You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own. — Antonio Porchia Copy Share Image
The gospel of Jesus Christ is not a religion of mourning and gloom. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning - organize. — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
The air is full of farewells to the dying. And mournings for the dead. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“You mean to tell me you're mourning the loss of someone who never existed?” — Taylor Nadeau Copy Share Image
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one. — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
“but from here on I want more crazy mourning, more howl, more keening -from "A Woman Dead in Her Forties” — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The weeping of the candle is not in mourning for the moth: the dawn is at hand, and it is thinking of… — Saib Tabrizi Copy Share Image
The blues is a hopeful music. It helps you process something rather than avoid it. It's like mourning, in essence. — Ted Alexandro Copy Share Image
“Death never pierces the heart so much as when it takes someone we love; cleaving the heart they held with their passing.” — Brandon M. Herbert Copy Share Image
For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“Trees raised their naked, mottled branches to the sky like mourners stilled in attitudes of grief.” — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Mourning was its own kind of music—the sound of so many hearts, of so many breaths, of so many standing together.” — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
When John Coltrane passed, we were in the church for the memorial. Albert Ayler came walking in playing, real out there. He… — Wayne Shorter Copy Share Image
“A cold winter night. I'm warm enough, yet I'm alone. And I realize that I'll 'have' to get used to existing quite… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
January 26 is a day of mourning and remembering for our First Nation people, and there are still some backwards people who… — Madeleine Madden Copy Share Image
My fellow Minnesotans join me in mourning the loss of America's 40th President and celebrating the life of a man who personified… — Jim Ramstad Copy Share Image
“On Holy Saturday I do my best to live in that place, that wax-crayon place of trust and waiting. Of accepting what… — Jerusalem Jackson Greer Copy Share Image
The worst part of holding yourself together is not when you tell yourself' c'mon! young lady, you are not gonna cry' but… — Rose Hathway Copy Share Image
The free expression of resentment against one's parents represents a great opportunity. It provides access to one's true self, reactivates numbed feelings,… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
“And no one ever told me about the laziness of grief. Except at my job--where the machine seems to run on much… — C.S. Lewis 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
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
“ 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
“Can you remember another time when your chest felt like this?” My fingers splayed across my aching chest as I carefully pondered… — Mary Potter Kenyon Copy Share Image
Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count. We still don't like to admit the war was… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“You looked inhuman when you were dying, Doc, your eyes glistened like dimming stars, you were wasting away and life was leaving… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“That’s why it’s hard, I think, to rejoice with those who rejoice and mourn with those who mourn. I love that line… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“The light in that room was a glow; I seem to remember the color green, or perhaps flowers. A pale green sheet… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
“Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.” — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
What is the difference between grief and mourning? Mourning has company. — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
