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Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have...

— Edwin S. Shneidman

Let mourning stop when one's grief is fully expressed.

— Confucius

“There's no such thing as simple mourning for anyone, really, except that as writers our grief becomes woven into the fabric of our work…

— Edwidge Danticat

The attitude of mourning is a faithless attitude, an ignorant attitude. The more we know, the more fully we shall trust, for we shall…

— Charles Webster Leadbeater

Life is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene.

— Horace Walpole

Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.

— John Dryden

“The killed are dead, the bereaved are traumatized. The trauma may be converted to hatred that may be converted into revenge addiction.”

— Johan Galtung

Mourning never ends for those who've faced unimaginable losses.

— Alan Colmes

“The grim egoism (egotism) of mourning of suffering”

— Roland Barthes

But even the death of a stranger seems like something worth mourning.

— Skyrim

This poem is one of a series, all of them elegiac in intention, and subject to the strange forces of mourning that let loose…

— Lyn Hejinian

Mourning is a multifaceted process and sort of comes in waves.

— Lacey Sturm