Mourning Quotes
Elizabeth Gilbert
Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing...
1447Jodi Picoult
and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart.
2113 Dylan Thomas
Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.
4856 Benjamin J. Carey
At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel.
2587 Hans Christian Andersen
Grant not my prayers, when they are contrary to Thy will, which at all times must be the best. Oh, hear them not;
3499 William Shakespeare
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.
2256 Jodi Picoult
How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?
4432 Michael Bassey Johnson
The more death, the more birth. People are entering, others are exiting. The cry of a baby, the mourning of others. When others cry, the other are laughing and making merry. The world is mingled with sadness, joy, happiness, anger, wealth, poverty, etc.
2446 Sara Sheridan
Jack had been the love of her life and he was gone. It seemed now that there had never been bad times, though she knew that wasn’t true.
2939 Meghan O'Rourke
Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When you lose someone you were close to, you have to reassess your picture of the world and your place in it. The more your identity was wrapped up with the deceased, the more difficult the loss.
3544 Victoria Hanley
I have lived with you and loved you, and now you are gone. Gone where I cannot follow, until I have finished all of my days.
1894 R.A. Salvatore
Farewell is said by the living, in life, every day. It is said with love and friendship, with the affirmation that the memories are lasting if the flesh is not.
4421 Roland Barthes
To whom could I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought...?
4488 John Green
I went on spouting bullshit Encouragements as Gus's parents, arm in arm, hugged each other and nodded at every word. Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.
4346 Kristina McMorris
It’s odd, isn’t it? People die every day and the world goes on like nothing happened. But when it’s a person you love, you think everyone should stop and take notice. That they ought to cry and light candles and tell you that you’re not alone.
1752 Percy Bysshe Shelley
O weep for Adonis - He is dead."
"Peace. He is not dead he doth not sleep - he hath wakened from the dream of life
2608 Anna Quindlen
Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning.
4546 Stephen King
The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.
2789 Roland Barthes
As soon as someone dies, frenzied construction of the future (shifting furniture, etc.): futuromania.
4988 John Scalzi
It's easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she's never been anything but dead, than to miss her at all the places where she was alive.
4396 Kristina McMorris
Not every loss was confirmed by an officer at the door. Nor a telegram with the power to sink a fleet. Loss, often the worst kind, also arrived through the deafening quiet of an absence.
1463 Elizabeth McCracken
Can I tell you something? It wasn't so bad. Not so bad at all right then, me scowling at the dirt, James in his bed, the way it always always was. Look, if that's all that happened, if his dying just meant that I would be waiting for him to say something instead of listening to him say something, it would have been fine.
3971 Pablo Neruda
Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.
2017 Roger A. Caras
In Egypt: Under no conditions, under threat of death could anyone kill a cat. People were exceuted for even killing a cat accidentally. And when a cat died, the whole family, and probably their closest friends, went into mourning, the measure of their personal loss signalled by their shaving off their eyebrows.
2499 Melodie Ramone
He was seven years old the summer that his life ended. He'd always felt like his life was taken the moment that truck rammed into his father and sister. Or at least, the life he would have had was ended before it even began.
3513 Phindiwe Nkosi
Instead of hating, my heart cries mercy! Mercy on me! Mercy on me! Mercy on me!
1114 Hannah Kilfoyle
And it never mattered who the man I portrayed him to be was.
The memory was in the same place as the fantasy, and that place was proven so contorted, convoluted, I'm unsure if I ever told the truth.
1057 Brian Ruckley
Loss alone is but the wounding of a heart; it is memory that makes it our ruin.
4570 C.S. Lewis
We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.
1846 Kristina McMorris
The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love.
2594 Kristina McMorris
Good had defeated evil, people proclaimed, a justification for atrocities best left forgotten. They would cling to this oversimplified truth while trading pats on the back and placing flowers on graves.
2674 Hannah Kilfoyle
The muscles behind both eyes hurt
and the skin all down the front
is swelling from the veins burst
though the circles look less sunk. Tears did fill them in though
and I did push the waves
right from my own souls windows
to water down it's grave
1476 Victor Hugo
That you are happy, that Monsieur Pontmercy has Cosette, that youth espouses mourning, that there are about you, my children, lilacs and nightingales, that your life is a beautiful lawn in the sunshine, that all the enchantments of heaven fill your souls, and now, that I who am good for nothing, that I die; surely all this is well.
4244 Glenn Beck
You can't love your mother or father if you don't also have the capacity to grieve their deaths and, perhaps even more so, grieve parts of their lives.
3437 Neil Gaiman
Yes. We both have a bad feeling. Tonight we shall take our bad feelings and share them, and face them. We shall mourn. We shall drain the bitter dregs of mortality. Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled, but halved. No man is an island.
3447 Lisa Bedrick
When someone close to you dies, you feel like you might die too. It takes some of the life out of you for a time.
1361 Alice Sebold
Oh sweetheart, do you really think if you
seal it up, that the pain's gonna go away?
3447 Phindiwe Nkosi
During the prayers of the day, there was one less “amen”.
3130 Phindiwe Nkosi
I realized that whilst crying over the loss, the living did not seem adequate because they were not my loved one. The room full of strangers hurt me profusely. Even as I saw thousands of young people; I felt incomplete and more saddened because the one I wanted to see was buried.
4922 Cassandra Giovanni
Death abides by no one's rules...it takes what pleases it without consciousness to its decisions. It destroys what it will. It took the pieces of perfection I once knew and shattered them. Now what remains are shards of a dream, drawing blood with every step.
4844 Anthony Liccione
Death moved in the night, in search for blood, and when it found Life, it passed on by, like a cloud that moves by the face of the moon. When he found those dead without the red, he took the life before them born first, and the mourning emptied itself till the morning.
2059 Mary Tyler Moore
I feel about my dogs now, and all the dogs I had prior to this, the way I feel about children - they are that important to me. When I have lost a dog I have gone into a mourning period that lasted for months.
1588 Betsy Cornwell
Everything was a broken line for me in those days. I was slipped into the empty spaces between words.
2400 Richelle E. Goodrich
Rain is a lullaby heard through a thick, isolating blanket of clouds. It is the tinkling harp of water droplets; a moist breath whistling through willow reeds; a pattering beat background to the mourner's melody. Rain is a soft song of compassion for the brokenhearted.
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