“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
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
“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
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
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
good Hobbinoll, what garres thee greete? What! hath some wolfe thy tender lambes ytorne? Or is thy bagpype broke, that soundes so… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
“In those seconds, I was mourning everything I’d lost. How I’d never get to see you walk down an aisle toward me,… — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
“Then again, maybe knowing that life will only get duller, sadder, less hopeful afterward would inject melancholy into that moment. You’d miss… — Anita Bartholomew 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
“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
Good Friday is a day of mourning, and all the ceremonies and rituals of the day are centered on the feeling of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Experiencing the intense pangs of grief, it is so difficult to trust that we can be whole without that person or thing… — Senora Roy 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
After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I did not know the work of mourning Is like carrying a bag of cement Up a mountain at night The mountaintop… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Arms are instruments of ill omen… When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There… — Laozi Copy Share Image
There are some people who think that they should be always mourning, that they should put a continual constraint upon themselves, and… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black and loving… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Holding the knife with the blade against my palm, it became so clear how my life would only contain shadows now. Shadows… — Jennifer Castle Copy Share Image
We are repeatedly left, in other words, with no further focus than ourselves, a source from which self-pity naturally flows. Each time… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“I accepted all this counsel politely, with a glassy smile and a glaring sense of unreality. Many adults seemed to interpret this… — Donna Tartt 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
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
“And that was part of the tragedy: I had just started to know her. I was mourning the relationship that could have… — Sy Montgomery 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
“Mourning suits us Spanish women. Tragedy turns us into Antigone - maybe we are bred for the part.” — Judith Ortiz Cofer Copy Share Image
Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and… — Margery Allingham 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
“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
“What affects me most powerfully: mourning in layers—a kind of sclerosis. [Which means: no depth. Layers of surface—or rather, each layer: a… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“We met Dr. Hall in such very deep mourning that either his wife, his mother or himself must be dead” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
In Asia, red is the colour of joy; red is the colour of festivities and of celebration. In Chinese culture, blue is… — Vincent Tan 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
The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited. — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image