Quotes About Mourning

We were like mourners at an invisible cenotaph during the two minutes' silence which commemorates an irremediable failure of the human will.

We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return.

Deep in earth my love is lying And I must weep alone.

This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad.

I think you have to know how you feel when you're sad and it's healthy to mourn if a relationship ends.

Sinks my sad soul with sorrow to the grave.

Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summers dead, And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries For what has been and is not.

Thine eyes I love, and they as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black, and loving mourners be, Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain.

What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes?

It was sad when Sid Vicious died... I was freaked out when Phil Lynott died from Thin Lizzy. I cried. It was too crazy.

When everything is finished, the mornings are sad.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

So, my sweet, did it put the fun into funeral?

There was no sign of any life, just erratic hints of a faded sun peeking down with sorrow on the dead world it once nourished.

Were my smile not submerged in my countenance, / I should suspend it over her grave.

There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies. If it weren't for the smell of death clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family's turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper. A little beef and bingo at the Nugents'.

We mourn the martyrs of Karbala our skins torn with chains.

the news should help us with mourning the twisted nature of man and reconciling us to the difficulty of being able to imagine perfection while still not managing to secure it – for a range of stupid but nevertheless unbudgeable reasons...The news currently resists giving us the single most calming response one can offer to certain problems: evidence that they are normal and that they belong to a species which is intrinsically (rather than exceptionally) imperfect.

But as she watched Lito and Papi lift up Ivan's body, the empty place inside got bigger and bigger, until she was more empty than full.

part of the grief was that each member of the family was mourning his own mortality.

Laurie:Uh-huh. Ahuhuhuh... Jeez, y'know, that felt good. There don't seem to be that many laughs around these days. Dan: Well, what do you expect? The Comedian is dead.

And he was silent again, for who is not silent when someone is dead, who was a small bright boy?

I know when dark-haired evening put on her bright silk at sunset, and, folding the sea sidled under the sheet with her starry laugh, that there'd be no rest, there'd be no forgetting. Is like telling mourners round the graveside about resurrection, they want the dead back.

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