“When a tsunami hits, you know, on the one hand it's complete destruction, and on the other hand now you have this… — Rachel Goldberg-Polin Copy Share Image
“Until now I had been able only to grieve, not mourn. Grief was passive. Grief happened. Mourning, the act of dealing with… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Isn’t the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language — the amorous language? No more… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“The effects of loss are acute, and unique to each individual. Not everyone mourns in the same way, but everyone mourns.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
A woman who'd lost her first son consoled us with an angel gone ahead to pray for our family-- gone into that… — Michael S. Harper Copy Share Image
“am merely mourning that so many good or lively books are dead so soon, or only imperfectly kept alive in the cheap… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Sorrow is food swallowed too quickly, caught in the throat, making it nearly impossible to breathe.” — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Don't waste time mourning lost opportunites or missed chances. If it was meant for you, it would have happened. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mourning doesn't always mean zen, mourning doesn't always mean somber, mourning can just be a celebration of a life of people. It's… — Bob the Drag Queen 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
“Wandering is better than place sometimes, than home, than destination. Sometimes she can eke out the idea that wandering is possibility, chance,… — Michelle Latiolais 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
“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
“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
“Seriously protecting yourself calls for the annihilation of ties with society, ties that most people need the way they need oxygen. You… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
Ah! sinner, remember this, there is no way on earth effectually to be rid of the guilt, filth, and power of sin,… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
I think what is probably hard for people to imagine is how wrapped up the 17 years' work on Harry Potter is… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“Andrei rested on a bench directly in front of a grave that belonged to: 'A father, hard worker, and beloved friend.' He… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
“But we are not going to talk about that right now, because to talk about it I'll have to think about it,… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“When she dies, you are not at first surprised. Part of love is preparing for death. You feel confirmed in your love… — Julian Barnes 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
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
“What is it like when you lose someone you love?" Jane asked. "You die, too. And you wait around for your body… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
I wonder why bereaved people even bother with mourning clothes when the grief itself provides such an unmistakable wardrobe. — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“...blessing and cursing are born as twins and separated at birth to meet again in mourning” — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
No, it's not a 'corpse thing.' I feel I lack the emotional capacity to deal with those in mourning... — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
When I am dead, no pageant train shall waste their sorrows at my bier. Nor worthless pomp of homage vain stain it… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
My granny was always mourning about the fact I wear dull, stained jeans or don't brush my hair. — Twinkle Khanna Copy Share Image
I extend my condolences to those who have lost a loved one by saying, Good mourning. — Rudy Espinoza 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
“To whom can I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“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
“This is who I am. This is who I have always been. I am in pain. I am always in pain. But… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
A great many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life could make it seem longer if they did… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
The elegy does the work of mourning; it allows us to experience mortality. It turns loss into remembrance, and it delivers an… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I had lots of opportunities to survive this [popularity] madness. Madame de Staël said, "Glory is the bright mourning of happiness." — Brigitte Bardot Copy Share Image
“The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives.” — Rob Liano Copy Share Image
“There was an end to weeping. Mourning, however, ebbed and surged but never ceased flowing.” — Julius Lester Copy Share Image
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