type when a person opened up his heart to the world, never taking… — Brittainy C. Cherry Copy Share Image
To be sure, those who are actually engaged in combat - those who actually see the maimed bodies and mourning mothers -… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
“There is a time when death is an event, an ad-venture, and as such mobilizes, interests, activates, tetanizes. And then one day… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
When Princess Diana died, I couldn't understand why people were mourning her death in such an enormous, hysterical way when they didn't… — Alison Jackson Copy Share Image
“Now there is one thing I can tell you: you will enjoy certain pleasures you would not fathom now. When you still… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“It is regret for the absence of his loved one which causes a mourner to grieve: yet it is clear that this… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“I have more than once tried to analyse this apparently deliberate form of self-torture that seems common to so many people in… — Gavin Maxwell Copy Share Image
“The worst part about a break up isn't the loss of a relationship. It's finding out that the person you once loved… — Mohadesa Najumi Copy Share Image
Did you love well what very soon you left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
“Can you remember another time when your chest felt like this?” My fingers splayed across my aching chest as I carefully pondered… — Mary Potter Kenyon Copy Share Image
“You looked inhuman when you were dying, Doc, your eyes glistened like dimming stars, you were wasting away and life was leaving… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count. We still don't like to admit the war was… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
The man who follows Christ in solitary mourning is greater than he who praises Christ amid the congregation of men. — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
“The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives.” — Rob Liano Copy Share Image
The elegy does the work of mourning; it allows us to experience mortality. It turns loss into remembrance, and it delivers an… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
A great many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life could make it seem longer if they did… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
“This is who I am. This is who I have always been. I am in pain. I am always in pain. But… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“To whom can I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Why not celebrate what you had had rather than spend your time mourning its passing? There could be joy in things that… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
I extend my condolences to those who have lost a loved one by saying, Good mourning. — Rudy Espinoza Copy Share Image
When I am dead, no pageant train shall waste their sorrows at my bier. Nor worthless pomp of homage vain stain it… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
No, it's not a 'corpse thing.' I feel I lack the emotional capacity to deal with those in mourning... — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
My granny was always mourning about the fact I wear dull, stained jeans or don't brush my hair. — Twinkle Khanna Copy Share Image
“...blessing and cursing are born as twins and separated at birth to meet again in mourning” — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I wonder why bereaved people even bother with mourning clothes when the grief itself provides such an unmistakable wardrobe. — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“What is it like when you lose someone you love?" Jane asked. "You die, too. And you wait around for your body… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
“Sorrow is food swallowed too quickly, caught in the throat, making it nearly impossible to breathe.” — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“am merely mourning that so many good or lively books are dead so soon, or only imperfectly kept alive in the cheap… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
