Repentance lifts a man up. Mourning knocks at heaven's gate. Holy humility opens it. — John Climacus Copy Share Image
“I think I should be in mourning. Many brain cells were lost in the creation of that orgasm." Trixie chuckled. "I appreciate… — Jocelynn Drake Copy Share Image
The hair is the finest ornament women have. Of old, virgins used to wear it loose, except when they were in mourning. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Many a smiling face hides a mourning heart; but grief alone teaches us what we are. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Nowadays most people wear black most of the time anyway: go to a literary party and one would imagine everyone there was… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse. — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
“I’m not afraid to die. But what worries me the most about death is the heartache I’ll be causing those who love… — Anoir Ou-Chad Copy Share Image
I know I'd rather have any amount of time with a dog I love and suffer the mourning than not have the… — Julie Klam 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
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
Mindful grief means mourning and letting go of the past without expectation, fear, censure, blame, shame, control and so forth. Without such… — David Richo Copy Share Image
“If I believe, truly believe our souls are meant to cross paths, in each and every life, traversing millennia and repeating this… — Abby Rosmarin Copy Share Image
When you awaken in morning's hush, I am the swift uplifting rush, of quiet birds in circle flight, I am soft stars… — Mary Elizabeth Frye Copy Share Image
I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation,… — Queen Latifah 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
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
“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
“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
“The death of a parent, he wrote, 'Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
It is said that mourning, by its gradual labour, slowly erases pain; I could not, I cannot believe this; because for me,… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Every time someone in your life dies, you realize you're not invincible and you have to wonder if we're celebrating life or… — Emily Bett Rickards Copy Share Image
I was depressed for a year after 'The Pianist,' and I don't suffer from that, generally. It wasn't just a depression; it… — Adrien Brody Copy Share Image
“Don't cry for the dead, for the dead is deaf, dumb, blind, lame, unemotional and dead.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Doesn't the devil live forever; who ever heard that the devil was dead? Did you ever see any person wearing mourning for… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“I've sat listening at the feet of enough Black women to know they all deserve to tell their own stories. But here… — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
Through the days of love and celebration and joy, and through the dark days of mourning...the faithful horse has been with us… — Elizabeth Cotten Copy Share Image
I did not know the work of mourning Is a labor in the dark We carry inside ourselves — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel.” — Benjamin J. Carey Copy Share Image
I always thought I'd be the one to go first. The world might be mourning an Everly Brother, but I'm mourning my… — Don Everly Copy Share Image
Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have... — Edwin S. Shneidman Copy Share Image
“I thought maybe we mourned not only for the dead but also for the living. We felt their absence before we knew… — Vaddey Ratner Copy Share Image
“He spent too much time mourning what could have been and questioning what should be.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“I felt as though the vessel if my suffering had become empty, as if nothing could interest me now. I had lost… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
Depression leads him close to his wounds, but only the mourning for what he has missed, missed at the crucial time, can… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
