“That’s it. I’m asking you, I’m really asking you—how is it possible that we aren’t in a permanent state of mourning?” — Peter Orner 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
The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
All Americans mourn the passing of the author of the Declaration of Independence, George Jefferson. — Andy Borowitz 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
“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
“You cannot stop the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can stop them nesting in your hair.” — Eva Ibbotson 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
There has been a marvelous joyous carnival of mourning for Edith Piaf and Jean Coctaeau, and it was real! They died as… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
When you get tired of worrying and mourning your horse and trying not to be afraid, tell me and I'll do it… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
“Raw anguish slithers through my brittle bones as the deathly call rots the air. Who murdered you old friend? The forest has… — H.S. Crow 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
“what she had come to understand... was that mourning was no crime. it wasn't her feeling all boo-hoo sorry for herself, or… — Julia Gregson Copy Share Image
Mourning can go on for years and years. It doesn't end after a year, that's a false fantasy. It usually ends when… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
“Afternoon with Michel, sorting maman’s belongings. Began the day by looking at her photographs. A cruel mourning begins again (but had never… — Roland Barthes 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
The indescribable innocence and beneficence of Nature-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter-such health, such cheer, they afford forever!… — Henry David Thoreau 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
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
“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
“Like the good spirit, ready to convict us, knowing is looking right at us, waiting for our inner space to surrender ourselves… — Tabitha Biel Luak Copy Share Image
On a day of burial there is no perspective--for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
For a while, Mirabelle believes there will be a moment when he will cave in and let himself love her, but eventually… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“Maybe that would be a good thing to do. He wasn't entirely sure, and that bothered him more than anything. How was… — Emily Veinglory 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
I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential… — Thomas Lynch 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
“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
We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
After 'Orange' wrapped and my character wrapped, I felt like I went through a bit of a mourning period. — Madeline Brewer 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
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
I know the injustice of outliving a child, the pain of a future stolen away, of mourning forever a voice you'll never… — Jill Biden Copy Share Image
“I am either lacerated or ill at ease and occasionally subject to gusts of life” — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Home, as far as I'm concerned, is the place you have to leave. And then, if you're like me, spend the rest… — Paulette Alden 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
“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
“There’s something life-giving about children, even in a time of mourning, something that helps people see beyond their immediate losses.” — J.A. Jance Copy Share Image
