A woman who'd lost her first son consoled us with an angel gone ahead to pray for our family-- gone into that… — Michael S. Harper Copy Share Image
“The effects of loss are acute, and unique to each individual. Not everyone mourns in the same way, but everyone mourns.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I never relied on my beauty for anything. It was one of those things that was inevitable; you have a bit of… — Diana Rigg Copy Share Image
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited. — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning. — Laozi Copy Share Image
“Suppose it was painful," she whispers. "All that broken skin." She has been so steely I can almost forget she's in mourning.” — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“Forbid me not to weep; he was my father; And, had you lov'd him half so well as I, You could not… — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
“I felt like a mouse running through one of those cardboard mazes. I didn't have to think about anything I did. My… — Alicia K. Leppert Copy Share Image
So what do you wear to dump somebody?" she asked me, twirling a lock of hair around one finger. "Black, for mourning?… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
It was a huge shock. I've never had hair that short in my life! I think the rest of the cast and… — Camilla Belle Copy Share Image
“You had a good life and a good home. You loved me and I loved you. I'll let your ashes go in… — Delicious Tacos Copy Share Image
“This is no time for inactivity or despair. Off with the mourning clothes. Take some chances; take the initiative. You never know… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Modern society includes three types of men who can never think very highly of the world--the priest, the physician, and the attorney-at-law.… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Great were the lamentation and the cry when the news of this mischance was noised about the city. Such a tumult of… — Marie de France Copy Share Image
“As I walk through the redwood trees, my sneakers sopping up days of rain, I wonder why bereaved people even bother with… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“To each of the mourners outside in the lane, I would be no more than a pale face glimpsed for a moment… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“ Dirge Without Music I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground. So it is,… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
This poem is one of a series, all of them elegiac in intention, and subject to the strange forces of mourning that… — Lyn Hejinian Copy Share Image
“ Funeral Blues Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
The funny thing is, last summer we were golfing together, me, him and Alonzo Mourning. I don't know how to golf, but… — Dwyane Wade Copy Share Image
“I saw her tonight. I didn’t mean to and I wasn’t prepared for it. I came across her sweet smiling face and… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
“Enter the house of mourning, my friend, but with kindness and affection for those who love you, and not with hatred for… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion… — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
“Mourning suits us Spanish women. Tragedy turns us into Antigone - maybe we are bred for the part.” — Judith Ortiz Cofer Copy Share Image
He [Will Rogers] was America's most complete human document. One-third humor. One-third humanitarian. One-third heart. — Damon Runyon Copy Share Image
I lost a friend today, and my heart is mourning. If you're feeling alone, depressed & don't know if you can handle… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God bless everyone mourning the loss of a loved one today. To be taken in such a cruel way, to lose someone… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That probably greatest of narcissistic wounds -- not to have been loved just as one truly was -- cannot heal without the… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
“Today I know I walk with faith and grace beside me. I feel the light as it grows within and shine it… — Jodi Livon Copy Share Image
“Grief works its way on people differently. Some sulk, or become morose, or weep and scream a vengeance at the gods.” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There is a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance. — Solomon Copy Share Image
“definition of remorse: a mourning that is out of control and never ends, that can strike out of the bluest of skies,… — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“You never hear widows voice the sentiment, but I could stave off companionship indefinitely. Sex, not so much.” — Abby Fabiaschi Copy Share Image
“show me the city that does not mourn its fallen whose pillars embrace white coffins and freeze time and distort space” — Hanna Abi Akl Copy Share Image
“Good Madonna, why mournest thou? Good Fool, for my brother's death. I think his soul is in hell, Madonna. I know his… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I'm mourning with the rest of the world for the talented, gorgeous, funny, intelligent John Forsythe but my heart is broken for… — Cheryl Ladd Copy Share Image
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