“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
There is a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance. — Solomon 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
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
“for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.” — Anonymous 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
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
I had lots of opportunities to survive this [popularity] madness. Madame de Staël said, "Glory is the bright mourning of happiness." — Brigitte Bardot 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
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
“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
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
Mourning doesn't always mean zen, mourning doesn't always mean somber, mourning can just be a celebration of a life of people. It's… — Bob the Drag Queen Copy Share Image
“Wandering is better than place sometimes, than home, than destination. Sometimes she can eke out the idea that wandering is possibility, chance,… — Michelle Latiolais Copy Share Image
“The death of a parent, he wrote, 'Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
It is said that mourning, by its gradual labour, slowly erases pain; I could not, I cannot believe this; because for me,… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Seriously protecting yourself calls for the annihilation of ties with society, ties that most people need the way they need oxygen. You… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
I think what is probably hard for people to imagine is how wrapped up the 17 years' work on Harry Potter is… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“Andrei rested on a bench directly in front of a grave that belonged to: 'A father, hard worker, and beloved friend.' He… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
Ah! sinner, remember this, there is no way on earth effectually to be rid of the guilt, filth, and power of sin,… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
“But we are not going to talk about that right now, because to talk about it I'll have to think about it,… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“When she dies, you are not at first surprised. Part of love is preparing for death. You feel confirmed in your love… — Julian Barnes 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
“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
“There was an end to weeping. Mourning, however, ebbed and surged but never ceased flowing.” — Julius Lester 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
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
“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
I wonder why bereaved people even bother with mourning clothes when the grief itself provides such an unmistakable wardrobe. — Jandy Nelson 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
“Sorrow is food swallowed too quickly, caught in the throat, making it nearly impossible to breathe.” — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Don't waste time mourning lost opportunites or missed chances. If it was meant for you, it would have happened. — Anonymous 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
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
My granny was always mourning about the fact I wear dull, stained jeans or don't brush my hair. — Twinkle Khanna Copy Share Image
I extend my condolences to those who have lost a loved one by saying, Good mourning. — Rudy Espinoza Copy Share Image
“...blessing and cursing are born as twins and separated at birth to meet again in mourning” — Adrienne Rich 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
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