Mourning Quotes

235 quotes by 201 authors

In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself. — Sigmund Freud
Nobody died. how can you kill an idea? How can you kill the personification of an action?" "Then what died? who are you mourning?" "A… — Neil Gaiman
Isnâ€™t the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language â€” the amorous language? No more â€˜I love youâ€™s. — Roland Barthes
Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering. — Roland Barthes
Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited. — Jacques Derrida
If, as a culture, we donâ€™t bear witness to grief, the burden of loss is placed entirely upon the bereaved, while the rest of us… — Cheryl Strayed
Black for hunting through the night For death and mourning the color's white Gold for a bride in her wedding gown And red to call… — Cassandra Clare
Woman, thou shouldst ever be clothed in rags and in mourning, appearing only as a penitent, drowned in tears, and expiating thus the sin of… — Tertullian
There were days I could barely struggle into a size 46 or 48, months of larges and XXLs, and endless rounds of leggings with the… — Carrie Fisher
To be sure, those who are actually engaged in combat - those who actually see the maimed bodies and mourning mothers - struggle more than… — Stanley Hauerwas
The most important part of the process of mourning is regularly reciting kaddish in a synagogue. Kaddish is a doxology, which Jewish tradition has mandated… — David Novak
The gospel of Jesus Christ is not a religion of mourning and gloom. — Joseph B. Wirthlin
In Asia, red is the colour of joy; red is the colour of festivities and of celebration. In Chinese culture, blue is the colour of… — Vincent Tan
Social media reactions to celebrity death have taken on a predictable pattern: an outpouring of shock with expressions of grief, followed by a ghoulish need… — Jennifer Armintrout
They which have no hope of a life to come, may extend their griefs for the loss of this, and equal the days of their… — John Pearson
After that I could never pass a dead man without stopping to gaze on his face, stripped by death of that earthly patina which masks… — Ernst Toller
Great were the lamentation and the cry when the news of this mischance was noised about the city. Such a tumult of mourning was never… — Marie de France
To re-live these characters would be wonderful, because I know when the show ends it will be huge mourning process. — Gillian Anderson
Mourning is not forbidden, you know. — Simin Daneshvar
Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them do not. Miss them do not.… — Unknown Author

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