Dead Quote by Ilona Andrews

After that I could never pass a dead man without stopping to gaze on his face, stripped by death of that earthly patina which…

— Ernst Toller

“The life-loving, smart, good-hearted dead don't want forty days of mourning or say, "After me the deluge!" Leaving behind some helpful things - a…

— Nâzım Hikmet

“Patroclus, he says, Patroclus. Patroclus. Over and over until it is sound only.”

— Madeline Miller

Loneliness is something we [all people] go through. We go through mourning and longing. We make some bad choices sometimes because we're desperate for…

— Jennifer Lee

“In daylight we pick up our tinned rations and hike off, every artery and nerve of us, into the rest of our commemorative lives.”

— Tess Gallagher

“I have more than once tried to analyse this apparently deliberate form of self-torture that seems common to so many people in face of…

— Gavin Maxwell

Mourning your first love is as important as meeting your first love. It's the whole cycle.

— Jane Anderson

Remember this-all the sighing, mourning, sobbing, and complaining in the world, does not so undeniably evidence a man to be humble, as his overlooking…

— Thomas Brooks

Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron…

— Lewis Mumford

You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.

— Antonio Porchia

“It's wrong to give so much time over to mourning, she tells herself. Mourning and brooding. There's nothing to be accomplished by it.”

— Margaret Atwood

None mourn more ostentatiously than those who most rejoice at it [a death].

— Tacitus

“I did not know the work of mourning Is like carrying a bag of cement Up a mountain at night The mountaintop is not…

— Edward Hirsch

Nowadays most people wear black most of the time anyway: go to a literary party and one would imagine everyone there was in perpetual…

— Fay Weldon

“...they had lived, they'd lived intensely. But no matter how deeply you live, it comes to this in the end: one of you will…

— Brian Morton