If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning coaches. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
There is no holier spot of ground than where defeated valor lies by mourning beauty crowned — Henry Timrod Copy Share Image
“How can it be that there is such a colossal gap between what we think we know about grief and mourning and… — Jim Beaver Copy Share Image
Everyone comes to music when they are mourning, when they are happy - for anything. — Kirstin Maldonado Copy Share Image
New Orleans taught me that mourning takes many different forms. Where I'm from, mourning is spirited. It is loud. — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil. — John Taylor Copy Share Image
Nobody died. how can you kill an idea? How can you kill the personification of an action?" "Then what died? who are… — Neil Gaiman 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
“For some reason, I thought Victor could heal that wound better than anyone else. It's strange to think that this vampire, the… — J.A. London Copy Share Image
Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“If I were dead, the first thing you'd do, with the tears streaming down your face, would be to start modelling some… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“The first day after a death, the new absence Is always the same; we should be careful Of each other, we should… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses,… — George Washington Cable Copy Share Image
It is always better to avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning. For every one of us, living in this world… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of those who… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
The force behind the movement of time is a mourning that will not be comforted. That is why the first event is… — Marilynne Robinson 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
You know what it's like. Sometimes, you meet a wonderful person, but it's only for a brief instant. Maybe on vacation or… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
“To speak of ‘trying again’ while her ghost was still in the room was an insult to both the child gone before… — Anna Spargo-Ryan Copy Share Image
“That small world, like the great one out of doors, had the capacity of easily forgetting its dead; and when the cook… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Everyone keeps telling me that time heals all wounds, but no one can tell me what I'm supposed to do right now.… — Nina Guilbeau Copy Share Image
“In humans as well, it is because your loved one existed that certain neurons fire together and certain proteins are folded in… — Mary-Frances O'Connor Copy Share Image
“She wished for a moment that they were all children again. It still seemed extraordinary to her, that everything had turned out… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
“Someone dies, there oughta be something. It oughta shake the world! You're not supposed to walk away!” — Lisa Henry Copy Share Image
“For I will turn their mourning into joy and will comfort them and give them joy for their sorrow.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One rational voice is dumb: over a grave The household of Impulse mourns one dearly loved. Sad is Eros, builder of cities,… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“The force behind the movement of time is a mourning that will not be comforted.” — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning; Alas! the gratitude of men Hath oftener left me mourning. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Mourning your abstinence from junk food is like mourning the loss of an enemy who would happily see you die. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Someone did us all a grave injustice by implying that mourning has a distinct beginning, middle, and end. — Hope Edelman Copy Share Image
Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent. — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
Mourning the loss of the phone call is like pining for buggy driving or women in hats or three-martini lunches. They've gone. — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
When you lose someone close, remember that they are in a better place now, and live your life for you and them. — Amber Hope Copy Share Image
Inherent in mourning is celebration. Mourning without celebration or some form of acceptance leaves you stuck. — Ted Alexandro Copy Share Image
Only the mourning for what one has missed at the crucial time can lead to real healing. — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
In this crazy world, there's an enormous distinction between good times and bad, between sorrow and joy. But in the eyes of… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The most important part of the process of mourning is regularly reciting kaddish in a synagogue. Kaddish is a doxology, which Jewish… — David Novak Copy Share Image
The pleasurable part of public mourning can also lead to a sense of self-sanctification that justifies in advance any war effort, whether… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
