Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Everyone is “extremely nice”—and yet I feel entirely alone. (“Abandonitis”).” — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Fate will allow the world Only to glimpse him, then rob it of him quickly.” — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“But us women, well, we like our egos stroked every once in a while and a boy mourning over us is a… — J.L. Paul Copy Share Image
“As soon as someone dies, frenzied construction of the future (shifting furniture, etc.): futuromania.” — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels. — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
This silence speaks a million words Words of comfort so shallow How I wish even for one tear But for my heart… — Swallow The Sun Copy Share Image
“Instead of hating, my heart cries mercy! Mercy on me! Mercy on me! Mercy on me!” — Phindiwe Nkosi Copy Share Image
When we neglect the artist in ourselves, there is a kind of mourning that goes on under the surface of our busy… — Pat Schneider Copy Share Image
“It is said that Time soothes mourning – No, Time makes nothing happen; it merely makes the emotivity of mourning pass.” — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Rosalia is dressed in raven clothes forty years too old for her, so that she seems to be in mourning for her… — Penelope Gilliatt Copy Share Image
Great were the lamentation and the cry when the news of this mischance was noised about the city. Such a tumult of… — Marie de France Copy Share Image
Modern society includes three types of men who can never think very highly of the world--the priest, the physician, and the attorney-at-law.… — Honore de Balzac 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
“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
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
A different kind of pleasure surfaced in the aftermath, the pleasure of seeing the towers fall time and again, the experience of… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“I am not, anymore, a Christian, but I am lifted and opened by any space with prayer inside it. I didn’t know… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
“ She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“How could I not go on talking to you? How could I not expect to see you when it's the end of… — Jeanette Winterson 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
“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
It's The Mourning Show. Is it true that the theme song is going to be Taps? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. — Washington Irving 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
No farewell words were spoken, no time to say goodbye, you were gone before we knew it, and only God knows why. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People ask me why I wear veils. I reply, I am mourning. Mourning what? Well I figure something shitty must be going… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
“The beeches deep in snow, I walk the dark woods In sorrow, sorrow. Your hand, where is your hand? - In the… — Nâzım Hikmet Copy Share Image
Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love. — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
